SURFACE DESIGN ASSOCIATION NEWS FOR NORTHERN CALIFORNIA September 2011
Note: There are many events happening the weekend of September 10 & 11.
SDA BUSINESS:
SDA WEBSITE: The Image Library on the SDA website is now one of the most heavily visited areas of the website, and this is a fantastic member benefit. Here are some instructions for updating your profile.
To access The Member's Profile page, click on the link "Log In" located at the top right corner on any web page of the SDA site, www.surfacedesign.org .
1. Enter your email address and password. If you don't remember your password, click the button indicated. Your email address and password is customizable once you enter and access your member information.
Adding Images to Your Profile
1. Click on the link, "Add Image," to add images of your artwork.
2. Click on the link, "Edit Profile Info & Headshot," to access other sections of your profile, including:
• Account: Update your email address, password, and eNews subscription options.
• Profile: Access your personal membership information, including your mailing address, headshot, and links .
• Renew Online using Paypal.
• Members Resources: Visit the Members Resources area to download back issues of SDA newsletters and financial reports.
Finding Additional Information
SDA MEMBERS ONLY FACEBOOK: SDA has a facebook for SDA members only. The purpose of this forum is to 1) discuss issues relevant to makers who use fiber media and 2) as a way to update and optimize SDA's mission and benefits delivery to members. http://www.facebook.com/groups/256626061018663/?view=permalink&id=275048955843040
Wondering what the SDA Mission is? The Surface Design Association is a member-supported community of international creators, educators, collectors, and curators dedicated to the art and practice of surface design. Our mission is to educate each other and the public about the innovative manipulation and embellishment of textile surfaces.
SDA AREA MEETINGS:
WANTED: A location to hold a SDA meeting in January or February 2012. I am looking for a place in San Francisco, Marin or East Bay. Do you have a home, studio or gallery where the Surface Design Assoc. members can meet? You do not have to provide anything other than the space. Please contact Debbie Wambaugh to discuss at debbie@skyhighway.com or 831-338-2245.
SURFACE DESIGN ASSOCIATION MEETING
Saturday, September 10, Noon
You are invited to the home of Judith Content, 827 Matadero Avenue, Palo Alto, CA, 94306-2606. We hope to be meeting in her colorful backyard. Bring some of your recent work or work in progress to share. We always welcome announcements about shows, opportunities, new books or anything surface design related. Please bring an easy to eat potluck dish to share.
Contact number for the event: 831-419-4607 Debbie Wambaugh
You do not have to be a member to attend. Friends are welcome.
A message from Judith: If people want to see something wonderful in Palo Alto before or after the meeting I highly recommend the monumental site-specific willow sculpture by Patrick Dougherty installed on the Art Center campus at 1313 Newell Road (at Embarcadero). FYI, The Art Center is closed for major renovations but the sculpture is free and open to the public to wander and enjoy.
FIBER ARTISTS MEETING in Santa Rosa
Sponsored by Surface Design Association
You do not have to be a member to attend. Friends are welcome.
Sunday, Sept 11, I pm
You are invited to Tari Kerss' home. Please bring a potluck dish to share. We will talk about the group plans for activities you would like. Tari wants to know if there is interest in organizing a Fiber Art Trail--modeled like the Farm Trails.
Directions
Take Hwy 12 east from Sebastopol or Hwy 101 to Famers Lane. Turn left. At Sonoma Ave. turn right. Continue through first stop light (which is Hahman). Take next right on Franquette. Take first left on Claremont. #3033 is in middle of block on your left-- beige house.
Sponsored by Surface Design Association
You do not have to be a member to attend. Friends are welcome.
Sunday, Sept 11, I pm
You are invited to Tari Kerss' home. Please bring a potluck dish to share. We will talk about the group plans for activities you would like. Tari wants to know if there is interest in organizing a Fiber Art Trail--modeled like the Farm Trails.
Directions
Take Hwy 12 east from Sebastopol or Hwy 101 to Famers Lane. Turn left. At Sonoma Ave. turn right. Continue through first stop light (which is Hahman). Take next right on Franquette. Take first left on Claremont. #3033 is in middle of block on your left-- beige house.
SOLANO COUNTY AREA MEETING: Fiber arts guild founder and KALA Artist in Residence Cherie Blackwell hosts bi-monthly meetings for the Surface Design Association in the Solano County Area. For information about upcoming meetings and to confirm attendance please email cherie_blackwell@sbcglobal.net.
