2001-2002 Guild Meetings and Events:
Meetings are held the third Tuesday of the month at 7:00 pm at St. Andrew's Lutheran church, 910 West Blvd. South, Columbia, unless otherwise noted. You are urged to bring your weaving, spinning, or other projects to each meeting for Show and Tell. Besides recently made fiber projects, bring topic-specific examples of items to augment each program. In July and August no formal meetings are scheduled.
18 September 2001, 6:30 p.m.
“Celebrating Fiber: A Life Long Dance”
Join us for a delightful evening with guest speaker and workshop
leader, Rob Hillestad. We will begin with a potluck at 6:30, to start
off our new year, followed by a short business meeting, show and tell
and the program.
Rob Hillestad is a long-time studio artist and design educator from
Lincoln, Nebraska. He recently retired after a 32-year career in
higher education at the University of Nebraska. and is an
internationally known fiber artist. He is the leader of this years
annual fibers celebration workshop and exhibit, “Twice Told Tales and
Textiles,” sponsored by the Columbia Weavers and Spinners Guild and
the University of Missouri Art Department on Sept. 15 and 16.
Bring a favorite dish to share, table service, something to show, and
come early for a very full and exciting evening of friends, food,
inspiration, and fun.
16 October 2001
“Magic: When the Right and Left Brain Meet”
A panel discussion on creativity in the studio. Arranged by guild member Ann McGinity.
Which rules: the organizer, the processes, getting everything done
for the day? Or is it the dreamy texture queen, filled with color and
design? Ideally, we have a shared creative stance for all our inner
parts and outer expressions.
Join us for a delightful evening with experts and fellow travelers on
the creativity and organizational roads--are these paths going in
contrary directions? are they necessarily opposed? or, are they
dependent on each other?
Come hear ideas and results on organizing! See fellow guild members
describe their processes! Receive handouts and materials gleaned from
varied sources, including our own! Even though it will need to be
filed somewhere, one thought may light the path when adrift on the sea
of creative uncertainty. So come and share how to use productively
what we already know!
10 November 2001, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
11 November 2001, 11:00 am to 4:00 pm
Holiday Sale and Exhibition
Planned by the Marketing Study Group and held at the Boone County Historical Society Museum, 3802 Ponderosa Drive.
20 November 2001, 7:00 p.m.
“Textiles in the Texts: Needlework in Literature”
We are very fortunate to have fellow guild member Jacqueline
Chambers, now residing in St. Louis, return to Columbia for the evening to present a program from her dissertation topic, "“The Needle and the Pen: Women Writers, Professionalism, and Needlework in the Nineteenth Century.”
Textiles has been a continuous thread in Jackie's life, learning
to sew and crochet from her mother and grandmother, and adding embroidery
and such as she went along. She has uniquely interwoven her interests in
textiles with her academic studies in history, material culture and
nineteenth century literature. She was keenly aware of the needlework in
the literature that she read, and said, “At first, I was interested in the
period details of the techniques the women were using in their fiction,
poetry, etc. Then, I began to realize that there were some important
reasons for these things in the texts.”
Jackie is sure to entertain us, as well as educate us, with some
fascinating facts and observations. Join us for an interesting evening
with Jackie, and also participate in a lively discussion on a story Jackie
has provided for us to read, “A Practical Bluestocking,” before coming to the program. Jackie says, “There will be class discussion. No quiz.”
18 December 2001, 6:30 p.m.
Holiday Party
A Guild Holiday Party, handmade holiday ornament exchange, fruit and dessert tasting, and a travelogue of summer and fall fiber adventures by guild members.
Could we possibly put more into one evening? We will be meeting at 6:30 for an evening filled with merriment, food and friendship. Please bring fruit or dessert to share, and a wrapped handmade ornament to exchange (made by you or someone else). Of course, you can still come if you do not wish to bring an ornament to exchange. The Guild will provide the drinks and table service.
In addition, Guild members Linda Jacobs and Barbara Overby will be sharing highlights and showing slides of their recent vacations. Linda took a Gaelic Celtic Arts tour to Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island and will give us an historical overview of the French Acadians, Scottish, and English that settled the area, their culture and needlework. Barbara traveled to Norway and will be talking about the contemporary and traditional textiles she saw there while on a walking pilgrimage.
15 January 2002, 7:00 p.m.
Make-It and Take-It
The Make-It and Take-It program will be a hands-on evening with everyone having an opportunity to make one or two small items to take home, or to simply watch and learn more about a new technique.
We will have six project stations set up for everyone to try as many items as time will allow. Choose from these stations:
- Origami books
- Needle felting
- Indigo dip
- Inkle bookmark weaving
- Lucet cordage
- Knitting spool
All materials are supplied unless you are going to do the indigo
dip, then you will need to bring some yarn for dipping.
Come with curiosity and enthusiasm for learning and trying out
something new, and have something new to take home.
19 February 2002, 7:00 p.m.
“Cutting a Rug”
Presented by the Feltermakers' Study Group, “The Women Who Run With the Wools.”
