Ottawa Fibre Artist LYNNE MORIN brings her art savvy to Kingston in November - please join us!

Sunflowers, Fibre and Paint on Canvas, Lynne Morin

Fall is fast approaching and our thoughts immediately go to hours in the slower days when ART will once again take a front row seat in our studios! FIBREWORKS is so pleased that well known Canadian artist, LYNNE MORIN of Ottawa will be joining us for Workshop #2 in our Fall Design Series!

Lynne's work has been shown in numerous Canadian as well as international galleries... solo exhibitions, SAQA Traveling Exhibits, our own Central Canada SAQA sponsored SYNTHESIS I and SYNTHESIS II Shows that have traveled Ontario for a number of years and more. 

Over the past few years, Lynne has begun to use her talents as a painter to bring a whole new dimension to her work with textile and fibre. Her new works combine the subtle beauty and magic of laying texture, colour and dimension to a canvas, all the while adding the familiar and thought provoking use of fabrics and fibres in the mix. There are special tips and techniques involved when mixing these two mediums, and Lynne has developed this very special Weekend Workshop just for those who are willing to step out and try an all new approach to their work!

Sunflowers II, Lynne Morin

While "Sunflowers" are a focus in new work for Lynne's fall sharing as she travels, speaks and shares her love of paint and fibre, students who join Lynne for her November 7-9th Workshop "THE SAME, BUT DIFFERENT" at St. Lawrence College will gain so much more than time to play with paints and fibre/textile.

SO WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO JOIN US??? 

* Students who take this course will explore methodologies for approaching and achieving a series of new artworks, either representational or abstract in design, and hear how Lynne approaches successfully creating works of art that are suitable for galleries or art shows.

* The focus will be on the creating of related works...and please know that Lynne will ensure that the “how” is the important part of this course.

 

* Several shared methods in the course will provide a solid base for further creating art work.... and having the opportunity to use these techniques several times over the workshop weekend will provide the experience necessary to gain the confidence to successfully create more in the future.

* Students will also learn how to critique works of art, especially their own, before, during and after completion of their works. 

* Lynne will also share her focused compositional strategies. As a recognized Gallery and Installation artist, Lynne has built a strong foundation for her many series of new work. She will share her tried and tested steps she has proven can work for you.

If YOU are ready to take a new path this year, to share in the steps to success that this well known Instructor and Exhibition Artist has taken to ensure her work is Gallery-ready... and want to have some serious fun along the way, please REGISTER for Workshop #2 with Lynne and get ready to create some terrific new work!

The Registration form is on the right sidebar at the www.fibreworkskingston.blogspot.ca blog.... and Lynne's workshop is filling nicely.... COME JOIN US!

 email: lynnemorinATrogers.com

Kingston Fibre Artists Show and Sale scheduled for August 29-September 24, 2014 - Please join us!

 

 

Please plan to join us for our Annual INSPIRATION AND EXPLORATION Show and Sale at the Johnson Street Branch of the Kingston Public Library. The Exhibition runs from August 29-September 24, 2014 and we welcome you to enjoy our new work in both the WILSON ROOM an FOYER.

 

OPENING RECEPTION is scheduled for Thursday, September 4, 2014 and invite you to join us from 6:30-8:30 pm for light refreshments and the sharing of the new work by our members.

 

This year we are also introducing an "Artists Walk and Talk" on Saturday, September 13, 2014, 2-4 pm. We know you will enjoy a relaxed afternoon walk through the exhibition and the opportunity to chat with our artists about techniques, inspiration and hear more about our group of dedicated professional artists choosing fibre as their medium.

 

Please join us at either or both of our events, and do share the news of our Show and Sale with friends and family.

UPDATE ON " Wrap and Rust Dyeing" with Maggie Vanderweit

September is just around the corner... workshop planning and marking calendars  is an important focus as we look forward to Fall Educational Opportunities.

Just a note to say that this wonderful workshop has NOW FILLED for the September 19-21st weekend.....

Lynne Morin's "THE SAME BUT DIFFERENT" Design Workshop for artists working with textile as their preferred medium is filling nicely... please do not miss the opportunity to spend time with Lynne.

Summer is passing quickly now... time to mark your calendar for upcoming FIBREWORKS Fall workshops!

