June 5th Guild Meeting with Lesley Roberts

On June 5th at 10:00 a.m. via Zoom, the Santa Barbara Fiber Arts Guild welcomes guest presenter, Lesley Roberts. Lesley will be talking about her art practice and the way she sees her work transforming the community in which she lives. As an art history major who was trained how to look, Lesley is deeply enmeshed in storytelling and visualization.

In her words, Lesley states:

“The structure of this talk borrows from Suzi Gablik’s The Reenchantment of Art. In it, I found a narrative that puts words and shape to a vision I had been developing: a practice of making a new kind of life, a new kind of living.”

Join us to hear about how two projects that both illustrate the nature of Lesley’s practice and offer space for engagement through her involvement with Textile Month Los Angeles and the Slow and Local Clothing Project through the So Cal Fibershed.

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Lesley Roberts is a native Angeleno who works and plays in the spaces between culture, material, and imagination. Lesley holds a BFA in Art History from UCLA and a certificate from UCLA Anderson’s Executive Education program. She is the executive director of Textile Arts | Los Angeles, and the lead for the Southern California chapter of Fibershed. Lesley is also the principal of Oceanparkstudio, a marketing and strategy firm that believes in the power of thoughtful ideas, creative vision, and clarity of purpose to achieve meaningful change and growth.

You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: Jun 5, 2021 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Guild Meeting – May 1st with the Giuditta Brozzetti Workshop

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)

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

March Guild Meeting Saturday the 6th – with Carol James

SPRANG is coming (sorry, couldn’t stop myself)

Carol James has always been interested in playing with strings and is of the opinion that anywhere is a good place to weave. Seeing her passion for diverse textile techniques, local military re-enactors asked her for reproduction sashes … sprang sashes, and Carol had to explore that technique as well. She quickly discovered that sprang can be used for much more than sashes. Here she is wearing a sprang shirt that was accepted in the HGA Convergence Fashion Show that never happened last summer! Wanting to learn more about sprang and the ways it has been used in the past, Carol has taken the opportunity to visit collections across North American and Europe. To better understand these items, she maps out the patterns, and has made replicas of some of these items for several important museum collections. She has also made modern wearables, which more than once have been accepted by the Handweavers Guild of America’s Convergence Fashion Show. Happy to share her knowledge, and hoping to provide an easier learning-curve for others, she has taught classes across Canada, the US, New Zealand, and Europe. Her students find her to be both patient and enthusiastic. Her students urged her to enter the world of publishing, making her handouts available as books. She is now the author of three books: Fingerweaving Untangled, Sprang Unsprung, Sprang Lace Patterns, as well as numerous articles and 2 DVDs.

This is ZOOM meeting with pre-registration required. Here is the link:

You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: Mar 6, 2021 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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February 2021 Guild Meeting – Member Annie Guillemette

Guild Member Annie says:

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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November 7th Guild Meeting with Catharine Ellis

Catharine Ellis

Natural Dyes: Why Now?

Bio:

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.

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Members will be emailed an invitation closer to the event.

OCTOBER is SHOWTIME!

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 meeting on 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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September 19th – Guild ZOOM with Jennifer Moore

Mathematical Design: Geometry in Textiles

Since ancient times, human beings have observed the world around them and found recurring patterns in nature. The Golden Proportion, the Fibonacci Series, symmetry movements, tessellations and fractals are some of the mathematical ideas that have found their way into art and architecture for thousands of years. In this slide show we will see examples of how these ideas have been used throughout history, and particularly in contemporary fiber art.

Jennifer Moore holds an MFA in Fibers and specializes in exploring mathematical
patterns and musical structures in doubleweave wall hangings. She has exhibited
throughout the world, receiving numerous awards for her work, and has been featured in many weaving publications. Jennifer lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico and travels
extensively to teach workshops in doubleweave, color and geometric design. Jennifer was invited to teach doubleweave to indigenous Quechua weavers in Peru in 2013, where they are once again excelling in this technique which had been discontinued after the Spanish conquest. She is the author of The Weaver’s Studio: Doubleweave, several doubleweave videos and online courses, and numerous articles.

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August 8th Guild Meeting – ZOOM with Kate Connell

Tips on Photographing your Fiber Art!

Kate Connell was born and raised in Santa Barbara, California and started taking photographs at the age of eight. She studied photography at the University of California, Santa Cruz before transferring to the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, where she received her BFA in 1985. She subsequently worked as a commercial photographer in New York City. In 1997, she moved to Austin, Texas and held two solo exhibitions of her studies of vines. From there she traveled to Japan and spent two and a half years working on a group of photographs based on her perspective of nature in urban Kyoto. In the spring of 2005, this work culminated in two solo exhibitions held in Kyoto galleries. She has continued work in this vein after returning to the US, participating in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Texas, Japan and California, at venues such as the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Westmont Museum of Art, the Atkinson Gallery, Wallspace, and the Channing Peake Gallery.

Please join us!

When: Aug 8, 2020 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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July 11 Guild Meeting – ZOOM with Justin Avery

Justin Avery is the owner of a local design studio in Goleta called JRA Designs and Alterations. Justin has 30 years of experience in the garment construction industry and earned a degree from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM), Los Angeles, in 1999.

His areas of expertise include: pattern drafting, wedding dresses design and construction, general alterations, reconstructions, couture, formal dresses and costuming.

“Fashion is to be used as a means of expression and creativity, not a standard of life or a measure of weight” – Justin Avery

Presentation: Justin will be discussing how to make garments fit, how to troubleshoot fitting problems and how to translate patterns into useful tools when creating fashionable fiber art garments.

Justin asks:

What two questions have you repeatedly asked about your work, relevant to construction, that have never been answered to your satisfaction and would revolutionize everything?

Email your questions by July 3rd and we will forward them to Justin, use our CONTACT page please.

Registration for this ZOOM meeting is required:

When: Jul 11, 2020 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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June Guild Meeting – Moved online!

Our June Presenter, Justin Avery, will be presenting to us via ZOOM! To allow us time to get ready for this change his presentation has been rescheduled to July 11th (the usual first Saturday date is July 4th so we will “meet” a week later. Details to come!

On June 6th we will be doing a practice ZOOM session with all current members invited to join us for a show and tell. Members have been emailed details and will get a ZOOM invitation on June 5th. Thank-you to all willing to try this new venue.