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2002-2003 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. 17 September 2001, 6:30 p.m.“Bamboo and the Culture of Japan”Join us for a delightful evening with guest speaker and workshop leader, Nancy Moore Bess. 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. 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. October 15, 2002, 7:00 p.m.“Conserving Mayan Culture through Weaving”Lidia Amanda Lopez de Lopez, a traditional weaver from Guatemala, will be speaking to our Guild about the tradition of Mayan weaving and its culture and values; she will also tell stories of contemporary life in Guatemala. She will enrich her lecture with many examples of Guatemalan weaving and will have huipiles, corte, cocineras, and servilletas for us to look at (and as a special bonus, many will be available for purchase). Please join us for this special program. For information about backstrap weaving, including photographs of weavers and instructions on making a loom, visit the following Web sites:
November 8-10, 2002Holiday Sale and ExhibitionPlanned by the Marketing Study Group and held at the Boone County Historical Society Museum, 3802 Ponderosa Drive. CWSG Photos from the Holiday Exhibition and Sale, 2002 19 November 2002, 7:00 p.m.“Surface Design and African Textiles”Guest speaker Gail Hale is a BFA student at Indiana University in Bloomington, where she has a working studio and is a very active member of the arts community. She has participated in many collaborative and commissioned projects. African textiles is a major interest for Gail. She was commissioned by the Bank of America to produce a contemporary piece with weavers from Ghana based on the African Kente in Charlotte, North Carolina. Other commissioned works include a Fine Arts Commission for a 25 ft. X 32 ft. backdrop for the Buskirk Chumley Theatre in Bloomington. She started “IRONWORKS Textiles,” a collaborative project to produce patterning on fabric by combining cyanotype with iron oxide transfer. As a participant in a Judy Chicago studio class, Gail produced an installation at the I.U. Fine Arts Museum. She participated in the Indiana Arts Commission grant piece, “The Bloomington Breast Project,” for breast cancer awareness and was also featured in a documentary film about feminist art. She is currently working on a piece for the 50th anniversary of the Kinsey Volume, “Sexual Behavior in the Human Female.” Gail is also a member of the Fine Arts Committee for the annual “Lotus World Music Festival” and has worked with an area teacher to make paper with 600 children for the “Literacy through the Book Arts” program. Please join us November 19 for an evening with this talented and versatile fiber artist. Selected Web resources on African textiles:
17 December 2002, 6:30 p.m.Holiday PartyA Guild Holiday Party, handmade holiday ornament exchange, fruit and dessert tasting. Ann McGinity will treat us with tales and treasures from her travels in Italy this fall. 21 January 2003, 7:00 p.m.Cowboy CostumesLaurel Wilson, Associate Professor in the Department of Textile and Apparel Management at the University of Missouri-Columbia, will present a program on the research she has been doing on cowboy dress. Laurel grew up on a ranch in Montana, so she brings a lot of the West to her research. She teaches courses in costume and textile history and researches traditional textiles, in addition to cowboy dress. Laurel also curates the Missouri Historic Costume and Textile Collection. Laurel has long been a member of the Guild. Please join us for this fascinating program. 18 February 2003, 7:00 p.m.Leandra Spangler to present program on PapermakingLeandra Spangler’s passion for papermaking began in 1986 when she first plunged her hands into a vat of pulp. In subsequent years, Leandra has explored numerous ways of making and using paper (handmade and found) as a medium in her creative artistic expressions. Her contemporary vessels are reed forms covered with highly textured handmade paper. A graphite emulsion which is polished by hand creates a luminous protective surface. Her vessels are shown across the country at invitational and juried exhibitions. About her work, Leandra says, “I am intrigued by the way light falls on a surface creating highlights and subtle variations of shadow. To create interesting variations on the paper surface, I press found objects into newly formed sheets of (cotton water leaf) handmade paper.” A graphite emulsion seals the handmade paper and is buffed by hand. In addition to creating a beautiful sheen, the graphite emulsion on handmade paper echoes the most elemental of artistic tools: pencil and paper. These vessels: simple reed and paper structures are often misidentified as metal, ceramic or stone. Viewers are intrigued by the visual and physical paradox: the vision of weight and mass and the actuality of paper and reed. See Leandra’s work at her website, Bear Creek Paperworks. 