Please join us for our September 3 meeting via Zoom at 10:00 AM With Brecia Kralovic Logan sharing the Women’s Woven Voices project tapestry at HGA Convergence. Brecia is a lifetime member of SBFAG, our Programs Chairperson, and the founder of the Women’s Woven Voices international collaborative art project that supports women’s empowerment through writing, weaving and sharing their stories. Brecia will share the inspiration for, history and evolution of the project highlighting the exhibit at Convergence in Knoxville a couple of weeks ago.
Brecia Kralovic-Logan is a champion of creativity, advocate for women, artist and author. She founded the Women’s Woven Voices project to promote creativity, community, and compassion and her book “ The Spiral of Creativity- Mastering the Art of a Spirited Life” supports people to claim their creative courage. Kralovic-Logan teaches, and lectures at international conferences including HGA convergence, Silk Painters International, Quilts Inc, and exhibits her art work nationally. She currently has work in Small Expressions 2022 as well as in the collections of museums and private collectors. Here is the Zoom link for the September 3 meeting. (This link will also be emailed to members separately a few days before the meeting). Time: September 3, 2022 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81162051701
Our usual first Saturday meeting coming up (August 6th) is our annual (Natural) Dye Day in the Park. With Covid in mind we made this a members only meeting last year and are continuing that this year to keep the crowd small. We are fully subscribed with members new and old and looking forward to trying out a number of different dyes and shibori patterning techniques. Lots of Guild member volunteers make this happen!!! This photo is from last year’s event.
January’s Zoom Meeting is with art historian Mae Colburn to introduce and discuss the Swedish tapestries of Helena Hernmarck. Mae Colburn is a New York-based scholar and weaver with an art historical background in textiles and photography. She has worked alongside Helena Hernmarck since 2015, both as studio assistant and as archivist documenting the artist’s nearly sixty-year career. Mae’s essay, “In Helena Hernmarck’s Studio,” appeared in the exhibition catalogue for Hernmarck’s 2018 exhibition at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, and her presentation, “Moving into the Museum: Helena Hernmarck’s Blue Wash Tapestries,” was included in the Yale Center for British Art’s Graduate Symposium in 2016. Mae has taught at Parsons School of Design, and is co-founder of the weaving and design collective ‘friends of light.’ More information available at www.maecolburn.info.
This meeting is via ZOOM:
SBFiberArtsGuild is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: January 2022 Guild Meeting
Time: Jan 8, 2022 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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The February Meeting will be a Fiber Frenzy, see upcoming events page for more info.
This meeting substitutes for the previously planned November Exhibit at the Goleta Library. The library decided not to host our exhibit due to continue Covid concerns. If you were working on a piece please come to our Zoom meeting to share your work, inspire others and meet new members!
Still here! We had members only meeting in August, our annual natural dye day in the park. We didn’t mention it here because, well, it was not public. But is was fun! We took September off for the Labor Day Holiday. October was going to be in-person, but with the Delta variant upping the COVID risk we are reverting to ZOOM.
Our theme for our October Meeting is a Members’ self introduction of their work as a fiber artist. All member who wish to speak and show their work and talk about their inspirations are invited to do so! Email Georganne Alex to get on the speakers’ list or just show up and raise your hand! This may inform the development of your piece for our November Members’ Exhibit. Please see the upcoming events page for future meetings.
Here is the ZOOM link for our October 2nd meeting! 10 am
SBFiberArtsGuild is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Monthly Guild Meeting Time: Oct 2, 2021 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
July 3 Zoom presentation 10 AM. The Guild welcomes guest speaker Sarah Pedlow with a presentation entitled “Threadwritten: Folk Embroidery Traditions in Eastern andSouthern Europe and Contemporary Practice.” In her talk, Sarah will given an overview of her ThreadWritten work, research and travel. Also, she will talk a bit about her art practice which involves stitching on photo images. Sarah will also share information about Netting. (She will be giving a workshop on Netting to interested Guild members on July 10th. We will learn to make a fun reusable bag with the fisherman’s knot and several other utilitarian knots). Sarah Pedlow makes textile works and photo-based drawings that honor traditional embroidery, handmade clothing, and home decor, exploring memory, folklore, and the intersections of culture, heritage, and identity in a globalized world. In 2009 while in Budapest for an artist’s residency, she visited the Ethnographic Museum and fell in love with the traditional clothing and embroidery. The visit inspired her to seek out women who stitch a particular style called written embroidery in Transylvania, Romania, and start the education and preservation project ThreadWritten in 2012. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, she moved to Amsterdam, NL in 2019 where she now lives and works. She writes: I am drawn to handmade objects with a history, and textiles in particular, for the intimate roles they play in our lives, as markers of identity and the passage of time. We wear fabric on the body and pull it open and closed each day in the window. We give it shape and living with it shapes us. In the age of globalization, fast fashion, over-production, and information-saturation I want to honor, preserve, and elaborate upon the disappearing tradition of embroidery, the slow, meditative practice of handwork, and folk traditions. In a dialectical exploration, I use traditional and synthetic sewing materials to create a conversation between the public and private, hidden and revealed, remembered and forgotten, rural and urban, historical and contemporary. For more information, visit: sarahpedlow.com or threadwritten.com
The Zoom meeting: When: Jul 3, 2021 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Sarah Pedlow Netmaking Workshop
July 10th Zoom Workshop: 10am-2pm, $35.00
During an artist’s residency in Iceland in 2016, Sarah learned the netting knot from an Icelandic net-maker and fisherman. She subsequently furthered her studies in Holland. Her other interests can be found on www.Threadwritten.com or www.SarahPedlow.com
In the workshop, participants will learn to make a reusable net bag (from start to finish) that can hold a bottle, groceries, just to name a few possibilities. Sarah will cover a short history of net-making practices and nets throughout history.
