Community Weaving with Hannah Atallah
August 9, 2025
August 23, 2025
During the Summer and Fall of 2025, Third Place Artist-in-Residence Hannah Atallah presented the Turning the Tables community weaving project, inviting guests to weave together on a flipped table top loom!
Final weavings were raffled to raise funds for families in Gaza. This method of weaving comes from Joyce Scott, a Baltimore-based artist, and uses a table flipped upside down to create a portable loom. Multiple people can weave together in communion.
Watch a video of Joyce Scott explaining how to weave using this method here. A special thanks to Joyce Scott, the BMA, ScrapBMORE, and the BlackRock Scrap Happy Creative Reuse Center for their generosity in making this project possible.
About the Artist
Hannah Atallah (b. 1994, Washington, DC) is a visual artist who draws on her Palestinian-Lebanese-Irish heritage. With a focus on large-scale public art projects and installations, she prioritizes the incorporation of community and relevant cultural contexts in her practice. Atallah has painted murals and exhibited work in the US, Mexico and Jordan. She has been the winner of nearly 20 grants and awards, notably with the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Baltimore Convention Center, and DC public schools. Her work has been acquired in public and private collections internationally.
The Third Place Artist Residency
The Third Place Artist Residency at Making Space Bmore offers artists the opportunity to present and create work within a dynamic, community-driven space. As a gallery and creative hub, Making Space Bmore provides a platform for artists to engage with the community, explore new creative practices, and address social justice and political issues through art. This residency encourages artists to explore the concept of the Third Place—a space for artistic expression, collaboration, and community exchange that exists between home and work.
