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Contact me by email to schedule a workshop for your group. Looping and netting workshops and lectures are listed here.
Digital Fabric - 3-5 days. Digital imaging and printing options make custom textile designs just a few clicks away. In this workshop, you'll print designs with common home office equipment and produce files to upload to print-on-demand services. We'll use creativity exercises and hands-on surface design play to create source material to photograph with your digital camera, then transform those images with Gimp, a versatile open source software program you can download for free. You don't have to be a computer expert to enjoy this class, but you need to bring a laptop computer and know how to save images from your camera to the computer (and find them again).
Local Color - 3-5 days. Create fiber art inspired by the colors you see, the textures you find, and the images you capture with your digital camera as you explore an area with lots of local color. You'll use digital images to produce inkjet fabrics and enrich them with additional surface design techniques like image transfers, transfer printing, heliographic printing, solar dyeing, and rubbings. Class will focus on developing concepts and themes from digital images and other sources of inspiration, including observation and abstraction exercises and other creativity catalysts.
Constructed Vessels-- 1-5 days. For thousands of years, basketmakers have made vessels by folding, cutting and stitching sheets of bark. In Constructed Vessels, we replace that bark with contemporary art cloth and fiber/paper laminates. Learn new ways to conceive, model and build these hand-stitched sculptural forms. As time allows, workshops incorporate "fiber mojo" surface design techniques. To review my syllabus for the 5-day format, approved by Augsburg College in 2008 for a 2-credit graduate course, email.
Surface Design -- 1-5 days. Fiber Mojo workshops are surface design samplers that may feature fabric paints, inks, disperse dyes, Inkodye, heliographic printing, acid dyes and more. Image Transfer workshops introduce fun ways to alter transfers before and after they hit the fabric (or whatever other surface we put them on). Natural Dyeing workshops concentrate on dyeing and printing with willow and other botanicals commonly found in the upper Great Lakes area of the Midwest, but may also include mineral printing.
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