Going Down Your Own Road
3 Day Class
Instructor: Darcy Falk

Drawing on my own art-making experiences and on my interviews with other well-established artists, we’ll explore methods of developing personal imagery and content, including ways of generating and developing ideas. We’ll consider how techniques impact content, and look at various ways of working toward rich, meaningful artworks.

Color Mixing For Dyers
5 Day Class
Instructor: Carol Soderlund

Dye the color you choose, not the color that chooses you! Explore the unlimited number of hues possible by mixing only pure reds, yellows, and blues of Procion MX dye. Teams of students will use different sets of primaries that when mixed will yield hundreds of colors in a wide range of values. Sharing the results, each student will build a sample book of more than 1,000 dye formulas on 100% cotton fabric. This book will become an invaluable reference for future dyeing. Using the sample book as a guide, each student will apply the basic techniques of dyeing, including dyeing value gradations, over-dyeing, and low water immersion techniques to do further explorations as time allows.

Puttin' on the Rips
5 day class
Instructor: Joanne Tallarovic

In a 5-day workshop weave absolutely wonderful fabric for clothing using the same theory involved in ripsmatta (rep weave). A similar threading, used for placemats and table linens, is scaled down to produce dramatic handwoven fabric with loom-controlled ripsmatta images on the surface. Warps of unmercerized cottons; 8/2, 10/2, 12/2, 16/2, and 20/2 are set at 12 - 15 epi. Both thick and thin wefts are necessary to produce a rep weave pattern on the surface.

Students weave on their own 4 or 8-shaft looms threaded in four to eight-block designs with different wefts and tie-ups for maximum effect and design possibilities.  Participants weave fabric for a vest or jacket, approximately 2-1/2 to 3 yards, or more.  Emphasis will be placed on achieving a stable, flexible fabric suitable for clothing. Students design their own warp with help from Joanne’s book, REP WEAVE and BEYOND, from Interweave Press, 2004.

Direct Dye Painting and Composition
2 Day Class
Instructor: Melanie Testa

In this two day class we will explore design and composition with thickened dyes on cotton broadcloth and silk organza. We will work in a small format using freezer paper and monoprinting and direct dye techniques to build a work of art while learning basic thickened dye techniques.

Creating Designs on Textiles and Specialty Paper From Digital Prints
3 day class.
Instructor: Kathyanne White

We will cover everything you need to know about bringing digital images to fabric using an inkjet printer.
Ideas and discussions in this workshop will include design, content, composition, personal style, color, suitability, surface selection, surface preparation, getting a quality print and many others. Participants will print images and do small studies and projects.
Creating Designs on Textiles is not a beginning workshop. Some knowledge of photo program software is necessary. Knowledge of Photoshop Elements or Photoshop will be helpful.

Desktop computers provided, or bring your own laptop.

Printing on Silks
3 Day Class
Barb Wills

The unique qualities of silk make it an ideal canvas for painting and printing. Watercolor , acrylic painters and fiber artists will find silk paints are very similar to these media. this workshop combines fine art printing techniques with fiber art and takes students beyond the basics of printing on fiber. For students from beginning to advanced.

The workshop will begin with painting silk scarves to become familiar with silk and silk paints. Then the workshop will progress to painting on stretched silk, creating relief plates, and non-traditional printing techniques for fiber. Students will leave with a painted scarf, painted and printed silk and several printing plates that can be used to hand print, as well as extensive resources on the techniques used.

Hand-Dyed Fabric Extravaganza
2 Day Class
Instructor: Adriene Buffington

This is an introduction to hand-dyeing. Workshop participants will explore basic color theory, and learn to create clear, bright primary, secondary and tertiary colors through basic dyeing techniques. There will be plenty of time to play and experiment.