The sessions ran at the Albertinum across 2024, as part of the ostZone series, a public forum alongside "Revolutionary Romances? Globale Kunstgeschichten in der DDR," an exhibition on global art history in the GDR. Each session was open to a new group. Participants worked with photographs provided for the occasion: images from the museum's collection connected to the themes of the exhibition, and photographs of everyday life in the GDR from the personal archive of Dr. Verena Böll, the Kultur Aktiv organizer behind the program.

Each participant took a photograph and a needle and stitched into it, adding what the image brought up for them: a feeling, a memory, what a person in the picture meant. The photographs didn't stay flat. For the workshop program, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden had commissioned Kultur Aktiv e.V., who went looking for an artist personally connected to the histories the exhibition engaged with, and approached Bela. Two of the three public sessions included Montserrat Butter as a witness: a Chilean woman who had arrived in Dresden as a political exile in 1980. After the first two public sessions, the Albertinum invited Bela to lead a fourth, for museum staff.

The workshop didn't end with the exhibition: as Photo Embroidery, it travels, and can be booked by museums, libraries, and companies.