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What’s Posted in this January 2011 Newsletter Blog?
Surface Design Association Meetings in Northern California
Member News for northern California SDA members
MEETINGS sponsored by the Surface Design Association.
You do not have to be a member to attend. Friends & guests are welcome.
Santa Rosa Surface Design Association Group:
Sunday January 9, 2011 at 1:00 pm
You are invited to Joy Stocksdale's home, 919 Midpine Way, Sebastopol, 707/829-1756.
Ann Brockette, the new SDA Executive Director from TX, will be visiting and wants to listen to your thoughts and ideas for SDA.
Bringing a food item to share is optional.
DIRECTIONS: Go west 1.7 miles on Bloomfield Rd. from Hwy. 116, past first Midpine Way. Continue up hill past Via Della Rosa. Turn right between yellow “Stop Ahead” sign and “School Bus Stop Ahead” sign (second Midpine. If you come to Pleasant Hill Rd. stop sign on Bloomfield, you have gone TOO far.) Drive down this little road, not taking splinter lanes and noting that street numbers are out of order. Follow road around to the right, go past a row of mailboxes and you will see a mustard-colored ranch house #919 on the right past a field. Park in the field or in front of the house. We will be meeting in the house. 707/829-1756
Mark your calendars for the 2011 meetings:
March 13, May 15, July 10, September 11, and November 13
The Muse10 Fiber Arts Guild of Solano County
Sunday January 16, 2011 at 11 am
The Muse10 Fiber Arts Guild of Solano County is hosting bi-monthly meetings sponsored by the Surface Design Association. This is an opportunity for artists who employ textiles in their works to meet and share ideas and inspiration. You do not have to be a guild or SDA member to attend. Friends & guests are welcome.
Guild founder Cherie Porter Blackwell is coordinating the meetings. Please direct questions to cherie_blackwell@sbcglobal.net or (707) 426-6963. LOCATION: THE VINTAGE CAFÉ is a beautiful country bistro located in the heart of Solano County wine country. Directly across the street from the Mancas Corner Art and Antique Flea Market and near to several award-winning local wineries which are host to weekend music and art related events. 2522 Mankas Corner Road, Suisun City, CA 94585. (707) 425-3207.
Host Cherie Blackwell is making a special request this month. If you plan to attend, please email your RSVP to cherie_blackwell@sbcglobal.net by Friday, January 14th so that she can call the restaurant and set aside a table. Her cell phone number is 707-863-1876 in case you have any questions about the meeting.
DIRECTIONS:
FROM INTERSTATE 80: Take the Abernathy Road Exit. Continue on Abernathy Road through the "circle" intersection with the wonderful bronze sculpture. Continue on Abernathy Rod. At the intersection of Abernathy and Waterman Blvd., Abernathy becomes Mankas Corner Road. Follow the road all the way to the end. The restaurant is on the left, flea market on the right.
Mark your calendars for the 2011 meetings:
March 20, May 15, July 17, September 18, and November 20
Bay Area SDA Critique Group:
Sunday January 23, 2011 at 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
You are invited to Nancy Riffle’s home in the Emerald Hills area of Redwood City. Bring along a project you've finished or one on which you would like comments. Critique is optional and you choose which aspects you would like critique on. You may post the questions or just share your work.
Bringing a food item to share is optional.
DIRECTIONS: The address to Google is: 935 Wilmington Way, Emerald Hills, 94062. It is very close to highway 280.
Any questions, call Debbie Wambaugh at 831-419-4607.
Surface Design Association Lectures and Workshops
Saturday, February 12, 2011 at 9:00 am
THE SURFACE DESIGN ASSOCIATION
and
THE ART INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA – SAN FRANCISCO
present
SILK and WOOL MAGIC
What: The morning will feature 3 speakers followed by
afternoon workshops.
afternoon workshops.
When: Saturday, February 12, 2011
Lectures 9:00 am - noon
Workshops begin at 1:00 pm
Where: Art Institute of California – San Francisco
Market St. between 7th and 8th (details below)
Cost: Morning Lectures:
$10 for SDA Members and Art Inst. staff
$10 with student ID
$30 for guests
Workshops:
$30 for SDA members and Art Inst. staff
$30 with any student ID
$50 for guests
RSVP:
For questions or to RSVP, contact Debbie Wambaugh, email: debbie@skyhighway.com, phone: 831-338-2245, cell: 831-419-4607. (Not available Jan. 3-7)
Please RSVP by January 31,2011 if you plan on attending the event. We need to get your name on the list for the security guard. If you are interested in a workshop a registration form will be sent to you.
