September 1-3, 2009
Jeanne Beck
Lecture: The Surface Designer’s Art
Workshop: Glorious Textures
Jeanne Beck is a full-time studio artist, writer and teacher. Jeanne has a BA in communications and an MFA in creative writing; she worked for many years in public relations and had a corporate publications business for nine years.
Jeanne teaches surface design, stitching and creative process techniques throughout the USA and has exhibited her work in juried exhibitions throughout the US and England. She has been featured on HGTV’s Simply Quilts and her work has appeared in a number of magazines and books including: Surface Design Journal, American Quilter, Quilting Arts, Simple Silkscreening, Finding Your Own Personal Imagery and Textiles Now. She has won awards for her mixed media surface designed pieces in major quilting and fine craft exhibitions.
Glorious Textures
It’s all about building textural surfaces in this two-day class. Start with painting techniques on cloth and fusible web. You'll create many small, painted components with an eye for color and texture, then cut, rip, layer, distort and fuse them to surfaces prepared with painted fusible web. To these surfaces you’ll add spontaneous hand stitching to build even more complex textures. You can complete several small works or numerous color and pattern samples during the class.
The first day we’ll paint our components – fusible web, silks, cheesecloth, tyvek. While those dry, we’ll experiment with improvisational painting techniques that will include dry, wet and dry/wet combinations, monoprinting, stamping, etc.
The second day we’ll layer and compose some samples in the morning, add foils and tyvek lace, then hand stitch into the surfaces in the afternoon, altering and distorting and piling simple hand embroidery stitches to define shapes and add texture.
October 6-8, 2009
Laura Cater Woods
Lecture: Fabrications – A True Story
Workshop: The Elements: Earth, Air, Fire and Water
Laura is a working studio artist with an extensive international exhibition record and numerous awards. Her mixed media and fiber art work is held in public, private and corporate collections. After completing an M.F.A. in Painting (Ohio University, 1990) she began to integrate her love of fabric and thread with her approach to drawing and painting. Her images explore the textures and rhythms of details from the landscape, often interwoven with eccentric grids.
In addition to Public Art Projects, Percent for Art Commissions, and gallery exhibitions, Laura teaches nationally for conferences, guilds, shops and private groups. Nominated for Professional Quilter’s Teacher of the Year, 2004 and 2006, she is known as a nurturing and inspiring facilitator who offers highly personalized instruction. She is also a Creativity Coach (trained by Eric Maisel, Ph.D.) and works with private clients: writers, musicians and visual artists. In 1998-99 she was honored with a Montana Arts Council Fellowship in Visual Arts, Mixed Media.
The Elements: Earth, Air, Fire and Water
Working with sets of opposites - visual as well as conceptual - participants develop a composition using the elements: Earth, Air, Fire and Water, as inspiration. Using a variety of approaches, students are encouraged to tap into their personal creative voice. The expressive designs evoked are then translated into your medium of choice. Instruction is highly personalized.
November 3, 2009
David Johnson
Lecture: The Re-enchantment of Everyday Life
David began weaving in 1975, and focused on tapestry as a medium until the early 1990s. In 1993, He began to construct mixed media pieces with surface embellishment; in 2000, working with digital images printed on fabric and inkjet canvas became his interest.
He has also been making fiber-based Jewelry in one form or another since 1993. His work has been widely exhibited and has been published in books, catalogs and magazines. It can be seen at the Illinois Artisan shops in Chicago, Springfield, and Rend Lake; in Chicago at the Intuit Gallery gift shop, and at Painted Light in Andersonville. There is also work at the Bohlin Gallery in Mineral Point, Wisconsin.
David won the award for most innovative use of the medium at the Bead International 2008 at the Dairy Barn Arts Center in Athens, Ohio.
