LAKESHORE
Fiber Arts Guild
September 13, 2016
PRESS
RELEASE
For
immediate release
Byron
Center, Michigan – The Lakeshore Fiber Arts Guild’s next meeting will be on
Wed., Oct. 5, featuring Jan Koster and Diane Mulder on “Designing Your Own Costumes,”
at the Holland Area Arts Council, 150 East 8th St., Holland, MI
49423, starting promptly at 6:30pm with social time beginning at 6pm. Non-members are asked to pay $5 toward the
speaker’s fee.
Longtime
friends Diane Mulder and Jan Koster, both Holland residents, have shared a
passion for creating artful costumes, clothing and decorative items for their
homes. In addition to creating many
one-of-a-kind costumes, they both worked in costuming for the Holland Community
Theatre. Diane will present her
expertise in costume research, utilized in 1986 for her design of the Men’s
Staphorst Dutch Dance Costume. Jan will
use her alteration and pattern making experience to demonstrate how to change
basic patterns to create different costume effects.
Diane
Mulder worked for Kohl’s Department Stores where her job as a staging
specialist was setting up the individual store displays for their new
stores. Her current job at Dutch Village
involves many of the same creative skills in the area of displays and buying
for their store. In addition, Diane has
also created many commissioned costumes over the years.
After
receiving an Elementary Teaching Degree, Jan Koster returned to Michigan
State’s Clothing and Textile degree program to pursue her love of textiles, pattern
making and clothing design. Jan opened a
shop, The Tiny Tailor, which centered on alterations and custom design
clothing. She loves the creative process
of getting an idea, deciding how to create it and designing patterns or methods
to make those ideas into clothing, costumes or home decorating items.
The
Lakeshore Fiber Arts Guild invites anyone interested in the textile fiber arts
to their monthly program meetings held the first Wednesday of each month at the
Holland Area Arts Council. For more
information, visit the guild’s blog at
http://lakeshorefiberartsguild.blogspot.com or contact jgould1526@gmail.com or
616-878-1526.