Please RSVP by January 31,2011 if you plan on attending the event. We need to get your name on the list for the security guard. If you are interested in a workshop a registration form will be sent to you.
Jean Cacicedo
Jean will present "Working with the Transformative Properties of Wool". Showing her history and current images of her work. Jean is inspired by the transformative properties of working with wool cloth through the process of shrinking and dyeing. "One-of-a-kind garments are the forms I create”, says Jean. Garments have the ability to transform a body, the power to seduce the eye and the hand and the means to connect us to art, both visually and physically. The wearer has an active role in the experience of the art creating a duality of both fantasy and function.
Marilou Moschetti
Join textile designer Marilou Moschetti, for a trunk show presentation on how she creates her visually exciting and intoxicating art-to-wear, fused, laminate, felt.
Christina Conklin
Christina Conklin will share slides her trip to Japan with Yoshiko Wada. Each year Yoshiko Wada leads a Slow Fiber Studios (SFS) tour of Japan, featuring a five-day shibori workshop in the small town of Arimatsu, the traditional center of shibori in Japan, followed by the thrilling annual Shibori Festival. I n this slideshow you will come along with the 2010 SFS tour group, visiting temples in Kyoto, textile factories in Kiryu, and museums in Tokyo. Christina Conklin, an avid photographer, will share her slides, as well as the many things she collected during 17 textile-filled days in the land of the rising sun.
THE PRESENTERS:
Jean Williams Cacicedo received a BFA in Sculpture from the Pratt Institute, New York, in 1970. She currently works out of her studio in Berkeley, California.
Cacicedo was a prime innovator in the Wearable Art Movement of the 70’s.For over three decades she has worked both on and off the body, incorporating a special process she developed for wool fabrics as well as works on paper. Known for her “signature coats”, her pieced and sewn, slashed, felted and dyed constructions have been exhibited throughout Western Europe, Japan and the United States. In 2000, a 30-year retrospective of her work was featured at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, California. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the de Young Museum, San Francisco, Oakland Museum of California, Museum of Art and Design, NYC.
Marilou Moschetti has been skillfully dyeing, spinning and weaving since 1995. She learned the art of felt making with the renowned Tracy White in New Zealand, and continued her study under the watchful eye and tutelage of Polly and Myfanwy Sterling, and Sharon Kilfyole. An innate ability to draw upon nature's beauty allows Marilou to blend rich colors with inspired design elements in creating each and every garment or piece of art!
Christina Conklin is a textile artist whose work addresses issues of impermanence and change, both in the human and the natural world. She primarily uses silk in her work, including well-worn kimonos and saris as well as fabrics she has distressed and dyed. She lives in Half Moon Bay with her husband and two children.
WORKSHOPS and DEMONSTRATION WORKSHOP:
"The Textured Cloth" with Jean Cacicedo
Jean’s workshop will be a demonstration with samples and description. You will not actually make any felt. You will explore techniques using wool as a transformative material with other fiber contents, polyester and silk. The techniques being demonstrated include basic sewing skills and Jean's unconventional way of felting using a washing machine and dryer. She has many samples of the steps of her process.
1:00-3:00pm
Materials needed: A notebook and pen or pencil.
“Old World New Age Felt” with Marilou Moschetti
In this workshop learn the many intoxicating possibilities of fused felt to create art-to-wear garments, home decor, or other personal projects. The workshop focus will be on textural and varied dimensional uses of combining fine Merino wool, silk or cotton fabrics. Felt making is a process and you will learn to finesse the fibers to then continue the creative process on your own to incorporate with or into other textile expressions.
Color blending, cutting, folding, and embellishing will be used with demonstration and instruction focusing on images chosen from the instructor’s samples. Participants will use concepts to shape and create their own contemporary and innovative felted sample during the workshop.
