Bethany will be sharing her annual "INSPIRATION: FIBRE ARTS SUMMER CAMP at the Tett Centre for Creativity and Learning in Kingston, July 23-29th... Hope you will have a peek and see if it is the summer Arts Event you have been waiting for this year!!

Please join me at the annual INSPIRATION: SUMMER FIBRE ARTS CAMP I will be hosting at the Tett Centre for Creativity and Learning, July 23-29th in the Activity Room and Gallery on Level One, and our Tett Centre on the Lake Ontario waterfront. 

Students will enjoy FIVE DAYS days of wonderful art play with friends from across Ontario and right here in Kingston... so please feel free to register by using this link, below here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/inspiration-summer-fibre-arts-camp-2023-tickets-636257091087

(or contact Bethany through her email for registration via e-transfer if that is preferred. SEATS ARE LIMITED... so don't wait too long!)

Daily projects Sunday through Thursday, July 23-27th will find the artist friends working on:

DAY ONE: Dyeing cloth using Procion MX Dyes, 

DAY TWO: Working on  the absolute fun of Deconstructed Screen Printing with thickened dyes, creating exciting new and original prints for their cloth inventory

DAY THREE: Create with Collage Art, and your work may include cloth you dyed on Sunday or plan to bring your choice of fabrics, tools of your choice for layering and design play, and some Matt Medium for layering paper and cloth.

DAY FOUR: DYEING with RUST - the most fun project day using bits and pieces of rusty finds" from your garage, some searches in local barns, found objects, and even some metal pieces hidden in the basement that will provide rust with mordants in our dye/print pots. Stitch play is always so much fun with rusty bits on cloth!

DAY FIVE: Students will continue to play with all of the projects underway on days one - four and on Friday, and/or for fun, we will work on creating hand or machine-pieced Journal Covers with the cloth you have worked on all week. This will hopefully encourage you to enjoy the memories of ART Camp in one or more great referral journals - (5 x 7 journals provided). Please plan to tuck in your sewing machines if possible - you may need them all week, and bring an extension cord!

AND NOW - See below...

Just for fun, the students will be able to add an additional TWO DAYS to our Arts Camp adventure as they join me for an additional two days for:

JAPANESE SHIBORI POLE DYEING and BORO ART 

Students who can and would like to stay on for a two-day additional Art Camp session on July 28th and 29th will find themselves immersed in the absolute joy of wrapping, dyeing and painting on some of their dyed cloth (or solid colour, pre-washed fabrics of your choice) using THICKENED DYES as the base cloth for adding dye-painted SHIBORI DESIGNS onto wrapped poles on Day One, July 28th of our additional two camp days...

And on Day Two, July 29th, we will be working to design and create the base cloth for a wonderful BORO ART, collaged fabric handbag... and the tutorial will be shared with registered students before the additional Camp Project on these last two days... COME PLAY!!

PLANNING for just the two days? If you can only attend Camp on the last two days, Friday and Saturday, July 28th and 29th, do try to get your tickets here as the seats are limited...

Click here to purchase your tickets:

or enter the link below:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/japanese-shibori-art-pole-dyeing-and-boro-art-tickets-636274192237

Hope to see you all soon... looking forward to our annual INSPIRATION: Summer Fibre Arts Camp in July! Bring a friend!! All of the details are posted with the link above...

Questions? contact me at: bethanygarner.art[at]gmail.com

Bringing the joy of working with TEXTILE and Stitch at the Tett Centre for Creativity and Learning, April 15, 2023

 TEXTILE LANDSCAPES - A Day to Paint with Cloth

Bethany Garner, Instructor

9:00 am to 4 pm, Saturday April 15th

Activity Room, Level One

Tett Centre for Creativity and Learning

370 King Street West, just east of Sir John A Blvd.

Parking in the Upper Lot on King Street next to the Tett/Isabel Bader

Hoping you will join me and also the Kingston Fibre Artists Exhibition right next door in the Gallery on Level One.

