Fibreworks Kingston welcomes GORDANA BRELIH for her exciting fibre workshop September 18-20th 2015. Please plan to join us!

Putting it all together...
CONNECTING FRAGMENTS

Gordana Belih, Instructor

returns to Fibreworks Kingston Weekend Workshops Series

September 18-20, 2015

Lets be creative!

Do you ever wonder what to do with your many samples from different workshops, fabric scraps, lace, eco-dyed silk, wool, beads, metal finds? You will work closely with Gordana over this weekend of stitch and design play to develop the plans to create all new work as you "put it all together". Your work may be collaged onto black felt while planning  one special dimensional piece, or you might consider mounting your design stretched onto a frame… 

 

Bits and pieces of Gordana's work

 

There are so many options this dynamic artist uses in her own prize-winning art that will be shared during this fun-filled, design focused workshop. Time to explore, plan, sketch, dream and stitch!!! Make time to play and build new pieces for your stash of favourite techniques.

 

 

Techniques that will be explored by Gordana with her students during the workshop include:

 

* Free motion machine and hand stitching, 

* Stitching and burning felt,

* Stamping, wax resist printing, 

* Stitching onto water soluble film, 

* Painting Stitch-witchery, 

* Mono-printing on fabric, 

* Use of gold foil, 

* Drawing and stitching on the muslin…

The workshop will be held in Room 00060 from 9:30-4 pm Saturday and Sunday September 19th and 20th at St. Lawrence College. 

 

Friday evening September 18th

bring friends and enjoy the 

Lecture and sharing of Gordana's beautiful work. 

7-9 pm. Room 12040, St. Lawrence College.

Registration is OPEN and the form to send with your payment cheque payable to FIBREWORKS KINGSTON is on the right sidebar at our blog:  www.fibreworkskingston.blogspot.ca

 

Hope to see you soon!

Bethany Garner, FIBREWORKS Coordinator

garner@kingston.net

 

Come to KINGSTON, ON and enjoy a full week at St. Lawrence College's SUMMER SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS as you expand your Fibre Arts /Design skills over a full week of studio play!

St. Lawrence College

1000 Islands

Summer School of the Arts 

Fibre Arts: Design, Technique and Practice (Kingston Campus)

ARTS 91 

Mon - Fri July 27 - July 31, 9:00AM - 5:00PM

Course Fee: $239

$30 Materials Fee to Instructor covers comprehensive course binder and dye/paint supplies
 

Course Registration Link 

 Course Catalogue
Accommodation at the Kingston Campus College Residences  

Dyeing, painting and printing on cloth...a full week of devoted studio practice 

This journey will help you to step ‘out of the box’, away from the familiar, and start to create contemporary, one of a kind art quilts or “Modern” bed quilts as you study the foundations of design. Your focus will be on creating art work that can be used in your studio practice, developing  that new  commitment to a series that can carry on long after our week together.

Red Sky at Night, Bethany Garner

You will explore color, work every morning into a course sketchbook with art and design techniques, and explore hands on sampling of MANY techniques for special effects on fabrics including the creation/stitching of all new small pieces of art work each afternoon in the classroom... lots of time to STITCH! Machine or hand work - your choice! 

Day One:      Flat and immersion dyeing of fabric (see photo above)

Day Two:     Indigo dye instruction including shibori (see photo below)

Day Three:   Soy wax batik, and art quilt design time in afternoon

Day Four:     Fabric painting using COLOUR VIE and acrylics, gel and screen printing

Day Five:      Experiment with nuno/wet felting

As you create, choose your own favourite techniques to develop all new, original art. You will enjoy working along with your classmates, sharing ideas, and  developing confidence in “design wall” exercises while you take this opportunity to stitch up a storm!

SPECIMENS, Bethany Garner

During this 5 full days of studio art play you will listen to your intuition and find the confidence to make independent decisions that will produce art/quilts strong in colour and design. The goal is creating new work, using fibre as your medium and having a great and fun filled week with old and new friends along the way.. 

Supplies list provided with paid registration... and we encourage you to use your STASH! 

Come play!

Date(s): 7/27/2015 - 7/31/2015.
Days of Week: Monday through Friday   Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM  Room 00060

Main Campus, Green Wing, Lower Level

Instructor: Bethany Garner

More Information:  garner@kingston.net

This is Beth''s nineteenth year in the classroom with the Summer School of the Arts at St.Lawrence College. She welcomes new and returning students and encourages you to book a stay in SLC Kingston Residence at the college and enjoy the beauty of the Kingston Community during summer 2015!