MEMBER NEWS:
MELISSA ARNOLD:
Northern California Textile Artist and Designer Melissa Arnold announces the launching of her new Website www.melissaarnoldtextiles.com
ALLEGRA BURKE:
On Saturday, September 10th there will be an artist reception featuring Allegra Burke and two other artists at the Healdsburg Center for the Arts.
Artist Receptoion: 5 to 8 PM.
Artist Receptoion: 5 to 8 PM.
Allegra also has work in the Assemblage show at the Finley Center. The show is up until Sept 23rd. Look for Allegra’s work and her husband, Thomas’s work in the 8’ glass enclosures. For details and directions visit:
DEB CASHATT:
Deb Cashatt (as one of the Pixeladies) has been invited to create a quilt for the exhibition "In Celebration of Faith Ringold" at the City College of New York. The exhibition is part of the 1st annual Cultural Arts Award Program that will honor Ms. Ringgold, a CCNY alumna, for all the contributions she has made to humanity through the arts. The exhibition will open at CCNY on October 6, 2011.
Deb is also teaching online classes. Introduction to Photoshop Elements for Fiber Artists and Sewing Enthusiasts begins on October 10. Designing Fabric with Photoshop Elements begins on October 31, 2011. Go to http://www.pixeladies.com for more information.
JUDITH CONTENT:
Judith Content will have a solo exhibition, Desert Rain - Works on Silk, at the Jane Sauer Gallery, http://www.jsauergallery.com from October 14-November 16, 2011. A reception will be held from 5-7 on Friday October 14th and Judith will do a presentation and dye demonstration at 10am on Saturday the 15th. The gallery is located at 652 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Judith’s work will be featured in the first episode of the nine-part PBS Documentary (airing this fall) Why Quilts Matter: History, Art and Politics. (Image Resource Guide: www.whyquiltsmatter.org .)
Judith’s work will also be featured in The Art of Textiles, by Mary Schoeser, Thames and Hudson, London (available in early 2012). Her home/studio will be featured in Inside the Creative Studio (available in November) by Cate Prato for Interweave Press.
Judith’s work will be featured in the first episode of the nine-part PBS Documentary (airing this fall) Why Quilts Matter: History, Art and Politics. (Image Resource Guide: www.whyquiltsmatter.org .)
Judith’s work will also be featured in The Art of Textiles, by Mary Schoeser, Thames and Hudson, London (available in early 2012). Her home/studio will be featured in Inside the Creative Studio (available in November) by Cate Prato for Interweave Press.
SANDRA ERICSON:
The Center for Pattern Design is offering MASTER CLASS: The RIbbon Skirt with Shingo Sato. This is being offered in conjunction with the California College of Arts, on September 24 & 25, 2011 9am-5pm. This will be Shingo Sato's first in-depth, start-to-finish class in the USA teaching his techniques for the famous Ribbon Skirt. This design elicited the most ohhh's and ahhh's during his short survey courses in the US and Canada last spring. For more details or to register, visit http://www.centerforpatterndesign.com/products/THE-RIBBON-SKIRT-by-Shingo-Sato.html.
LINDA GASS:
Linda is participating in the Sewer Bike Tour & Art Show Rides Again!
September 14-17, San Francisco, CA
The Workspace Gallery presents their second annual sewer extravaganza with an art exhibit entitled Underfoot and a bicycling tour of San Francisco's combined sewer/storm water system. There will be a fun gallery party (Linda’s artwork is in the exhibit) on Saturday September 17 from 7-10 pm with blues musician Deborah Crooks at Workspace Ltd, 2150 Folsom Street, San Francisco. Click the address for a map. Linda hopes you can come!
For more information about the bicycle tour on September 17th from 3-6 pm, visit the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Events page or just show up with your bicycle at Workspace Ltd, 2150 Folsom Street, San Francisco. To see a video of last year's tour and art show visit http://missionlocal.org/2010/10/mission-sewer-bike-tour/.
CANDACE KLING:
Candace Kling, author of The Artful Ribbon, will be teaching a series of hands-on ribbonwork classes in San Francisco, CA at the Sewing Workshop, September 22-25, 2011. Four one-day classes will focus on making different ribbon and fabric trims and surface textures. For details visit:
http://www.thesewingworkshop.com/classes.php or call1-415-221-7397. To see Candace’s work visit http://www.thesewingworkshop.com/classes.php
MURIEL SUTCHER KNAPP:
Muriel has two works at the Riverfront Art Gallery in Petaluma. She uses textiles and paint to create them. One is a 12" X 16" portrait called Mademoiselle Fi Fi and the second is a still life called Many Shapes and Colors. The show runs through Sept. 16th. Muriel heard from the Gallery that they sold the still life.
