Please join us for our Artist Reception at Taylor Studio Gallery, King Street at Clarence in downtown Kingston, ON Thursday evening, June 2nd - we would so love to see you!

Phillida Hargreaves welcomes her sister Kate Stweart from the UK for a shared FIBRE ART EXHIBITION in downtown Kingston... please join them for their Opening Reception.

When sisters make art, especially when they are an ocean and continents apart, the work can be guaranteed to be very special...

TAYLOR STUDIOS GALLERY
June 15-28, 2016 

Opening Reception

Thursday, June 16, 2016

6-8 pm 

285 King Street East

at the corner of King and Clarence Streets

Gallery Hours

Mon.-Fri. 9-5 pm

Sat. 11-3 pm 

www.taylorstudiosgallery.com

613-541-1098

Karen Goetzinger returns to Kingston May 13-15th for a brilliant weekend of design play and focusing in on YOUR new work! Come Play!

RECIPE & INGREDIENTS FOR BRILLIANT DESIGN

Karen Goetzinger

Collage developed , including student work, by Karen Goetzinger

RECIPE & INGREDIENTS FOR BRILLIANT DESIGN

MAY 13-15, 2016

St. Lawrence College

Room 00060

Lecture, Friday Evening May 13th

Workshop Fee $125

This workshop removes the mystery and brings practical clarity to the principles and elements of design. Learn the principles that are the foundation and the language of good design by experimenting with each of the elements during 2 days of exercises on paper, fabric and in stitch. 

Through these studies you will learn to understand how the
principles interact with the elements of design in creating successful compositions and how they relate to your own fibre art practice.

 Expect great results in designing all new work for your personal Studio practice during this all new, exciting workshop weekend with Karen. Plan to experiment with design play techniques you have always wanted to explore, and enjoy working through Karen's assignments as you develop a new confidence as you design exciting pieces for your 2016 personal and exhibition work.


Whether an experienced designer or beginning your adventure with original design, Karen's years of successful development of all new work for her own collections will surely provide a great foundation for your continuing studio work.

Plan to ask lots of questions, bring your own design dreams to paper and stitch and be prepared to share in an exciting workshop weekend with like minded fibre professionals.

More of Karen's beautiful designs - please visit her website for more information and images...

And the FW Registration Form is at www.fibreworkskingston.blogspot.ca, on the right sidebar! Hope you will plan to make Kingston your destination for the weekend of May 13-15, 2016!

Known for her finely detailed mixed media textile constructions that are influenced by her roots in quilt making, couture construction, and her life-long passion for the urban landscape and architecture, Karen Goetzinger captures urban life through the perspective of treasured but fading memories. Using painted and stretched canvas as a giant embroidery hoop, she sketches, with thread, the imprint of urban landscapes on individual memory. Each artwork is intentionally without figurative elements thereby allowing the viewer to become the city’s human element, in solitary interaction with the landscape and their personal narratives and fleeting memories.


Please join us for the Workshop Weekend  May 13-15, 2016 at St. Lawrence College... Hope to see you and don't forget Karen's Lecture and Sharing of her beautiful work Friday evening, May 13, 2016, Room 12040 on the Upper Level at St. Lawrence College 7-9 pm.

Please join the artists and organizers of THREADWORKS 2016 for their Exhbition Opening Reception, Sunday April 17, 2016 at 1 pm, with Awards at 2:00 pm at the Wellington County Museum and Archives

Artwork by Micaela Fitzsimmons

THREADWORKS

April 17-May 29, 2016 

Wellington County Museum and Archives

Opening : April 17th, 2:00 pm

Please join us at the opening reception on Sunday, April 17 from 1:00 to 4:00 pm.

Threadworks returns for its final year at Wellington County Museum and Archives (WCMA) with this year’s theme, ‘Flashback’. Organized by the Threadworks Committee, you will not want to miss this spectacular display, showcasing a delightful variety of fibre art from across Canada.

 

The mandate of Threadworks has been to mount, every three years, a juried exhibition of exceptional creative needlework stitched by artists from across Canada. Since its inception in 1987, Threadworks has been sponsored by the Wellington County Museum and Archives. After an inaugural exhibition at the WCMA, the show travels the Province of Ontario for up to three years and is exhibited in many museums and galleries.

The 2016 entries are now closed. 

A big thank you to all the artists who submitted their work! This exhibition promises to be truly beautiful and representative of the talent of Canadian Artists from provinces across this great country.

 

Directions, How to Get Here

• Our civic address is 0536 Wellington Road 18, located between Fergus and Elora
• Link to Google map

• Open year round Monday to Friday 9:30 am - 4:30 pm, Saturdays and Sundays 1:00 - 5:00 pm.
• Victoria Day, Monday, May 23 - Closed.
• Combine your visit to the Museum with a weekend or day trip to Fergus or Elora. Click here for local tourism information http://elorafergus.ca/

Admission Fees:    General admission to the Museum and Archives is by donation

 The 2016 theme for the artwork submitted was FLASHBACK. 

