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Surface Design/Creative Design
9A Batik: Ancient & Modern (June
17-22)
Class
Fee $400
Mary Jo Scandin Learn
the ancient art of batik in its traditional method,
as well as new variations. If
you admire those beautiful hand-dyed fabrics in
the stores, fear not, you can create your own! Designs may be
created for use in quilts, wearables or wall hangings; functional
or decorative pieces; anything made from fabric. And, you need
not know how to draw! Add
another dimension to your knowledge, or incorporate
batik into your other fiber art projects. It’s an adventure
in color! Materials
fee of $45 includes sampler cotton fabric and use
of waxes, dyes, chemicals, wax pots, tjanting tools, and related equipment. Additional
fabric and supplies will be available for purchase. Expect to
spend $55-65, including materials fee. For all levels.
9B Batik: Extended
Version (June 17-24)
Class
Fee $520
Mary Jo Scandin This
class offers a 7-Day version of Mary Jo’s weeklong (5-day) class. See
Class No. 9A for description.
12 Digital
Fabric (July 1-6)
Class
Fee $400
Donna Kallner With
a digital camera and some basic computer skills, you
can produce fabric designs more personal than anything you can find
in a store. Learn
how to create fabrics based on your own artwork, family heirlooms, favorite
places, and other sources of inspiration. In this class you’ll
learn to use image manipulation software similar to Photoshop®. Gimp
is a versatile, open-source program you can download for free. With
it, you can produce design motifs that you can use in Thermofax or silk
screen printing, as well as seamless repeats for yardage that you can
upload to print-on-demand fabric companies, like Spoonflower. You
don’t have to be a computer expert to enjoy this class, but you
do need to bring a laptop computer and know how to save images from your
digital camera to your computer (and find them again). To balance
the computer time, we’ll also do creativity exercises and hands-on
surface design play to create additional source material for digital
fabric designs. Materials fee of $45 includes extensive reference
materials, inkjet fabric, surface design media, materials for creativity
exercises, thermofax screen film, and a silk scarf blank. For all
levels, but you must come with a working knowledge
of your own digital camera and laptop computer, including ability to
download software.
23 Adult/Child
Class: Fun With Polymer Clay (July
27-29)
Class
Fee $220/120
Judith T. Yamamoto Colorful
polymer clay is ‘fun stuff’ and offers all sorts of possibilities
for creative play for adults and children alike. We’ll begin
by reviewing the basics of this easy-to-use art medium: working,
curing and finishing it. You’ll learn various techniques
and ways to use tools to create your own original designs,
which can be used as beads, buttons, or applied as decorative elements
to candlesticks, eggs, picture frames, or almost any other surface you’d
like to embellish. Children are welcome, but you don’t have
to be a child, or even to bring one, to join in the fun. Materials
fee of $15 per person includes polymer clay, use of specialized supplies
and equipment, and handouts. Child age range of 10-16. For
all levels.
30A Making
Your Mark: Continuing The Journey (August
5-10)
Class
Fee $400
Stephanie Lewis Robertson As artists,
we are record-keepers and mark makers. Our role is to make visible
that which sometimes seems intangible, even to ourselves. In this
class you are invited to explore your personal iconography
and stories, using dyes and pigments to decorate cloth. Demonstrations
of techniques will include (but not be limited to) simple silk screen
techniques, stamping, direct painting, over-printing dyed fabrics with
texture, and more, to create a wonderful assortment of fabrics for use
in future projects. You
will be encouraged to work at your own pace, exploring
methods and experimenting with ideas and all of the tools at your disposal. Although
all of this may sound daunting, it is really just a great big week of
exploring dyes and pigments with a tribe of like-minded individuals,
who all love color and fabric and dyes and paint. Fabric information
and supply list will be sent prior to class. Materials fee of approx.
$45 for pigments, chemicals, transparency film, silk screen frame and
related supplies. For all levels.