"WRAP AND RUST DYEING" workshop with MAGGIE VANDERWEIT 

launches the fall 2014 Workshops Weekend Series 
September 19-21, 2014.

As July comes to a close, we are all anticipating the changes in schedule that come with approaching fall days. August will give us all the time to plan and consider the opportunities we will want to include in our artistic lives... and we hope you will consider joining us for the terrific and awe inspiring weekend with Maggie. Known for her beautiful compositions in cloth and stitch, Maggie brings to Kingston and area her new passion... NATURAL DYE WORK.

Sharing the techniques she has learned to love, and which have resulted in some truly beautiful cloth that she shares in her booth at Creativ Festival in Toronto and beyond, Maggie will guide you on an adventure using common plant materials, mordants and either heat or steam to move colour and stunning marks from the materials collected for use in the workshop weekend onto your cloth. Having the opportunity to add these skills to your inventory of favourite techniques is an opportunity you will NOT want to miss. FOUR SEATS are available to our final registrants in Maggie's workshop weekend - so please don't wait and be disappointed.

More information:

Maggie's beautiful work brings to life the many wonderful bits and pieces of nature that are currently adorning your gardens and the countryside near your home. Utilizing sound and proven methods for transferring the gorgeous colour locked inside the leaves, plant material and flowers we know and love, Maggie will share her favourite techniques for teasing the colour onto cloth using mordants and heat/steeping to bring forward the marks left by metal, twigs, plant material and more. The resulting cloth is beautiful, and calls for stitching, framing and treasured coveting.

The 7-9 pm evening Lecture and sharing of new work with Maggie will be at St. Lawrence College in Kingston, with the two workshop days at the Odessa Fairgrounds Hall.  Hope to hear that YOU will join us for both!

Emerging From Chaos, Lynne Morin

LYNNE MORIN,  joins us the weekend of November 7-9th

 to share "THE SAME, but DIFFERENT" two-day workshop. 

Lynne, an outstanding designer, arts coach and much loved artist from Ottawa, will share her talk and new work with students and guests at St. Lawrence College on Friday evening November 7th.

This is the opportunity YOU need to help move those ideas, plans and sketches from paper to all new original work. Lynne is a master designer and beloved for her calm demeanor and wise advise that has encouraged friends in the art world to take the steps they need to move their work off the design wall and into the world of exhibition and sales. While that is not a goal for every artist, with Lynne's encouragement and support, you will begin to formulate the plans/sketches to create NEW and exciting pieces that will be stepping stones to a new series or even a whole new collection of ideas to work though in 2015.

REGISTRATION is OPEN.... so check out the details of our workshops for 2014/15 on the sidebar to the right side of the blog.

Contact Registrar, Bethany Garner, for a pdf copy of the FIBREWORKS brochure and share with friends. Everyone welcome. Local accommodation information is available from Bethany... come join us!

www.fibreworkskingston.blogspot.ca

email: fibreworkskingston@gmail.com

Being not so perfect... a curse. Please Note a Correction in the FW 2014-15 Brochure...

CORRECTION to our circulated FIBREWORKS Brochure...

 

 

HOLLY DEAN, CREATING THE MUSE JOURNAL

 

APRIL 17-19, 2015

 

FIBREWORKS KINGSTON's Weekend Workshop Series, 2014/15 

St. Lawrence College

Kingston Campus

 

 

Creating our all important  FIBREWORKS Brochure by typing one-handed with a casted, fractured wrist, combined with late June summer heat are the only excuses I can offer for making a typographical error and not catching it (thanks to a good friend who gave me a "heads up" today).... please make note of the correct dates (they were correct here at the Blog, but an error on circulated Brochure sent June 28th via email!). My sincere apologies...

 

I have to remember to stop and THINK before saving - proof reading is SO important

 

 

Just know that I am so excited that Merrickville's HOLLY DEAN will join us to share her totally original and creative MUSE JOURNAL course next spring... so PLEASE, mark your calendar and don't wait too long. Student registration is limited to 15 students!

 

Thanks for your encouraging notes as I mend...

Bethany





Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation comes into effect July 1, 2014....

A message to all of our FIBREWORKS KINGSTON Blog readers:

 

Canada's new Anti-Spam legislation will help reduce unwanted emails from appearing in consumers’ inboxes by requiring companies to gain their consent. We are supplying this information as many of our readers are arts related home-based or small business owners, or may generally be concerned about spam delivered to their inbox.
 

