SUMMER COURSE at St. Lawrence College so close to being a "GO"... COME JOIN IN ON THE FUN!

ST. LAWRENCE COLLEGE - Kingston Campus

THOUSAND ISLANDS SUMMER SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS 2014....Week Long Study Opportunities... 

 

FIVE STUDENTS NEEDED TO RUN!!! Come PLAY!

Surface Design and Stitch    Date(s): 7/21/2014 - 7/28/2014   This full week course in our Textile Design Program will prepare the diploma program participant or general interest student to create their own original hand coloured and stitched textile projects. The course is for anyone who has ever wanted to step out of the box, leave the familiar and perhaps traditional behind and create one of a kind quilts or embroidery while learning the foundations of design, stitch, pattern development and finishing of quilts, home décor, wearables or wall art.  Students will explore color, support their knowledge of design principles and build all new work while spending time in the classroom divided between working into a sketchbook with art and design techniques. Printing, painting, dye work, collage, and stitch work are all a part of the fun! Students will create hand made cloth, samples or several large pieces with special effects on fabrics. The planning and successful execution of original small quilts or stitched fabrics using a wide variety of new techniques is the goal. Students are encouraged to complete several small classroom projects which are stitched by hand or machine, framed/bound and ready to enjoy.   A material fee of $40.00 to cover the cost of paints and dyes, some tools and fabrics/threads for small class samples is payable to the instructor on the first day.

         

Course Code: ARTS110 Section: 540   $299.70 for 5 full days in classroom Campus: KINGSTON Instructor: Bethany Garner

Come join in on the fun... the community of textile arts friends is a great place to learn and grow!

FIBREWORKS KINGSTON launches 2014/15 lineup of outstanding workshops designed just for YOU...

Greetings to all of our friends and visitors here at the FIBREARTS ALLIANCE blog. Hope your summer is going a bit better than mine... unexpected events and surprises happen. (Actually my injury is fine, allowing me time now to read, just enjoy my surroundings and share some quality visits with friends and family ...and slowly one-handed type announcements for this blog!)

Bethany enjoying time with KFA Friends in June, fractured wrist and all

The best part of summer is free time to work on the planning for our FIBREWORKS Series for 2014/15 and have the chance to network with  the very best and most talented Instructors in Ontario and beyond as I plan for our next year together.

You will notice if you visit our Registration Pages at FIBREWORKS KINGSTON's blog that Fibreworks now a division of my 10 year old textiles and workshops presentation business, HERITAGE QUILTWORKS CANADA. 

For many years, FIBREWORKS was so beautifully presented by our mentor and dear friend, Hilary Scanlon. It was always my goal and commitment as I assisted Hilary as her Associate Coordinator from 1996-2008 to strive to continue her dream. Two years ago, Hilary retired and passed the candle for continuing Fibreworks to me... and with several friends and former associates of Hilary's, we tried a "committee approach" to working with the business of running Fibreworks. With everyone very busy with their own arts studies, groups and commitment to quality personal lives, it just seemed best that Fibreworks return to an owner operated business for Administrative purposes.

 

The original Fibreworks Kingston mission continues: "To promote fibre as an Art Form". Our Instructors are professional designers and well-known craftspersons who skillfully share their well-honed techniques and knowledge. Participants in FIBREWORKS Workshops are professional teachers, and interested craftspersons, or amateurs wishing to learn and share together for further stimulation and knowledge.  I will always seek the very best of the best Instructors for our FW line-up, with the goal of staying in tune with our students' needs and wishes.

Fibreworks is a huge family - made up of students from now almost 35 years of enjoying together the opportunity to learn and grow together. I so hope you will join us once again this new season as Fibreworks Kingston merges with Heritage Quiltworks Canada to bring high quality, skills/knowledge based workshops not only those interested in art quilts and contemporary design, but to needle arts enthusiasts in many disciplines including traditional quilting, embroidery, felt work, painting and mixed media art work and more. Your suggestions are always welcome!

We will be enjoying workshops throughout the year, announced at the Fibreworks blog and in associated social media (like the Fibrearts Alliance Blog) and newsletter ads with local Groups, Guilds and Associations. Keep a watchful eye as Heritage Quiltworks and Fibreworks Kingston grow to benefit our needle arts enthusiasts in Southeastern Ontario and beyond. Please share the news and bring friends along for the great workshops.

I am pleased to announce here today the line up for our 2014-15 Fibreworks Kingston Weekend Workshops Series, and ask your patience as I prepare and post the individual class descriptions and details (one-handed typing takes SO long). Please visit the FW blog at www.fibreworkskingston.blogspot.ca often for the "Pages" on the right sidebar here for each of the four workshops being announced today.  FW 2014/15 Registration will officially open June 15, 2014 - Please mark your calendars!! Watch for me to post a pdf copy of the Fibreworks brochure at the Fibreworks blog... it will be available there for you soon. 

