Dates: July 14-15, 2012
Time: 9AM – 5PM both days
Cost: approx. $175 + 35 materials fee / student (depends on number of students)
Location: Amazing Yarns, 2559 Woodland Place, Redwood City, CA

Japanese fabrics have been made for centuries using intricate paper stencils and a resist paste made of rice flour.  Authentic Japanese fabrics using this technique are very expensive and almost unobtainable in this country. You will learn how to make these lovely fabrics yourselves, dyeing them with indigo and/or colored dyes. On the first day we will carve two stencils from Japanese paper, and apply silk mesh to strengthen them.  While the stencil is drying we will make the resist paste.  We will use some of my stencils to apply paste to fabric so it will have time to dry overnight. The second day we will learn how to use a variety of traditional pigments, to produce multicolored images on silk or linen. Students will use their own stencils to paste silk scarves to dye and take home.

Please contact Ann McDonough for more information or to sign up for the workshop.

A $100 deposit is required to hold your place in the workshop.

We welcome acclaimed silk weaver Polly Barton to our April 19th guild meeting. Her website is http://www.pollybarton.com/

Her talk will be about the evolution of her work, the artists who have inspired her, and techniques she uses in her work.

Her  work is in the Sourcing the Museum show which opens this coming March 23rd at the Textile Museum.

She is also featured on the virtual tour of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. at the Textile Museum in Washington, DC. http://www.textilemuseum.org/

Watch the video of Arab Spring

We welcome renowned fiber artist Mary Zicafoose to our May 17th meeting.

For over two decades, international textile artist Mary Zicafoose has been creating tapestries and rugs that are as rich in color as they are in symbolic content. Her work is included in private and public collections that span the globe, including U.S. Embassies on three continents. The artist’ practice and processes reflect superb craftsmanship as well as her ability to articulate a brilliant contemporary vernacular based on color. Her woven pieces blend cultural icons, images and symbols with an unabashed hand, creating powerful visual statements in fiber. Zicafoose maintains a one-woman fiber studio in Omaha, NE where she lives with her family.

http://www.maryzicafoose.com/

2012 Exhibit

2011 Exhibit

2009 Exhibit

Website: http://garment.fibermusings.net/

This study group was an extension of the Handwoven for Garment Design workshop series with Sharon Alderman and Daryl Lancaster, meeting meet monthly to review progress and talk through any issues.

A thorough discussion of the traditional art of Japanese stencil dyeing, with slides and examples of antique fabrics and of my own work, illustrating where it has taken a contemporary surface designer and fiber artist.

Karen Miller was born in Oakland, CA in 1946. She was a marine biologist before becoming an expert on katazome, the art of Japanese stencil dyeing. Using her own hand cut stencils to apply a resist paste she produces fabric for art quilts, as well as silk garments, linen hangings and indigo dyed cottons.Her work has been exhibited twice in Japan. She has shown her work in numerous juried and group shows. Her work was accepted to Visions 2002, In 2009 she had Oregon solo shows at the Newport Visual Arts Center, Benton County Historical Society and the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center in Portland. She shows regularly at the Japanese Garden in Portland and Kobo in Seattle. Her work is in numerous private collections and hangs in the Washington D.C. office of Jane Lubchenco, the head of NOAA.

She has taught katazome nationally and internationally and published several articles on katazome. She was invited lecturer at the Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe New Mexico. She was featured on Oregon Public Broadcasting TV Oregon Art Beat in October 2007.

Karen’s website is: http://www.nautilus-fiberarts.com/

“How String Changed the World”

We welcome acclaimed fiber artist, Cameron Taylor-Brown to our guild meeting Thursday, February 16th, 7-9:30.

Our talk will start at 7:15, in order to be finished on time.

http://www.camerontaylor-brown.com/

Cameron is based in Los Angeles, and studied fiber arts with Ed Rossbach at UC Berkeley.

Her artwork is widely exhibited and has been published in American Craft, Fiberarts, Shuttle, Spindle and Dyepot and the Fiberarts Design Books Four, Five, Six and Seven . She travels Southern California and Arizona as the regional representative for several top yarn companies, including Rowan, Filatura de Crosa and Manos del Uruguay. An experienced teacher and facilitator, she conducts workshops throughout the country exploring design, color, creativity and the collaborative process.

Cameron Taylor-Brown was a founder of ACCESS Community Arts & Education, a consulting partnership that worked with classroom teachers and artists to make direct connections between the arts, curriculum, educational content standards and community arts experiences. Two accessARTS models, Start with Art and Arts in the City , were developed with the support of California State Charter School Grants. These classroom-tested models were disseminated throughout the state of California in 2004-5. accessARTS strategies remain central in Cameron’s approach to teaching and learning.

Supplies each guild member should bring:

2-4 small sticks - each 10-12 ” long, no more than 1/2 inch or so in diameter

about 2-3 oz of plied yarn, 800-3,000 yards per pound

a handful of un-spun fiber, any type

a handful of small rocks (each about the size of a quarter or so)

scissors

masking or duct tape

digital camera suggested

Exhibit at Redwood City Library 2011

Exhibit at Redwood City Library 2011

Redwood City Library exhibit 2009

Exhibit at Redwood City Library 2009

Stephenie Gaustad

Will present a program on

Spinning for Weaving

cotton blossom courtesy of J. Ruane

Stephenie is an artist, designer, illustrator, weaver and experienced teacher. She has just produced a DVD on spinning cotton for Interweave Press.