SDA Bay Area Meeting:
The next Bay Area SDA meeting will be held at the home and studio of Robin Cowley on January 29, 2012 at 12 noon. Please bring some of your work, an easy to eat item for a potluck lunch and your own drink. Hot tea will be provided.
2451 Potomac Street
Oakland, CA 94602-3032
510-530-1134 (on the day of the event)
For questions please contact Debbie Wambaugh at 831-419-4607 or debbie@skyhighway.com.
SDA Santa Rosa small group:
Sunday, Jan. 8, I pm
You are invited to Beth Hartmann's home, 234 N. High St in Sebastopol, 707/823-4214. Please bring your latest work to share.
Directions:
From Bodega Ave, which is the extension of Hwy. 12 (from Santa Rosa), turn right onto North High Street. The public library will be on your right. Precede a block and a half to the dead end and park. There's more parking around behind the house on Pitt Street, if the parking on the front is full. Drive around the block front N. High, to Wilton, and right on Pitt Street. Park. One enters through the cream-colored picket fence.
Future 2012 meetings (we are trying 4 meeting a year): April 15, July 8 and Oct 14
SDA Critique Group meeting:
The Critique Group meeting will be held at the home of Lynn Koolish, 1434 Parker Street, Berkeley on Sunday, February 12 at 3 pm. Please bring some of your work to share and a snack item for a potluck. For questions please contact Debbie Wambaugh at 831-419-4607 or debbie@skyhighway.com.
MEMBER NEWS:
Ka’ohinani:
Inani is looking for a production sewer with power sewing and serger equipment in the Bay area -SF, Oakland. Ka'ohinani
Carol Larson:
Carol Larson has work in the Winter Solstice exhibition at the Fibre Arts Design studio gallery www.fibreartsdesign.com http://www.fibreartsdesign.com until Jan 25, 2012. The gallery is open daily 10 am-5 pm at 935 Industrial Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94303, 650-485-2121. Additionally Carol, Robin Cowley and Diane Perin Hock are the jurors for Out of the Comfort Zone: New Directions in Quilting for Mendocino and Lake County artists at the Grace Hudson Museum in Ukiah March 2-July 29, 2012.
Hilda Morones:
The Gallery at Fibre Arts Design will feature three different exhibitions:
-“Winter Solstice" through January 25th
-"Anima: The Self Within" - Anima. An exploration of the concept of anima/animus; the self within our unconscious mind, as expressed through mixed media. - February 9th - March 22nd
-"Origins" - Origins / the exhibition showcases artists working in various media. The theme, Origins, explores an emergence, source or beginning. Artists may choose to interpret
this in a variety of ways: genesis of life, source of a creation, derivation of an idea are just three examples. - April 5th - May 16th
the deadline for the Origins Exhibition Call for Entries is February 15th and is open to all artists
The deadline for the Waste Not Exhibition (May 24th - June 28th) is March 24th.
For an application and prospectus visit
http://www.fibreartsdesign.com/gallery/prospectus-download.php.
Curated collections cycle regularly through The Gallery at Fibre Arts Design, a light-filled space in our converted warehouse studio. We feature the work of artists and artisans from around the world, each show highlighting a theme or medium. Our clientele includes collectors from throughout the Bay Area and California. If you have any questions please feel free to email or call. info@fibreartsdesign.com, 650.485.2121
Marilou Moschetti:
Marilou has organized a Felt Study Group,
sponsored by the Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild.
Saturday - March 17, 2012
Aptos Grange Hall
2555 Mar Vista Drive
Aptos 95003
10:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
RSVP or questions to Marilou Moschetti, study group coordinator - felting07@gmail.com by March 9 - space limited to 20 participants - $10 per person.
Focus will be on sharing projects completed, or UFO's and the "Properties of Wool", plus "From Sheep to Fine Felt" presentation. Each participant can stay the day and work on a project. Tables, chairs, water source will be available. Bring all your own supplies and equipment. Lunch on your own.
Nancy Riffle:
Nancy had her piece, "Place D isplaced" accepted in the show "Song of the Land" sponsored by the Jewish Women Artists group, a subgroup of the Women's Caucus for the Arts. The opening reception will be on Feb. 23 to coincide with the annual conference of Women's Caucus for the Arts. The show runs from January 20 through May 31 at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles.
Iren Rothenberger:
Iren invites you to check out her store at www.byiren.com/store/ http://www.byiren.com/store . Let her know your experience and suggestions that might improve it.
She welcomes visitors to her studio in Fort Bragg, California. You will find works that are not listed in the store or you can discuss custom orders. You will also be able to browse Stefan's woodworking workshop and his fun collection of new toys: Flip-flop geese, Olivia's first toolbox, puzzles and more.. Please contact us to set up a time for a visit and get directions.
http://www.byiren.com
Amanda Salm:
Amanda has had two pieces, eyeT in the basketry category and Otter Be in the decorative fiber category, selected as finalists for Niche awards.
Bonnie J. Smith:
Bonnie’s artwork "Color x 3,orange" was selected as a 2012 NICHE Award Finalist. Awards ceremony will be at the Philadelphia Buyers Market of American Craft, February 18, 2012. http://www.nicheawards.com
Her artwork "What to say?" was juried into the National Women's Caucus for Art Conference exhibit "Momentum". Bonnie's artwork recognizes the women's movement over the last 140 years. The exhibit will take place at the Los Angeles Art Association Gallery 825, 8257 LaCienega Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca. Opening reception is February 24, 2012 6-9 P.M. http://www.laaa.org .
Joann Stabb:
Joann submitted a photo from the Opening Reception of the exhibitions entitled: “Art Informs Shibori” and “Wearable Art: Draped, Shaped, Flow and Shadow”. In conjunction with the 8th International Shibori Symposium.
Myrna Tatar:
Myrna’s work is currently in the "Crossing Lines: The Many Faces of Fiber" exhibit at the Courtyard Gallery of the World Finance Center in New York. The show is sponsored by the Textile Study Group of New York and juried by Rebecca Stevens.
The Textile Arts Council:
TAC presents Bay Area fiber artist Lia Cook. The viewer responses to the imagery of human faces in her latest weavings led her to an artist-in-residency at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine’s TREND program. Working with neuroscience researchers, she attempted to map these emotional reactions to her art.
Saturday, January 21, 2012 – 10 am
Koret Auditorium – de Young Museum
Free to TAC members, $5 for museum members & students, $10 for non-members, 415 750-3627
tac@famsf.org
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