(You may also contact me at fibreworkskingston@gmail.com for a mailed/shared copy after the blog posting of the brochure)

FIBREWORKS welcomes the following outstanding Instructors for 2014-15:

MAGGIE VANDERWEIT MEREDITH, Elora, ON

"Wrap and Rust Dyeing"

September 19-21, 2014

http://www.stonethreads.ca 

LYNNE MORIN, Ottawa, ON

"The Same, but DIFFERENT"

November 7-9, 2014

HOLLY DEAN, Merrickville, ON

" Creating the Muse Journal"

April 17-19, 2015

http://hollydean.com/ 

DIANNE GIBSON, Fonthill, ON

" Mixed Media Assemblages"

May 22-24, 2015

http://www.connectionsfibreartists.com 

I know you will so enjoy sharing weekend workshop time with each of these very talented and experienced classroom Instructors. Renowned for their beautiful portfolios of art work, each brings a wealth of technique-focused studio and exhibition experience to our classroom. Please spend some time researching each of the artists and visit this blog often as I share news of each Instructors workshop offerings for you at FIBREWORKS this next year.

Thanks for your ongoing interest, encouragement and loyalty... we are blessed to have you as part of our wide network of FIBREWORKS friends and participants.

Bethany

Fibreworks Coordinator   

fibreworkskingston@gmail.com
www.fibreworkskingston.blogspot.ca 

PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDAR and visit Gallery 121, Belleville, ON and enjoy the new work of Featured Artist ANN FALES

Gallery 121 - Belleville, ON

presents

 

 

Featured Artist: ANN FALES

 

Guest Artist: JANICE TEARE

June 17-August 9, 2014

 

OPENING RECEPTION:

Saturday June 21, 2014

2-4 pm

 

48 Bridge Street East

Belleville, ON

 

Information: www.gallery121artists.com

 

 

TINA BARNES shares new work in her June 2014 Solo Exhibition - 8 x 8 x 52 at Window Art Gallery

When an artist makes a serious commitment to create a finished piece of art once a week for 52 consecutive weeks in one year, we all have to take notice. This is one artist that can certainly make great art and is sharing!

 

Area friend to many on this list and Kingston Fibre Artists Group member, CHRISTINA BARNES, did just that! To celebrate her 52nd birthday, Tina vowed to keep her commitment and purchased 52+ canvases from Wallack's and got started. Each week she experimented with a technique she was familiar with, or experimented, finding many new ways to express her art in a focused, small piece that was mounted to the canvas. Each piece is different and beautifully executed.

 

In celebration of the completion of the project, Tina extends an invitation to friends and area arts enthusiasts to visit her Solo Exhibition between June 18-29th at the WINDOW ART GALLERY in Kingston. Please plan to visit the Exhibition during the Opening Reception and meet the artist.

 

Congratulations Tina, enjoy the celebration of your journey and seeing the work all together for the first time for everyone to enjoy!

 

AN ARTIST'S JOURNEY

8 x 8 x 52 by Tina Barnes

 

WINDOW ART GALLERY

June 18-29, 2014

647A Princess St. at Victoria St.

Kingston, ON

613-549-1528

 

OPENING RECEPTION

June 22, 2014   1-4 pm

 

tinabarnesartist@hotmail.com

QUILTING BY THE LAKE is a popular destination for Summer 2014 art studies.. have a peek and come on down!

  

Join us for Quilt Show, Tours, & Classes 

at Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, NY

  

One of the longest running professional quilting conferences in the country with an internationally renowned faculty and over 200 quilters participating in classes in design, techniques and surface design for all levels. 

   

Quilt Show Open to Public - 

Now Air Conditioned!

Hours: Sunday July 13 - Fri July 18, and Sun July 20 - Thurs. July 24 11:30 - 5:30. Tuesdays July 15 and July 22 from 7-9pm. 

  

Admission $6, Members of Schweinfurth Art Center and Children under 12 free. Free to Guild Members with guild membership card on Monday July 14, 2014.  

 

Special Tour Days July 17 & July 24

Tour Day Package Includes:

* Introduction to QBL
* Guided Tour of QBL classrooms with teachers
* Lunch
* Admission to Quilt Show & Vendors
* Lecture by QBL Faculty (open to Tour & QBL Students only)

 

July 17: Philippa Naylor 

Philippa trained as a clothing designer and worked as a lingerie designer before setting up her own bespoke wedding and evening dress business. She began quilting in 1996 while living in Saudi Arabia. Curved Pieces, the use of bright hand-dyed fabrics and extensive free motion machine quilting are hallmarks of Philippa's work. She has won many top quilting prizes including the Pfaff Award for Machine Artistry and the International Quilt Festival, Houston in 2007 and 2008 and best of Show at the 2003 American Quilters Society show in Kentucky. Philippa published her book "Quilting in the Limelight" in 2008. 