Please join the feltmakers in a multi-media presentation of the rug felting project, including pictures, rugs from the summer workshop with Turkish master felter Mehmet Girgi, process descriptions of shearing, sorting, carding, dyeing, and dividing, along with music and, of course, dancing on the roll.
19 March 2002, 7:00 p.m.
“Textiles from Abroad”
Fellow Guild member Jo Stealey has been traveling this year while on
sabbatical leave from her position as Associate Professor and head of
the fibers program at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She will
be presenting the highlights of her trip to Thailand and Burma, and
the papermaking tour she took while visiting there earlier this
winter, and she has just recently returned from a trip to Guatemala.
Come and be wowed! as Jo shares her experiences from exotic lands
afar, from her unique perspective as a papermaker and basketmaker.
Jo exhibits widely, both nationally and internationally, and you can
see her work in Fiber Arts Design Books III-VI and in issues of
Shuttle Spindle and Dyepot, and Surface Design magazines. Recently in
Columbia her work was included in “Paper in Particular” at Columbia
College, “9/11: an artistic response” at Legacy Art and BookWorks, and
the Faculty Exhibit at the Bingham Gallery at UMC, as well as in
exhibits in Boston, Mass. at the Society of Arts and Crafts, the
Arkansas Arts Center and a traveling exhibit in Taiwan.
16 April 2002, 7:00 p.m.
“Two Dimensional Fabric, Three Dimensional Illusion”
Ingrid Boesel, guest speaker, Canadian Master Weaver
Three dimensional illusion is achieved by fooling the brain to accept
certain visual clues as reality. The illusion of three dimensions in a
two dimensional fabric has intrigued us for eons. This seminar
discusses some of the principles involved in developing the illusion
successfully. Illusion of depth, shading and contour will be explored.
Methods will be discussed to obtain the three dimensional illusion
generally, and then the means to achieve it on flat woven fabrics.
Ingrid Boesel has taught extensively at Guilds and Conferences. Her
workshops and lectures stress independence, fun and innovation. She
works with complex structures and interactions of colours and blocks.
Most workshops and lectures include both general audiences and
intermediate weavers. Some are aimed at the advanced weaver.
“Working with block weaves, the interplay of the structure and
gradations of colour, I try to adapt images to the complex loom. The
combination of image, colour and complex structure is what fascinates me
the most. Mostly I just like to play with coloured blocks!”
--Ingrid Boesel
Ingrid Boesel Biography in her own words:
“My goal is to achieve an effect of fluidity on both the wall and on
the body. Clothing and accessories are a special interest of mine. I love fine luxury and natural yarns. Gradations of colours and interaction of weave structure emphasizes an intricate interplay of colour and pattern.
“My work has been getting finer and more formal with more emphasis on
surface pattern. My weaving is done on two computer assisted dobby looms with 24 shafts. These very versatile tools allow almost infinite exploration of woven structures, which is one of my joys. I dye silk or wool with synthetic dyes, using a variety of techniques, including ikat.
“I have been teaching weaving for 25 years, and have been a production weaver for about 5 years. Kumihimo is a new fiber addiction that I have begun to
indulge.
“My husband and I have developed and market a computer weaver program
called Fiberworks PCW. I have completed my Master Weaver with Ontario Handweavers and Spinners. I am a bookaholic and a sample exchange junkie. Mostly I just love to weave!!”
Ingrid Boesel will also be presenting a workshop for the guild:
Exploring Colour Use in Double Weave, April 13, 14, & 15, 2002.
Access Arts will be the location for the workshop. It is primarily for weavers but she does a lot on color and is a delightful presenter. There are still spaces available. Direct inquiries to: Mary Jane Thorne
Fees: $90 for three days, $60 for two days (Saturday and Sunday
only) Workshop is partially underwritten by a grant from the Verna
Wulfekammer Fund.
14 May 2002, 7:00 p.m. (Second Tuesday)
Access Arts, 1724 McAlester St, Columbia
Please note change of date and location
“Following the Shadow”
This month we have the opportunity to glean some knowledge and wisdom
from the Guild's top master weavers and also get a bit of an insight
into what complex weaving is all about, as they explain the darks and
lights of shadow weave and how color can be used more effectively in
designing our weavings and textiles.
More Than Four study group members Amy Preckshot, Mary Jane Thorne,
Jenny Chicone, Jenny Niekrasz, and Jean Williams will present a program
on shadow weave as a color study and as a method of weaving. They all
attended the Mimi Smith workshop last May entitled, “Taking the Shadow
out of Shadow Weave” and have been exploring over the year what they
learned from the workshop. Three different types of shadow weave and
the use of color in their designs will be discussed and presented.
So, come and explore color and shadow weave, bring your show and
tells, and enjoy refreshments while visiting with your weaving and fiber friends.
18 June 2002, 7:00 p.m.
Guild Picnic
We will meet at Jo Stealy's farm and studio. More details to come.
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