ANA LISA HEDSTROM:
Ana Lisa will be teaching a two day shibori workshop using natural dyes at The Sewing Workshop on Sept. 10th & 11th.
Using indigo, madder, and weld, you will learn the basics of arashi shibori, traditional and contemporary stitch resist, and itajime clamp resist including carved clamps.
For more information visit http://www.thesewingworkshop.com/classes.php or call1-415-221-7397
SUSAN HERSEY:
Susan will be teaching Pulp Spraying with Handmade Paper at Baulines Craft Guild Location: 1285 San Antonio Rd., Petaluma, CA 94952
Date: September 10 – 11, Saturday and Sunday 10-4.
Cost: $225 with a materials fee of $15 To register for this workshop please contact Baulines Craft Guild at 415-458-3535 (by phone) or director@baulinescraftguild.org (via email)
LARA MAGRUDER:
Lara will be one of 8 artists featured in "Beyond Rugs" at the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Maine from September 24, 2011 to February 5, 2012.
Beyond Rugs is the first museum exhibition in the United States to present contemporary textile artiists who use traditional rug hooking to explore non-traditional themes and formats. Lara will have 6 pieces on display combining rug hooking with felt and stitch in both flat and sculptural pieces. http://www.farnsworthmuseum.org/exhibition/beyond-rugs
Lara Magruder will be exhibiting hooked work locally with paintings by Jeanne Rehrig at the John O'Lague Gallery at the Hayward City Hall from October 1st, 2011 to December 2, 2011. The John O'Lague Gallery is open weekdays during normal business hours and is located across the street from the Hayward Bart station at 777 "B" Street Hayward California.
Beyond Rugs is the first museum exhibition in the United States to present contemporary textile artiists who use traditional rug hooking to explore non-traditional themes and formats. Lara will have 6 pieces on display combining rug hooking with felt and stitch in both flat and sculptural pieces. http://www.farnsworthmuseum.org/exhibition/beyond-rugs
Lara Magruder will be exhibiting hooked work locally with paintings by Jeanne Rehrig at the John O'Lague Gallery at the Hayward City Hall from October 1st, 2011 to December 2, 2011. The John O'Lague Gallery is open weekdays during normal business hours and is located across the street from the Hayward Bart station at 777 "B" Street Hayward California.
AMANDA SALM:
Amanda has her sculptural coiled horsehair work in two exhibits in MA. The Vessel Redefined exhibit at Mobilia Gallery was in August,http://www.mobilia-gallery.com. Amanda’s work is in the National Basketry Organization's All Things Considered VI from July 30-December 11at the Fuller Craft Museum, 455 Oak St., Brockton, MA. http://www.fullercraft.org To see Amanda’s work visit http://www.amandasalm.com.
BARBARA SHAPIRO:
Barbara is offering her A Greener Indigo class on Tuesdays, September13 to October 11, 2011, 9AM-12 noon in the Art Department Textile Studio at San Francisco State University.
This class is being offered through the Osher Lifelong Learning Program at UCSF
This class is being offered through the Osher Lifelong Learning Program at UCSF
Fee $150 and a $30 for materials.
In the class you will explore the magic and mystery of indigo, one of the oldest and most influential dyes. Learn the widespread historical, economic and cultural ramifications of indigo’s long story. Examine indigo dyed objects from around the world reflecting cultural idiosyncrasies and universal attributes. Create an indigo dye bath using a simple ecological formula and explore dyeing procedures and resist techniques and printing or painting with thickened indigo. Sample the dye on different fabrics using a non-toxic “green” formula suitable for the home studio. Dye yarn or fabric for personal projects. Create several lovely “sustainable” indigo dyed objects as you become comfortable using this most magical of dyes. Repeat students are welcome and invited to work more independently
http://olli.sfsu.edu/courses/150/greener-indigo
http://olli.sfsu.edu/courses/150/greener-indigo
JOY STOCKSDALE:
Joy is offering her Polychromatic Screen Printing Workshop through Baulines Craft Guild.
Polychromatic screen printing is an excellent technique for painters, monoprinters, screen printer, or anyone interested in obtaining multiples from one painted image on paper or fabric. Why labor over one painting when you can paint once and get multiples? The innovative process of polychromatic screen printing results in a limited edition from the original painted screen -- with no color registration. Similar to an extended monoprint process that produces 5-8 prints from a single painted image. With this process, all the colors in an image are painted on a single print screen, then printed on fabric or paper with one pull of the squeegee. No solvents used. For all levels of ability. If you are a watercolorist, fabric painter, screen printer, or just interested, you will benefit from this inventive process.
