March News for N. CA SDA

Surface Design Association News

For Northern California

MEETINGS:

Santa Rosa:

The local SDA meeting in the Santa Rosa area will be on Sunday, April 15 at 1 pm.  It will be held at Marcia Levine’s home/studio, 1610 Watertrough Rd, Sebastopol, 707-508-5292 or 707/829-3110

A SPECIAL INVITATION from Judith Content:

Dear all Northern California SDA members.

Greetings!  As many of you know the Palo Alto Art Center is currently closed for a long awaited major remodel. It is targeted to reopen in the fall of 2012 with an all new children’s wing as well as a completely resigned shop and galleries.  The Art Center’s grounds will also be redesigned and this is where I need your help! 

I have been invited to create two landscape features as part of the new entry to the Art Center.  Two “rivers” of broken pottery, collected from the community (and polished by me in my tumblers) will flank each side of the new Entryway to the Art Center.

An Art Alert was sent to the Palo Alto community, and boxes of broken ceramics are pouring in. The ceramic artist community has also been asked for their cast offs with a wonderful response.  If YOU have any unwanted pottery, ceramics, plates, mugs, or dishes you wish to donate, you are invited to attend:

A Pottery Project Potluck

When: Saturday, July 14, at noon

Where: my house: 827 Matadero Avenue in Palo Alto.

What to bring: unwanted pottery, the more colorful the better, and something to share for lunch.

Who: Everyone one is welcome, SDA members and friends, with pottery or not.

Wow: But! If you bring a contribution to Pottery Project you will receive a tumbled pottery shard button specially made by me for this event!

Questions?

Contact Judith Content at 650-857-0289 or judithcontent@earthlink.net

Thank you so much!

Judith

MEMBER NEWS:

George-Ann Bowers:

George-Ann Bowers had work in three New York group exhibits recently:  

"Woven Stories: Contemporary Tapestries" at the Ann Street Gallery, 

www.annstreetgallery.org ; 

"9x9x3: New Visions" at the Lobby Gallery, 1155 Avenue of the Americas in New York City ran from January 25 through March 1; and "Crossing Lines: The Many Faces of Fiber" opened December 6 and runs through April 2, 2012 at the Courtyard Gallery, Three World Financial Center, 200 Vesey Street, New York City.  http://www.tsgny.org.

 George-Ann's woven kimono  "Striation" will be included in the "Crafts National" exhibit at the Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas from May 5 through August 19, 2012.  http://www.washburn.edu/mulvane

Holly Brackmann:

Holly Brackmann lectured in February to the San Diego Weavers Guild about surface design techniques, including many featured in her book, "The Surface Designer's Handbook."  In March, she will be lecturing and leading a workshop on devore for the Mt Lassen Weavers Guild in Chico.  Holly has also been consulting on the exhibit, "Out of the Comfort Zone; New Directions in Quilting" which will run March 3-July 29 at the Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah, CA.

Jean Cacicedo:

Jean Cacicedo will present a slide lecture of her work at the Marin Art & Garden Center for the Tam Weavers Guild on Monday May 21, 2012 at 7pm.
Jean is an invited artist participating in HGA Convergence "Pacific Currents" fashion Show, Long Beach CA. July 18.
Jean will be teaching a one week intensive workshop titled "The Textured Cloth" at Shakerag Summer Workshop, St. Andrew's-Sewanne School, Tenn. June 9-12. http://www.shakerag.org/ http://www.shakerag.org/workshops/2012/cacicedo/

Jean will be the Juror for the Santa Cruz Art League’s Fiber show.  See “Call for Entries” below for more details.

Leslie Carabas:

Leslie Carabas will be showing large-scale abstract work at the ACCI Gallery in Berkeley, CA  http://www.accigallery.c,om, April 13 through May 6.  Opening reception for this all-fiber show will be April 13, 6-8pm.  Leslie’s colorful pieces are constructed from various drawn, sprayed, or folded hand-dyed and discharged fabrics.  Through extensive quilting lines that echo the colors, lines and moods in the neighboring motifs, Leslie engages these disparate elements in sympathetic conversations.  See more of Leslie’s work on her web site: www.lesliecarabas.com http://www.lesliecarabas.com/ .  

