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Welcome new members! Registration is now open for the 2009 conference, Off the Grid. I am looking forward to meeting many of you there. In the meantime, here's the news from the North West region of the continent. Thanks to all of your who sent in news to your rep. If any of you have questions/comments, please email me.
February 2009
Alaska
Reported by Mary Hertert
Nelda Warkentin has a work in Quilt National '09, Dairy Barn Art Center, Athens OH, May 23 - Sept 7. She also has a two-person show at Artique, Ltd. Gallery, Anchorage AK, June 5 - June 30, 2009.
Monica Jenicek Lyall will show a purse from her disaster series titled "Fetched Up Hard Aground on Bligh Reef" in a group show "Spill: Alaskan Artists Remember" commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill. The show opens March 6, 2009 at the Bunnell Street Arts Center in Homer, Alaska, then travels to the Baranov Museum, Kodiak, Alaska; Cordova Historical Museum, Cordova Alaska; and the MTS Gallery, Anchorage Alaska.
Mary Hertert participated as a volunteer with Anchorage's first FREEZE Project, collaboration between architects and visual artists. She was assigned to work with the Los Angeles team of Christoph Kapeller of CK Architects and Lita Albuquerque, visual artist. Mary also has a coat in SPILL, a commemorative exhibit highlighting the EXXON Valdez oil spill.
Alberta
Reported by Lee Bale
Lee Bale: On Thursday, February 26 local Edmonton artist, Lee Bale presents an "Art For Lunch" lecture entitled: "The Horizon As It Should Be - Perspective Drawing #101", from noon - 1:50 pm, in the Atrium at Enterprise Square for the Art Gallery of Alberta, in conjunction with the exhibition "John Freeman: The Horizon As It Should Be". Lee will be also be offering a "Shibori Now" demonstration, featuring the textile traditions of Japan with a "make and take workshop" at the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Saturday, May 23, 12 - 4 pm
Other Alberta News:
Canada is the official guest country for the 2009 "Cheongju International Craft Biennale"
Celebrating its 6th anniversary in 2009, the "Cheongju International Craft Biennale" is the largest and most outstanding fine craft-based biennale in the world. Over 1000 artists from more than 40 countries participate each year, with over half a million visitors in attendance during the month-long event. With a focus on high-quality functional and sculptural craft, the Biennale attracts attention from collectors, curators, academics, craftspeople and, of course, the public. It is a terrific opportunity to showcase the talent of Canadian craftspeople to the world.
"InTENSIONS: message & medium in fibre art" is a new exhibition at the Alberta Craft Council, Edmonton, AB, January 17 - April 18, 2009. This exhibition features work by a trio of craft artists, each exploring fundamental issues of life, death and belief. Join Mary Sullivan-Holdgrafer and Matt Gould on Saturday, March 7 from 2-3 pm at the Alberta Craft Council Gallery for an artist talk.
Mary Sullivan-Holdgrafer, of Edmonton presents "Casket Covers".
"The Casket Covers simply celebrate a life and provide comfort to those left behind. My wish is that they embody the fullness of life - joys and sorrows, hope and grief, successes and failures."
Margie Davidson, of Edmonton presents "Backyard Art Natural Impression".
"Backyard Art celebrates the beauty that is all around us, from the straight lines and grids of the city to the delicate unfolding fern. Combining these organic and geometric shapes into one artwork continues my exploration of the tensions between humankind and the natural world."
Matt Gould, of Red Deer presents "In Jesus' Name".
"Our place in the world as beings of Spirit, surrounded by examples of human behaviours devoid of any spiritual dimension, is of concern to us all. I see the destruction of our fellow human beings and the exploitation of the earth itself, and I find that as a man and artists I am no longer willing passively to say "no comment". For me, a creative response to the three simple words "in Jesus' name" is a first step towards clarity, compassion and understanding."
Matt Gould gratefully acknowledges the support of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts for assistance in making this project possible.
