|
(Note: Calendar is organized by category - categories are listed at the left.)
ATA C a l e n d a r 2008
Exhibitions
September 2008 (and ongoing)
• "Tapestry 08: The British Tapestry Group" – Exhibition – June 7-Sept 28, Dean Clough Crossley Gallery & Bankfield Museum & Gallery, Halifax, West Yorkshire.
The British Tapestry Group
• "TWiNE 2008: A Contemporary Look at Tapestry" – Exhibition – will be at the Rivertree Center for the Arts in Kennebunk, from September 5-October 4, 2008. Tapestry Demonstration and Gallery Talks: Saturday, September 20, 1-3pm. Rivertree Center for the Arts, 35 Western Ave, Kennebunk, ME. River Tree Arts.
• "11,000 Words: Tapestries and Cartoons by Sarah Swett" – Exhibition – 28 August - until 30 September, 2008, Montgomery College in Conroe, Texas.
• "American Tapesetry Biennial 7" – Exhibition – September 5 - December 31, 2008. Final venue for ATB7 opens at the Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft, 715 Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Check their events listing here: ATB7 at KMAC.
• Connections: Small Tapestry International – Call for Entries – ATA announces the first in a series of juried small tapestry exhibitions: "Connections: Small Tapestry International." Juror: Jane Sauer of Jane Sauer Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. Maximum size 100 sq. in./ 625 sq. cm.). Artists are encouraged to push the idea of connections with concepts, techniques, other artists, the viewer or other areas of artistic investigation.
Digital entry deadline: November 30, 2008.
Click >> here << for a downloadable .pdf format prospectus which you can print out and use to submit your entry. You can also send a SASE to ATA Connections, 1050 Gunnison Ave., Grand Junction, CO 81501.
Forums, Lectures and Symposia
No listings at this time.
• Archie Brennan and Susan Martin Maffei – Workshop – 2 sessions in September; 10Th - 14Th then 17th - 21st, Damascus Fiber School. Cost is $450 per session and includes lunch and use of a loom with materials. Host home available. Hosted by Pam Patrie.
• "Let's Meet and Separate!" Tommye Scanlin– Workshop – Sept. 28 - Oct.4. This is a beginning tapestry class at Arrowmont School of Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN. More information from www.arrowmont.org
• Tapestry and Creative Potential – Workshop – Instructors: Peggy McBride, Tommye Scanlin and Pat Williams, September 21-November 14, 2008. For more information:
Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
Tapestry weaving techniques are easy to learn yet often take a long time to master. Along the way to mastery, there are many roads to consider in methods and in design ideas. This class will be about both: the known paths to basics of tapestry technique and the creative meanderings where ideas develop.
Collaborations among teachers and students will encourage all to delve into sequence and resolution, tradition and innovation. We will explore ways to find and develop personal concepts and images through which to celebrate the nature of tapestry.
Instructors McBride, Scanlin and Williams are long-time friends in fiber; over the past twenty-five years they've worked together in fiber art guilds, workshops, and critique sessions. They are eager to share ideas with others during this eight-week session at Penland, one of the most exciting craft school in the U.S.
Brief bios:
Peggy McBride, mixed media artist (commissions: Atlanta's Alliance Theatre Company, Children's Hospital, Federal Reserve Bank), owner, Globe Gallery in Clayton, GA, grants administrator for state's Grassroots Arts Program, creative consultant for non-profit art
organizations.
Tommye Scanlin, studio artist, juried member Southern Highland Craft Guild and Piedmont Craftsmen; professor emerita of art, North GA College & State Univ (GA), other teaching at John Campbell Folk School, Penland (NC), Arrowmont (TN); American Tapestry Alliance award (2007); work included in several public and private collections.
Pat Williams, studio artist, juried member Southern Highland Craft Guild, Masters in Art Education, art teacher of fifteen years (public school), American Tapestry Alliance award (2006), exhibited nationally and internationally with tapestry works in private collections.
• The Journal for Weavers, Spinners, and Dyers, Great Britain
• "Christine Laffer: Tapestry and Transformation" - by Carole Greene – Publication – Published by OutskirtsPress.com. Price $30.95. Available through www.amazon.com and other online bookstores.
• "Black and White and Red All Over"- by Micala Sidore – Publication – A catalog from this exhibition is available for $5. The cost of mailing, envelope etc is $2, although if you want to order more than one, just add $.75 per extra catalog. Within Massachusetts, include $.25 for sales tax. If you are outside the US, email her for info on mailing cost. The catalog is 8x8 inches, and 20 pages, with color photos on every page, text by Katherine Duncan Aimone and an introduction by Patrick McCay, Dean, New Hampshire Institute of Art. (the venue for the exhibition)
Micala Sidore, Hawley Street Tapestry Studio, 19C Hawley Street, Northampton, MA 01060-3301 USA.
• "NEZHNIE: Weaver & Innovative Artist"- by Linda Rees – Publication – chronicles the prolific career of tapestry artist, Muriel Nezhnie Helfman, best know for her tapestry series depicting "Images of the Holocaust." The book traces her ardent journey to become one of the greatest weavers of her generation, providing compelling insight into a woman striving to establish her identity as an artist, mother and wife in pre-feminist America. The 180 page paperback contains 32 color images and 72 B/W images. It costs $29.95 plus shipping: $350 US, 7.50 CA or per coutnry. Checks are payalbe to Linda Rees, 1507 Elkay Drive, Eugne, OR 97404
• "Tapestry 101" - by Kathe Todd Hooker – Publication – This book is a beginning course for the person interested in learning how to do woven tapestry. It will give you the foundation you need to understand tapestry weaving and be able to express yourself in this wonderful medium. There are plans for a simple, but competent loom, information on the equipment and materials you'll need for weaving, and instructions on doing the basic techniques that you need to know to complete your own tapestry. There is also information on finishing and mounting your tapestry for exhibition. Even if you have been weaving for awhile, Tapestry 101 information on all aspects of tapestry weaving that will be a help to you. There are 108 pages of written information, diagrams, and photographs with a spiral binding so that you can lay the book flat beside your loom as a reference while you're weaving. Cost: $29.00 plus shipping and handling. Available from Fine Fiber Press. www.peak.org/~spark/fine.html
• "Cover Ups and More Revelations - Tapestries by Barbara Heller" – Publication – 24 page colour catalogue with two essays and artist's statement - to accompany the exhibit of the same name. This booklet may be ordered from the artist for $20.00 which includes postage and handling: Barbara Heller, 7208 Hudson Street, Vancouver, Canada, V6P 6J6.
• "Kids Weaving " - by Sarah Swett – Publication –This book has 15 fun projects for kids to make. It includes how to weave on your hands, using cardboard, and how to make a loom using pvc plumbing supplies. Colorful and full of fun ideas. 128 pages, $19.95, hardcover with jacket. www.bookpeople.net/local/local3.htm
• "Navajo Weaving At Arizona State Museum: 19th Century Blankets; 20th Century Rugs; 21st Century Views." – Online Publication – The GFR Center for Tapestry Studies is pleased to announce the inauguration of an online version of a public exhibition that was installed from Oct 2004 through May 2005 in the Arizona State Museum's galleries in Tucson. The exhibition now exists only in a virtual form on this website: www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/exhibits/navajoweave/
|
|
|
