Please join me at one of the following workshops!
January 8-14,
John C. Campbell Folk School
Brasstown, NC 28902
Brasstown, NC 28902
By manipulating stitches and solving knitting
geometry, participants will experiment with knitting fundamentals to learn
‘think knit’. We will explore the use of non-traditional materials and cover a
range of dimensional techniques to help create shape and stability, also
exploring protrusions and bulges, short rowing, random pickups, ruffles, knit
painting, and tubular structures. Primarily a process oriented workshop, a
slide show will be included and participants will come away with a broad range
of approaches to use in future sculptural projects (or even creative garment
design).
January 24 - 29
Playing
with the Knit Muse: A Sculptural Approach to Knitting
North Country Studio Workshops
Bennington College, Vermont
Learn to
'think knit' by experimenting with knitting fundamentals and solving knitting
geometry. Explore non-traditional materials and a range of techniques to help
create shape and stability when working in three dimensions in this
process-oriented workshop. A slide show
of current knit artists will help guide and inspire the work. Participants must be proficient in basic
knitting techniques; knowledge of crochet helpful
Feb 11-12
Metalwerx
Waltham, MA
Knitting on the Rocks
Expand your knit horizons and get
wired! Learn new ways to successfully knit with wire while also exploring
tubular structures and
how to encapsulate objects within knitting. With basic
knit skills, this hands-on workshop will get students hooked
on creating interesting jewelry and small sculptures with
wire. Using a flexible copper wire in a beautiful range of
colors, students will have the opportunity to design and execute
unique pieces while we also cover resources, materials and
further design ideas. Previous wire or jewelry experience not
required but basic knit skills necessary. For knit
fanatics who want to cover everything they see with knit.
Bring your own rocks.
Columbia Fiber Arts Guild
Portland OR
March 14, 2012 lecture
March 17/18 workshop
Knit Anything: Not Clothing
March 29-April 4
IDENTITY: CONTEXT AND REFLECTION
Studio Art Quilt Associates and Surface Design Association
Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia, PA
Knit Anything: Not Clothing
Explore contemporary knitting and
expand your vision of what a little knitting can do. Over the course of this class, participants
will develop a personal language of forms by experimenting with knitting
fundamentals to uncover the enormous possibilities of three dimensional
knit. By manipulating stitches and solving knitting geometry,
participants will learn to ‘think knit’. We will explore the use of
non-traditional materials and cover a range of dimensional techniques to help
create shape and stability while also taking advantage of knit’s natural
tendencies. Techniques for creating protrusions and bulges as well as
short rowing, random pickups, ruffles, knit painting, and tubular structures will
be introduced. A slide show of artists who use knitting techniques as a
means of creative expression will be shown for inspiration. We will also
address the ways in which knitting has recently exploded into the public space
through the current international wave of guerrilla and graffiti
knitting. This will primarily be a process oriented workshop, with
one on one instructor time to discuss future sculptural projects. This new
knitting vocabulary is also applicable to those interested in wearable art.
April 15
Lion Brand Yarn Studio
NYC, NY
Knitting on the
Rocks
May 5-6
Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
Knit Anything: Not Clothing
June 3-8
John C. Campbell Folk School
Brasstown, NC 28902
Brasstown, NC 28902
Knitting Wired:
Wandering the garden of the knit muse
Covering a variety of
approaches to creating stitches as well as resources and materials, students
will problem solve and manipulate stitches adding beads or other found objects
as they integrate their ideas and designs in an array of jewelry and small
sculptures. Participants will later work with heavier gauge wire in
a larger sculptural format. A slide show of artists who use wire knitting
techniques as a means of creative expression will be shown for
inspiration.
July 8-14,
Arrowmont School of Craft
Gatlinburg, TN
Knit Anything; Not Clothing
