 |
 |
|||||||||
 |
||||||||||
 |
||||||||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
 |
|
 |
 |
|||||||||
 |
||||||||||
|
Textiles Summer 2009 Classes are open to serious students of all levels unless specified in course description; beginners welcome. Session 1 May 24 -June 5  Pamela Schuelke Johnson Pamela Schuelke Johnson - Studio Runway: Custom Wearables This class is for the artist who has a sketch but no pattern, a wonderful piece of cloth but no idea of what it should become, an appetite for costume and fashion but no designs. Students will learn to develop ideas into realized garment forms. Instruction will include flat patterning and draping, specialized construction techniques, and the engineering necessary to activate the design in its dialogue with the body. Students must be able to construct a basic sleeved garment on a sewing machine using a commercial pattern. Code 01ta Professor of design at James Madison University (VA); costume designer for over 250 theater, dance, and performance art production; studio artist working in textiles, surface design, handmade paper sculpture, and multi-disciplinary collaborations.  Suzanne Halvorson Suzanne Halvorson - Introduction to Weaving This class is designed to introduce students to the basics of weaving on a floor loom. We will emphasize the skills needed to understand design, pattern, color, texture, and project planning in creating unique handwoven cloth. Students in this project-oriented class will explore a variety of yarns and weave structures and will gain substantial hands-on experience. Beginning level. Code 01tb Studio artist and owner of Yarns Unlimited and By Hand Gallery (IN); currently visiting instructor at Earlham College (IN), workshop instructor for many weaving guilds; work published in Handwoven, Shuttle, Spindle, and Dyepot, and Weaving for Worship. Session 2 June 7 - June 19  Jan-Ru Wan Jan-Ru Wan - Alternative Clothing & Pocketology Pocket: a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles; a resting place for our hands; a temporary container while we travel through our lives; a transition space between our body and the outside world; maybe even an intimate space for our thoughts or fears. Assistant professor at North Carolina State University; North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship; work in 20 solo exhibitions and 40 group exhibitions.  Melinda Barta Melinda Barta - Embroidery: Stitched Maps Maps do more than give us a sense of place in a physical landscape, they can form the foundation for telling a story or recording a series of events. Students will learn the basics of hand embroidery, fabric collage, and surface design. Explore ways to commemorate a favorite journey or celebrate a memory and leave class with a stitched "threadscape." Novice to expert stitchers are welcome. All levels. Code 02tb Textile artist; managing editor of Beadwork and Stringing, former project editor of Piecework; teaching: Penland, Campbell Folk School (NC), The Quilter's Garden (CO); author of "Hip to Stitch" and "Custom Cool Jewelry." Session 3 June 21 - July 3  Lee Renninger Lee Renninger - Couture in Context We will create issue-oriented "couture" garments by combining traditional textiles and nontraditional materials such as found objects, plant materials, hardware, building materials, etc. Students will choose a current issue as the theme for the garment; this could be global warming, recycling, consumerism, whatever you are passionate about. Consider this Project Runway with a message. Basic sewing skills will be helpful but are not necessary. All levels. Code 03ta Studio artist; Pollock-Krasner Grant; residencies: McColl Center (NC), Camargo Foundation (France); exhibitions: Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Mint Museum (NC), Mississippi Museum of Art.  Billie Ruth Sudduth Billie Ruth Sudduth - Baskets Exploring color, pattern, and form, this class will make functional and not-so-functional baskets. Some will hold your objects, others, only your interest. We will experiment with how color changes the character of the basket. The technical emphasis will be on shaping through plaiting, twining, and twill work. Basic basketmaking skills required. Code 03tb Studio artist; North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship; teaching: Penland, Arrowmont (TN), Campbell Folk School (NC); traveling exhibitions: Craft in America, Tradition and Innovation; solo shows: Asheville Art Museum (NC), Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (AL); collections: Renwick Gallery (DC), Museum of Arts and Design (NYC).
 Katherine Ortega Katherine Ortega - Upholstery for Unusually Shaped Objects/Furniture This class will focus on upholstering one-of-a-kind pieces of sculpture or furniture, which will not be your father's wingback chair. We will emphasize the foundations of upholstery and the most logical way to approach each project. Each student will need to bring with them one small object or have a design ready to create during the first few days of the class. Sewing will be done by hand. Open to all levels, but students planning to make a piece at Penland need to be competent in the woodshop. All levels. Code 03w Studio artist and teacher at the Design Institute (CA); American Craft Council Emerging Artist Award; exhibitions; San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design, Oceanside Museum of Art (CA).
