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“Finish and Exhibit that Piece!” with Jenny Schu As fiber artists we can have a tendency to enjoy the process of creating a piece but not be prepared to finish or display it. We might start to solve these problems by considering what to do at the beginning stages or during the creation of your…
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“Building Woven Landscapes” with Maris Van Vlack With Building Woven Landscapes, interdisciplinary textile artist Maris Van Vlack will provide insight into her artistic practice of creating woven and knitted landscape tapestries using floor looms and jacquard looms. Van Vlack is an interdisciplinary artist who uses weaving to build images of architectural spaces that explore themes…
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“Sewing Your Handmade Fabrics, Part 1” with Liz Spear Liz Spear presents the 30+ year evolution of a weaving/sewing business with roots in a Midwestern upbringing, years making pottery full-time, and a final move to Western North Carolina. Her handwoven fabrics are cut-n-sewn into classic shirts, jackets and coats, often supplemented with her Nuno-felt and…
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“Couture Passementerie Through the Eyes of a Fiber Artist” with Robyn Spady From Chanel and Balenciaga to the House of Worth and Ralph Lauren, passementerie has been a way to elevate a garment from something ordinary to something extraordinary. What is passementerie? It’s a French term without an English equivalent. Passementerie encompasses a multitude of techniques…
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“Weaving in the UP: the Legacy of Immigrant Finns Lives On” with Phyllis Fredendall With images and stories from the Copper Country and Finland, Phyllis will share a weaving journey including the development of the fiber and fashion design program at Suomi College through to the survival of its dynamic fiber studio as the anchor of…
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“Pat Rat Color Gamp” with Kendra Barnowski You’re invited to follow along on a journey of natural dyes at your fingertips, culminating in a beautiful, double-weave color gamp! Kendra Barnowski will discuss the process of gathering dye materials over the course of a year to create a colorful, at-a-glance reference for future studio work. We…
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“Maximalist Mending: Sustainable Fashion with a Punk Philosophy” with Mariel Collins In this lecture we will explore ideas within the punk movement, and how they relate to fiber arts practices in obvious and surprising ways. We will also focus in on mending specifically, as a vehicle for expressing these ideas, and an approachable method for…
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September 26, 27, and October 3, 2026 There is something fascinating about double cloth, isn’t there? To weave at all is amazing, and to weave two layers at the same time feels like magic! In this class we will be working on four shafts to dive deep into the potential of those two layers. We’ll…
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Zoom Workshop: Weaving with Wire – This 3-day workshop will include: November 21, 22 and 29, 2026 Christine is a life long fiber artist with experience in weaving, sewing, basketry, embroidery, felting, dyeing, knitting, crochet, and fiber sculpture. She is a former visual arts educator with local, state, and national arts education recognition. She continues…
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A Weaver’s Journey: from Stick Shelters to Jacquard Weaving with Mary Burns Join fiber artist Mary Burns for a presentation covering her lifelong fiber journey from childhood stick shelters to rug weaving, from wall art to natural dyeing and eco-printing, and jacquard weaving. Mary will discuss various styles of weaving that she has done, including…