Come spend a day working along with Beth as she guides you through the ease of cutting, stitching, and embellishing your collection of cloth pieces chosen for your artwork. Bringing the vision to life as a "Maker" is what this workshop is all about, and sharing time with like-minded artist friends in the classroom will get you started or support your love of the landscapes you love. Feel free to bring photos, or your own landscape cloth artworks to share.

We start at 9:00 am - and enjoy time together until 4 pm and we will be working on pieces that will finish about 12" square (includes adding cloth that equals a 2" border all around for framing if you like). Colour play is always good fun, so bring a palette that makes you happy!

Sewing machines are welcome...handwork encouraged.

While the Tett does not have a mask mandate in place, we invite you to feel comfortable wearing a mask to help support others. We do not provide food for the class, but the Juniper Cafe is just down the hall and welcomes students.

Tickets

$65+ | 18+ | Limited Capacity | Click here to purchase your tickets

Instructor,Bethany Garner, is a seasoned contemporary artist, traditional quilter, Restoration Specialist, Quilt Conservator, and is a retired Professor of Textile Design at St. Lawrence College, Kingston. She has inspired her students to take chances, try new things, and explore their favourite techniques in the classroom and at home.

Beth has been sharing her favourite techniques in the classrooms since 1996, and brings her students a number of mixed-media, and cloth based colouring workshops based on the application of easy to use Procion MX Dyes, acrylic paints, inks, and silk paints for cloth, fibres and threads. Bethany’s courses are technique based, fun and developed to ensure that every student is accepted and feels included, supported and making their way forward on their own creative path.

UNIQUE BORO ART

Creating with Japanese Shibori Stitch… 

April 1, 2023

9:30-4:30 In the Activity Room, 

Tett Centre for Creativity and Learning , Level One

Bethany Garner, Fibre Artist, and Workshop Instructor

      

AN INTRODUCTION:

BORO ART is the result of repetition stitching over time and is a quiet, even solemn path to artwork as a selection for those who love the art of working with cloth. Japanese, who lived in small villages surrounded by mountains, had to repair their clothing and fabric by hand-stitching because of limited resources. They didn’t have enough money or logistics to get the new fabric from the market. In other words, they had to repair instead of replace their fabric. They patched a hole in one piece of fabric, then kept using it. When they found another hole, they patched it or mended it. The repetition of hand-stitching/repairing made a great art piece, and it is called Boro.

Today we create artwork that is often made with hand-dyed indigo-colored cloth and sometimes using items that we have in our closets and drawers, like the pocket of a pair of a family member’s jeans, or a small pile of cloth that is cut up using items from thrift stores or household linens, work a bit and often with holes of tears that leave the cloth in conditions that require mending.

The focus for our workshop day is building on the fabric we have, using the art as a learning session to encourage working along with the handouts/samples I will share and encourage you to be inspired by and strive to create your own designs. There is nothing better than a day with a few small scraps of fabric that can translate into ART… celebrating your decisions with threads, cloth, and some new friends in the classroom that will have their own path to follow and encourage you and share as you work together.

This class will bring you closer to sharing a connection with the art of Japanese BORO art and perhaps start you on a journey with bits and pieces that will inspire all new work. Join me for a full day with some samples from my handy work – and you will only need to bring some of your favourite pieces of cloth, scissors, needles, and thread. 

Oh, and don’t forget, you will need the willingness to try a new technique that reminds you of years of work done by those around the other side of our world that walked before us.     

Contact me to register and the full-day fee is $60, by e-transfer (email me at bethanygarner.art[at]gmail.com)

or through Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unique-boro-art-tickets-560599537307

A comprehensive handout will be supplied with registration... bring your lunch and a drink! (The Juniper Cafe at the Tett Centre is just down the hall! Come enjoy!!

 

TWO EVENINGS, one workshop - $60

Imagine the fun of exploring fibre art play with a group of friends in a setting that will allow you to create an original piece of FIBRE ART along with a learning experience that is FUN!