British Columbia
Reported by Jennifer Love
The last meeting of the BC Surface Design group took place on Tues, January 20th, 2009 - at the studio of Julie Pongrac. Eileen Wheeler gave a fascinating presentation called "Impressions of a Conference" from her attendance at the Honolulu Textile Society of the Americas conference in 2008. The next meeting will be on at 7pm on April 14th , at the shop 'Sweet Georgia Yarns. It's at #401-228 East 4th Avenue, Vancouver, near the corner of 4th and Main. Contact Jennifer Love at jenniferannelove@hotmail.com for more information.
The last meeting of the Sunshine Coast Surface Design group took place at the home of Pat Crucil on January 21st. The next one will be at Jennifer Love's home in Pender Harbour on March 18 at 1pm - contact Jennifer at jenniferannelove@hotmail.com for more info.
On January 20th, 2009, Susan Purney-Mark and Gloria Daly organized the first meeting of the Island(s) chapter of SDA/BC (including members from Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands). The next meeting will be on April 8th, 2009. Please contact Susan Purney-Mark for more info: patchworkstudio@shaw.ca
Anne Marie Andrishak will be showing a selection of her very latest pieces of work as part of a two person exhibition called "Befitting Threads" at URBANITY (www.urbanity.ca) in Gastown - opening February 15 and running for one month. The other artist will be Jessica Bell (see www.jessicabellart.com/Patchworksindex.html)
March 28th/29th, 2009: Hilary Young will offer a 'Transferring Images to Cloth' workshop in Victoria with the Vancouver Island Art School. For more info see their website: vancouverislandschoolart.com/, go to courses, then weekend workshops or phone: 250.380.3500
April 3, 4, May 1 or 2, 2009: Terri Bibby is offering one-day Saori weaving workshops in Victoria at Knotty by Nature Fibre Arts. Saori looms are available for the workshops. Please contact Knotty by Nature to register - http://www.kbnfibres.ca/
Judi MacLeod and Alison Kobylnyk are participating in the Gordon Head Studio Tour, Victoria, BC. May 2 and May 3, 11am - 4pm, For further info contact Judi at judimacleod@telus.net or 250 472-2429. The map and participating artists is also available at www.gobc.ca/tours.php and go to the Gordon Head Studio Tour.
Anni Hunt will exhibit her new work in the show "Containment," May 7th - June 14th 2009 : Crafthouse Gallery , 1386 Cartwright St. Granville Island. Opening reception: May 7th, 6pm-8pm. Anni's website www.annihunt.com; CABC's website www.CABC.net
Jean Kares would like to announce that Ann Uusoja (jewelry and handpainted silk) and Gail Hunt (quiltmaker, instructor and author) have joined her in TextileContext Studio, 1420 Old Bridge St., Granville Island, Vancouver BC. Please drop by and visit our reinvented space! Wednesday through Sunday, 11 am-5pm.
Jane Kenyon is a finalist for the Niche Awards in 2 categories: Decorative Fiber and Fiber/Surface Design. See www.americancraft.com/NICHE_Awards/introduction_page.html. Winners are chosen during the Philadelphia Buyers Market in Feb. 09. She has also been listed as a finalist in the New Mexico "Art in Public Places" program. The latter means her work may be touring public buildings in New Mexico. Also, her work, "Thread Painting, Landscape Study/Water," will be exhibited in "Art of the Stitch" in the UK, Germany, Hungary and Spain in 2008-9. See www.embroiderersguild.com/whatson/artofthestitch2008/index.php.
Lesley Richmond, Yvonne Wakabayashi, Joanna Staniszkis and Ruth Scheuing are being featured in a new publication by Telos Publishing called "Art Textiles of the World: Canada," for release in April 2009. For the full list of artists, go to www.telos.net. An exhibition to accompany the book will be opening April 15th 2009 at the Centre des Textiles Contemporains de Montreal, continuing until 15th May 2009.