In this workshop learn the many intoxicating possibilities of fused felt to create art-to-wear garments, home decor, or other personal projects. The workshop focus will be on textural and varied dimensional uses of combining fine Merino wool, silk or cotton fabrics. Felt making is a process and you will learn to finesse the fibers to then continue the creative process on your own to incorporate with or into other textile expressions.
Color blending, cutting, folding, and embellishing will be used with demonstration and instruction focusing on images chosen from the instructor’s samples. Participants will use concepts to shape and create their own contemporary and innovative felted sample during the workshop.
1:00-4:00pm
Materials needed: Two old large towels, and one hand towel, gallon size zip lock bag, rubber gloves and any special embellishments you’d like to incorporate into the felt, (Laces, ribbons, wool yarns). Wear comfortable clothing that you won't mind getting wet. There is a light amount of physical exertion required of participants, which includes the use of the upper extremities. There is a $30 materials fee, which will include silks, cottons, wools, and instructions with all supplies necessary to complete the sample piece.
“Gunma Silk Workshop” with Christina Conklin
In this workshop we will explore the possibilities of Gunma silks, developed by Yoshiko Wada in the late '90s, which use high-twist yarns on a combination of protein (silk) and linen (cellulose) fibers to allow for interesting results, including permanent shaping and dye variations. We will explore the possibilities of de-gumming and scouring Gunma silks using clamp-resist and stitch-resist shibori techniques to create textured and dimensional samples, which you can dye at home. We will also look at the work of contemporary artists who use silk in innovative ways to help set the context for our own work.
In this workshop we will explore the possibilities of Gunma silks, developed by Yoshiko Wada in the late '90s, which use high-twist yarns on a combination of protein (silk) and linen (cellulose) fibers to allow for interesting results, including permanent shaping and dye variations. We will explore the possibilities of de-gumming and scouring Gunma silks using clamp-resist and stitch-resist shibori techniques to create textured and dimensional samples, which you can dye at home. We will also look at the work of contemporary artists who use silk in innovative ways to help set the context for our own work.
1:00-4:00pm
Materials needed:
Strong thread, Needle, 2 clamps, 2 or 4 matching clamp-resist shapes, e.g. triangle, circle or square (approx. 2-5", wood or plastic, available from craft stores or make yourself), inspirational photos or objects that are relevant to your work and ideas, iron (optional). The Art Institute has one that can be shared.
Strong thread, Needle, 2 clamps, 2 or 4 matching clamp-resist shapes, e.g. triangle, circle or square (approx. 2-5", wood or plastic, available from craft stores or make yourself), inspirational photos or objects that are relevant to your work and ideas, iron (optional). The Art Institute has one that can be shared.
There will be a materials fee.
DIRECTIONS:
The Art Institute is in the Civic Center area. The Art Institute has 2 buildings and we are in the building near the fountain, closer to Carl’s Junior or 7th street. While the address over the door says 10 United Nations, the building faces Market and also uses the address of 1130 Market. Google maps will take you to the correct building with either address. There will be a security guard at the door that will check your name off the list and will give you a nametag and direct you.
You must RSVP for this event.
BART:
If you are traveling on BART, it’s the Civic Center stop.
PARKING:
-The closest to the Art Institute is at 8th and Market Streets.
The entrance is on 8th.
-There is also The Civic Center Plaza Garage at Polk & McAllister Sts.
(415) 863-1537
-EZ public Parking, 333 Jones St, San Francisco, CA 94102, (415) 508-7275
SDA Felting Group:
Sunday March 6, 2011, 1:00-4:00
A Surface Design Felting group is forming. Felters and those interested in felting are invited. At this meeting we will discuss what we might want this felting group to do. Workshops, exhibits, networking, studio time, teaching each other or any other ideas will be discussed. Bring some of your work to share.
There will be tea available. Bringing a snack to share is optional.
If you have questions or want more detailed directions contact Joy-Lily joy@joy-lily.com or call her at 415-826-2848.
DIRECTIONS:
Google maps shows 900 Tennis Drive in South San Francisco as the approximate location. There is no actual building at 900, but near the end of Tennis Dr. you go left at the STOP sign and quickly right at the Greenhouse Artists Project sign, into the cement yard (behind Orange Park) . In the back right hand corner of the yard is a green door. That's it. There's oodles of parking in the cement yard.
