UW Certificate Program in Fiber Arts

Develop your artistic voice and the expressive and conceptual aspect of your work in any fiber medium with a certificate from the University of Washington in Fiber Arts.  Places in the program, which starts Oct.1, are still available.  Topics include the following:

• How to bring yourself into your art.
• Ways to stimulate your ongoing artistic creativity.
• Conceptual strategies to express an idea, emotion or experience.
• Examples from the history of art and craft for inspiration.
• Professional art practices, ways to have your art find an audience, and preparation for an art exhibit.

You will leave this program with an enhanced body of work, a strengthened artistic voice, and strategies for ongoing artistic growth.  The program meets five Saturdays per quarter for nine months on the UW campus.  Your work will be shown at a closing student exhibition.

Apply now!

Applications are being accepted now. See complete program information, instructor bios, and application instructions at http://www.pce.uw.edu/

For more information contact:
info@pce.uw.edu
206-685-8936 or 888-469-6499

Adding and Subtracting Layers on Textiles

Pratt Fine Arts Center
  Friday-Sunday, 10am-6pm, 9/30-10/2/2011

Working with MX dyes and discharge, the removal of color, we will alternate layers to create complexity and depth of color on fabric. Shibori binding, organic pastes, and physical resist techniques will be used, each method creating its own characteristic marks. Techniques covered are easily grasped yet endlessly variable. Use of discharge agents including bleach, thiourea dioxide, and other products will be covered while emphasizing safe studio practices. This workshop emphasizes process and experimentation, learning to control technique while celebrating the happy accident. Prerequisite: None

For more information about registration go to pratt.org or call (206) 328-1260

Here is your chance for some creative inspiration before the start of fall!  SDA member, Chad Alice Hagen is offering a workshop at the Pacific Northwest Art School entitled:

Beyond Felting:  Resist Dyed Felt, Stitching, Beading, Books and Book Covers with Chad Alice Hagen

It runs from August 29 through September 1st.  For more information click here.

Pacific Northwest Art School
15 NW Birch Street
Coupeville WA 98239
Phone: 360-678-3396
Tol-Free: 1-866-678-3396
info@pacificnorthwestartschool.org
http://www.pacificnorthwestartschool.org

SDA member, Tricia Stackle is offering two wonderful workshops in Sculptural Felt and Felted Clothing.  This is a great opportunity to take your felt to a whole new level.

Feltmaking is an exciting media growing in popularity both in the art, craft, and design fields due to its transformative properties and delightful tactility. I have been working with the ancient, renewable resource, wool, in my own design and art practice for a few years now and am excited to be able to offer two exciting workshops to share my experience with feltmaking and teach new techniques in both sculpture and fashion to interested and eager artists and craftspeople looking to learn about this media for the first time or as experienced makers.

Photo by Jennifer Nerad

The Sculptural Felt is being offered August 27 – 29, 2011 from 10 am – 6 pm at the University of Washington – School of Art.  Cost is $385 with materials included.

Photo by Jennifer Nerad

The Felted Clothing workshop will take place September 9 – 11, 2011 from 10 am to 6 pm also at the University of Washington.  Cost is $385 with materials included.

For more information about both of these workshops, please visit:  www.triciastackle.com.  Click here for an enrollment form.