What does that word bring to your imagination? Just how far back does it take you? Whether it’s to your own youth, your Grandmother’s time or pre-history, anything other than this minute or tomorrow qualifies. Here are a few suggestions: Fashion, Art Deco, Architecture, Environment/Nature/Fossils, Summer Camp, Holidays, Music (e.g. song titles), War, Hippies, Home, Death, Grandma’s influence/Ancestors, Weddings, Babies...
Come see how the artists have interpreted their memories and "flashbacks" in all new work for Threadworks 2016. 

So many thanks to the Show Co-ordinators are Elizabeth Duggan Litch and Sharron Begg, and the
Jury liaison for the 2016 Exhibition was Kathleen Bissett.

Please mark your calendar and join the Kingston Fibre Artists for the Opening Reception for "A Stich In Time" at the Tett Centre April 2, 2016...

FIBREWORKS Kingston sponsors its annual CABIN FEVER WEEKEND at Odessa Fairgrounds Hall January 22-24th, 2016 Come Play!

Our FIBREWORKS Kingston Guest Artist for April 22-24th is the renowned LORRAINE ROY from Dundas, ON, and she posted this beautiful Christmas Quilt on her Facebook page with great New Year/Holiday wishes to friends and Lorraine Roy art enthusiasts and the message below:

Merry Christmas! Peace, Joy, Love to you and your friends and families. Be sure to enjoy the rare full moon this year!
Lorraine

We hope you will make time in your calendar to spend time with Lorraine at St. Lawrence College and enjoy a weekend focused on her "Tree Series" Workshop. Details are on the sidebar.

AND

January 22-24th, 2016

'CABIN FEVER' 

PLAY DATE WEEKEND RETURNS

As January can be the month when we all are feeling a bit of a let down and a stirring feeling of Cabin Fever... we have reserved the Odessa Fairgrounds Hall once again for a weekend of fibre play Open to everyone!  

The Fee for the entire weekend (3 full days) is $60 

(and yes, the fee applies whether  you come for 1, 2 or all three days - just to help pay the hall rental)

Happy New Year - come help me celebrate 2016!

You can come and work on whatever your heart and sewing calendar allows... 

BRING FRIENDS, CAR POOL AND BRING BROWN BAG LUNCH EACH DAY...

Possible projects:

- Sewing/Embroidery/ Projects and UFO's

- Weaving or spinning projects - love to have the spinners out and perhaps the Tapestry Weavers!!

- Plan a great outfit for spring or stitch up some home decor to be ready for spring

- Work on your entries for up coming Exhibitions (Quilt Canada, THREADWORKS, a SAQA Show... KFA?

-  Play with some Modern Quilt Projects (Modern Quilt group members so very welcome) ... or work on catching up on your Quilt Guild Block of the Month project

AND...as a treat from me, we will start the weekend by including a full day of 

SNOW/ICE Dyeing on FRIDAY January 22nd... 

All dye supplies (except your fabric) will be furnished - the dyes, the auxiliaries (soda ash for your fabric) and the table cover will all be in place and ready for you! 

The process is fun and easy and can work around all of the other projects you will be working on over the weekend... This project will be shared on FRIDAY morning (you will LOVE IT) and you can use my dyes all the rest of the weekend. (and yes, I will share the process on Saturday and Sunday too! Just in case you can't come Friday!)

YOU will need a bucket or dishpan for each batch with a screen or other "elevating" device in the bottom to keep the fabric from sitting in the dye. 

You will need 1/2 to 1 metre pieces of fabric, washed and ready to dye. We will soak in Soda Ash at the workshop 

 In case there is no snow, we will be using ICE CUBES which create amazing patterns...

NOTES: 

** The workshop days will run 9-5 pm every day -  Friday the 22nd, Saturday the 23rd and Sunday the 24th  9-5 each day so just enjoy some fun with like minded stitchers!

**as this is not a "class" weekend except for Friday come when you can and stay as long as you want.

 Treats will be in the kitchen all weekend, a few power bars and lots of tables for your biggest projects!

Please copy and print /complete the  Registration Form on the Side Bar here at the Blog or attached with your email!

Hoping to see lots of you come out and join us at the Odessa hall January 22-24th... come on, we all need some time with friends after the flurry of the busy fall 2105 and the holiday shopping and planning/baking.

Please feel to call or email Bethany with questions...(seats will be held and supplies list for Snow Dyeing sent with paid registration!)

613-376-6150 or garner@kingston.net

Please plan a lovely winters drive to downtown Belleville for the Exhibition 'CELEBRATE THE SEVEN' which includes the beautiful work of the CONNECTIONS Fibre Artists..

Hoping you might  connect with a friend and make time for a drive to Belleville

 between

January 7 and February 11, 2016

The John M. Parrott Gallery 

is on the third floor of the Belleville Pubic Library

Hours listed on the card detail above....

Please enjoy the beautiful hand and stitch work of our award winning 

CONNECTIONS Fibre Artists

many of whom you may know as friends from SAQA or area Stitchery/Quilt guilds

 and the many Exhibitions the members have been involved with in Ontario and beyond.

Please feel free to click on the art cards here, save in your photo organizer and forward the information to friends in your area.

Happiest New Year to each of you - See you in 2016!

www.Connectionsfibreartists.blogspot.ca