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)
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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)
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Meeting ID: 812 8161 3269
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 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
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January’s Zoom Meeting is with art historian Mae Colburn to introduce and discuss the Swedish tapestries of Helena Hernmarck. Mae Colburn is a New York-based scholar and weaver with an art historical background in textiles and photography. She has worked alongside Helena Hernmarck since 2015, both as studio assistant and as archivist documenting the artist’s nearly sixty-year career. Mae’s essay, “In Helena Hernmarck’s Studio,” appeared in the exhibition catalogue for Hernmarck’s 2018 exhibition at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, and her presentation, “Moving into the Museum: Helena Hernmarck’s Blue Wash Tapestries,” was included in the Yale Center for British Art’s Graduate Symposium in 2016. Mae has taught at Parsons School of Design, and is co-founder of the weaving and design collective ‘friends of light.’ More information available at www.maecolburn.info.
This meeting is via ZOOM:
SBFiberArtsGuild is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: January 2022 Guild Meeting
Time: Jan 8, 2022 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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Meeting ID: 840 2275 6370
The February Meeting will be a Fiber Frenzy, see upcoming events page for more info.
This meeting substitutes for the previously planned November Exhibit at the Goleta Library. The library decided not to host our exhibit due to continue Covid concerns. If you were working on a piece please come to our Zoom meeting to share your work, inspire others and meet new members!
CANCELLED
Still here! We had members only meeting in August, our annual natural dye day in the park. We didn’t mention it here because, well, it was not public. But is was fun! We took September off for the Labor Day Holiday. October was going to be in-person, but with the Delta variant upping the COVID risk we are reverting to ZOOM.
Our theme for our October Meeting is a Members’ self introduction of their work as a fiber artist. All member who wish to speak and show their work and talk about their inspirations are invited to do so! Email Georganne Alex to get on the speakers’ list or just show up and raise your hand! This may inform the development of your piece for our November Members’ Exhibit. Please see the upcoming events page for future meetings.
Here is the ZOOM link for our October 2nd meeting! 10 am
SBFiberArtsGuild is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Monthly Guild Meeting
Time: Oct 2, 2021 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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