A reminder about our Populate Your Member Page/Networking event on July 14th in Seattle and July 15th in PortlandYour member page on the SDA website is one of your many member benefits. Populating your page is only a few clicks away and we want to help you!
Seattle: Saturday July 14, 2012  1pm-4pm

Ballard Library
5614 22nd Ave NW

Portland:  Sunday July 15, 2012 1pm-4pm

the home of Gerrie Congdon
2812 SE Moreland Lane, Portland 97202
ph: 503.788.3322

Join us for a an afternoon of networking and network help. All you need to bring are:

• Two digital images of your artwork (as large as possible)
• Details about the work – name, size, date, medium
• Your SDA login and password

We’ll provide:

• Photographer for your head shot (or you can bring your own)
• Assistance to help you write your “About Me” statement (250 character limit)
• Computers and technical support to upload images and text
• And remember, all Washington and Oregon SDA members who have their member page populated by July 15 (whether or not you attend an event) will be eligible for two prize drawings for $100 Dharma Trading Co. gift certificates. And Washington members who populate their national SDA pages will have their names linked on the SDA-WA website

There will be time for informal show and tell– bring something you’re working on to share. Refreshments will be served

For FAQ’s about populating SDA member pages including accessing your SDA login and password pages, Click Here.

PLEASE RSVP FOR THIS EVENT! 

Seattle event July 14th – Peggy O’Heron

Portland event July 15th – Gerrie Congdon

Peggy

SDA-Washington Area Rep

Innovation and Collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum

Thursday, June 21, 6 pm
Free for Third Thursday

Learn how The Fabric Workshop collaborates with contemporary artists to create new work in new materials. Discuss how the studio works with artists, from an initial idea all the way through to the final work of art, and get a unique, behind-the-scenes glimpse of the installation-in-progress of Marie Watt: Lodge (opens Saturday, June 30) Jennifer McTague, Project Technician for The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, PA will present.

For more information about these events, click HERE

 This is from the Artist Trust Newsletter.  Field trip anyone?

June 29-30 :: Mighty Tieton, WA

Join Artist Trust and Family Wineries of Washington at Camp Mighty Tieton for a packed weekend of textile exploration, art, wine and a special Pecha Kucha.

Featuring: Artist Trust; 15 Family Wineries of Washington; Artist Trust grant recipient Mandy Greer; Kathryn Gustafson; Textiles Tieton; Friends of the Rag; Moveable Type Letterpress Van; Yurts; Camp-Out Weekend; Felting; Dance Party! Plus a special Pecha Kucha on “Fabric of Creative Community,” at which presenters show 20 slides for 20 seconds each — a whirlwind of creativity!

Take on the Gimme Shelter! Design Challenge: Design and build your own lodging for the weekend, and display your functional design while camping out in Tieton. Unusual materials and shapes are encouraged. The smartest, the most extravagantly creative will take home prizes and bragging rights.

Volunteers needed! Felting assistants, community crochet assistants, gallery attendants, A/V person, ticket seller. Please contact Sylvia Imbrock for information.

This in from  Deborah Burns, the Events Coordinator at Daniel Smith.

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We are looking for Artists to demonstrate at our Seattle and Bellevue
DANIEL SMITH Stores, Artists who can do inspiring and informative demos!
We have free demos on the weekends to demonstrate different art techniques,
show how different art materials are used, different art mediums, etc.,
things that our customers would like to know more about, and would come to
our Free Demos to find out about!

We offer a $100.00 DANIEL SMITH Gift Certificate as compensation for 2, one
hour demos.

If you are interested please send an email to Deborah.Burns@danielsmith.com
(please do not contact the stores) with your name, phone number, website or blog and a paragraph describing what your demo would be about.  Please be sure to fill in the subject line with:  “Artist interested in doing Demos”

Some ideas for demos:
Airbrush (Iwata Airbrushes)
Copic Markers
Artist Transfer Paper
Silk Painting (with Jacquard products)
Fabric Painting & Dyeing (with Jacquard products)
Oil Bars (W&N)
Relief Printmaking:  Safety-Kut, or Linoleum (DS Relief Inks)
Silk Screening (Versatex inks)
Egg Tempera (Sennelier)
Acrylic (prefer DS brand – though others we carry are fine)
GOLDEN Open Acrylics
Watercolors (prefer DS brand – though others we carry are fine)
Oils (prefer DS brand – though others we carry are fine)
Collage
Mixed Media
Encaustic
DANIEL SMITH Watercolor Ground – and creative ways to use it
DANIEL SMITH Watercolor Sticks
Portraits, Landscape, Animals
Gesso – DS Gessos
And????

