August 31, September 1-2, 2010
Jiyoung Chung
Lecture: Joomchi and Beyond
Workshop: Joomchi: Why not?
Jiyoung Chung is a painter, mixed media artist and freelance writer. She has developed an innovative method for utilizing a traditional Korean method of papermaking called Joomchi. In Jiyoung’s hands, the ancient takes on a more contemporary appearance. The Hanji (Korean mulberry paper) reveals itself as a painterly, abstract and contemporary art form filled with sculptural and textural imagery.
Jiyoung Chung received her B.F.A.(painting) from Rhode Island School of Design with honor and award, and M.F.A.(print/media) from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She is represented by the Gallery at Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland OR. She has had numerous solo (18 times) and group exhibitions throughout Korea, China, Finland, Canada, U.S.A and France including the one at Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University in TX., and at the LaFontsee Gallery in Grand Rapids, MI in conjunction with Convergence ’06, and Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco. She was an Artist-in-Residence at Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT and at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, MN. Her work includes space drawing, indoor & outdoor installation work, paper art, and book art. Her works are shown at ‘06 Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, ’07 International Asian Art Fair, New York, NY, and ‘07, ’08, ‘09 Smithsonian Craft Show and ’09 SOFA New York (The International Expositions of Sculpture Objects and Functional Art). Her work is in the permanent collections of Museum of Art & Design (Formerly Museum of American Craft), New York, NY and Korea Traditional Flower Art Center, Daegu University, Deagu, Korea. Her most recent public show was 2009 SOFA New York (Lea Sneider Gallery).
Workshop:
Joomchi is traditional Korean handmade paper making. Layering thin mulberry paper together and through agitating with hand & water, textured paper paintings are created. In this workshop, using the low tech hands-on process, one can enjoy this ancient technique transforms into contemporary adaptation in 2-D, 3-D, functional and fine art oriented
October 5-7, 2010
Paula Nadelstern
Lecture:Symmetry and surprise: the kaleidoscope as design inspiration
Workshop:
Day 1
Workshop: Needlestars©
Day 2
Simple Blocks + Complex Fabrics = A Puzzle Quilt
Paula Nadelstern’s award-winning quilts have been exhibited internationally in solo exhibitions mounted at The American Folk Art Museum, The Museum of the American Quilters Society, Houston International Quilt Festival, and in Japan, on television shows and online websites, and in books and magazines. Paula’s work was included in the Twentieth Century’s 100 Best American Quilts, a prestigious exhibit mounted for the millennium. She is author of Kaleidoscopes & Quilts, Snowflakes & Quilts, Puzzle Quilts: Simple Blocks, Complex Fabric, Paula Nadelstern’s Kaleidoscope Quilts and Kaleidoscope Quilts: The Workbook to be published Spring 2010. A recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and from The Bronx Council on the Arts, Paula designs textile prints exclusively for Benartex, Inc. and travels extensively teaching her unique kaleidoscopic quiltmaking techniques.
Day 1
Workshop: Needlestars©
Advanced beginner, Intermediate to advanced skill levels
This class is a kaleidoscope workshop and is both a process and product class. Students learn all of the unique machine piecing and template techniques Paula uses to create a complex image while simultaneously exploring the virtues of bilaterally symmetrical fabric. Needlestars© is a 4-patch block reminiscent of a kaleidoscopic pinwheel.
Day 2
Simple Blocks + Complex Fabrics = A Puzzle Quilt
Advanced Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced skill levels
Paula has distilled twenty years of complex quiltmaking into simple theories that explain her idiosyncratic patchwork sensibility and define her way of thinking about fabric. A Puzzle Quilt is a clever vehicle for combining these elements into a sampler with a secret: each block design is used twice. By using totally different fabric combinations, an illusion is created: each block appears unique. The “puzzle” is to pick out which two are the same. She promises that you will see possibilities in fabric in a whole new way. This class is aimed at the quilter who wants to embrace the potential offered by a wide range of fabric choices rather than be overwhelmed by it. The focus is on design, specifically learning to use fabric to create unexpected results.
Please note: The book, Puzzle Quilts: Simple Blocks, Complex Fabrics by Paula Nadelstern (C&T, 2006) will be referred to in class.
website: www.paulanadelstern.com
November 2, 2010
Michelle Sales
Lecture: "Kaki-shibu Dye" A New Look at an Ancient Technique
Michelle Sales is a fiber/mixed media artist living in Winfield Illinois.