Register here through Eventbrite or contact Bethany at bethanygarner.art[a]gmail.com

                       https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wool-art-yarn-and-stitch-tickets-554510324307

Making cloth art and using favourite cotton or wool threads and yarns, often from her stash of weaving project yarns or handspun wool by local friends, Beth begins the design play with a few favourite, easy-to-learn stitch patterns: french knots, lines, and crosses, circles created with blanket stitch and often, just running stitch!

In this workshop, students will receive a rectangular piece of either black or white wool cloth and have a chance to try a few basic stitch repeated patterns on their cloth that will begin a journey to filling their cloth with their own pattern designs. (See my black and white stitched piece below)

A comprehensive handout will be included in the workshop, and with two evenings in a row to learn, practice and enjoy creating... students will go home with a piece that can be extended into days or weeks of work at home following the workshop as they continue in their own design play. Once finished, the work can be stretched over a canvas or laid into a frame for display.

IMPORTANT: Students will enjoy TWO EVENINGS, and the two consecutive evening WOOL ART CLASS sessions for registered students are booked with the first evening session, Part One starting at 5 pm, and running to 9 pm on March 28 th, and Part Two, second evening same hours on March 29th, 2023

Hoping you will join in on the fun. Drop by Studio 214D at the Tett Centre if you have questions.

** Samples of using hand stitches on wool bases are below... students will work on an Instructor -supplied black or white wool cloth in this workshop, using threads they bring to share. Feel free to bring your own cloth to stitch.!

My favourite project last winter, and now sharing a home with a couple in Georgian Bay, this piece is black Dorr Wool with a centre circle of blanket stitch, french knots and some cross marks, and then the fun begins as the rest of the cloth is filed with hand stitches in random placement. Good fun and EVERYONE can do this!!

This one shares wool "wet felted art" base and some cheesecloth that has been dyed on a dyed background... machine stitched... good fun for another option down son the road.

Dorr wool that hs been eco-printed using natural leaves, flowers and a couple of catalpa pods, a couple of steel washers from my hubby's garage and lots of stitching. This project is for another day, but my summer 2023 ART CAMP at the TETT Centre is coming in July - so another workshop could be on your calendar...

Please join me in celebrating the upcoming Fibre Art Exhibition featuring LINDA COULTER and PHILLIDA HARGREAVES, 

Kingston, ON Artists, as they invite you to visit their beautiful artwork at the 

JOHN M. PARROTT Gallery. Belleville Public Library 

March 11-April 12, 2023, Gallery One, 3rd Level

OPENING RECEPTION: March 11, 2023, 2:30-4 pm

Meet the Artists: March 17, March 25, and April 8th from 1-4 pm

       

ICELANDIC OUTCROP, Philida Hargreaves

Visit Phillida's website for a lovely tour of her artwork and details about her upcoming events.

 https://www.phillidahargreaves.ca/

THE FARM, Linda Coulter, Artist

Visit Linda's website for more artwork sharing and information 

regarding her Kingston, ON Studio, and upcoming exhibitions.

https://www.lindacoultertextileart.com/

Here we are in 2023, IMAGINE!! And we will start the year with students in our classrooms at the Tett Centre and my favourite workshops coming throughout this all New Year!

TETT Centre for Creativity and Learning

January 21 and 22nd, Saturday and Sunday - 10 am to 5 pm

SOLD OUT, this time around!

OUR Workshop is FILLED - with 15 eager students joining me on January 21st and 22nd in the Rehearsal Hall at the Tett Centre.

The two days together will find the students creating beautifully hand-dyed cloth as they work together, all the while sharing time with area friends at the Tett Centre for Creativity and Learning.

We will have two wonderful days of "flat Dyeing" using Procion MX Dyes on cotton, linen, ramie, silk or any other cloth preferred... my cloth is always used in art quilts and the joy of being able to create the gorgeous ombre effects by hand on the table is just so much fun! We will also be exploring the fun of painting with thickened dyes... new for some and a favourite of other artists!

The Indigo Workshop on January 15/16th is also now "All Seats Filled", and I am thrilled and excited to be back in the dye pots again with a group of wonderful friends....a terrific start to the new year! FOR THE LOVE OF BLUE!!!