January 5-7, 2010
Katie Pasquini Masopust
Lecture: The Art Quilt
Workshop: Abstract and Non Representational Quilt Design
Fiber Artist, Katie Pasquini, has taught contemporary quilt design internationally. Her quilts and articles have been featured in many publications including Fiber Arts, Quilting Arts, Quilters’ Newsletter, American Quilters Society Magazine and others. She has authored the following books: Ghost Layers & Color Washes, Color and Composition for the Creative Quilter, and her newest book, Design Explorations for the Creative Quilter.
Katie has won many awards throughout her career, but considers Best of Show at the Houston Quilt Festival in 1982 and 1986, and at the Pacific International Quilt Show in 1994, her best achievements. Her quilt, "Rio Hondo," was selected for inclusion in the 100 quilts of the 20th Century, and she was the recipient of the Silver Star award.
Abstract and Non Representational Quilt Design
This workshop will show you how to start with an original photograph or line drawing and create a departure from its reality.
We will do 6 + different exercises to explore the abstract and non-representational designs, these include, shape, line, blind painting, “cubing”, zooming, abstract still life.
Composition, color schemes and a well thought out plan will be emphasized. A quilt design will be fully realized. Many different techniques will be discussed to help you create your quilt such as appliqué, piecing, fusing, collage, and painting and stamping on the surface
February 2-4, 2010
Mary Hettmansperger
Lecture: Free-Range Fiber Artist
Workshop: Mixed Media Art Quilts
Mary Hettmansperger is a fiber/jewelry artist exhibiting/teaching across the US and abroad. Arrowmont, Bead and Button, Convergence, National conferences, guilds and similar venues are some of the places she lends her instruction on jewelry, basketry, surface design and quilting. Mary’s artwork is represented at SOFA–Chicago by the Katie Gingrass gallery. She has authored and illustrated 2 books on jewelry, Fabulous Woven Jewelry and Wrap, Stitch, Fold and Rivet. She is currently working on her third book, release date spring 2010 all three published by Lark/Sterling. Her work can also be found in: 500 Baskets, Fiber Arts Design Book 7, Fabulous Found Object Jewelry, Teapots Makers & Collectors, Beading with Crystals, and others. Television segments include; the PBS programs, Beads Baubles and jewels and Quilting Art, along with published work in numerous magazines.
Mixed Media Art Quilts
The focus of the class will be to incorporate a variety of surface items and techniques to simple pieced quilts. Students will learn to create a variety of surfaces and unique designs using craft wires, waxes, linen and other cordage materials to stitch, weave, twine, loop, knot, coil, connect and embellish. Using commercial connections, such as nuts and bolts, eyelets, brads, jump rings, and rivets students will learn a variety of cold connections and their possibilities.
Students are encourages to bring - Rocks, Pods, bark, found glass, and small sticks that will become an intricate part of the art quit and usually free for the gathering. Items from hardware store, scrapbooking stores, toy and salvage stores are all good places to gather up items from. Beads, beads and more beads. Keep in mind to bring several of one item, to create texture and repetition in the pieces and flat items are very easy to work with. Nature’s objects, architectural elements, and personal imagery will be used as studies to be interpreted into the wall pieces, by the individual’s creative voice. There will be a wide variety of techniques to choose from and work with during the workshop. Mary will bring some items for the quilts to purchase, but keep in mind the more you bring in – the more personal the Art work becomes. Mary will not bring fabric or batting. Sewing machines are used to piece the fabrics during the 1st day
March 2-4, 2010
Barbara Schneider
Lecture: Shape Up! Improvisational Fabric Forming
Workshop: Improvisational Fabric Forming Workshop
Barbara began quilting in 1996 and rediscovered the pleasure of working with cloth, paint, dye, and thread. Her background is in visual design and I worked for many years as a designer in the publishing industry. She makes handmade paper and collect Japanese folk art. She takes lots of photos of found objects, shadows, tactile details which have had a strong influence on the direction of her work.
Barbara’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including SOFA Chicago and every Quilt National since 2001, and her work is included in many collections. Her awards include the Juror’s Award of Merit, Quilt National 2007, and Surface Design Award of Excellence in 2007.