Cher Cartwright's art quilts are featured in a new book called "Masters: Art Quilts: Major Works" by Leading Artists by Lark Publishing - ISBN 1-60059-107-8, $26.95. Each artist has an 8-page spread.
Gloria S. Daly will join her colleagues/members of 'Articulation' (a group of ten Canadian women who exhibit across Canada) for four weeks residency in March at the Banff Centre, in preparation for their new show "Women Rock" to be premiered at the biennial convention of the Canadian Quilters' Association in Calgary, 2010. www.studiogart.com
Kristin Rohr has a new website: www.kristinrohr.com. Kristin has two pieces accepted in the Handweaver's Guild "Small Expressions" juried by Arturo Alonzo Sandoval, and one piece in "Nothing New", juried by Steven Aimone, and showing at the Joan Mondale Textile Center in Minneapolis.
Other events around British Columbia and beyond:
Upcoming exhibitions at FibreWorks Gallery, 12887 Sunshine Coast Hwy, Madeira Park, Pender Harbour, BC:
March 01 to April 26, 2009: Kerr Grabowski exhibit "Wearable Stories." Opening reception - Sunday, March 01 - 2 - 5 p.m. Kerr's website: www.kerrgrabowski.com/
May 01 to June 28: FibreArts Network (FAN) contemporary quilt exhibit - "Elements". Exhibit Reception - Saturday, May 09 - 2 - 5 p.m. Their website: www.fibreartnetwork.com
Upcoming workshops at FibreWorks Gallery, 12887 Sunshine Coast Hwy, Madeira Park, Pender Harbour, BC:
March 23 to 27, 2009: Kerr Grabowski workshop - Design and Deconstructed Screenprinting - registration by e-mail (fibreworks@gunboatbaylodge.com) or telephone 604-883-2380. Kerr's website: www.kerrgrabowski.com/
April 02 to 05 , 2009: Angelika Werth workshop - Deconstruction/Reconstruction of a Garment - registration by e-mail (fibreworks@gunboatbaylodge.com) or telephone 604-883-2380. Angelika's website: www.angelikawerth.ca
April 18, 2009: Ursula Bentz workshop - Dimensional Seamless Felting -- registration by e-mail (http://fibreworks@gunboatbaylodge.com) or telephone 604-883-2380
"Under the Cherry Tree" - Saturday, 28th March and Sunday, 29th March, 2009
Opening event for the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival: March 28 - April 24, 2009, will be at the Floral Hall at Van Dusen Gardens. Various SDA members will be selling their work at this fair. Their web site: www.vcbf.ca. The Vancouver Sun is also publishing a pull out section which will feature this festival and participating artists.
Exhibition Call for Entry: The Vancouver Guild of Fabric Arts and the Greater Vancouver Weavers & Spinners Guild are partnering with a group from Korea who work with traditional Korean papers to make garments, weavings, traditional and non-traditional objects for an August 2009 Vancouver Hanji exhibition. The Korean government will be sending over some artisans for demos, as well as a number of garments and other work for the exhibition. They are also partnering with the CABC, which will host a fundraising Gala on the opening night of the exhibition. Members of the SD group have to also be members of one or other of the 2 Guilds if they would like to participate. For more info contact Ros Aylmer at rosaqed@shaw.ca or look at the VGFA website: www.vgfa.org/.
Call for Entry for the Port Moody Arts Centre's 2009 Wearable Art Awards. This year they will be featuring performances on Saturday, May 9th and Sunday May 10th, 2009 at the City Hall Galleria. The exhibition will take place at the Port Moody Arts Centre from May 14th through June 28th. Some entries may be selected to be part of an extended display throughout the City of Port Moody. The Call for Entry can be found at www.wearableartawards.com/call_for_entry.php. FAQs, resources, and related forms can be found at www.wearableartawards.com/artists.php. Contact: info@wearableartawards.com.
Idaho
Reported by Sheryl Seeliger
No news this quarter.