October 15, 2011, 9:30AM-4:30PM in Joy’s Sebastopol studio, fee $100. To register for the workshop, please contact Baulines Craft Guild office at 415-458-3535 or email director@baulinescraftguild.org
RACHELLE WEISS:
Rachelle's work is on exhibit at the Santa Cruz County Government Building, 5th floor; 701 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz through October 19, 2011. The exhibit is sponsored by the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County. Hours for the exhibit are from 8:00 AM until 5:00 PM, Monday-Friday.
LOCAL EVENTS:
ARTISTRY IN FASHION at Canada College on September 24th, 2011.
Professional Designer Sale 10am - 4pm
Fashion Show at 1 pm in Bldg. 3
Designer Showcase, 11am to 3 pm in Bldg. 3
SDA members Ana Lisa Hedstrom, Georg Palmer, Ellen Brook, Marilou Moschetti, Jenne Giles and Remy Pessah are participating.
FASHION ART SANTA CRUZ
On Saturday evening, September 24th FashionART Santa Cruz takes the very best of fashion and art while melding them together to create both colorful and completely unique designs. Not only are these designs wearable but they are also one of-a-kind pieces of art hand crafted by some of the most talented artists. FashionART Santa Cruz is a full blown multi media runway fashion show featuring ready to wear from local and independent designers and unique one of a kind art pieces, all strutting down the runway for a truly unforgettable event.
In addition to the runway show FashionART Santa Cruz also hosts a Trunk Show immediately following the event. Talented, creative people with a passion for creating clothing, jewelry, or other wearable work sell their work to the public in our unique twilight Trunk Show. For more information visit http://fashionartsantacruz.com/
Read about the history of this show at http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_18802101?IADID=Search-www.santacruzsentinel.com-www.santacruzsentinel.com&IADID=Search-www.santacruzsentinel.com-www.santacruzsentinel.com
NATURAL FIBER FAIR in Arcata, CA, September 10 & 11, 2011
John Marshall will do a demonstration on the Magic of Indigo.
April Sproule will be teaching a Shibori Dyeing Techniques, and Fabric Stenciling workshops along with giving a demonstration on Textile Design Stenciling.
SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS AND TEXTILES;
The current exhibit, Scrap ART showcases historical quilts drawn from the Museum’s and private collections and ‘scrappy’ contemporary works. Scrap ART examines the historical precedent and aesthetic of the scrap quilt and its modern-day descendants.
Just as quilters have long been inspired to make beautiful pieces from available scraps, the throwaways of daily life have inspired a new generation of ecologically-minded artists to combine creative reuse with old-fashioned thrift in works using material as varied as books, jeans, zippers, plastic, buttons and teabags. Scrap ART celebrates the reinterpretation of materials by artists both historical and contemporary in works that reflect the cultures and values of their makers.
The exhibit runs from through October 16, 2011.
The current exhibit, Scrap ART showcases historical quilts drawn from the Museum’s and private collections and ‘scrappy’ contemporary works. Scrap ART examines the historical precedent and aesthetic of the scrap quilt and its modern-day descendants.
Just as quilters have long been inspired to make beautiful pieces from available scraps, the throwaways of daily life have inspired a new generation of ecologically-minded artists to combine creative reuse with old-fashioned thrift in works using material as varied as books, jeans, zippers, plastic, buttons and teabags. Scrap ART celebrates the reinterpretation of materials by artists both historical and contemporary in works that reflect the cultures and values of their makers.
The exhibit runs from through October 16, 2011.
THE TEXTILE ARTS COUNCIL:
Saturday, September 17, 10AM at the De Young Museum, San Francisco
Redemption: The Restoration of the Cloisters 'Burgos' Tapestry with Tina Kane
The Textile Arts Council is pleased to welcome former Metropolitan Museum of Art Textile Conservator Tina Kane. Ms. Kane was closely involved for almost thirty years in the conservation of the monumental medieval tapestry Christ is Born as Man's Redeemer. From the ten piece set known as The Redemption of Man. Formerly owned by the Burgos Cathedral in Spain, this tapestry was in severely distressed condition, having been vandalized and cut into four pieces.
On completion of the Burgos tapestry project, it was the subject of an international symposium at the Met and now hangs in the Cloisters Museum. Tina Kane is now a Textile Conservator in private practice and an adjunct instructor at Vassar College.