Judith Content:

Judith Content had her solo exhibition, Desert Rain: Works on Silk, Oct. 14-Nov. 16, 2011, at the Jane Sauer Gallery, 652 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM.  She was selected by the Albuquerque Journal Santa Fe/North as one of the ten most intriguing exhibitions of 2011.  For information Judith invites you to visit the gallery’s website:  http://www.jsauergallery.co

Judith reports that her shibori dyed wall piece, Marisma (Salt Marsh), was just acquired by the De Young Museum for their permanent collection. Marisma was exhibited at the de Young in 2010 in the exhibition To Dye For: A World Saturated in Color.

Eva Cooper:

Eva Cooper continues to work on a precedent setting legal case, filed against the Czech Republic, on behalf of her Czech maternal family branch.  To depict in the most simple terms ~VISUALLY~ what is this case about, she created her felted nuno collage, that was on display at the Petaluma Arts Center [members show], from November 2011, through January 8, 2012.

Virginia Davis:

Virginia Davis has work in the Biennial at Snyderman Works Gallery and in "Outside/Inside the Box" at the Crane Building. http://www.fiberphiladelphia.org/outside_inside-the-box

Virginia Davis and Terry McClain:

Virginia Davis and Terry McClain will meet with Andean weavers in the Sacred Valley near Cusco, Peru in April.  They welcome your tips or contacts in Peru.  Please email them via the SDA members' directory. http://www.surfacedesign.org/gallery/members-directory

Alex Friedman:

Alex Friedman has work in "Surface Tension”; a show of recent hand-woven tapestries with a twist will be on view at the Rochioli Winery, 6192 Westside Road, and Healdsburg until April 4.  Open Thurs. to Mon. 11-4 pm. or by appointment (707)433 2305.
Alex had a tapestry accepted into the prestigious ATB9, biennial of international tapestries sponsored by the American Tapestry Alliance. http://www.americantapestryalliance.org

Linda Gass:

Linda Gass has new artwork in Delta Waters, March 1 - 29 at the LH Horton Jr Gallery in Stockton. The exhibit explores environmental issues through site-specific works in a diverse range of mediums that focus on human impacts in the Delta region, as well as its beauty and the preservation of this highly altered natural resource. The gallery is located in the Delta Center for the Arts, San Joaquin Delta College at 5151 Pacific Avenue, Stockton, CA. Hours are Tue 11 am - 4 pm, Wed-Thu 11 am - 6:30 pm, Fri 11 am - 1 pm. Admission is free. See exhibit website: http://www.deltawaters2012.org/

You won't want to miss the exhibition Linda curated, Shaped by Water, at the Los Altos History Museum is on view through April 22, 2012. An educational exhibition about the history and future of water in the Santa Clara Valley, it combines history, science, art and environment in interactive and compelling displays. You will learn something amazing and important that you didn't know about water. The museum is located at 51 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos, CA. Hours are Thu - Sun noon - 4 pm. Admission is free. For more information visit. http://www.losaltoshistory.org

Ana Lisa Hedstrom:

Ana Lisa Hedstrom will soon release a 2 DVD’s produced by Galli Studios entitled, “Stitch Resist Reconsidered” and “Arashi Shibori:  The Language of Stripes * The Basics and Beyond”. http://www.gallifilms.com/

Susan Hersey:

Susan Hersey is having a solo show of her paper and mixed media wall hangings at The Atrium Gallery in the Marin Cancer Institute,
1350 South Eliseo Dr. (at Bon Air Rd), Greenbrae, April 9- July 6, 2012.  There will be a reception for her April 25, 5:30-7:30.  Hours are: weekdays 8 am - 7 pm.