Montana
Reported by Carol O'Bagy
Brooke Atherton: Atherton's piece, 'One Wonders' has been selected to be one of thirty-four pieces in the SAQA show, "Transformations 09: Reflections". This show will premier in August, 2009 at the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham, England, then move on to the Visions Gallery in San Diego and to the Grants Pass Museum of Art in Grants Pass, Oregon. Billings, Montana artist, Laura Cater-Woods juried this show. Brooke currently has work showing in the show "Fiber Expressions" at the Ryniker-Morrison Gallery at the Rocky Mountain College in Billings. Atherton is also calling for art quilts for the upcoming Big Sky Quilt Retreat in Billings from March 11 - 14, 2009. There is no entry fee and Brooke must receive any entries by March 6, 2009. Brooke can be contacted at pabajaba@bresnan.net and her mailing address is 1303 Patriot Street; Billings, MT 59105. You can also go to www.bigskyquiltassociation.com for more information on this quilt show.
Michel Colville: Colville will be the featured artist at the Whooping Crone Gallery in Missoula, Montana, in March 2009. Colville's work for this show will combine felting with ceramic faces.
Nancy Erickson: Erickson's 'Bear Series # 145: Trying to Get Some Rest' will be included in the Missoula Art Museum's upcoming auction. The piece which measures 26" x 40" was done with oil paintsticks on archival paper.
Katy Nygard: The artist participated in the 'Go Green' Challenge in the Quilting Art Magazine and her piece, 'Aerial View # 4' was in the October, November issue of the magazine. As part of the challenge, her piece only used scraps and parts of paint rags. The piece was also chosen to travel with the magazine to the International Quilt Festival in Houston, the SOFA show in Chicago as well to a show in Long Beach, California. The piece will then be a part of a show at the Flying C Café Co-op Building in Gallatin Gateway, Montana. Nygard was also part of the 'Fine Focus' exhibit at the Coos Art Museum from December 2008 through February 2009. This is a small-format, 12" or smaller, invitational show juried by Kim Ritter and Judy Dales. Don't miss seeing the article on Nygard who will be the featured artist in the 'At Random' profile in the next SDA newsletter.
Cynthia St. Charles: St. Charles' article, 'Color Therapy - Glue Gel Resist' was featured in the February, March 2009 issue of Quilting Arts Magazine. The article features a glue-gel resist technique developed by the artist and includes photos of several of her works utilizing this technique. St. Charles is participating in the 'Fiber Expressions' exhibition currently showing at the Ryniker-Morrison Gallery at the Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana. This show features several members of the Billings art quilt group, WAV. Curated by St. Charles is an art quilt show, 'Salvaged Threads' which will be featured at the Big Sky Quilt Retreat in Billings in March. This show will then go to the Toucan Gallery in Billings through April 25, 2009. From April 26, 2009 through July 4, 2009 the quilts will then be offered for sale through the Salvaged Threads Blog, salvagedthreads.blogspot.com/.
Oregon
Reported by Mickie McCormic
Kathie Kerler has created a quilt for Clackamas County for Oregon's Sesquicentennial celebration on February 14th at the State Capitol. Afterwards the quilt will return to Clackamas County and its permanent home in the new Development Services Building in Oregon City.
June Underwood will be spending six weeks, mid-February to the end of March, as an artist in residence at the Goldwell Open Air Museum in Beatty, Nevada. She will be painting the town as well as the landscape.
Bean Gilsdorf is presenting a lecture at the 2009 SDA conference entitled, "Radically Familiar: Fiber as Fine Art Medium" and exhibiting her work concurrently at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art in Kansas City. Bean's article on Portland (OR) artist Anna Fidler will be published in the summer issue of Fiberarts Magazine.
Laura Jaszkowski Jennings has a mixed media/textile show opening Friday, February 20th at the Jacobs Gallery in Eugene, OR. On display will be her current series titled "Coming Unraveled". It deals with the challenges and issues that are confronted when a long term relationship comes to an end. An artist insight talk will take place from 3:30 - 4:30 on February 20, followed by an opening reception from 5:30 - 8:30 PM. http://www.jacobsgallery.org/jgdirections.html for driving directions.