Demos work best when they are fun, inspiring and informative!  We’d love to
hear your ideas!  You can find out about our current demos on our Store

Events Blogs:
Seattle: SeattleDanielSmithEvents.blogspot.com
Bellevue: BellevueDanielSmithEvents.blogspot.com
Find us on Facebook at: Facebook.com/DanielSmithArtStores

Thank you, and I look forward to hearing from you!

Deborah Burns, DANIEL SMITH Events Coordinator

(For those of you who were unable to attend the recent Surface Matters Symposium or were at a concurrent talk, we have asked fellow SDA members to write about about the various presentations. First up is  Christina Fairley Erickson who writes about Gail Harker’s who spoke on “Awakening the Creative Spirit”.)

For those who haven’t visited Gail Harker’s Creative Studies Center (http://www.gailcreativestudies.com/) in La Conner, WA, it’s amazing to realize that we have such a treasure here in the Northwest for the fiber art world.  Gail’s lecture at the Surface Design Symposium in March was limited… when you have such a breadth of knowledge, it’s tough to narrow it down to a hour lecture. Yet Gail was able to focus in on

sources of inspiration as a way to help her audience understand the process of narrowing one’s interests and by doing so to go deeper artistically.  Gail encourages her students to find a theme or idea that interests them and to look at it more closely.  Through looking at things in your own way- through your eyes, your camera, and your sketchbook-you’ll be able to develop your personal style without resorting to copying another artist’s work.

Some of the ways Gail proposes to study one’s theme include the pattern, line and shape of any aspect of the idea you’re studying.  This returns you to the foundations of your theme and can help you see detail, repetition, and silhouettes, which can be used in your surface design.  A life-long lover of color, Gail finds all the colors on the color wheel within nature, and encourages all to take up a study of color.  Texture is another avenue, which you can examine in your theme, through manipulating your materials to get different textures relating to or mirroring your topic.

Gail’s speech and slide show then took the audience through a quick overview of theme ideas.  These included: people (including showing of different emotions and expressions), birds, fish, insects, religion, telling stories, circles and spirals, fruits, vegetables, flowers, the four seasons, and man-made inspiration, such as decaying, crumbling structures, machinery, equipment, mechanical parts, and dwellings.  Gail related how many topics and themes are really archetypal – you can research how the idea has been expressed throughout history, as well as how certain symbols are repeated and used to express different concepts.

Once you pick a topic or theme, Gail recommends that you be inventive and try out different ideas until you get your best results.  You can extract elements from your main idea and change them or focus in on one aspect of the main idea.  She also recommends that when traveling get seduced by what is around you so that you get it in your work.  Also, get rid of your fears… of rejection, of being told you’re wrong, and of having to fit in.  Be unique and express your uniqueness in your art!

Gail’s Barn House studio and gallery will be hosting student exhibitions May 19-20, and June 16-17.  These exhibitions are open to the public.  You can also follow her blog at: http://gailcreativestudies.wordpress.com/  and find her on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gail-Harker-Creative-Studies-Center/399755679337

Christina Fairley Erickson

Not only did our fearless leader organized and execute a spectacular conference, one month later her solo show opens. We are all deeply impressed!

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For more information about this upcoming workshop, contact Lisa Bernhardt at The Pacific Northwest Art School. To print this PDF, click HERE.

SDA- Washington is thrilled to have Michael Cepress present what is happening at the cross section of fashion and surface design at the upcoming Surface Matters Symposium.

In his talk entitled, Fashion Forward? Where we going and how we are getting there,  Michael will give us an artist presentation about the role of fashion in surface design and how artists are handling the changing aesthetic, creative and industry climates to move forward into the future.

Holding a BA in Art from the University of Wisconsin and an MFA in Fibers from the University of Washington, Cepress has worked as a designer and educator for over 10 years. His work travels internationally with features in the New York Times, FiberArts, Seattle Magazine, and books on the subject of Wearable Art.  For more about Michael, go to his webpage.

Seats are limited to each break out sessions.  Check out the Saturday schedule for more information.

 

This is a rare opportunity to learn the art of woad dyeing from dye master Denise Lambert of Bleu de Lectoure. Denise was instrumental in the revival of woad cultivation and use in France and has adapted this ancient medieval

dyeing technique to modern times. Each workshop participant will receive a silk scarf, a length of cotton lace and a workshop booklet. Participants may bring their own natural fiber materials to dye: fabric, lace, vintage pieces, canvas top shoes, yarns, ribbons – the list is nearly endless.

• Location: Magnuson Park, Seattle WA
• Date and Time: Saturday May 12 and Sunday May 13, 2012 from 9-4
• Cost $189
• Register at www.botanicalcolors.com.

For more information, contact Kathy Hattori at Botanical Colors  206-518-7073