Cultivate Community

Well, hello there!

Image description: A photo of a femme person with short dark hair and glasses, standing in front of a colorful quilt, smiling at the camera.

My name is Emily Weerts and it’s great to (virtually) meet you.

It is my mission to cultivate a wildly supportive community. What that looks like these days is leaning hard into persisting through the horrors and finding ways to make people’s lives a little more supported and delightful. When I’m not coordinating all the things from behind my keyboard, I can be found:

  • Collaborating with the Austin Modern Quilt Guild

  • Co-hosting the absolute best craft retreats

  • Supporting local artists by connecting them with opportunities to fund their projects

  • Helping folks make their Zoom sessions a little less terrible

  • Digging into my family history of Japanese American Incarceration during WWII and building community with other descendants of “the camps”

  • Exploring my mixed race (Japanese American and white) identity

  • Taking fabric that is in a sheet, cutting it up into small pieces, and then sewing those pieces together to make it a sheet again (aka Quilting)

  • Cooking for my friends and family (send me your best veg friendly recipes!) and contributing meals to the ATX Free Fridge Project

  • Attempting to keep plants alive

If any of that sounds like something you need to be apart of, feel free to contact me.