Don't miss QUILTS KINGSTON 2015 - the premier quilt show of the KINGSTON HEIRLOOM QUILTERS and LIMESTONE QUILTERS GUILD

SAQA members with work in show are  

ELIZABETH ABBOTT, FEATURED QUILTER 

Bethany Garner

Donna Hamilton

Diane Hogan

Sally Hutson

Darlene Moritz

Jeanne Stoness

SAQA's 25th Anniversary ART QUILT TRUNK SHOW "E" is on display

As you tour the Show Floor you will find spectacular hand and machine quilted Quilts... over 300 actually! The Show has a lovely MERCHANTS MALL with  favourite Quilt and Specialty shops and OUTSTANDING specials on Sewing machines including JANOME and BABYLOCK, BERNINA and  Representation by QUILTS OF VALOR Special theme areas include Miniatures, Postcard Quilts, Children's Quilts , Members Boutique, demonstrations of quilt assembly, hand quilting and great TEA ROOM... Free Parking, Accessible.

Follow Sir John A Boulevard off the 401, driving straight through to King Street at the Kingston Penitentary, turn right onto King Street and drive along past St. Lawrence College and the Dupont Plant. Watch for the lights at DAYS ROAD and turn right onto Days. The Royal Kingston Curling Club Arena will be on the right...COME JOIN IN ON THE FUN!

Friday June 12, 2015 - 10 am to 7 pm

Saturday, June 13 - 10 am - 6 pm

Sunday, June 14th - 10 am - 4 pm

Summer adventures abound with QUILTS, Textile Art and many Fibre related events to entice you to get our there and ENJOY ART!

 

 
QUILTS KINGSTON 2015 is fast approaching and I have been very happily working with Heather Buchan to let everyone know about the Show and what we have to share! We have been busy doing outreach and Publicity - contacting the many players that will help to make this the BEST EVER Show for the Kingston Heirloom Quilters and Limestone Quilters Guild members.

Over 250 beautiful quilts and wall quilts will be on display, along with several very special exhibits including the Guild's Challenge project "Sir John A/Sir John, eh?" exhibit and "Quilts by Children". We will also share displays by the 'Limestone Loopers' Rug Hooking group and the Cataraqui Guild of Needle Arts (Kingston Embroidery Guild).

The Show floor at the Royal Kingston Curling Club will also be home for the many exciting Vendors from across Ontario, and some special theme areas for the delight of the visitors to the Show.

Parking is FREE, we will have an awesome TEA ROOM for our visitors and we have collected hundreds of exciting handmade items for our  Members Boutique... a very popular spot for shopping at the Show!

Admission is just $6 - so mark your Calendar and join us for the Show JUNE 12-14, 2015!

More information at http://quiltskingston.blogspot.ca/ and www.quiltskingston.org/



THREADWORKS 2016 
The call to create YOUR Art is open... Start Now!

Maybe you have a favourite memory of girlfriends in High School... or a trip on your honeymoon. Perhaps a favourite vista as you traveled to a very special destination with Art friends. Perhaps it is a magical painting or a corridor that you walked through. It could have been a "light bulb" moment when a new technique clicked and you created your BEST EVER piece of art!

 

THREADWORKS  is a project of the Ontario Network of Needleworkers and the amazing exhibition opportunity offered to ALL Canadian Fibre Artists to participate and see their work hanging at the Opening Event at the Wellington County Museum and Archives Gallery! The actual online entry for the show will be in early April 2016... so the clock is ticking.

 

Hoping YOU will be creating your art around a "FLASHBACK" moment in your life, or the event that sparked a whole new path in your creative pass time - FABRIC and STITCH!

 



THREADWORKS HAS A WEBSITE! www.threadworksart.ca

 

And, for the first time, the jurying process will be online ... the art will be considered TWO phases:

 

- preliminary selection online by the Jury

- a final jurying, on site at the Wellington County Museum and Archives by the three jurors
 

                                JANE DAMS, LORRAINE ROY and DICK MARVIN

(you can read about the three jurors at the Threadworks website)  

 

and your summer is not over until you visit the two Kingston Fibre Artists Shows:

Hanging By A Thread is open NOW at the Window Art Gallery, corner of Victoria and Princess Streets in downtown Kingston... and the door is on Victoria Street... look for the red awning! The show is there for you to visit until May 31st.  Please take friends and enjoy the al through the many amazing works hanging there just for you!

And, mark your calendar now for the Opening of the Kingston Fibre Artists wonderful retrospective exhibition of their beautiful work in Almonte on August 1st. Sixteen Artists sharing their stunnig fibr art pieces in the Norah Rosamond Hughes Gallery on the main floor.

Do plan to join us to meet the artists and enjoy their work and some treats too!

KINGSTON FIBRE ARTISTS EXHIBITION

TIMELESS TEXTILES

Mississippi Mills Textile Museum

July 28-September 5, 2015

VERNISSAGE  August 1,

2:00-4:00 pm