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June 3rd Guild Meeting – in person!

Myco-color: Mushrooms for Dye and Pigment

Anna Bower and Hallie Silva

Members Anna and Hallie report back from Julie Beeler’s workshop: Mushroom Color Atlas. Their presentation will include South Coast area mushroom identification for dye, methods for successful mushroom dye baths, and using exhaust dye baths for pigment making.  

Anna Bio:

Anna is the Assistant Curator of Living Collections at Ganna Walska Lotusland. She enjoys propagating and harvesting dye plants, knitting, and making plant-based pigments for paint. 

Hallie Bio:

Hallie teaches art at La Colina Junior High. She loves the experimental process of dyeing with natural materials. She forages for mushrooms and lichens in the Santa Barbara foothills and backcountry to create dyes for fabric and yarn. 

This will be our second IN-PERSON meeting at the multipurpose room at the Church of Christ, 677 N. Turnpike Rd, Santa Barbara 93111. Please join us at 9:30 for socializing, short business announcements at 10, followed by the program.

May 6th Guild Meeting w/ John Novak

Our in-person speaker is John Novak, co-proprietor of the Village Spinning and Weaving Shop formerly in Solvang and now an on-line only presence (www.villagespinweave.com).

The title of his talk is “A Conversation with John”.

Please join us as we resume in-person meetings at our new meeting space: the multipurpose room at the Church of Christ at 677 N. Turnpike, Goleta.

We return to our former format, a meet and greet social period from 9:30 to 10:00, call to order at 10:00, and  the speaker program from 10:15 to 11:30. 

April 1st Spring Guild Meeting in person! 10-12 am

This will be a members only meeting, in person! Directions to the site with parking suggestions will be sent to all members via email.

We’ll have  the presentation of the slate of nominees for the next Board from the Nominating Committee and the election, then move on to brief  announcements—mentioning the next programs, new meeting site, sign up for future refreshments, reminders of dye day and exhibit  (assistants needed etc.,)  then the survey. While the survey is being filled out, if time permits, we can have a brief show and tell.  Maybe then, a refreshments break and suggestion of seating by interests.

March 4th Guild Meeting – Vicki Assegued – Fiber Artist

 

Taking Our Fiber Art Beyond Where We’ve Been

 “My presentation will be focused on thinking, going and working beyond what we usually do with our fiber art work, to expand our creative ideas and outcomes. This includes exploring and discovering new ways to work with fibers, which create exciting new processes and outcomes. I’ll share photos of my work to demonstrate how I apply these practices during my creative process.”

Vicki Assegued, M.A. is an innovative fiber artist, continually experimenting with, and discovering new techniques to bring out a wide range of effects and structures for both 2D and 3D art pieces. Vicki greatly enjoys working with the vast variety and possibilities that fabrics and fibers offer. She loves to share her techniques with her students and support them to create their own unique and stunning fiber art. She teaches privately and through various art schools and exhibits/sells her art at various galleries and shows. www.vickiart.com

Note: this will be a ZOOM presentation, 10am to 11:30, and here is the link:

Topic: FiberArtsGuild Monthly Meeting with Presenter Vicki Assegued
Time: Mar 4, 2023 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88388752340

November 5th Guild Mtg – Lydia Tjioe Hall – One a Day – How Life Informs Process

“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.

June 4th Guild Meeting with Youngmin Lee

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)

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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83591990707

Meeting ID: 835 9199 0707

May 7th Guild Meeting – Jordana Munk Martin

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.

www.tatter.org

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)

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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81281613269

Meeting ID: 812 8161 3269

April 2 Guild Meeting – Linda Illumanardi

Foraging and Extracting Natural Dyes in California 

Join Linda Illumanardi in Los Angeles as she shares her most recent explorations in the foothills of the San Gabriel foothills in Los Angeles. Linda bases her selections on pigment and tannin content, seeking a stable dye on both protein and cellulose fibers. Linda will share her processes of extraction and testing while also presenting the results of these experiments. 

Linda Illumanardi was born and raised in the mountains of Vermont, toddling behind her grandmother reciting the names of local weeds, flowers, and trees. Now in California, she does the same thing with her 3 grandsons, basket in hand, gathering gently leaves from trees that become the content and design of her books, fabric, and ceramics. Linda began eco-printing on paper, to accompany her handmade book designs (artist book limited edition Otis College, Los Angeles, CA 2001, published in Lark 500 Handmade Books, second edition, 8 collagraph plates).

With a Master’s degree in painting, and multitudes of printing classes and residencies, Linda loves to make impressions in each environment that she visits. She states, “Whether in the mountains, forest, at the ocean, or in the high desert, there are always multitudes of textures, colors, and natural objects waiting to be immortalized.”

Wanting to expand her explorations, Linda naturally shifted to making botanical prints on silk and wool, cotton fibers, leather and ceramics, working as a mad scientist in her quiet studio in the foothills of the Angeles National Forest on the outskirts of a horse stable. Linda is clearly an artist in each world she inhabits. She loves testing local botanicals for natural dyes and tannins.

Linda has been teaching since 1987 for public, private, and charter schools, as well as writing curriculum and teaching out of her home studio for artists ages 3-83. Please see her lifestyle and work on her public Instagram account at linda.illumanardi .

This will be a ZOOM meeting at 10 am on Saturday, April 2nd. The ZOOM link will be posted closer to the date or CONTACT us for the link.

March 5th Guild Meeting – Taiana Geifer

March 5, 2022 10:00 am Zoom Guild presentation by Taiana Geifer , on her experiences felting art pieces, wall hangings, scarves, and pieces for the home. Her title: “Twelve Years Later, I’m Still a Felter! ” Taiana writes: “As a felter, my mission is to create timeless, versatile pieces of art by bringing ancient felting techniques to the modern textiles world. Each piece is unique and 100% handmade by me. I began experimenting with handmade fabrics in 2007 while visiting family in Germany. What started as simple artistic curiosity quickly grew into a passionate and inspired desire to create with and share the ancient felting process. Collaborating with Calvin Klein’s head designer Francisco Costa, I created a number of custom felted fabrics for CK’s 2009 fall RTW runway show. Since then I have worked on my own collections of scarves and blankets, selling to stores world wide. I have also collaborated with a number of other designers, including Helmut Lang, Maiyet and Rick Owen, creating fabrics to be used in their collections. After almost a decade of making textiles for the fashion industry, I longed to bring my craft into the eyes of the art world and home interiors realm. “ For more information, visit taiana.com

If you would like the ZOOM link (Members will get it automatically) please CONTACT us!