It will be fun and informative. Sign up by emailing Georganne Alex, alexclothing.com@gmail.com and soon, as space is limited to 15 and time is needed to mail you your materials. Georganne will provide payment details and the Zoom link.
The following materials are listed for general info. The basic materials, read carefully, will be included and mailed to you if sign up no later than July 4th.
The Net Needle and Paracord will be supplied as part of the class. The other tools should be gathered by the participant.
Netting needle/shuttle:
Net Needle, Delrin 10-1/4 in. long, 1-1/8 in. wide (STOCK NUMBER: NE6) from Memphis Needle and Twine, https://www.memphisnet.net/product/7250/needles#minicart_a, for example, if using Paracord. If you’re using a narrower fiber you can use a smaller needle, keeping in mind that the width of the needle has to be smaller than your gauge. See below.
Fiber: 50 feet/ 15.5 meters of Paracord, yarn, or string. Paracord is easiest to work with, as knots can slide, be easily loosened and adjusted. Cut one length that is 20 feet long (so you have one piece that is 30′ and one that is 20′). You are welcome to work with natural fibers instead, just keeping knots loose until you’ve got them in the right spot. I used 550/ 7 stranded Paracord in my orange example online. Paracord Planet is one source as well as Amazon with orange and so many fun colors and patterns!
You will need to supply the following:
Gauge: cut out a piece of cardboard that is 2”/ 5 cm square for Paracord. Make your cardboard 1 inch high and 2 inches wide for yarn or thinner cord/string (using a netting needle that is narrower than 1 inch).
Tape measure.
An S-hook like https://amzn.to/2R3IcIH to hang over a chair or a clamp like https://amzn.to/32RYaIu to attach to a table or counter. I used to buy the S-hooks at Ikea but they no longer sell them. You’ll use either the S-hook or the metal bar that adjusts the clamp as a support while you make the bag.
Optional: Button Toggle. If you are working with a finer cord or string other than the thickness of Paracord, it’s easier if you use a button on a piece of string as the support for your net in addition to the S-hook or clamp. Thread an 8″ long string through a large button (3/4 inch or more in diameter) and tie a knot. You’ll then hang that on the S-hook or clamp.
Lighter or other flame for sealing ends of Paracord.
In the heavenly and unique setting of the Church of Saint Francis of the Women in Perugia, the ancient techniques of weaving are faithfully preserved and the timeless textiles that are created carry with them the history of art and of the region of Umbria. The Giuditta Brozzetti Museum Workshop is one of the last surviving hand weaving workshops in Italy where it is possible to marvel at original working looms from the 18th and 19th centuries and to discover their rich history. Marta will show us through the workshop via Zoom.
You are invited to a Zoom meeting. When: May 1, 2021 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Traveling to India was something I had wanted to do since I was very young. In September-October of 2019 the opportunity presented itself to go on an art tour in the state of Rajasthan. I joined the tour and along the way learned and experienced more than I could have imagined! With the aid of photographs I will recap some of the experiences focusing mostly on the textiles with their many colors and embellishments as well as other crafts that express traditions of Rajasthan spanning countless generations.
This is a Zoom Meeting and registration is required:
You are invited to a Zoom meeting. When: Feb 6, 2021 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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Catharine Ellis is a weaver, a natural dyer, and an educator. She continues to build a deeper understanding of natural plant and insect dyes though research and experimentation. Catharine has studied with dyers from around the world and teaches workshops and exhibits internationally. She originated the process of woven shibori and is the author of Woven Shibori (Interweave Press, 2005, 201). Catharine and Joy Boutrup, Danish textile chemist and engineer, co-wrote The Art and Science of Natural Dyes (Schiffer Press, 2019).
This will be ZOOM presentation at 10 am on November 7th. This event will not be recorded.
Our first ever online exhibit is open now. Please see our EXHIBIT 2020 page!
We can’t have a proper Opening Reception but we can get together in a ZOOM meeting. At our regular First Saturday October meetingon October 3rd at 10 am we will view the show together, talk with the artists and get inspired. Please join us!
You are invited to a Zoom meeting. When: Oct 3, 2020 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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