Does OUR Fibreworks Kingston Blog comply? YES...

We are a Google Blogger site here at www.fibreworkskingston.blogspot.ca and use a Feedburner Subscription widget (located at the top of the right sidebar of our blog Home Page). Each of our Fibreworks Kingston Blog Post subscribers "opted in" by using that form, provided their consent and are made aware that they can opt out or unsubscribe at any time. That being the case, we are in compliance. 

 

We do not add or import any email distribution lists to our Blog. With the Subscription Service from Blogger each individual receiving a post in their email inbox has subscribed giving express consent.

 

Any of our subscribers may "unsubscribe" at the bottom of any post received that arrives in their inbox from the RSS Feed via the Fibreworks Kingston Subscription Service.

We do so hope you will stay onboard to keep abreast of all of the news now and up to the start of our 2014/15 Weekend Workshops Series beginning in September 2014.

 

For more information check out: The Canadian Government’s site to Fight Spam.

 

If you would like to receive information about FIBREWORKS KINGSTON, we welcome you to join us to receive all of the updated information about Fibreworks Kingston by going to the 'Follow by email' Subscription Form at the top of the right side "blog sidebar". 

FIBREWORKS BROCHURE is ready for you... please do ask for your copy!

Circulation of our 2014-15 FIBREWORKS KINGSTON Brochure in pdf. format has begun... you may have already received a copy in your email inbox! If not, we would be so pleased to share a copy so you  can have a copy including the registration form for ready reference or to hold in your files. 

Please feel free to share your copy via email with friends. (Blogger is sadly unfriendly to linking pdf's)

Email us at fibreworkskingston@gmail.com to request a pdf copy...

Mixed Media Assemblage, Dianne Gibson

The 2014/15 Series of Weekend Workshops promises to be wonderful as we welcome our Guest Instructors: Maggie Vanderweit Meredith. Lynne Morin, Holly Dean and Dianne Gibson. Workshops begin in September and seats are limited, so please have a look at the schedule and do plan to join us when you can!

We are talking with renowned Rug Hooking Instructor, Loretta Moore of the Westport, ON area about an addition to our line-up in March 2015... please watch our sidebar for the addition of her workshop in the near future. Many of you know Loretta from the many wonderful workshops and rug hooking events she participates in throughout Ontario and beyond.

Fibreworks will also be sponsoring a three day CABIN FEVER Retreat in February, 2014 at the Odessa Fairgrounds. Participants will have the opportunity to attend one, two or all three days. Details will follow soon...

Hope you are enjoying your summer so far...looking forward to seeing you at fibre events across our area throughout the summer.

Bethany

Supporting your textile play and growth opportunities is what St. Lawrence College is all about... DREAM IT? Do it!!

ST. LAWRENCE COLLEGE - Kingston Campus

THOUSAND ISLANDS SUMMER SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS 2014....Week Long Study Opportunities... 

 

FIVE STUDENTS NEEDED TO RUN!!! Come PLAY!

Surface Design and Stitch    Date(s): 7/21/2014 - 7/28/2014   This full week course in our Textile Design Program will prepare the diploma program participant or general interest student to create their own original hand coloured and stitched textile projects. The course is for anyone who has ever wanted to step out of the box, leave the familiar and perhaps traditional behind and create one of a kind quilts or embroidery while learning the foundations of design, stitch, pattern development and finishing of quilts, home décor, wearables or wall art.  Students will explore color, support their knowledge of design principles and build all new work while spending time in the classroom divided between working into a sketchbook with art and design techniques. Printing, painting, dye work, collage, and stitch work are all a part of the fun! Students will create hand made cloth, samples or several large pieces with special effects on fabrics. The planning and successful execution of original small quilts or stitched fabrics using a wide variety of new techniques is the goal. Students are encouraged to complete several small classroom projects which are stitched by hand or machine, framed/bound and ready to enjoy.   A material fee of $40.00 to cover the cost of paints and dyes, some tools and fabrics/threads for small class samples is payable to the instructor on the first day.

         

Course Code: ARTS110 Section: 540   $299.70 for 5 full days in classroom Campus: KINGSTON Instructor: Bethany Garner

Come join in on the fun... the community of textile arts friends is a great place to learn and grow!

