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March Meeting and Bonus Weekend Workshop
Our March meeting is a double header!:
Saturday, March 5th: Nature Printing with Hebe Bartz (regular meeting time and place)
Hebe is an active member of the nature printing society. She has done a variety of techniques and will share them with us. There will also be a two day workshop on March 19th and 20th.
(please note that the workshop dates reflect a date change from previously posted information!).
Saturday-Sunday, March 19th and 20th Workshop:
Printing, De-Printing, and Re-Printing with Hebe Bartz
This is an opportunity to learn nature printing on photo sensitive fabric. All supplies will be provided, including 1/2 yard x 42″ photosensitive fabric in a color of your choice and two test pieces 8 1/2” square, suitable for mounting on a canvas bag or what have you. The workshop will take place on Saturday from 1 – 4pm, and continues on Sunday from 9 – 4pm. The workshop will be held at Rancho Santa Barbara. Directions will be given to those who register. Please register by March 9th to insure your color choice of fabrics!
$125.00 fee includes all supplies. Contact Jeanette Warren to register, fljw1@verizon.net.
General Public Registration is accepted but color choice of fabrics may be limited if after March 9th. Contact Jeanette asap.
FIBER FRENZY IS HERE! FEBRUARY 6TH
PLEASE JOIN US FOR:
Santa Barbara Fiber Arts Guild’s
FIBER FRENZY SALE
What: A huge fund raiser sale of Yarn, Fiber, & Fabric.
Books & Magazines. Equipment for all fiber related arts including Spinning, Weaving, Knitting, Crocheting, Quilting, Needlework, and Basketry.
Finished Fiber Products
When: Saturday, February 6th from 11 am to approx. 2 pm.
Where: Presido Springs Community Center
721 Laguna Street
(between E. Ortega & E. Canon Perdido)
Yarn Installation at the Santa Barbara Botanic Gardens
Don’t miss your last chance to see Dormant Dreams – Sunday, November 15th, 2-4 pm
With El Nino rains on their way, it’s time to say farewell to Dormant Dreams, our temporary, garden-wide yarn art installations. The general public and Garden members are invited to join us in the Arroyo Section for a short ceremony, refreshments, and a tour of the artworks before they come down. Please bring a drum or tambourine and join in a rain dance with exhibit designer Karen Luckett. Other members of the Yarn Blasting Babes and Fiber Arts Guild will be available to talk about their work and other yarn activities.
No registration required. We hope to see you there!
NEWS FLASH!
Regular November meeting on Saturday, November 7th at Presidio Springs Community Center!
Members will be sharing their work, please join
Sherry Cutting who will share her interest in Nearikas—Yarn Painting during
show and tell. Hebe Bartz is going to share her nature printing with photo
sensitive fabrics: “Print — de-print and re-print.”
Also, if you did not get a chance to buy something at the WoW sale at the Market you can shop online at https://squareup.com/market/santa-barbara-fiber-arts-guild !
UPCOMING in November and October!
Plan Ahead for the WoW Sale!
AND
You can also sell and shop at the Fiber Arts Show in October!
No regular Saturday meeting in October. The Fiber Arts Guild will be showing work at the Faulkner Gallery at the Santa Barbara Public Library (Central). The ingathering and opening are on October 1st! The opening at 5 pm is part of First Thursday, downtown Santa Barbara’s monthly evening of gallery openings! Not too late to join in (September 25th deadline for entry forms, please see the newsletter for the form.)
September already, will Fall weather follow?
September Guild Meeting: First Saturday, September 5!
This Month:
Artist Sommer Roman lives and works in Santa Barbara. She received her
MFA in 2014 from UC Santa Barbara, and subsequently became their
inaugural artist-in-residence for the following year. Her art practice is
comprised of both 2D and 3D work which can be categorized as playful
surrealistic abstraction. Sommer will discuss her habit of collecting domestic
discards (clothing, pillows, bed sheets, discarded toys, windows), her nontraditional
approach to working with fiber, her interest in play, her historical
and contemporary influences, and her past and recent projects
A Great Time to Join the Guild!
