Saturday, February 27, 2016

A WOMAN OF THE CLOTH: LINDA WALBURN




HOLLAND AREA ARTS COUNCIL
150 EAST 8TH ST, HOLLAND, MI
WENDESDAY, MARCH 2, 2016
SOCIAL:6PM  PROGRAM:6:30PM
Non member fee is $5.00

WEATHER ADVISORY:  If Holland Public Schools are closed,
the Arts Council is also closed and the
meeting will be cancelled.




Linda Taft Walburn, a Grand Rapids resident, will talk about her journey to becoming a fiber artist, choosing textiles as her art-making genre, and how her spirituality is a common thread in creating art quilts.  Her actual art quilts will be shown during the lecture and hands-on-the-quilts is expected.  An award-winning professional fiber artist, Walburn has had a career making and teaching art for thirty-five years. Currently she expresses her art through the art-quilt genre in a style that is reflective of abstract expressionism. Her methods are screen printing with Procion dyes, digital printing with an Epson inkjet printer and machine stitching. 





April 6 – Leara Glinzak:  “Altered Books”

Saturday, February 6, 2016

FUN, FUN, FUN is all I can say about our Thread Dyeing program by Julia Voake

Julia brought all the dyeing supplies we needed to dye our crochet cotton, embroidery floss or any other fiber we wanted to try.  She developed this technique to get uneven variegated colors using Procion MX dyes.





Picking out our colors was the hardest part. Julia suggested using 3 colors.













 As you can see this took full concentration to put the colors randomly on the thread.














After carefully dyeing our threads we stacked them on plastic plates to take home and let sit for 24 hours. Then we rinsed them and admired our creativity, thanks to Julia.






I love all my colored threads. Please send me pictures of finished dyed threads and I will post.

Then came Show 'N Tell




Suzanne made these wonderful felted critters.  She is learning new techniques in felting from the following website:
http://www.sarafinafiberart.com/



Alexa made some more wonderful glass beaded earrings. Her new design looks like a Petoskey stone.






Jennifer spent a lot of time this month experimenting with Indigo dyeing on all types of fabrics for the class she will teach this summer at the MLH show in Holland.

Dyeing for Blue:  Indigo with Shibori Techniques




http://www.mlhguild.org/2016-workshops/workshops/jennifer-gould/
This is the website for her class and others that will be offered.