FIBREWORKS is growing and changing as we approach our 2014/15 Weekend Workshops Series announcements.... hoping YOU will tune in often here at the blog and plan to join us for one or all of our outstanding workshop weekends...

Greetings to all of our friends and visitors here at the FIBREWORKS KINGSTON blog. Hope your summer is going a bit better than mine... unexpected events and surprises happen. (Actually my injury is fine, allowing me time now to read, just enjoy my surroundings and share some quality visits with friends and family ...and slowly one-handed type announcements for this blog!)

Bethany enjoying time with KFA Friends in June, fractured wrist and all

The best part of summer is free time to work on the planning for our FIBREWORKS Series for 2014/15 and have the chance to network with  the very best and most talented Instructors in Ontario and beyond as I plan for our next year together.

You will notice if you visit our Registration Pages that FIBREWORKS KINGSTON is now a division of my 10 year old textiles and workshops presentation business, HERITAGE QUILTWORKS CANADA. 

For many years, FIBREWORKS was so beautifully presented by our mentor and dear friend, Hilary Scanlon. It was always my goal and commitment as I assisted Hilary as her Associate Coordinator from 1996-2008 to strive to continue her dream. Two years ago, Hilary retired and passed the candle for continuing Fibreworks to me... and with several friends and former associates of Hilary's, we tried a "committee approach" to working with the business of running Fibreworks. With everyone very busy with their own arts studies, groups and commitment to quality personal lives, it just seemed best that Fibreworks return to an owner operated business for Administrative purposes.

 

The original Fibreworks Kingston mission continues: "To promote fibre as an Art Form". Our Instructors are professional designers and well-known craftspersons who skillfully share their well-honed techniques and knowledge. Participants in FIBREWORKS Workshops are professional teachers, and interested craftspersons, or amateurs wishing to learn and share together for further stimulation and knowledge.  I will always seek the very best of the best Instructors for our FW line-up, with the goal of staying in tune with our students' needs and wishes.

Fibreworks is a huge family - made up of students from now almost 35 years of enjoying together the opportunity to learn and grow together. I so hope you will join us once again this new season as Fibreworks Kingston merges with Heritage Quiltworks Canada to bring high quality, skills/knowledge based workshops not only those interested in art quilts and contemporary design, but to needle arts enthusiasts in many disciplines including traditional quilting, embroidery, felt work, painting and mixed media art work and more. Your suggestions are always welcome!

We will be enjoying workshops throughout the year, announced here at the blog and in associated social media and newsletter ads with local Groups, Guilds and Associations. Keep a watchful eye as Heritage Quiltworks and Fibreworks Kingston grow to benefit our needle arts enthusiasts in Southeastern Ontario and beyond. Please share the news and bring friends along for the great workshops.

I am pleased to announce here today the line up for our 2014-15 Fibreworks Kingston Weekend Workshops Series, and ask your patience as I prepare and post the individual class descriptions and details (one-handed typing takes SO long). Please visit the blog often for the "Pages" on the right sidebar here for each of the four workshops being announced here today.  FW 2014/15 Registration will officially open June 15, 2014 - Please mark your calendars!! Watch for me to post a pdf copy of the Fibreworks brochure here at the blog... it will be available here for you soon. 

(You may also contact me at fibreworkskingston@gmail.com  for a mailed/shared copy after the blog posting of the brochure)

We welcome the following outstanding Instructors for 2014-15:

MAGGIE VANDERWEIT MEREDITH, Elora, ON

"Wrap and Rust Dyeing"

September 19-21, 2014

http://www.stonethreads.ca 

LYNNE MORIN, Ottawa, ON

"The Same, but DIFFERENT"

November 7-9, 2014

HOLLY DEAN, Merrickville, ON

" Creating the Muse Journal"

April 17-19, 2015

http://hollydean.com/ 

DIANNE GIBSON, Fonthill, ON

" Mixed Media Assemblages"

May 22-24, 2015

http://www.connectionsfibreartists.com 

I know you will so enjoy sharing weekend workshop time with each of these very talented and experienced classroom Instructors. Renowned for their beautiful portfolios of art work, each brings a wealth of technique-focused studio and exhibition experience to our classroom. Please spend some time researching each of the artists and visit this blog often as I share news of each Instructors workshop offerings for you at FIBREWORKS this next year.