Our August meeting (August 1) will be at the Santa Barbara Natural History Museum. Guild members check in the office and will be checked in to hear our guest speaker. Come a little early so you have time to sign up as a Guild member!
Saturday, August 1st: Chumash Basketry with Jan Timbrook, Ph.D.
Jan Timbrook is an anthropologist and ethnobiologist—one who studies the interactions of human societies with plants and animals. She is the curator of ethnography at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Her specialty is the indigenous Chumash people of the Santa Barbara region, particularly their uses of plants in food, medicine and basketry.
“Chumash Basketry: Art in the Life of Native Californians”
Chumash baskets have been admired and collected since the first days of Spanish exploration. Of the few hundred older baskets now thought to exist, the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History houses the largest collection, and nearly all of those are on display. Jan Timbrook’s talk will begin with an overview of the cultural context and diverse roles of basketry in the traditional daily life of Chumash peoples of southern California. She will then discuss the characteristics of Chumash basketry – weaving techniques, materials, design layout and patterns – and note the changes in designs, shapes and function that began with European settlement in the late 18th century. The last three old-time weavers died between 1902 and 1915. After a long hiatus, cultural revitalization of Chumash basket making traditions is now underway.
The presentation will take place at the Natural History Museum, entrance is free for the program.
The June meeting was a field trip! Please see our Facebook Page “Santa Barbara Fiber Arts Guild” to see the photos posted by our members who took the bus down to the Craft Show in Pasadena.
Month of June: Guild Showcase at the Goleta Library
In June the guild has mounted a display in the Goleta Public Library display case. It will be taken down on Tuesday June 30 so hurry over!
The theme is “Tools and Toys of Fiber Arts”, a display – of smaller items like scarves, hats, small wall hangings, mats, handspun skeins, and small tools!
Our July meeting will be special also, and not just because it will be the 4th of July! Stop by before going to the parade (or as an alternative to all that commotion!) as we prepare for the upcoming Yarn Blast at the Santa Barbara Botanic Gardens. Here is a message from our coordinator for the event:
Come and Join the Fiber Blasting Party!
Bring your fiber friends, family and neighbors. Join us in knitting and crocheting up a storm at our next meeting on July 4th. We will be discussing designs and fabrication of pieces for the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden Yarn Blasting project. We have 10 site installations and need lots of creative fiber men/women to help make fun pieces including pom poms, flowers, small bugs, or animals. Bring your extra yarn or scraps of unfinished projects, (we will have yarn to use too). The installation of the project is set for the end of August. Karen Luckett will open up the meeting by discussing the details of the projects and show pictures of what we need. Creative ideas are welcome. We want to make this a fun party. Karen will supply the 4th of July themed goodies. For questions call Karen: (805) 570-0306.
PLEASE see our EVENTS page for upcoming events after July!
May Guild Meeting
We will not having our usual first Saturday Guild Meeting as we have a booth at the Santa Barbara Fair and Expo! Head on over and find demonstrations of spinning and weaving and folks to talk to! Get a MOOve on!
Spring Forward – April Guild Meeting
The time change seemed early this year, along with the warm weather. Please see our events page for upcoming opportunities to share your fiber art work with the community. Keep up the good work everyone!
Our April Meeting will be back at the Presidio Springs Community Center with a talk on Peru:
April 4th— Textile Adventures in Peru with Jennifer Moore
Jennifer Moore has specialized in the field of doubleweave pick-up for over 30 years and is the author of The Weaver’s Studio: Doubleweave. When Nilda Callanaupa from the Center for Traditional Textiles of Cusco was planning her 2013 conference in Cusco, she asked Jennifer if she would come to the conference to teach the pre-Columbian doubleweave techniques to her weavers. Jennifer spent a year preparing for the experience by studying backstrap weaving, Peruvian doubleweave and learning Spanish. In November 2013 she attended and taught at the conference and then traveled to a number of weaving villages and archeological sites in the Peruvian highlands. Jennifer will present a slideshow from the conference and her travels in Peru, as well as demonstrate what she taught at the conference.