Improvisational Fabric Forming Workshop
A 2 day workshop to explore a variety of methods for coloring, patterning and shaping polyester and blended fabrics. Using sticks, stones, rubber bands and buttons and who knows what else! The techniques include:
1. Working with disperse dyes and a heat press and irons.
2. Working with disperse dyes and a pressure cooker.
3. Working with transparent fabric and sewing shapes into them
4. Working with a collage of fabrics, stitching and stiffeners. ( if we have time – if not I will demo this)
We will create many samples – be willing to experiment and play! You will not complete any specific project in this workshop. You will create many samples of techniques that you can explore more on your own.
April 6-8, 2010
Carol Owen
Lecture: Crafting a Personal Shrine to Tell Your Story
Workshop: Personal Shrines/Spirit Houses
Carol Owen has been a professional artist for 30 years, working initially as a weaver and papermaker, and now in mixed media. She has exhibited throughout the United States and her work has appeared in many publications, including Collage for the Soul, and magazines including Mary Engelbreit's Home Campanion (Dec/Jan 2008), Somerset Studio, Legacy and Country Living. Carol's book, Crafting Personal Shrines, was published by Lark Books in October, 2004, and reprinted in soft cover in February, 2006.
Class Description
Carol Owen sees her Spirit Houses as protective icons of family history, "My Spirit Houses are shrines to family memories. They make sacred those shards of the past that have made us what we are."
Enshrining memories of family and home and incorporating personal mementos which celebrate the people, places, and events important to us, Carol's unique, three-dimensional assemblages honor people's most intimate histories and truest treasures.
May 4-6, 2010
Anne Lullie
Lecture: Colorplay: Free Your Spirit
Workshop: Colorplay
Anne Lullie is an award winning quilt artist from Lake in the Hills, Illinois. Her work has been shown throughout the United States in juried shows such as The American Quilter’s Society Show (2003, 2005), Paducah, KY, Pacific International Quilt Festival XIII, Santa Clara, CA, and Road to California, Ontario, CA. In 2004, her quilt Peace, Love, & Happiness Dragon won an Honorable Mention at World Quilt Show 2004. Fiesta del Mar I was published in the American Quilter’s Society 2004 Engagement calendar. In 2005, Fiesta Floribunda II won Second Place honors in the Art Wall Quilt category at Road to California. In 2005, Anne’s quilt Colorplay I was chosen to travel with the Husqvarna/Viking exhibit "Masterpieces; Art Takes Shape". Colorplay I was purchased by the International Quilt Association, to be part of their collection. Anne's quilts have also traveled in Chicago School of Fusing invitational exhibits nationwide. In 2008, Fiesta Floribunda III won the 2008 AQS "Best Machine Workmanship" award at the AQS Des Moines show. Anne was also featured in the Oct-Nov 2009 issue of Quilting Arts magazine.
Anne is best known for her use of bold colors, abstract shapes, and whimsical hand-embroidered embellishment. Her technique of choice is raw-edge fusible appliqué, incorporating hand-dyed fabric and threads, and finished with machine quilting.
See her work at: http://www.annelullie.com/
Class Description
This class is suitable for anyone who would like to become more comfortable with choosing and using lots of color(s) in their work. Learn to trust your own intuitive color sense, and discover new and exciting color combinations. Students will experiment with color chips and strips, placing them on colored background fabrics in a random and/ or planned order, learning about color interactions from this “play”. The result will be a visually interesting quilt top, which may lead to further exploration of the effects and power of color(s) on their surrounding environment. No sewing machines are required for this class.
Class-specific kits of hand-dyed fabric will be available for purchase from the teacher. Students may add their own fabrics as desired, (hand-dyed/ pre-fused fabric recommended). The workshop further explores and applies color theory and design principles; students will experiment with fabric surface design (paint, stamping, etc.).