Monika Talarek has an exhibition of her fiber art (art quilts) at Guardino Gallery in Portland, Oregon - January 29 - February 24, 2009. Her works are achieved through sewing, painting, bleaching, gluing and weaving the fabrics. www.guardinogallery.com.
Washington
Reported by Cheryl Kamera
The first show of SDA Whidbey Island members will be at Penn Cove Pottery from March 6 to April 15. Penn Cove Pottery regularly shows fiber art, textiles and art-quilts in conjunction with pottery. This juried show features work from 16 or the 25 group members and ranges from wearable to framed wall art and 3D pieces. Artists are Mary Burks, Debra Calkins, Fine Gelfand, Carys Hamer, Carol Jerome, Cheryl Kamera, Nan Leaman, Nancy Luenn, Pat Morse, Natalie Olsen, Marie Plakos, Diane Reardon, Janet Steadman, Larkin Van Horn, and Sande Wascher-James. Penn Cove Pottery is located at 26184 Hwy 20, north of Coupeville. The opening reception is March 7 from 1 to 4 pm. The weekend of March 7 & 8, Penn Cove Pottery is also participating in the Whidbey Working Artists Studio Tour for north end artists. www.whidbeyworkingartists.com/
Seattle artist Gay Jensen's art quilt titled "Out and About" is included in the Contemporary QuiltArt Association's juried exhibit at the University of Washington Medical Center, January 13- March 1, 2009. Gay's whole cloth painted quilt was featured on the postcard invitation for this show and the title of her piece--"Out and About"--was selected as the title for the show. Gay's woven, dyed and painted artworks titled "Not a White Picket Fence" and "Magic Mop--It Cleans While You Dream" are included in the show "All Things Not Quilted" at the La Conner Quilt and Textile Museum, January 14-March 29, 2009, www.laconnerquilts.com.
Fine Gelfand, a member of the Whidbey Island SDA group, is exhibiting two pieces as part of the annual "Gratitude show" organized by the Fine Balance Imaging Studio on Whidbey Island. It is a group show for all artists who have had artwork printed by the studio in 2008. Work includes fine art giclée prints on paper and on fabric. 100% of sales is going to the artists out of gratitude for their business. Fine's pieces are entitled "Beauty and the Fungus DM#1" (18"x24" printed on paper) and "Beauty and the Fungus DM#2" (18"x18" printed on cotton). The pieces involve an original "BioCollage", digitally manipulated with Photoshop, giclée printed on cotton or paper and then folded and stitched or glued. The artists' reception is Sat. 14 Feb from 5 - 8 pm and the show runs for the month of February at the Bayview Cash Store near the corner of Bayview Rd and Hwy 525 on south Whidbey Island
Sally Sellers will have work in "Transformation", a beadwork exhibition at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. www.pittsburgharts.org/gallery_current.php
Sponsored by The Society of Yoruba Bead Artists, the exhibit runs from February 7 - April 19, 2009. It includes work in textiles, wood, sculpture, glass, and painting, as well as pieces by professional jewelry artists. Sally's piece, most certainly one of the largest in the exhibit, is a 61" x 34" quilt titled "The Tyranny of Love." Predominantly red, the quilt is composed of hand-dyed fabrics, with the center design covered in thousands of beads.
