The regular monthly Guild meeting is May 6th at Valle Verde, 900 Calle Los Amigos, SB. It is in a different room this time so look for the signs!
A video “Fashion Show” will be shared by the Southern California Handweaver’s Guild.
Get into the spirit of it by wearing something you have made, come and show it off!
“A Life in Fiber….50 years of Entanglements“
Our guest speaker this month is Susan Venable; she will discuss her work and screen a short documentary that reveals her artistic thought process.
The meeting is at Valle Verde, 900 Calle de los Amigos, Santa Barbara.
9:30 social time, 10:00 short business meeting, then Guest Speaker.
Our March meeting will be at 9:30 am, Saturday, March 4th.
Location:
Valle Verde
Ray Schneider Social Room, inside the Administration Building.
900 Calle de los Amigos
Santa Barbara, CA 93105
We have a special screening of the film “YARN” . This movie features 4 fiber artists and their Yarn Bombing work around the world. Fun and fascinating! Please join us for the movie which follows our social time and short business meeting. The film is expected to start around 10:30 am and is 75 minutes long.
Everything You Wanted to Know About Paper But Didn’t Know Who to Ask
Our guest speaker Is Jill Littlewood. For forty years, Jill has been exploring different parts of the book! With a degree in drawing from the Art Institute in Chicago, she later studied letterpress printing at the Woman’s Building in Los Angeles. Scientific illustration for the Natural Museum In Los Angeles followed, along with Western and Chinese caliigraphy, bookbinding, and finally papermaking. Some of her works push the line between book art and illustrations: they are books you walk through, entirely made of handmade paper, with hundreds of her illustrations and writings embedded in them. Most recently Jill had been making sculptural pieces out of her handmade paper.
This is our regular Saturday meeting format at Valle Verde, in the Ray Schneider Social Room inside the Adminstration Building, 900 Calle de los Amigos, Santa Barbara, CA 805-883-4000
9:30 social hour, 10:00 short business meeting, followed by our speaker!
A busy month!
First, there is the fabulous WoW (Wonders of Weaving) Sale!
4th Annual Arts & Crafts Sale Supports Local Weavers;
Gorgeous hand-made items, including hand-woven, knitted, felted and unique items for home and family, will be offered at the 4th Annual WoW Sale. The sale will be held from 12:00 pm to 7:00 pm, November 3rd, 4th & 5th, 2016 at the Santa Barbara Public Market, 38 W. Victoria Street, Santa Barbara.
See the Wonders of Weaving page for more details, including the online sale option.
MONTHLY MEETING for November
The guest speaker at our regular monthly meeting is Peter Crawford, and we are meeting at the Valle Verde community room. This is on Saturday morning, November 5th, 9:30 social time, business at 10:00, followed by our speaker.
Peter Crawford is the owner of Red Thread Designs here in Santa Barbara, and will be giving a presentation on designing needlepoint canvases and the process of creating needlepoint today. www.redthreaddesigns.com
Valle Verde
Ray Schneider Social Room, inside the Administration Building.
900 Calle de los Amigos
Santa Barbara, CA 93105
(805) 883-4000
Parking is available near the Administration Building entrance and on Calle de
los Amigos. The Ray Schneider Social Room (RSSR) is inside the entrance
lobby.
There is also a retreat in Cambria on November 11th, see EVENTS page for details.
Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral? With Jannie Taylor
Jannie Taylor has been weaving and designing for over 40 years. Her fascination with textiles and handweaving began in the heady 1970’s and has only increased in the intervening years. Her second love is teaching; she has taught advanced weaving classes at AVL Weaving School, and has been a instructor at Convergence 2008 through 2016.
“Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral?
The world is full of an amazing range of fiber, and people around the globe have always put what is at hand to use for a myriad of purposes. Learn about the origin and properties of a wide variety of fibers that come from sheep to sheepdog; flax to fique; and silica to carbon. This lecture is suitable for anyone who is interested in fiber.”
Note Most Recent Change of Location: Valle Verde’s Ray Schneider Social Room, 900 Calle de Los Amigos SB 93105. Park near the Admin Building or on the street. The Social Room is near the lobby.
Saturday, August 6th: We will meet at Rancho Santa Barbara Clubhouse, 333 Old Mill Road, SB
(Dial #335 at the kiosk to get in though we will have someone at the gate to let you in)
Techniques and Traditions of Basket Weaving
With Cathy Molholm
Cathy Molholm will be giving an overview of the history and techniques of
weaving baskets. Learn tips on how to identify age, materials, and origin of your
old baskets. Samples of local contemporary baskets, and some historic uniques
styles from around the world will be shared.
Our regular monthly meeting will be anything BUT regular in July!
First of all, because the first Saturday falls on the Fourth of July weekend, we will meet on the second Saturday, July 9th AND we will be meeting at Tucker’s Grove Park in Goleta.
WHY ? At our July meeting we are doing a dye day! We will convene at 9:30 for social time and snacks, there will be no raffle so we can get right to work, playing with natural dyes.
BRING: Protein fibers to dye (wool and silk), reasonable amounts. Gloves, lunch and water. There is a restroom there and power for the dye pots.
More details to come; for now, mark your calendars!