  

  

July 24: Victoria Findlay Wolfe

 

Victoria Findlay Wolfe is a New York City based quilter who recently won Best of Show at the 2013 QuiltCon Conference for her quilt Double Edged Love. Victoria is a fabric designer, found and President of NYC Modern Quilt Guild, a Board member of the Quilt Alliance, and runs several community drives with BumbleBeansBASICS. She is the author of 15 Minutes of Play (C&T publishing). Born and raised on a farm in Minnesota, she credits her quilting influences to her grandmother's double knit crazy quilts that kept her warm, growing up. 

  

 Tour Day: $30, advance registration required 1 week before tour day.

Registration 10:30am - 11:00 am. Classroom tours 11:15 - 12:15. Lunch 12:15 - 1:00 Quilt Show 1:00 - 2:00. Lecture 2:00 - 2:45. Quilt show open until 5:30pm. Tour involves brisk walking. 

  

Click Here to Register for Tour Day or call 315.255.1553

  

Interested in taking a class? 

  

Click Here for more information on 2014 classes Spaces still available in classes with Philippa Naylor, Victoria Findlay Wolfe, and others.

  

Fore more information on Quilting by the Lake visit www.quiltingbythelake.com.
Quilting by the Lake is a program of the Schweinfurth Art Center

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JAVA Challenge launched in support of INTENTIONAL PRINTING by Lynn Krawczyk

Five Pieves of 6" art created by Bethany Garner, April 2014

I just had the most fun working through a JAVA Challenge that was proposed by Virginia Spiegel in support of friend and amazing Textile Artist, Author, Instructor and Thermofax Screen developer, LYNN KRAWCZYK. This opportunity to join other fibre enthusiasts from around the world was truly a lot of fun and yes, a little challenging, but I would certainly play with this type of Textile Art Challenge again for sure! 

You can read about the JAVA Challenge here:

http://www.virginiaspiegel.com/IntentionalPrintingJavaArtExch.html

and at Virginis's blog posting here:   http://www.virginiaspiegel.com/blog/archives/9309

JAVA ART by Maggie Hannigan McDonald

The Challenge was introduced on Virginia's Blog in early April.... and 24 enthusiastic artists including Maggie McDonald from Ajax, ON joined in on the fun. I signed up right away as the Challenge theme was one I would love, and I have a brand new paint job in my kitchen, just begging for a focus piece of art... so creating a series of small art pieces devoted to COFFEE/JAVA was a perfect idea for the long wall needing some art! 

We were required to work within the 6" size restriction and use the image of the coffee cup that Lynn has in her book, Intentional Printing. YOu could order the Thermofax Screen from Lynn in Michigan, or create a stencil or a stamp yourself or simply copy and paint the cup. You had to complete the work by May 2nd, and mail Virginia a photo of your completed work along with your copy of Lynn's book. Added stitch was encouraged, but not required and the pieces could have unfinished edges or be completely finished - your choice.

I finished my little pieces just before the deadline of May 2nd and mailed off my photo above, proving that the art was done and ready to be mailed to my "randomly chosen" artist friends once the draw was held by Virginia using her magic "selection tool"...

Parcels from me will be heading to five artists in the USA and I will be receiving art from five artists including Sally Wescott from Australia, and American Artists Gisela Towner (who is getting one of my pieces), Gordana Vukovic, Liz Berg and (Hooray) one from Maggie Hannigan, a friend and Ontario artist! Lucky me... can't wait to see what ends up in MY mailbox in the next couple of weeks.

I am really pleased to have been able have the time this spring after retirement to play along with Projects like this one. Maybe YOU will have a great idea for a Challenge and let me know - hey, I might just play along!

2014 SUMMER SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS... Registration is open!

Please plan to join me as we launch the 2014 Sessions of the
SUMMER SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS at St. Lawrence College, Kingston Campus.
 Hope to see you there!

SURFACE DESIGN AND STITCH, Bethany Garner, Instructor
July 21-26, 2014, Kingston Campus, St. Lawrence College
Credit Course in the Textile Design Program
 

1000 Islands Summer School of the Arts

Hi Bethany,

For more than 45 years, St. Lawrence College has offered 1000 Islands Summer School of the Arts, a series of art courses that allow you to explore your creative spirit in the heart of a spectacular, world-renowned tourist region. Courses range from two to five days in length and are specially designed to develop your creativity in a variety of artistic mediums. More than 30 exciting courses are available on our campuses in Brockville, Cornwall and Kingston in June, July and August.

Registration is now available for 1000 Islands Summer School of the Arts 2014 classes. It’s easy – online, by phone, or in-person at one of our campuses.

http://www.stlawrencecollege.ca/programs-and-courses/oce/ssoa-main/

Some classes will fill up fast, so register early!

Sincerely,

Lynn Walker
Associate Dean
School of Online and Continuing Education
St. Lawrence College

COLOUR THE QUILT ARTIST'S WAY, Bethany Garner, Instructor
July 28-August 1, 2014, Kingston Campus
Credit Course in our Textile Design Program