ACAD show and sale now on - scroll posts to check details but...

Last night I was fortunate enough to be invited to the Pre-Sale at ACAD and now I can insist you go over there and take a look at all the wonderful work by the students and learn - because they are a great crowd who are very keen to talk, share their passion, and teach us about their techniques and inspirations.  Seems like there are excellent tutors in that place bringing out the character of the students and adding a little spice of technique as these, our future artists, mature.

The star of the show for me was Geoff Genge who is registered as a Jewellery Major (I believe you call it here in Canada) He told me he loves looking into the way things are constructed and he clearly has an interest in de-construction too.  He studied weaving with Mackenzie Frere from the Fibre Dept. and learnt the basics and then he told me cheekily with a grin, how he then decided to (in my words) take the kid gloves off and do something  a little more complicated.... I got him to take a mirror-wise selfie... scan down to see more details of the piece.

Photo credit  and Artist Geoff Genge

Earthen Shroud

Artist Geoffrey Genge

His piece is in predominantly wonderfully aged and rusted metal.  Check out the components...with natural fibre as warp and he has re-used things like a fire screen which he painstakingly took apart.  It supplies the tension in the work.  You weavers will understand this far better than I.

See if you can get a sense of his humorous character as you inspect the images below.
(Forgive non-editing of the images... but I think they do the job - please click to enlarge - and sorry I didn't get the right angle to view the piece in its entirety.)

Earthen Shroud

Artist Geoffrey Genge

Photo: karin millson
The top of the piece (not shown) is a large scale metal pipe - giving perfect balance to the entire work.

Earthen Shroud

Artist Geoffrey Genge

Photo: karin millson
 Look at the way the warp has been affected by the springs

Earthen Shroud

Artist Geoffrey Genge

Photo: karin millson
The lower portion is certainly dramatic

Need I say more?

This is a great opportunity to immerse yourself in blue (though some of the participating artists have interpreted the title in other less blue ways....
Contextural is a group of like-minded and supportive fibre and mixed media artists. Check out their website for more information, they are also taking applications for their summer residency programme at ACAD this summer.  Put your mouse over the scribble pattern to see the links.  It is a snip of a price for free access to  lots of wonderful upscale studio space.

But, back to the Epcor windows,  not 1 but 4 windows are filled with Indigo inspired works.  I am proud to be a part of it.

April is a great month for fibre art in and around Calgary.  Check out the SDA exhibition (previously mentioned here -  too.

Your pocket square is coming along nicely

Karin Millson         2014

Mi #3

I have just said goodbye to Judith Dios after a richly enhanced ride though Nuno felting which took her from Saltspring Island to Alberta, Calgary and Lethbridge  (thanks to Cheryl for all your help)  and into the hearts of some 40 felters.

Well-done Judith, you worked and played very hard.  We all thank you for it. You have excited the imagination and creative experiences of so many and set them on a road that isn't familiar but holds great promise.

You were an easy house guest, an inspiring teacher and everything one could want in a friend.

And now, I get back to stitching and completing commissions, writing and planning for April, a fast fire lecture for "This is my City" - if I can get the images together, completing the necessary samples for a future 4-day workshop, Exhibition hanging for the SDA show "What's on the Surface?" and also  the Indigo show with Contextural at Epcor, more preparations for the SDA Skype Speaker Series - -   It promises to be a wonderful month.

If you have time and would like to be part of the crowd at a soft opening of the Skype Speaker Series on 3rd April at about 12:15pm please get in touch with me via email.

I need a few helpers.

Thanks.

So much success it is all too much for one small person

Klick on the above to see more details!

I am very pleased to report that I now have 10 registrants for Lisa Klakulak's workshop in Calgary
 I am taking names for the waiting list.

There are still two places left on the course running at the Galt Museum and Archives, see here for more details

Here is a link to our website http://www.galtmuseum.com/programs-heritagearts.htm

and Facebook event:  https://www.facebook.com/events/1411962522393553/

Sorry nothing fancy in this blog entry .... just too much to do right now.

Lisa Klakulak : 3-Day Workshop in Calgary 5 - 7 September, 2014

The Galt Museum and  Archives, Lethbridge
has worked in collaboration with Kreative Momentum 
to bring Lisa Klakulak to Calgary and Lethbridge
 in September, 2014
(Scroll to end of post for information about the Lethbridge workshop)

FULL Now taking names for waiting list
3-day workshop in Calgary

Patterning Felt: Partial Felt Gradations

5-7 September, 2014
with

Lisa Klakulak

http://www.strongfelt.com

Photo Credit Michael Mauney

Artist Lisa Klakulak

Photo credit: Mary Vogel

Artist Lisa Klakulak

Photo credit: Mary Vogel

Only 10 participants - maximum

Register NOW to avoid disappointment 

Cost $435 + material fee (approx $20) including PayPal booking fee.

Deposit (non-refundable) $200 by PayPal to ioftheneedle@me.com is required to secure your place.