Jan Hopkins wants to share this information about the recent basketry event. It was a community event created to celebrate basketry and honor the traveling exhibition "Intertwined - Contemporary Baskets from the Sara and David Lieberman Collection at the Bellevue Arts Museum. Five local galleries participated by exhibiting basketry and coordinating their openings during the weekend of the opening reception at the Museum. A bus tour to all the galleries and a symposium made for a very exciting weekend! Although the weekend is over, the exhibit at the Bellevue Arts Musuem will be up until March 22, 2009. I encourage members to go see the BAM exhibit before it leaves. For photos of the event, see Jan's blog at http://januarybasketryevent09.blogspot.com/
Tina Koyama was awarded a PONCHO-sponsored residency at Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle. This is enabling her to take classes and experiment with completely new media and techniques. A new body of work is currently in progress that will express this new direction. She is showing her work in the "Web and Flow" exhibition at the Textile Center Gallery in Minneapolis March 6 - April 28. For more information about Tina's work, see her website http://tinakoyama.com/index.htm
KeKe Cribbs: internationally renowned glass and mixed media artist, KeKe Cribbs (www.KeKeCribbs.com), curated an exhibition called "Wire we Here?" on show at Museo Gallery in Langley for the month of March. The exhibition challenges artists to reconnect with play. For their inspiration, artists were invited to use wire and mixed media in the spirit of Alexander Calder's Wire circus and a TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) talk by artist Vik Muniz. Keke explains "I wanted to challenge artists to use wire, mixed media, color and humor to revive a feeling of playfulness within the studio atmosphere". With so much commercialization and overseas production, our playfulness has taken a backseat to business. And now, a tightened art market appears to affect creativity at its very roots. I wanted to challenge artists to dig deeper and find that playful place that inspired us to be artists in the first place." Cribbs goes on to explain that the responsibility of the artist is to feel free to express themselves in whatever medium they deem most effective for sharing their concept. The responsibility of art is to infect the viewer with thought. Without creativity, art does not exist; art by its very definition is a honing of expression into a voice that can be heard. To that end, wire is one of the most simple, expressive and accessible way to view thought. The opening reception is Saturday, March 7 from 5 - 7 pm at Museo Gallery, 215 First Street, Langley, on beautiful Whidbey Island. For more info, see www.museo.cc/exhibits.html
Cameron Anne Mason has a show called "Earth and Sky: Fiber works by Cameron Anne Mason and Ann Maki" at the Phinney Neighborhood Center Gallery, 6532 Phinney Ave North, Seattle. Opening reception February 6th, 6-8pm and the show runs February 6-27, 2009. Cameron is always participating in a group show called "Soft Forms" at the Pratt Gallery, Tashiro Kaplan Building, 306 S. Washington St, Seattle. Opening reception is Thursday March 5 from 6 - 8 pm. The show is open to the public on Fridays and Saturdays 12- 5pm and by appointment (206- 328-2200 ext 263) until March 27.
Cheryl Kamera is participating in the MoNA Style Show of Wearable Art at the Museum of Northwest Art at 121 First Street in La Conner, Washington. The juried wearable art show and sale will be held March 7 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. In addition, there will be a show and silent auction of Art Shoes created by invited artists. For more information, go to www.museumofnwart.org/ & click on MoNA Style. Cheryl is also showing a shibori wrap in the juried Gallery show at the RAGS Wearable Art Sale & Show at Mercedes Benz of Tacoma, 4001 20th St. East, Fife, WA. The show & sale runs from March 13 - 15 and benefits the Pierce County YWCA Domestic Violence programs. For more information go to www.ywca.org/site/apps/lk/content2.aspx?c=dkLQK9MNIoG&b=240426
Upcoming Workshops:
Cameron Anne Mason: Workshop Textiles: The Printed Surface Pratt Fine Arts Center Friday-Sunday, 10am-6pm, 5/1 - 5/3/2009 course fee: $260 Using fabric as a canvas and thickened dye as a medium, you will make marks with tools from stamps to silkscreens. You will explore the unique qualities of the silkscreen, its abilities to reproduce multiple images without using photo emulsion processes. You will create textured and layered art cloth which can be used in collage, print, art-to-wear, and quilting. For more information about registration go to pratt.org or call (206) 328-1260
Zia Gipson will be teaching two classes at Open Door Gallery at the Bayview Corner on South Whidbey Island. The classes are Self Expression through collage on March 14 and Paste Paper Designs on paper April 25th. Cost is $110 for each all day workshop plus small supply fee. For more information contact Open Door at 360-331-3020 or email opendoorgallery@gmail.com
Coupeville Arts Center: There are many workshops of interest to SDA members at the Coupeville Arts Center this year. For more info and color photos, go to www.coupevillearts.org/
Jan Myers-Newbury - "Depth of Field Shibori" - March 23 - 27.