Her work has been widely exhibited in the US and abroad. She maintains a full time studio in addition to presenting lectures and workshops. Further information and photos can be found on her website.
Ms. Sales is represented by :
Vale Craft Gallery Chicago Illinois www.valecraftgallery.com
Kaki-shibu is fermented juice from unripe persimmon fruit. It has been used in Japan for thousands of years as a dye, strengthener and protective agent on paper, fabric and wood. It is currently enjoying a rebirth today as it is a truly non-toxic dye. Kaki-shibu imparts rich light to dark golden brown tones on paper, fabric, and wood.
Website: www.michellesales.com
January 4-6
Ann Fahl
Lecture: Ideas of Creativity
Workshop: Come and Dance on your Quilt
Ann Fahl is a quilt artist living and working in Racine WI. Ann has been teaching since 1981, the year of her first blue ribbon winning quilt. Now she travels across the US working with guilds, symposiums, retreats and quilters of all ages and experience. Connecting with quilters is an energizing and enjoyable part of her quilting career.
Her work has been exhibited in competitions, solo exhibits and invitational shows across the United States, France and Japan. It is included in the collections of Northwestern Mutual Insurance Co., Neiman Marcus, Quilts, Inc., Ripon College, Winona Lake Restoration and many private collections. She enjoys the challenge of quilt competitions, so she continues to design new work keeping the level of workmanship high.
Lecture: Ideas of Creativity
A digital presentation aimed at creative people looking for new ways to find inspiration for the quilts or artwork. Ann gives ways to live more creatively; how to listen to your own body’s rhythms to take advantage of your most creative moments. She discusses knowing yourself, idea collecting, scheduling, unstructured thought, and much more. The goal is to open a discussion and share ideas with the audience. For the artistic audience.
Workshop: Come and Dance on your Quilt
A two day workshop with Ann Fahl. The process of quilting can be one of the most satisfying and creative parts of making a quilt. Watching the surface of your quilt come alive is exhilarating. It makes all your hard work seem worthwhile.
So, instead of sending your quilt out, why not learn to free-motion machine quilt yourself? Try this more free-spirited approach to your quilting; with little marking; using Ann's new book Dancing with Thread as a guide. Please bring a small quilt top from home, to practice on in class. Ann has lots of thread, quilt preparation and machine tips to make your quilting easier and more successful. This class is for the student that has some experience with machine quilting and wears dancing shoes.
Website: http://www.annfahl.com/
February 1-3, 2011
RaeAnn Collins
Lecture: Seven Japanese aesthetic principles to enrich your process of creating art
Workshop: Japanese stab binding in a traditional wrap case
RaeAnn Collins an artist, wife and mother of 3 young boys. She received her BA in Fine Arts (printmaking and drawing) from Aquinas College and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College in Chicago. While at Columbia, she received the Albert P. Weisman Exhibition Best of Show honor for her thesis entitled Offering. In a former life, she worked as a conservation technician (book conservator) at the Ryerson Library in the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago. Currently she sits on the board of the Down syndrome Development Council, teaches box making and other workshops at Columbia College and pursues her love of box making and various artistic interests in her studio.
Workshop: Japanese stab binding in a traditional wrap case
In this workshop we will make 5 Japanese Stab bindings and a custom Japanese wrap case to house them.
Day one: We will be learning about materials, tools, and sewing all 5 books.
Day two: We will be constructing the wrap case.
March 1-3, 2011
Christi Friesen
Lecture: Designing art jewelry with mixed media
Workshop: Beads, Buttons and Blooms
Christi Friesen is an award-winning artist and author of 8 books on polymer clay and mixed media art. She teaches all over the country and internationally. Her pieces have won top awards in the Bead Dreams contest, the Bead Arts Awards, the International Wearable Arts Exhibitions and others.
Her teaching style embraces the joy of creating, stressing the individuality of creativity while imparting the foundations of the craft. Her sense of humor and relaxed teaching style make her classes fun as well as informative.
Workshop: Beads, Buttons and Blooms:
Two days of clay with Christi Friesen. Polymer clay is an amazingly versatile medium, combing well with beads and fibers. In this workshop event, we will explore those connections while we create a series of finished polymer clay and mixed media pieces.