Please email Karin at ioftheneedle@me.com to check spaces are available prior to making payment.

Artist Lisa Klakulak

Photo credit: Mary Vogel

Images are examples of techniques to be learned and not examples of work to be made in the course

Class Description from Lisa

"This class focuses on a skill set for articulating shapes and creating repeating patterns on felted surfaces. Partial-felts (also known as pre-felts, but different than a needle felted batt) is the term I use for felting fibers into a 2-D sheet for the purpose of cutting shapes to be felted into a background of loose fleece. Depending on the initial thickness of the sheet layout, the amount of felting/fulling that occurs before the shape application and the thickness of the fleece background an unimaginable range of effects can be achieved. Learn to control shape edge quality, background color bleed and surface dimension while experimenting with color gradations, shape spacing and movement of pattern based on shape design and rotation. Free-motion machine embroidery can then be applied to the felt to further define shapes, gather thin felt to accent dimension and crater thick felt to create an embossed effect."

Information for the workshop at the Galt Museum and Archives is as follows: -

Galt Museum & Archives | Heritage Arts Series

Sculpting Hollow Forms: Application of Partial Felt Density

4-day workshop with Lisa Klakulak from Strongfelt

Presented in partnership with Kreative Momentum

AUG 29 – SEP 01.14 | 9:30 am – 4:30 pm | Galt Museum & Archives, Lethbridge

intermediate/advanced | registration opens March 1

COST: $440 + GST | $30 materials fee | supplies list provided upon registration

Contact Leslie Hall for more information: 403.320-4700

Look for program details released March 1 at www.galtmuseum.com

Contact Leslie Hall for more information: 403.320-4700 |leslie.hall@galtmuseum.com 

2-Day and 3-Day workshops with Yoshiko Wada in Calgary, August 2014

FULL: Now taking names for waiting lists
Yoshiko Wada

Will teach workshops in Calgary in August 2014

http://yoshikowada.wordpress.com

http://slowfiberstudios.com

http://shibori.org

Yoshiko, is President of the World Shibori Network-World (WSN was established in Nagoya,Japan in 1992) and is the world's authority on Shaped Resist Dyeing.  She has writtendefinitive publications on the subject and produced a DVD "Arimatsu Narumi Shibori: Celebrating 400 years of Japanese Artisan Design." She leads study tours to Japan and has introduced many to the world of Shibori and inspiring creativity via her gentle style.  She is the founder of Slow Fibre Studios which collaborates with WSN and Michel Garcia on as series of Natural Dye Workshop DVDs.

Yoshiko is an artist, author, exhibition curator, textile researcher and film producer.  She is a long time exponent of traditional and sustainable practises in fashion and textile production.  she holds a BFA in Textile Art from Kyoto City Fine Arts University, MFA in Painting from the University of Boulder,Colorado Yoshiko travels the world giving lectures and workshops and participates in conferences to build greater insight into the world of fibre and textiles.

"Introduction to Organic Dyes and Pigments

For one-bath protein fiber dyeing."

2-Day workshop 

Wednesday 27 - Thursday 28 August, 2014 

This workshop will be of interest to :-

Water colour artists, calligraphers and those working with encaustic, as well as fibre artists

Cost: $370 (A non-refundable deposit of $155 is payable now to secure your place)

A charge of US$35 will be made for materials at this workshop (Natural Dye Workshop)

 "On Transformation: 2D to 3D"

3-Day  workshop

Friday - Sunday 29 - 31 August, 2014

To include work with natural and synthetic fabrics, 

Asian paper, and some recycling.  Sewing machines may be used.

Of particular interest to fibre, paper and mixed-media artists and others.

Cost: $290 (A non-refundable deposit of $155 is payable now to secure your place)

A charge of US$25 will be made for materials at this workshop (2D-3D)

All workshops will take place at:

ATLANTIS FINE FRAMING & ART STUDIO INC.
4515 Manhattan Rd SE
Calgary, AB T2G 4B3
Ph 403-258-0075
info@atlantisframing.com
www.facebook.com/atlantisframing

To confirm your place on one or more of Yoshiko's workshops a payment via PayPal,  of a non-refundable deposit of $155 (for each course you wish to register for) will be required.  Please email to  confirm that spaces are still available.

Space is limited.  Maximum 15 participants. 

If, after paying the deposit, you find that you cannot attend the workshop/s it will be your responsibility to find a replacement who can then return your deposit to you.  I will, however, take names for a waiting list and will try to help put you in touch with someone who wishes to attend.

There might be a small charge for materials.

email your interest in signing up for a place on one of the courses asap 

Demand has been high but there are still some places left.

For queries please contact me:-
karin millson
1 403 453 1823

Save the Date 

Yoshiko Wada will give a presentation

"Sustainability in Textile Design & Production : Case Studies from Japan, India, and USA"

on

Tuesday 26th August

ACAD Stanford Perrot Theatre

at 7pm

This will be a ticketed event: tickets will be available nearer the time