Nancie Wiseman - two 1-day workshops on "Knitting with Wire" April 4 & 5.
Joan Schulze - "The Illuminated Quilt: Textures, text & Images" April 20 - 24.
Danielle Bodine - "Random Weave Basket or Vessel May 8 & 9.
Hollie Heller - Surface Design, Photo Transfers, & Collage Techniques May 11 - 14
Jorie Johnson - "B is for Bag" - A Feltmaker's Bag of Tricks- May 16 - 20 (note: Jorie's workshop at the SDA Conference is already full.)
Ann Johnston - Monoprinting with Dye on Fabric - May 30 - June 2
Janet Steadman - No Pattern Needed - June 6 & 7
Susan Louise Moyer - Dyecolor (tm) Painting on Silk Techniques - June 20 - 22
Susan Louise Moyer - Composition and Dyecolor (tm) Painting on Silk - June 24 - 28
Patricia Freiert - More Unusual Shibori Techniques - July 8 - 11
Chad Alice Hagen - Felt-Resist-Bead: Above the Surface of Felted Wool - July 15 - 19
Lisa Grey AND Jason Pollen - Printing Disperse Dyes - July 20 - 24
Lori Flood - Sculptural Feltmaking: Embracing the Possibilities August 3 - 6
Carol Soderlund - True Colors Dyeing - August 12 - 16
Faith Hagenhofer - Exploring Laminate Felt - August 29 - September 1
Anna Hergert - The Art Quilt: Color Compositions and Dimension September 18 - 20
Anna Hergert - "Mud Pies" for Art Quilters: Reuse, Recycle, Recreate - September 21 - 22
Danielle Bodine - "Twined Tall Basket'" - October 3 - 4
Elizabeth Barton - Art Quilts: It's All About Composition - October 6 - 10
Cynthia Corbin - New Directions in Quiltmaking - October 17 - 20
Kerr Grabowski - Deconstructed Screen Printing and Design - October 24 - 28. (note: Kerr's workshop at the SDA Conference is already full.)
Coupeville Arts Center is also offering a series called the Business of Art from A to Z. Check out the website for details or call 360.678.3396 or 866 688 3396
The Art of Mudcloth with Michele Wipplinger, Saturday and Sunday February 21st - 22nd, 10:00 - 5:00 PM
Explore the graphic artistry of traditional Malian mudcloth in this workshop, learning the methods of bogolanfini, and create your own bogolan sampler. Participants will work with various colored mud pigments, traditional tools, fabrics and a variety of woven fabrics that are traditional to this West African tradition. A full range of samples gathered from our travels will be included so each participant can see the distinctive designs from each region, and work on patterning their own cloth. Course fee is $250 plus a $75 material fee.
Dyeing as if the Earth Mattered with Michele Wipplinger at Northwest Handspun Yarns in Bellingham, WA, Tuesday & Wednesday, March 10 - 11, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm, potluck lunch. With a little ingenuity, you can achieve multiple colors through one dye bath, saving water and energy. This low-water immersion method allows you a way to create a multitude of intriguing hues, and simple over dye techniques expand the natural palette even further. Class participants will dye wool yarns suitable for knitting, weaving or crocheting. Each person will receive enough yarn to complete a small project. Contact Northwest Handspun Yarns at 360.738.0167 to register.
Introduction to Surface Design using Natural Dyes - Saturday and Sunday April 4th and 5th. Learn the basics of printing and painting with natural dyes.
Incredible Indigo in and Instant with Inga - Sunday, March 22 from 12 noon - 3 pm . Recycle and update a T-shirt from your stash with interesting indigo techniques
Wyoming
Reported by Phillippa Lack
No news this quarter.
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