| In-Person Meeting on Saturday February 4th 10 am – noon. Check the latest email from SBFAG for location details. The theme is Fiber Flurry and this will be an exciting meeting with a members-only sale focused on yarn! A chance to buy great yarns of all kinds at bargain prices. Sales will be cash or preferably checks, and NO CREDIT CARDS. |
Kellen’s art is rooted in nature and story. Highly influenced by the natural world, she weaves the wild outdoors into her pieces and brings that love of nature inside. This talk will discuss how she utilizes natural materials including wool, fabric, cotton, wood, paper, willow, reed, etc. and what inspires her process. Each piece created is a unique, one-of-a-kind work of art. Zoom at 10 am.
LINK to join the 1-7-23 Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88623251637
Members Only Studio Tour same day 2-4 pm, let Brecia know if you plan on attending!
“Sometimes life gives us constraints and it is our job as makers to embrace and find creative solutions to keep our practice going. This talk will address how time and space limitations have changed my practice, working in multiples, and cover a wide range of works I have done over the years using both metal and fiber. I will also share how my small collective, SPOOL, explores and examines our individual creative journeys as we collaborate on our upcoming show at gallery 203. I am interested in creating meaning and narrative through form and materials with my sculpture. The materials I use are an intrinsic part of my art making process. By exploring resonances between a single line and densely packed wire, my pieces become metaphors evoking themes of time, change, balance, tension, breath, and decay. These sculptural objects are created through repetitive and time intensive processes such as weaving, netting, and looping. The resulting forms are contemplative sounding boards that echo my impressions and experiences.” – www.Lydiatjioe.com
This will be a ZOOM presentation at 10 am, Saturday, November 5th. The link will be sent to members via email and posted here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84789322885.
During the demonstration, Serge will introduce guild members to the body of his work in silk painting. Please see his website for photos! www.sergenepomnin.com
He will also talk about his creative process and a variety of silk painting techniques, concentrating on the Serti technique as his preferred method. There will be a time for Q&A at the end of the demonstration.
This meeting is via ZOOM on Saturday October 1st at 10am. The link is here:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85063241798 and Guild members will also get it the link via email.
Please join us for our September 3 meeting via Zoom at 10:00 AM With Brecia Kralovic Logan sharing the Women’s Woven Voices project tapestry at HGA Convergence. Brecia is a lifetime member of SBFAG, our Programs Chairperson, and the founder of the Women’s Woven Voices international collaborative art project that supports women’s empowerment through writing, weaving and sharing their stories. Brecia will share the inspiration for, history and evolution of the project highlighting the exhibit at Convergence in Knoxville a couple of weeks ago.
Brecia Kralovic-Logan is a champion of creativity, advocate for women, artist and author. She founded the Women’s Woven Voices project to promote creativity, community, and compassion and her book “ The Spiral of Creativity- Mastering the Art of a Spirited Life” supports people to claim their creative courage. Kralovic-Logan teaches, and lectures at international conferences including HGA convergence, Silk Painters International, Quilts Inc, and exhibits her art work nationally. She currently has work in Small Expressions 2022 as well as in the collections of museums and private collectors. Here is the Zoom link for the September 3 meeting. (This link will also be emailed to members separately a few days before the meeting). Time: September 3, 2022 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81162051701
Our usual first Saturday meeting coming up (August 6th) is our annual (Natural) Dye Day in the Park. With Covid in mind we made this a members only meeting last year and are continuing that this year to keep the crowd small. We are fully subscribed with members new and old and looking forward to trying out a number of different dyes and shibori patterning techniques. Lots of Guild member volunteers make this happen!!! This photo is from last year’s event.
“Coming Together” is the theme of our annual Members’ Exhibit. From July 2 – July 28, small works will be on exhibit at the Goleta Library display case in the lobby.
“Flight of the Monarchs” (5 x 3 inches) is our first entry, submitted by Sherri West.
Bojagi, The Art of Wrapping Cloths presented by Youngmin Lee
Bojagi (Korean Wrapping Cloths) are pieced together from small scraps of cloth. It is the most unique form of Korean textile art. Bojagi occupied a prominent place in the daily lives of Koreans of all classes. They were used to wrap or carry everything from precious ritual objects to everyday clothes and common household goods also to cover food. It is strikingly contemporary: the designs and colors of bojagi remind one of the works of modern abstract artists. Bojagi can be described as a true form of abstract expressionism. Youngmin Lee will talk about bojagi during this lecture and show her bojagi works after the lecture.
Youngmin Lee is a textile artist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She studied Clothing and Textile in college and continued her studies and received an MFA in Fashion Design. She worked as a fashion designer in Seoul, South Korea.
She chose Bojagi (Korean wrapping cloths) as her creative medium and presented workshops on Korean Textile Arts including Bojagi workshops. In addition to teaching in person, Youngmin created the DVD Bojagi: The Art of Wrapping Cloths in 2013 to reach people from afar. She teaches numerous workshops about Bojagi and Korean traditional textile art from.
She founded the Korean Textile Tour in 2017 to introduce Korean traditional textile art and culture.
Youngmin’s bojagi works have been exhibited and collected throughout the United States and abroad. The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco has her works in the museum collection. Her three bojagi artwork is currently showing at the Korean gallery in the museum until September 2022.
This is a ZOOM meeting:
Topic: Santa Barbara Fiber Arts Guild with Youngmin Lee
Time: Jun 4, 2022 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83591990707
Meeting ID: 835 9199 0707
A Virtual Visit of Blue: the Tatter Textile Library
BLUE, the TATTER Textile Library is an ever-growing home to over 6000 books, journals, exhibition catalogs and objects which examine and celebrate the global history, traditions, makers, craft and beauty of textiles. BLUE is both an ongoing art-installation as well as a fully functioning research library. Currently the library is home to the book and/or object collections of 7 different women, including Edith Wyle (founder of the Craft and Folk Art Museum), artist Carol Westfall, sampler historian Glee Krueger, and Western Costume collector and gallerist Cora Ginsburg. BLUE is a registered 501(c)3 and was founded in 2017 by artist Jordana Munk Martin. BLUE is also home to a speaker series and its beloved semi annual contemporary journal: Tatter Journal.
BLUE’s parent company TATTER, offers over 65 online workshops annually in long form and short form programming, in all areas of handwork and textile making, as well as travel opportunities, and unique products for making and enjoying cloth.
or follow our instagram feeds: @tatterbluelibrary @tatterjournal @shoptatter
This is a ZOOM meeting at 10am PST on Saturday, May 7th.
Topic: SBFiberArtsGuild’s Zoom MeetingTime: May 7, 2022 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81281613269
Meeting ID: 812 8161 3269