MEMBER NEWS
Marion Coleman
Marion Coleman has a solo exhibition at the Women' Cancer Resource Center Gallery, Oakland, CA opening January 11, 2011. Opening reception on January 14th, 7-9:00 pm. http://www.calendarwiz.com/calendars/calendar.php?crd=wcrc&op=cal&month=1&year=2011
Marion has worked exhibited in the Textural Rhythms: Quilting the Jazz Tradition exhibit opening at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MOAD), San Francisco. The opening reception is January 28th. She will participate in a panel discussion on January 29th. http://www.moadsf.org/
Marion is part of a group exhibition at Alta Bates Community Gallery that opens January 8, 2011.
Marion is a semi-finalist for the Berkeley Library North Branch Public Art project.
Marion has work featured in the December 2010 issue of Textile Forum. http://www.textileforum.com/
Contemporary Quilters and Fiber Artists
An exhibition entitled Primal Green: Environmental Art Quilts will open in March 2011 at the Main Branch of the San Francisco Public Library. The exhibit will present positive environmental images as imagined by members of the group Contemporary Quilt and Fiber Artists. CQFA members work in many different styles and this exhibit will showcase many of them. Several Northern California SDA members will have work in the show including Diane Carver, Maureen Lardie, Nancy Riffle, Julie Stiller and Debbie Wambaugh.
Exhibition on display:
March-July 2011
San Francisco Main Library
Wallace Stegner Environmental Center, 5th Floor
100 Larkin Street, San Francisco
Program and Artist Reception
April 17th 1-4:30pm
Latino/Hispanic Community Meeting Room
San Francisco Main Library, Lower Level
Virginia Davis
Virginia Davis' work "Points and Lines" is on exhibit in the newly
opened Textile Galleries at the Art Institute of Chicago. http://www.artic.edu/aic/
Kathleen Joynes
SDA member Kathleen Joynes recently finished an interesting design project for SF Bay Area company BedHog®. The product is a line of bedding with accompanying towels and mugs. It’s creation required skills in textile prints, typography, logo, and packaging design. The sheets were digitally printed by Hontex in China on 88” presses. While the quality of the bedheets is elegant, they were developed with a tongue-in-cheek approach to traditional bed-sharing challenges. Perfect gift for newlyweds!
SDA member Kathleen Joynes recently finished an interesting design project for SF Bay Area company BedHog®. The product is a line of bedding with accompanying towels and mugs. It’s creation required skills in textile prints, typography, logo, and packaging design. The sheets were digitally printed by Hontex in China on 88” presses. While the quality of the bedheets is elegant, they were developed with a tongue-in-cheek approach to traditional bed-sharing challenges. Perfect gift for newlyweds!
Terry McClain
Terry McClain is coordinating Pacific Center for Book Arts members' triennial, to be held in the Skylight Gallery at the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library from June 18-August 7, 2011. It would be wonderful to see some cloth and mixed media books from SDA! To join, log in at http://www.pcba.info/
Look for entry forms in mid-January.
Amanda Salm
Amanda has some new coiled horsehair work up on her website, http://www.amandasalm.com. Her website also features a video of her process.
Ruth Tabancay
Ruth Tabancay's work was selected for "Materials: Hard & Soft" at the
Center for Visual Arts in Denton, TX. http://www.dentonarts.com/
The exhibition runs February 4- April 3, 2011.
Ruth also, her work was chosen for the Civic Center Art Exhibition at Berkeley City offices, 2180 Milvia Street, Berkeley, which runs through 2011. Jurying was coordinated by the Berkeley Art Center and Kala Art Institute.
Angie Wilson
Angie Wilson, an Oakland based textile artist and Masters of Fine Arts candidate, is collecting 1,000 dress shirts for her thesis project. She will be doing a large-scale sculptural installation piece with these used garments.
Angie is looking for donations of used, long-sleeve button-down dress shirts (office style work shirt). Shirts can be new or used; stains, holes, ring-around-the-collar are all ok! ANY color but especially whites, grays and blues. Men's and women’s. Clean out your closet and donate! Your recycled garments will be immortalized in this fine art exhibit.
Please donate shirts as soon as possible. Your name will be acknowledged in the donation credits and you will be invited to the opening in Spring 2011.
To set up a pickup or for more information contact:
Angie Wilson, tel: 415-794-8585, email: info@angiewilson.org, website:
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