Free to TAC members, $5 for museum members and students, $10 for non-members
tac@famsf.org 415 750-3627
Sunday, October 16, 10AM – 4 PM
Textile Arts Council Annual TEXTILE BAZAAR
St. Anne of the Sunset Church, Moriarty Hall
1300 Funston, San Francisco
Featuring 28 TAC member vendors offering an extraordinary selection of rare and unusual textiles and jewelry. This year's treasures include Central Asian, Southwest Chinese and Indian tribal textiles and jewelry; Japanese indigo and banana fiber textiles, Indonesian batiks; huipiles, table linens and other textiles from Latin America; and quilts, dolls, and wall hangings from Zimbabwe. Add to your own collection or find the perfect gift. This is a benefit for the Textile Arts Council.
Free admission and parking.
tac@famsf.org 415 750-3627
THE MUSEUM OF CRAFT AND FOLK ART’S current exhibition, WRAPPING TRADITIONS: KOREAN TEXTILES runs through October 22, 2011. For more information, and for images of the exhibition, please visit: http://www.mocfa.org/about/news_press.htm.
OPPORTUNITIES:
ADVERTISE IN THE SURFACE DESIGN ASSOCIATION JOURNAL
Reserve your space in the Members' Gallery page at a Special Artist Member Price.
$100. for a sixth of a page. The first one will be published in the Fall issue, publication date October 15th. SDA Advertising Manager, Kathy Velis Turan is taking reservations for the Winter 2012 issue, publication date February 15th. Only 6 spaces available, first come, first reserved* (space reservation deadline is September 13.) The Journal is read by artists, collectors, educators, students, curators and any one interested in fiber arts and fine arts.
CALL FOR ARTISTS:
INTERNATIONAL SHIBORI SYMPOSIUM:
Presented by the World Shibori Network & Hong Kong Polytechnic University. This international symposium aims to encourage the study, practice, and innovation of shibori and similar textile art forms. This year the focus is on the possibilities of design aided by technology, including scientific analysis of traditional processes. December 28, 2011 – January 2, 2012,
In conjunction with the conference there is a call for Artists:
ANIMAL FIBERS:ART INFORMS SHIBORI
Hong Kong Design Institute December 14, 2011-January 13, 2012
OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS
An international exhibition of fiber art works showcasing shibori’s inherent transformative power on material, from 2-D to 3-D. With its shape changing and volume shifting abilities, the shibori process interplays uniquely with animal-based fibers. Inventive, style-making designs exploiting this interplay have been seen on catwalks of designers such as Yoshiki Hishinuma and Jurgen Lehl and in fiber work of artists like Jean Cacicedo and Jorie Johnson. This exhibition also comments on contemporary global innovations in materials that have been with humans since primeval time. An accompanying exhibition, “Animal Fibers in Chinese Tradition,” curated by Edith Cheung, will visit the resourcefulness and beauty of traditional historical works created in China, addressing humankind’s relationship with animals in a shared environment.
The departure theme for this international exhibition is art work made from animal fiber, animal hide, or a combination of both, utilizing the principles of shaped or resisted shibori dyeing techniques. These works should be inspired by the transformative properties of materials and their potential to change surface and structure, exhibiting visual and/or dimensional transformation.
Curators:
Deadline for Entries: September 15, 2011
UNFINISHED PROJECTS:
Unfinished Projects? Would you like to be part of an international participative stitch project? The Unfinishable Deadline December 31, 2011. Details here: http://www.theunfinishable.com/about.html
FOR SALE:
The Art Institute of California, San Francisco has 2 pieces of equipment for sale:
Le Clerc Nilus II Loom - 8 harness, 10 treadle jack loom, 36" wide, no bench.
See photos and complete specifications at http://www.leclerclooms.com.
Stainless Steel Vertical Electric Steamer and Stainless Steel Mesh Core
Great for silk fabrics up to 54" wide and up to 20 yards long (depending on fabric thickness).
Please see http://www.dharmatrading.com for photos and complete specifications.
Both have had very minimal use!
If interested, please contact bbreda@aii.edu, 415 276-6793 during business hours or terrymcclain@earthlink.net
MISC:
Like to visit museums?
Do you know about the Reciprocal Membership at museums in North America?
Members from the NARM museums who present a membership card validated with a gold North American Reciprocal sticker are entitled to privileges at participating museums. These include free member admission during regular museum hours and member discounts at museum shops and concert/lecture tickets. Please note: Some museums restrict benefits.
For example: If you join the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles at the $100 Barn Raising level, one of your benefits is a North American Reciprocal sticker.
All of the participating museums offer this program at some membership level.
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