Resources
Programs and Workshops for 2008 - 2009
September
Day Guild (Monday the 8th) and Evening Guild (Tuesday the 9th)
Margaret Wahlin - Swedish Travels
Our very own Margaret will delight us with stories of her travels in Sweden.
October
Day Guild (Monday the 13th) and Evening Guild (Tuesday the 14th)
Carol Shinn – Color and Design for Textile Artists
Carol Shinn is a studio artist who lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.
She is known internationally for photo-realistic machine-stitched images.
Her pieces are in numerous public and private collections.
Her work has been featured in such publications as
Margaret has merged her fine arts education with her native American heritage to weave contemporary garments
based on American indian costumes.
Visit her website at: http://www.ozarkartistscolony.com/Wheeler/index.html.
The workshop will present slides and demonstrations explaining the process
of the adaptation of Native American costumes for contemporary wear.
The participants, using summer/winter threading and nontraditional treadling will simulate Native American
quill work, beadwork, ribbon work and feather designs.
The seminar will present ideas to help the participants to develop their own unique style using 4 or 8-shaft looms.
Local archaeologists working in Chinese Turkestan uncovered numerous naturally mummified
and spectacularly clothed bodies of Caucasians dating to the Bronze Age, 3000-4000 years ago.
Since little besides clothing was put into the graves, Dr. Elizabeth Barber, an expert on prehistoric textiles,
was invited to accompany an expedition from the University of Pennsylvania to Western China
to help determine facts about these displaced Westerners.
Why, when, and from where did these folk enter the Tarim Basin with their flocks of woolly sheep
to become the area's first permanent inhabitants,
more than 1500 years before the Chinese established the famed Silk Road from the east?
Dr. Barber’s talk is richly illustrated with her photographs of the often-magnificent textiles
and other artifacts discovered in this remote desert region.
Dr. Barber is Professor of Archaeology and Linguistics at Occidental College in Los Angeles.
She is also co-chair of the Classics Program.
Her research includes the Neolithic and Bronze Ages in the Aegean and southeast European regions,
where she has been particularly interested in early cloth and clothing.
She is author of several articles and books including Women’s Work, the First 20,000 Years,
The Mummies of Ürümchi, and Prehistoric Textiles.
This lecture and reception is co-sponsored by the HGB Library and the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History.
For more information contact
Gail Madden or
Debbie Davis.
This event starts at 11:00 am at the HGB Annual Sale at the Boulder County Fairgrounds.
You can bring your lunch or pre-order a lunch (by Bay Window Catering).
The pre-order form for lunch is available in the
November newsletter.
Deadline for pre-ordering lunch is November 17th.
Coffee and Tea will be provided.
For more information about the sale visit HGB's Annual Sale webpage
Our Christmas party will start at 6:30 pm
at Shuttles, Spindles, and Skeins.
Bring a Christmas treat to share, and a wrapped, homemade Christmas ornament.
Drinks, plates, utensils, etc. will be provided.
HGB member Jennifer is a classically trained fine artist who has been designing and creating art for over 20 years.
For the past 10 years, Jennifer has chosen to focus on textiles and sculptural vessels.
Her work reflects upon the refinement and harmony of fine Japanese craft, the elegance and beauty of European textile traditions,
and the form and texture of American and African art.
Jennifer's "katagami baskets©" are a marriage of basketry traditions and classical forms with pictorial katagami-style handcarved stencils in paper and metal. A fusion of metaphorical imagery and form articulate not only ideas about containment,
but also the ability to conceptualize emotions and reference a certain frame of mind or moment in time.
Jennifer''s work has appeared in publications including Amy and Mercedes will speak to us about topics related to work they did courtesy of the Carol Strickler Scholarship.
Sharon Costello is an accomplished fiber artist who has worked in hand-spinning, weaving, and knitting as well
as having raised her own flock of naturally colored sheep.
Once she discovered feltmaking, however, it quickly came to dominate her fiber fixation.
These days, Sharon's work focuses on soft-sculpture dolls and one of a kind and limited-edition
wearable art... hats, jackets, bags, boots, etc.
She has also completed special works for clients such as Celestial Seasonings Teas (a tea cozy inspired by their line of teas).
She has studied modern and ancient feltmaking techniques both in the US and in Turkey.
Visit her website at: http://www.blacksheepdesigns.com/.
Create a unique 3-dimensional sculptural form using a full range of innovative felting techniques.
Shape and full through controlled stretching and shrinking.
Surface design can include sculptural elements, cutting, carving, neeclefelting and stitchery.
Nancy Finn is the owner of Chasing Rainbows Dyeworks, where she dyes natural fibers in a rainbow of colors.
Visit her website at: http://www.lambtown.com/finn.html.
Of all the fibers, silk is the most thirsty for color.
Each student will leave the workshop with silk color samples that will take them around the color wheel.
The dyeing process will also include shading and toning,
giving an understanding of how primaries work together to form secondaries and
how primaries and secondaries work together to form tertiaries.
We will also discuss mixing stock solutions, safety issues, color combining as
in analogous, complimentary, and split complementary color schemes.
November
Day Guild (Monday the 10th)
Margaret Roach Wheeler -- Life with Summer/Winter, a Weaver’s Biography
Evening Guild (Tuesday the 11th)
Margaret Roach Wheeler -- Adena Woman, The Mound Builders Culture
Workshop (Friday thrugh Sunday: 7th through the 9th)
Margaret Roach Wheeler -- Designing the Mahotan Way
Author Lecture and Reception
Dr. Elizabeth Wayland Barber -- The Mummies of Chinese Turkestan
December
Day Guild (Monday the 8th)
Fashion Show and Luncheon
Evening Guild (Tuesday the 16th)
Christmas Potluck and Ornament Exchange
January
Day Guild (Monday the 12th) and Evening Guild (Tuesday the 13th)
Jennifer Falck Linssen - Contemporary Katagami Vessels
February
Day Guild (Monday the 9th) and Evening Guild (Tuesday the 10th)
Amy Mundinger and Mercedes Lindanoak - Computer Applications
March
Day Guild (Monday the 9th)
Diane Fabeck -- Stephensgraphs, the Ultimate Woven Miniatures
Evening Guild (Tuesday the 10th)
Diane Fabeck -- Kashmir & Euraopean Shawls of Paisley Design
April
Day Guild (Monday the 13th) and Night Guild (Tuesday the 14th)
Sharon Costello – A Feltmaker's Journey...25 years and Counting!
Workshop (Friday through Sunday, the 10th through the 12th)
Sharon Costello -- Vessels and Masks
May
Day guild (Monday the 11th) and Evening Guild (Tuesday the 12th)
Nancy Finn of Chasing Rainbows Dyeworks -- Working Your Way Around the Color Wheel
Workshop (Saturday and Sunday, the 9th and 10th)
Nancy Finn -- Exploring Color through Dyeing Silk