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30B Making
Your Mark: Extended Version (August
5-12)
Class
Fee $520
Stephanie Lewis Robertson This
class offers a 7-Day version of Stephanie’s weeklong (5-day)
class. See Class No. 30A for description.
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35 Paper
Mosaics & The Art Of Paste Painting (August
17-20)
Class
Fee $300
Lorrie Grainger Abdo This
exciting class will definitely
put both sides of your
artistic brain to use. First, using
a playful intuitive approach, you’ll use paint, paste and
a variety of texturing tools to decorate sheets of paper. The
technique gives great first-time results, and with some practice,
your sheets will have an amazing depth and detail. By the
time you’re done working “wet” you’ll
have a large assortment
of paste-painted sheets to use for paper mosaics in class, as
well as lots of extras to take home for use in collages, books,
journals, greetings cards or as frameable works of art. That
done, we’ll switch sides of the
brain and start assembling
paper mosaics. While paper mosaics
can be made by carefully
placing one piece of paper at a time, in this class you’ll
learn the trick of making sheets of paper tiles so that you can
work faster and with better control. Possible
projects are picture frames,
mirror frames and other home décor
items, as well as artistic
works on wood supports. Materials
fee of approx. $45 for
pigments, paste, paper, laminate film, support boards and related
supplies. For all levels.
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45 Creativity
Retreat (September 10-13)
Class
Fee $300
Mary Curran How’d you like
to spend 3 days (and perhaps a night or two?) celebrating your own creative
spirit? Whatever your focus area may be, Mary’s unique creativity
retreat will provide insightful moments, laughter and inspiration. These
sessions have been “tested” across the U. S., with folks
of all interests, and provide long-lasting benefits (and, it’s
fun!). Through an assortment of visualization and hands-on creative
exercises and projects, you’ll pick up tips to nourish your spirit,
relax, and re-focus your creativity skills. We’ll have surprise
projects for you to bring home that fit what we learn. You’ll
get to use some of your own favorite materials…and some new ones,
too. Make creativity a life skill, as you generate and build upon
ideas, expand your inner and outer horizons, in a safe, fertile, no-pressure
environment. It’s time to add more shine to your life…and
practice your inner smile. Materials fee of $15-20 for project
supplies and related materials, plus handouts. For all levels.
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50 Local
Color: ‘Landscape’ Surface Design (September
30 – October 5)
Class
Fee $400
Donna Kallner Come,
capture Washington Island’s fabulous fall color with your
digital camera, and use those images to create “landscape
fabric.” This class is a mix of field trips and studio
work, where you’ll use additional surface design techniques
such as fabric painting, image transfers and heliographic printing
to transform basic image fabrics into small works of fiber art. We
will focus on developing concepts and themes from digital images
and other sources of inspiration, including observation and extraction
exercises, and other creativity catalysts. Hand stitching
and beadwork embellishments will be incorporated into your designs. Materials
fee of $45 includes fabrics, surface design and transfer media,
beads and threads, use of inkjet printer/scanner/copier, and
handouts. For all levels.
51 Basic
Rug Hooking (October
5-7)
Class
Fee $220
Joyce Krueger Traditional
rug hooking is an art form indigenous to America. Come
and learn its basic techniques, pulling wool strips through a
pattern-printed backing to make a small mat or wall hanging. A
kit with your choice of the “Pot Of Posies” or “Stars
and Strips Home” design, and all the materials needed,
will be provided. In addition to teaching you the basics
of how to hook, Joyce will offer daily lectures on different
aspects of rug hooking, such as use of color, wools used for
hooking, pattern, and designs. This is a beginning class
that will lead you to creating your own rugs in the future. Materials
fee of approx. $80 includes your chosen pattern printed on Monk’s
Cloth, hand-dyed wool, rug hook, and handouts. Although
geared for beginners, this class is also open to students who
have done rug hooking previously and want to improve their techniques
or use it as a refresher.
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