Thanks for your ongoing interest, encouragement and loyalty... we are blessed to have you as our network of FIBREWORKS friends and participants.

Bethany

Fibreworks Coordinator   

fibreworkskingston@gmail.com
www.fibreworkskingston.blogspot.ca

MAGGIE VANDERWEIT MEREDITH shares WRAP AND RUST DYEING in Kingston, September 2014... Come join us!

 

WRAP AND RUST DYEING

FIBREWORKS KINGSTON IS PLEASED TO WELCOME
 

MAGGIE VANDERWEIT MEREDITH, INSTRUCTOR

 

SEPTEMBER 19-21, 2014

Odessa Fairgrounds Hall, Odessa ON

Friday evening Lecture and two full days with Maggie   

 

FIBREWORKS KINGSTON is very pleased to confirm that leading us off this fall will be the outstanding Instructor, MAGGIE VANDERWEIT MEREDITH, who many of you know and love from her courses at Haliburton Summer School of the Arts and teaching she has done with Fibreworks Kingston, The Canadian Quilters Association and at the Creativ Festival in Toronto. Maggie's new work in the arena of natural dyeing and rust work is not only stunning, but sought out as she travels, teaches and exhibits in Ontario and beyond.

 

On Wrap and Rust Dyeing......

 

In your weekend with Maggie, you will discover the amazing process of eco-friendly direct dyeing with natural plant materials and metals. In your two days together, you will learn from Maggie which plants are most effective, how to use non-toxic mordants and rust, and how to create organic, soft, complex cloth to use in your textile art.

The weekend workshop will be all about exploring the tactile art of creating beautifully patterned cloth using natural materials and the subtle marks and colour only old iron can impart. Maggie will guide you through her favourite techniques, and share tips and techniques for building on this art form as you learn and explore.

 

Registration for this course is now open, so mark your calendar and join us for a full weekend of fibre play on September 19-21, 2014 ...you will not want to miss this time with Maggie and her art.

 

The FIBREWORKS KINGSTON Registration Form for this course is posted here now, on the right sidebar. Please mail with your cheque to Bethany Garner, FW Coordinator/Registrar.

Publication of the full 2014/2015 FIBREWORKS Kingston Brochure sharing all of the 2014/15 courses will be here at the blog in mid-June.

 

Here are a few more inspirational pictures of Maggie's Art Cloth:

And some important information about Maggie and her work from her website:

 

http://www.stonethreads.ca/

Maggie is an active Artist Member of SAQA, CQA, CONNECTIONS Fibre Artists, CFUW Guelph Textile Art Group, and the Harris Artist's Collective. She offers inspirational lectures, trunk shows and classes to guilds, schools, colleges, art classes, retreats, quilt shops, private groups and international needlework shows and quilting conferences.

Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world and is in international and national private collections. She has won numerous awards, including two first place prizes in the CQA National Juried Quilt Show, one for her machine quilting for “Stone Weather”, and one for her piecing in “Fire in the Cabin - PMS and the Full Moon”. In 2013 she was honoured with the Canadian Quilting Association's Excellence in Innovation Award for "Bedolina Threads", a Threadworks Juror's Award for "Blue is the Colour of My Soul", and an Insights Purchase Award for "Unchained". Maggie has sold/sells her original textile art from her studio, galleries, museums, during the Elora-Fergus Studio Tour, Fair November, Creativ Festival, Silo Weavery, and the One of a Kind Show. She also sells her own photo greeting cards, hand-painted fabrics and threads and creates commissioned pieces for public and personal spaces.

Maggie is influenced and provoked to create by literature, good conversation, radio, colour, line, texture, her beliefs and private musings. She draws inspiration from the natural beauty of the farmlands, rolling hills, gardens and woods around her. She works with many different materials and techniques - from traditional pieced patchwork to intuitive abstract painting and depictions of political and personal events. She is probably best known for the hand-painted fabric she pieces in original and simple patterns, and then densely quilts in intricate, contemporary free-motion designs with her domestic sewing machine. She also spends her days doing spontaneous handwork: beading, embroidering, wet felting, embellishing, eco-dyeing, faux encaustic and painting. She often works in a series, but every piece emerges completely unique. Her desire is to create spiritually meaningful textile art, and she believes that every creative act requires faith and optimism.