Anne Burns Johnson:

Anne Burns Johnson reports that The East Bay Heritage Quilters is having its biennial quilt show --- Voices in Cloth --- on March 17th and 18th at the Craneway Pavilion in Richmond.  A magnificent new venue. 

Carol Larson:

Carol Larson’s Out of the Comfort Zone: New Directions in Quilting features work of Mendocino and Lake County artists at the Grace Hudson Museum, 431 South Main Street, Ukiah.   http://www.gracehudsonmuseum.org The juried exhibit runs through July 29, 2012, Weds. -Sat.  10am-4:30pm. Holly Brackmann is the curator while regional members Carol Larson, Robin Cowley and Diane Perin Hock were jurors for this exhibit.  Carol will present “Increasing the Odds: Avoiding Common Mistakes When Entering Juried Exhibits” at the museum on May 19 at 2:30 pm.

Youngmin Lee:

Youngmin Lee has been participating in Oakland’ Museum’s annual Lunar New Year Celebration for 10 years.  She started to demonstrating Korean Knotting and now is showing Bojagi (Korean Wrapping Cloth

Youngmin went to Fullerton earlier this month for the group bojagi exhibition.  She was one of 11 artists who were invited to this show.

Here's a blog posting about it.  http://bojagi.blogspot.com/2012/02/trip-to-fullerton.html

Museum of Craft and Folk Art:

The Museum of Craft and Folk Art will be showing a Harrell Fletcher exhibit from March 23 - July 7, 2012. They would like to cordially invite you to the opening reception on March 22 for a special press preview from 5:00pm - 6:00pm. I've attached a press release and have also pasted the document to the end of this email. If you have any further inquiries, please don't hesitate to contact Betsy Herczeg-Koneeny at http://www.bherczeg@mocfa.org .

Amanda Salm:

Amanda Salm has new work up on her site.  It is based on the extremes of weather and latitudes and the environments that are created. http://www.amandasalm.com

Amanda Salm will be exhibiting some of her sculptural horsehair baskets at the 8th International Fiber Biennial at the Snyderman-Works Galleries in Philadelphia from March 2-April 28, 2012.  For more information on this exhibit and many fiber exhibits happening in the City of Brotherly Love through spring, go to: http://fiberphiladelphia.org .  The Snyderman Gallery site is http://www.snyderman-works.com .

Barbara Shapiro:

Barbara Shapiro was honored to be interviewed as someone knowledgeable in the use and history of indigo for this De Young Museum Blog article. Be sure to see the current exhibit The Art of Anatolian Kilim: Highlights from the McCoy Jones Collection, on view until June 10, 2012 at the De Young Museum.  It's really gorgeous!
http://deyoung.famsf.org/blog/investigating-indigo-art-anatolian-kilim Barbara Shapiro will teach a four week Summer class called "Not Your Mother's Laundry Basket" exploring a variety of basketry techniques and the history of this oldest of crafts and it's role as a contemporary art form. Classes will be held on Tuesdays, June 19 to July 10 from 1 to 4 pm at the San Francisco State University/Osher Lifelong learning Institute facility in Downtown SF (on Market next to the Westfield Center Mall.) Contact Barbara or OLLI for more information. http://www.barbarashapiro.com

 or http://olli.sfsu.edu/

Bonnie Smith:

Bonnie J. Smith's fiber artwork "Patricia L" is currently being exhibited at the Transition Gallery, Idaho State University Pond Student Union during Women's History Month.  The exhibit "Mama Said", The Artworks and Artifacts of Wise Women runs through March 16, 2012.

Joy Stocksdale:

Joy Stocksdale will be doing open studio June 2-3 and 9-10, 10 am-5 pm, studio #44, http://sebarts.org/index.php/aats/

Joy will be offering Polychromatic Screen Printing workshop in her Sebastopol Studio on Saturday, Sept 15, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm:
It’s an excellent workshop for painters, mono-printers, watercolorists, textile artists, 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 mono-print process that produces 5-8 prints from a single painted image. Students complete one print session.  No solvents used.  For all levels of ability.  Six students only.  $70--includes some materials.  For more information call Joy Stocksdale Joy Stocksdale 707/829-1756.

