Come join us at St. Lawrence College this fall for a great study of the BORO TEXTILES of Japan, and Quilts from Europe...

ST. LAWRENCE COLLEGE - Kingston Campus

TEXTILE ART: History, Diversity and TECHNIQUES

Fall Term 2014, St. Lawrence College, Kingston Campus  6-9 pm

Thursday evenings, September 18 - December 4, 2014, Room 00060

BORO Textile, Japan 1909

So you see the Course title and think “Oh, no… a canned and dry history course”. ABSOLUTELY NOT! This 12-week independent study course is all about finding a focus for your new work in textile art.

Do you love the BORO Textiles created from found materials in Japan at the start of the 20^th Century? The hugely diverse and colourful Indonesian hand stitched embroideries and woven foundation cloth? Have you studied the textile history of the countries your family originated from before immigrating to Canada? The world of textile is rich in history and this course will take you on a bit of a world tour decided by the student body as they join in at class each week. A 12 week world tour as we share personal ties to textiles we love and play with many diverse techniques in class! And, a “stash busting” opportunity for you.

Printmaking from Gell Plate, Netherlands 2009

Yes, there will be one great project required from each student! Your choice… and lots of experimentation with colouring cloth, threads and developing a modern take on laying stitch to cloth. Plan to be a part of the classroom fun, making new friends as you join our community of lovers of all things CLOTH! Hope to see returning students and many new to textile in the classroom this fall – traditions to love, passed along.

Bethany Garner, Instructor textiledesignslc@gmail.com or garner@kingston.net

Instructor Biography:
Bethany Garner is a working Textile Artist and long term Instructor in the Textile Design Program at St. Lawrence College. With over 20 years of experience in the painting, dyeing and direct application of fabric embellishment/stitch, Bethany will guide the students to a new and confident start on their own studio based work to create contemporary textiles with an original and focused Fibre Art Foundation.

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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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