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Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild September Meeting

RWeiss for SCHG — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:32:16 +0000

The Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild offers members the opportunity to share common interests by participating in study groups focused on different aspects of weaving. One of these study groups, the Rug Study Group, meets regularly. Its members, Janette Gross, Janet Pollack, Laura Rider, Martha Stanley and Joan Vierra, will share their experiences at the September meeting.

Date: Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Time: 9:30 AM until 12:00 PM

Place: Aptos Village Park, 100 Aptos Creek Road, Aptos, CA

Rug woven by Martha Stanley

Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild May Meeting

RWeiss for SCHG — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:54:49 +0000

Thom Atkins, known to the fiber arts community for his bead-embellished quilts, will describe how he got “from bronze to beads” at the May 12th meeting of the Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild. Over the course of his career in art, Thom has worked in several media (bronze, beads, stained glass to name but a few). Since 2002, his focus has been on beads and fabric, integrating these elements into unified compositions — his bead-embellished quilts.

Thom has been a participating artist in Santa Cruz County Open Studios and has exhibited his work at the Santa Cruz County Building, the Santa Cruz Art League, the Olive Hyde Gallery and quilt expositions, including the Pacific International Quilt Festival. He has taught varied aspects of working with beads and textiles at Cabrillo College, quilting and sewing guilds and seminars at Asilomar.

Date: Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Time: 9:30 AM until 12:00 PM

Aptos Village Park, 100 Aptos Creek Road, Aptos, CA

Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild Meeting, March 10, 2010

RWeiss for SCHG — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:46:41 +0000

Suki Russack, an accomplished musician, began weaving in 2002 while a graduate student at San Francisco State College. It wasn’t until 2006 that she found her voice as a textile artist. At that time, she began to explore the female form as a vehicle for her own spiritual growth. She considers her work to be a pictorial autobiography with images of women, both personal and archetypal.

In the process Suki uses, double weave pick-up, two layers of fabric are woven simultaneously. The layers differ in weights. One layer, made of heavy linen thread, is tightly woven; the second layer is transparent and woven from very fine thread. The body image is produced on the heavy linen threads using small iron ingots, which rust the image outlines. To further define the image, fiber reactive dyes are painted onto the threads and this is followed by discharge. The process of weaving the two disparate layers together to form a single image is very slow and labor intensive. As the weaving progresses, one weft shot at a time, the feelings that were the inspiration for the image become more clear and defined.

At the March meeting of the Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild, Suki will explain the process she uses with photographs and examples of her work. Passage won the First Prize at the Santa Cruz Art League Textile Exhibition, 2009.

Meeting details:
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 from 9:30 AM until 12:00 PM
Aptos Village Park, 100 Aptos Creek Road, Aptos, CA

Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild February Meeting

RWeiss for SCHG — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:28:28 +0000

Due to storm damage to the Aptos Village Park building, the meeting of the Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild, scheduled for February 10, 2010, will be held at The Simpkins Family Swim Center (Room A), 979 17th Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA 95062. The time of the meeting is unchanged (9:30 AM to 12:00 PM). You can check these ... » Read the Rest » ...

Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild February Meeting

RWeiss for SCHG — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:49:46 +0000

If you’ve wanted to know more about Navajo weaving, be certain to attend the next Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild meeting. Guild member, Bambi Jones, will present a program about Navajo weaving. Based on her studies with Marilyn Brandon at Cabrillo College and her work with native weaver Sarah Natani at Table Mesa, New Mexico, Bambi is an excellent resource for answering your questions about Navajo weaving.

Bambi will bring a selection of weaving tools and will demonstrate techniques on a warp in a loom and another warp that will be ready to put into the loom. In addition, she will share a selection of native weavings that she has collected as well as her original weavings.

Date: February 10, 2010

Time: 9:30 AM until 12:00 PM

Location: Aptos Village Park, 100 Aptos Creek Road, Aptos, CA

Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild Meeting Jan 2010

RWeiss for SCHG — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:08:56 +0000

On January 16, 2010, the Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild and The Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz will co-sponsor a presentation by Frances Dorsey, entitled “Saigon: Fusion of Memories with History.”

In the 1950s, Frances Dorsey lived in Saigon, Vietnam, where her father was attached to the United States Embassy. Her childhood memories of Saigon as a serene and beautiful city are in sharp contrast to the reality of the Vietnam War of the 1960s. Her work addresses contradictions that are inherent in personal memories versus history.

Frances Dorsey is a dyer, printer and weaver. She is an Associate Professor at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Her work is exhibited in Canada, the United States and internationally.

Time, Day and Date: 1:00 PM, Saturday, January 16, 2010

Place: The Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA

Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild November Meeting

RWeiss for SCHG — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:03:14 +0000

On November 11, 2009, Nancy Jo Lopp will address the following aspects of photographing textiles:

Technical
Digital photography
Photographing with natural light, strobe, or lights

Bring your camera and examples of your work. Even if there is not enough time to photograph your work, Nancy Jo will discuss it and provide advice about how to photograph it.

The Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild meets at Aptos Village Park, 100 Aptos Creek Road, Aptos, CA. Meeting time is from 9:30 AM until 12:00 PM.

Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild Meeting, October 14, 2009

RWeiss for SCHG — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:35:24 +0000

The Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild will host Rodrick Owen of the United Kingdom as guest speaker on October 14, 2009. Rodrick is an artist, teacher, expert on pre-Columbian braids, and the author of two books about kumihimo that are standard references for braiders. Rodrick’s presentation will focus on pre-Hispanic Peruvian textiles, especially twined braided headbands.

The meeting will be held at the Aptos Village Park (100 Aptos Creek Road, Aptos, CA), starting at 9:30 AM and ending at 12:00 PM. Refreshments will be served, and all interested individuals are welcome to attend.

Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild September Meeting

RWeiss for SCHG — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:30:05 +0000

The Anne Blinks Textile Study Collection will be presented and will be available for viewing at the September 9, 2009 guild meeting. The collection comprises textiles created or collected by Anne Blinks over her weaving years (1949-1995). Nora Rogers and Barbara Boone will lead the program with the participation of Susan Moore-Orrett, Sandie Shoemaker, Mark ... » Read the Rest » ...