Session 4 July 5 - July 17  Meg Little Meg Little - Punch Hooking: Building Personal Imagery Everything is grist for the mill. This is a short answer to the very important work of finding and developing personal imagery. Through the basics of punch hooking, which is a faster version of traditional rug hooking,we will work intensively with color and design to make our individual marks. Students will create their own small rugs, as well as a group project using Meg's industrial rug punch. Experienced students are welcome to bring their own punch or hooking tools. All levels. Code 04ta Studio artist producing art rugs; former lecturer at Plymouth College of Art and Design (UK); recent exhibitions: Fuller Craft Museum (MA), Providence Art Club (RI), Hunterdon Museum (NJ), Ohio Craft Museum.
 Renie Breskin Adams Renie Breskin Adams - Crochet Made Personal Students will learn to crochet and knotless net in two and three dimensions. Then they will break the rules they have learned and invent personal, eccentric structures that imitate the beautiful irregularities of form, color, and texture seen in natural objects. Students will design and create a final work based on something new and exciting they experienced in this workshop. All levels. Code 04tb Studio artist; former professor of art at University of Wisconsin and University of Northern Illinois; collections: Renwick Gallery (DC), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Arts and Design (NYC).
Session 5 July 19 - August 4  Pamela Blotner Pamela Blotner - Sculpture in Felted Wool For centuries, clothing, armor, housing, and art have been made from felt. In this workshop, students will consider Eastern and Western techniques for turning this unique and versatile material into sculpture. We will learn two processes: hot felting, in which fabric is created by applying hot water and agitation to layers of brushed wool, and needle felting, a method of compressing and matting fibers using barbed needles. We will explore various approaches for applying these techniques to three-dimensional work. All levels. Code 05ta Assistant professor at University of San Francisco; solo shows: Quicksilver Mine Co. (CA), Claudia Chapline Gallery (CA), US Embassy (Burma), Sculpture Garden at Pixar Animation Studios (CA).  Catharine Ellis Joy Boutrup & Catharine Ellis - Weaving & Finishing: Hand & Machine This class will be an intensive exploration of fibers, fabric, dyeing, and woven shibori. In addition to hand-weaving cloth, students will design dobby fabrics that will be woven on an industrial loom at The Oriole Mill. These fabrics will be hand finished by dyeing, discharging, pleating, or printing. We hope to bring together experienced weavers who wish to investigate new directions and the potential for combining industrial production with hand manipulation. There will be a fee for weaving at The Oriole Mill. Students must have knowledge of looms and woven structures. Code 05tb Catharine: studio artist and teacher; author Woven Shibori.
Session 6 August 9 - August 21  Brooks Harris Stevens Brooks Harris Stevens - Screenprinting & Dyeing This class will explore the wonderful qualities of hand-dyed and screenprinted fabrics. Working with MX fiber-reactive dyes, we will cover immersion dyeing, stitched resist, and other dyeing techniques. We will make beautifully screenprinted fabrics using textile pigments and thickened dyes, creating images and textures through photo silkscreen and low-tech processes. We will also cover safe studio practices. All levels. Code 06ta Assistant professor at Eastern Michigan University/Ypsilanti; exhibitions: East Carolina University (NC), Imperial Art Center (NC), Foundry Art Center MO), Wichita Center for the Arts (KS), Meredith College (NC).
 Barbara Setsu Pickett Barbara Setsu Pickett - Weave Velvet Immerse yourself in velvet. Beginners will learn to weave rug-weight velvet on a four-shaft floor loom and medium-weight, patterned velvet on eight-shafts, while more advanced weavers will learn to weave fine silk velvet. We will explore color blending and experiment with painting the pile warp•an easy ikat technique. Students will also learn to build their own velvet bobbin rack out of PVC pipe and adapt standard weaving equipment. All levels. Code 06tb Associate professor at University of Oregon; has studied in Italy, France, Britain, Japan, China, Turkey, and Uzbekistan; NEA Fellowship, Fulbright Scholarship; other support: Rockefeller Foundation, Institute of Turkish Studies, Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Asian Art Museum (San Francisco). Session 7 August 23 - August 29  Henrietta Snype Martha Manigault & Henrietta Snype - Sweetgrass Basketry Martha Manigault & Henrietta Snype-Sweetgrass Basketry Martha: third generation basket maker; teaching: Miami University of Ohio, Campbell Folk School (NC); exhibitions: Smithsonian Folklife Festival (DC), Preservation Society (SC).
 Janet Taylor Janet Taylor - Weaving! Learn to use a loom and weave a scarf while exploring structure and color. We will play with different effects created by using fibers that shrink when washed (wool, alpaca) in combination with fibers that do not shrink (cotton, linen, synthetics) to create a textured surface called a cloqué fabric. This class takes place at the perfect time of year to make a warm, unique scarf for winter. Beginning level. Code 07tb Professor emerita from Arizona State University; teacher of dozens of workshops; exhibitions: Mint Museum of Craft + Design (NC), Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design (NC), Tucson Museum of Art (AZ), Phoenix Art Museum (AZ); member Ariel Gallery cooperative (NC). |
||||||||||
|
||||||||||
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|