HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of our FIBREWORKS KINGSTON family of friends...

Beautiful digital art by Kathyann White

  

 

Sending many thanks and the very best wishes for a lovely and restful Holiday season from the team at FIBREWORKS KINGSTON.

 

 

To our Instructors this fall, PAMELA ALLEN and KAREN GOETZINGER, many thanks. You brought many hours of fun and artful creativity to our students and we look forward to seeing the finished art pieces created in your workshop weekends in the new year.

 

Our 2014 Workshop Weekends are fast approaching beginning in March with CAROL SODERLUND and in May with PENNY BERENS. We are so pleased to have both of these outstanding artists coming to the Kingston area to share their skills and expertise with our Fibreworks students.

 

A few seats are still available in Penny`s Discharge Workshop May 20 and 21st.

 

 

Feedback and suggestions for workshops and Instructors you would love to see in our 2014-2015 lineup are always welcome.

 

Have a wonderful Holiday break and see you in the New Year.

MAKE ART!!!

CABIN FEVER RETREAT WEEKEND PLANNED by FIBREWORKS KINGSTON... come play!

Red Sky at Night, Bethany Garner
Fabrics "Flat Dyed" by the artist

Bethany Garner presents a three day FIBRE ARTS RETREAT February 21- 23^rd, 2014 for those interested in play time during the Cabin Fever days of late February.  This workshop is sponsored by FIBREWORKS KINGSTON and is open to everyone... come for all three days, or choose one or two of the days that are of most interest to you. The workshop weekend will only be cancelled and re-scheduled with fees carried forward to the new date if a blizzard sets in and travel locally would be dangerous. Car pooling with friends is a great idea... so gather a couple of friends and come play!

 

The Retreat Weekend offers 9:30-5 pm instruction/support each day . The workshop will be held at the Odessa Fairgrounds Hall. Students joining Bethany will have a chance to either “do their own thing” with their own projects and guidance/assistance from Bethany, a seasoned fibre artist and Instructor in the Textile Design Program at St. Lawrence College…. OR take part in the three separate “play day” activities Beth has planned…

 

Friday, Feb. 21^st is “INDIGO: an Introduction, (with opportunity to add to the Indigo vats on Saturday and Sunday but no instruction)

Saturday, February 22^nd is “FLAT DYEING" - a great way to dye fabric and YES it can be done very safely and with terrific results indoors with some care to manage your work site and carry wet fabrics home in a large container for rinsing at a later date

Sunday, February 23^rd is “SCREEN PRINTING with Thickened Dyes”. Beth will demo torn paper, resist based work and free form "deconstructed" screen work. Students would need to have a 10" x 14" screen prepared with taped edges and a squeegee for the workshop.

Take advantage of all three days Feb. 21-23^rd for a special $120.00 or choose one or two days if that works better for you and the projects are of interest. Each single day is $50.00  if you can only do one.  A nice selection of prepared dyes will be provided.   Supplies lists with paid registration.

Please plan to bring Brown Bag lunch. Coffee, tea and break snacks provided. Registration is limited to sixteen students each day to allow for individual work station space.
 

See the registration form listed in the sidebar on the right side of the blog. Copy and print the bottom portion of the form and mail to Bethany Garner.

OR

Contact Bethany at fibreworkskingston@gmail.com for a pdf descriptive and registration form.

Hope you and friends will join us for this great CABIN FEVER-buster weekend.

CAROL SODERLUND Workshop #2 "TRANSFORMATIONS" will run, with only two seats left!

We are pleased to confirm that renowned Fibre Artist and Dye Master, CAROL SODERLUND will join us in Kingston on March 21-23rd, 2014  to share her outstanding workshop "TRANSFORMATIONS".

 

The workshop has secured the requisite number of students to confirm that it is a GO and we encourage you to consider joining us if you have been thinking about it!

 

JUST TWO SEATS LEFT!!

 

The three day workshop will be held at the Odessa Fairgrounds Hall which has lots of room to move around and be creative, enjoy all that Carol has planned for us as we explore Disperse Dyes and a full day of stitching on DAY THREE into compositions of the beautiful fabrics created in Days One and Two. Each student will have her own work station space and design walls are recommended. Supplies list is available with paid registration.

 

Carol is a master Dye Artist/Instructor and brings us many years of experience with the various methods of using Disperse Dye transfers onto multiple types of cloth.

 

Carol says  "With the focus on experimentation and discovery, many small samples and studies will be made. On the third day we will take one or more of our samples into stitch, layering opaque and sheers, both with fine threads and heavier threads in the bobbin. Free motion stitching, working with and without hoops and the use of stabilizers as well as water soluble products will be covered. Design exercises will get you started and applications in mixed media work will be explored." Fun, exciting new techniques and wonderful new stash fabrics are guaranteed.

 

Full workshop details are listed under Workshop #3 on the sidebar to the right of the blog.

 

Please don't wait - send your deposit soon, and a reminder that workshop balances are due January 15th, 2014.

 

Print your copy of the Registration Form from the right sidebar here at the Blog or email Bethany for a pdf copy of the FIBREWORKS KINGSTON Brochure for  Spring 2014. 

 

Bethany Garner, FW Coordinator  email:   garner@kingston.net

 

 

AND - a few seats left in PENNY BERENS Workshop #5

 

"MAKE IT YOUR OWN WITH DISCHARGE"

 

Scheduled for May 20th and 21st at Odessa Fairgrounds Hall

 

See you in the spring...