Harmony Susalla:

Harmony Susalla will be presenting "Organic Cotton - The Journey is the Prize" on Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 7 pm in the Lecture Hall, Monona Terrace, Madison Wisconsin.  It’s free and open to the public.  (http://www.mononaterrace.com/community/all-programs/category/frank_lloyd_wright_architecture_programs#the_wright_design_series)
Master designer Frank Lloyd Wright, who, although known for his architectural designs, also created designs in furniture, clothing, textiles and tableware, inspired the Wright Design Series.

Harmony Art Organic Design became the U.S.‘s first solely organic fabric designer to be GOTS certified. Receiving the eco-apparel market’s top seal of approval, the Global Organic Textile Standard, is rare. Only 1,500 companies across the globe received it, according to the GOTS International Working Group.  In doing so, they are leading the way towards higher standards for the overall textile supply chain and giving users peace of mind that toxic inputs aren’t in their fabrics. Read more: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/2/prweb9165167.htm

Ruth Tabancay:

Ruth Tabancay's work is included in "Crossing Lines: The Many Faces of Fiber" at the Courtyard Gallery in the World Financial Center, New York City.  Juried by Rebecca Stevens for the Textile Study Group of New York, the exhibit opened December 6, 2011 and will close on April 1, 2012.  http://www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com/

 Also, Ruth's work was selected for "CreativiTea," a juried exhibition of tea-themed artwork at the KPFA Crafts Fair, San Francisco. The show travels in March to ACCI Gallery in Berkeley and includes 2 additional works by her.  http://www.accigallery.com

Textile Arts Council:

The Textile Arts Council welcomes Nathalie Doucet, founder of the Arts of Fashion Foundation, who will take us through the career of Jean Paul Gaultier. Gaultier's longevity in the fickle world of fashion is all the more remarkable for the often outrageous and provocative designs he creates. Ms. Doucet credits this to his perpetual creativity, technical rigor and a haute couture mindset, which insures artisanal perfection.

Free to TAC members, $5 for students and museum members, $10 for non-members

Saturday, March 10, 2012 10am

Koret Auditorium

De Young Museum, San Francisco

Carol Rhodes-Wittich:

Carol Rhodes-Wittich had "Adventures in Paper" at Blue Moon Gallery.  All entries are made of some kind of paper form.
Carol is part of “New Textile Arts Group” which begun last summer at Sacramento Fine Arts Center in Carmichael, CA. They are a group with varied interests in fiber. They meet on the third Wednesday of the month at 6:30pm at the Center.  Their interest is in how you make your art as well as what the results are. We are in the process of planning for our first show in June 2012.  Our contact number is 916 844-4601.  They welcome anyone interested in fibers.

Daniella Woolf:

Daniella Woolf has a new book out, The Encaustic Studio-a wax workshop in mixed-media art, published by Interweave Press, which comes with a 1 hour instructional DVD. It will be out in April or May, and you can pre-order! She teaches encaustic workshops especially for fiber and textile artists. She has co-curated an encaustic show WAX contemporary encaustic works at the PVAC Gallery in Watsonville, and currently is in a group show called REPEAT, through April 24 at all branches of the Santa Cruz County Bank, and Snippets at R and F Paints in Kingston, NY. For a complete listing of shows and workshops visit http://www.daniellawoolf.com.

CALL FOR ENTRIES

Santa Cruz Art League:

Santa Cruz Art League’s call for entries:

Fiber Art, Crossroads:  All Media

Entry Deadline: June 1, 2012

For more details visit:

http://www.scal.org/assets/SCAL_2012_Fiber_Art_Exhibit.pdf