18 March 2003, 7:00 p.m.“Colors to Dye For”Techniques for using plants and insects to change the color of cloth were developed centuries ago on every continent with human populations. When synthetic dyes were introduced to cloth manufacturers, major natural dye houses and industries around the world were put out of business and, as a result, natural dyeing has almost become a lost art in many countries where it used to be a mainstay of the economy. In the last few decades, natural dyeing has regained popularity with artists and craftspeople in America and other countries, to such an extent that industry is again researching the economic viability of using natural dyes. This past May, CWSG members Rebecca Reeves and Carol Leigh Brack Kaiser had the opportunity to attend a historical event, the first official International Natural DyerÕs Colour Congress held in Ames, Iowa. Rebecca received a grant from the Verna Wulfekammer fund to take workshops with some of the biggest names in the natural dyeing arena: Michelle Wipplinger on layering color on fabrics and surface design techniques, John Marshall on paste resist techniques with indigo and Karen Urbenek on cochineal reds. Carol Leigh also attended workshops with Judy Dominic on Bokolanfini mud cloth pigment painting techniques, and stencil designing with soy binders and pigments with John Marshall. Several natural dyed samples with techniques from each of these classes will be displayed and explained. We will also have a scrapbook available with pictures from the workshops and the conference exhibits. One of the most exciting things about this conference was meeting people from many countries and listening to papers given on the research being done on natural dyes and their benefits around the world. Several researchers presented papers on the health effects of wearing Indigo dyed fabrics. We had the opportunity to meet and have lively discussions with several famous authors and researchers in natural dyes and acquired several autographed books that we will bring for the Guild to see. Both Rebecca and Carol Leigh came away from this experience feeling awed, inspired, and looking forward to sharing and teaching many of the things they learned to Guild members and students at Hillcreek Fiber Studio. 15 April 2003, 7:00 p.m.“Textile Travels in Guatemala, The Continuing Saga”Last year, member Jo Stealey gave a stellar program on her sabbatical travels through Thailand and Burma with a slide show on traditional papermaking there and all the enchanting details of the people, customs, textiles and landscape she saw. Jo will return in April to present another travel program to the guild. She has made several trips to Guatemala and will share her experiences in that country and the knowledge she has acquired on Mayan textiles, the weaving and the weavers. This program will complement the wonderful visit and workshop we had earlier this year from Guatemalan weaver Lidia Lopez. So, be sure to join us for this special program in April, especially if you happened to have missed one of these other programs. Jo is an associate professor and head of the department of textiles and fiber art in the MU Art Department and currently has an exhibition of her sculptural works of handmade paper at the George Caleb Bingham Gallery on the MU campus. 20 May 2003, 7:00 p.m.“Make-It & Take-It”Back by popular demand, we will once again be having a “Make-It & Take-It” evening. There will be seven fiber activity stations set up for you to visit and try your hand at, and you will have something to take home when it's over. The stations and activity masters are:
Come and join the fun, learn something new, and be creative. See you there. We will also be holding our annual election for new officers at the May meeting. If you need a copy of our bylaws, you may download them here. (Note that this file is a large download, approximately 1.3MB.) 17 June 2002Guild Picnic, 6:30pm The annual Guild picnic will be held at Linda Coats' farm, 5901 S River Hills Road, on Tuesday, June 17, at 6:30pm-- rain or shine--for all Guild members, families and friends. See below for directions to the farm. New officers for next year will be installed at this time, so please come and meet and congratulate them. Bring your favorite dish or dessert to share and a place setting. The Guild will provide the meat and drinks. Also, bring chairs and a table, if possible, and don't forget your show and tell. See you there. Fun and good food are assured. |
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