The workshop will begin with buttons and move on to more intricate floral pieces that can be used as components for an art necklace, or be used individually as brooches or focal beads. Finally, we will explore several concepts using embellished polymer clay to add a dimensional component to quilting and fiber arts. Since polymer clay is waterproof, colorfast and lightweight, adding polymer embellishments to fiber projects opens a window of exciting possibilities, and the workshop will wrap up with a foray into these possibilities.
In this two-day class, you will learn all the basics of polymer clay sculptural work, as well as finishing techniques to incorporating the clay into art jewelry pieces, fiber works, doll sculpture and more.
Website: http://www.cforiginals.net/
April 5-7, 2011
Rachel Nelson-Smith
Lecture: Creative process: sculptural beadwork
Workshop: Beon Freo cuff and techniques
Rachel Nelson-Smith, author of Seed Bead Fusion, is a master beadweaver whose work is infused with her unique combination of fabrication techniques. With a wealth of knowledge and fearless adventure, needle and tools shape bold and vibrant works alive with enormous energy and dynamism. Finding inspiration in surrounding nature, pure color, and beads themselves, Rachel creates pieces reflecting the world she sees around her.
Coloring outside the lines, an approach based in freedom allows her to extemporaneously express thoughts as they happen—with wide use of color and energy, physical manifestations are created in beads and wire.
Examples of her dynamic finished work have appeared in Masters: Beadweaving (Carol Wilcox Wells, 2008, Lark Books) where she was featured along with other modern beadweaving masters in 2008 as well as seven projects in Kate Shoup Welsh's Not Your Mama’s Beading (2006, Wiley Publishing) and instructional jewelry-making books by Marcia DeCoster (2009) and Sharilyn Miller (2009). Rachel’s Seed Bead Fusion: 18 Projects to Stitch, Wire & String (Interweave Press) will release in September 2009.
Rachel works a dual focus of pushing the boundaries of improvisational beadweaving combinations and wire techniques and to amaze the viewer. Since 1996, Rachel has offered basic to advanced classes in the California Bay Area for the South Bay Bead Art Guild, bead stores, park & recreation programs, and privately. Since 2005, her designs have been offered at national bead shows like Bead & Button and Puget Sound Bead Festival and around the US in bead stores and for bead societies. She hopes to teach in Japan and Europe and write a series of books.
Residing in beautiful Santa Cruz, CA with husband Colin, Rachel endeavors to spread peace and inspiration through her peerless achievements.
Workshop: Beon Freo cuff and techniques
Learn several beadweaving stitches then explore beading freely and answering the question ”what if." Discuss possibilities for your piece including components and overall feel, assembly and finishing. Printed directions with illustration for the base, fringe, and several components are provided. We’ll begin with flat peyote and bezeling with tubular peyote, herring bone fringe, and right-angle weave with a small amount of optional wire working techniques.
Website: http://www.msrachel.com/
May 3-5
Kathy Weaver
Lecture: Creating a World
Workshop: Fundamentals of Airbrushing
Kathy received an M.A. in Art and Art History from Bowling Green State University. She has also studied in Vienna, Austria and Yogjakarta, Indonesia. Trained as a painter, Kathy actively practiced her art while raising a family and having a career teaching art in the public schools. Her paintings were of a political nature and involved issues apartheid, feminism and anti-militarism. In 1998 she gravitated to the medium of fabric as a way to engage a larger audience to view the message of her works. She has exhibited nationally and internationally. Kathy’s works are in the collection of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York and traveled with the Quilt National ’07 show (where she received the Cathy Rasmussen Emerging Artist Memorial Award). Kathy has had solo shows at Beloit College, Woman Made Gallery, the University of Illinois-Chicago Health in the Arts Clinic, and at The Center for Integrative Science, University of Chicago.
Workshop: Fundamentals of Airbrushing
Have you ever wanted to learn how to airbrush? A two-day workshop will afford students an overview of how the airbrush technique can be adapted for both surface design of fabric and for the construction of a whole cloth quilt. Examples of work in both methods will be shown. A survey of various stenciling, masking and spontaneous painting techniques will be demonstrated. Students will have hands on opportunity to use the airbrush to experience these methods of working. Time will be spent making students knowledgeable about various kinds of airbrushes, condensers, inks and paints. Kathy will demonstrate, and we will experiment with, various kinds of substrates on which to airbrush. The proper use of the airbrush, cleaning and maintenance will be taught.
Website: http://www.kweaverarts.com/index.html