Happily Lobby Congress with Art is getting a bit of play online. That with my nomination by Fiber Arts Now magazine on their blog as a Fiber Great have been quite gratifying recent events. Various links are as follows:
and then, of course,
I am still trying to arrange for A House Divided to be shown in Washington, DC during the election season. If anyone has contacts and can help on that, it would be most appreciated.
April 14
Textile Center
http://www.textileartscenter.com/
Knit Painting
Envy the way that painters can so freely use splashes of color but can’t stop knitting? Escape the limitations of a line and experiment with a technique which allows you to move across a knit canvas as though you were painting with your needles all while creating texture and dimension. This technique can also give the work structure and support usually lacking in traditional knit. The workshop will start with instruction on creative short row shaping and then move into your knit canvas incorporating these ideas. Bring to class two colors of non slubby light colored yarns for samplers and two 10” by 10” knit squares to use as canvasses. Also bring your needles and a selection of yarns to “paint” with.
April 15
Lion Brand Yarn Studio
NYC, NY
Knitting on the Rocks
Expand your knit horizons and get wired! An introduction to small scale work, this workshop presents alternative approaches to successful jewelry knitting with wire. Learn new ways to create knit stitches while exploring tubular structures, including how to encapsulate objects within knitting. Using basic stitches and 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 knit everything they see. Bring your own rocks.
May 5-6
Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh, PA
knit anything: NOt clothing
Develop a personal language of forms by experimenting with knitting fundamentals to uncover the enormous possibilities of a three dimensional knit. By manipulating stitches and solving knitting geometry, participants will learn to 'think knit'. The class will explore the use of non-traditional materials and cover a range of techniques to help create shape and stability when working in three dimensions. Your new knitting vocabulary can be applied to sculptural or wearable creations. This is a process-oriented workshop, with time devoted to making samples and experiments as you learn each technique or concept. Participants must be proficient in basic knitting techniques; knowledge of crochet is also helpful.
June 3-8
John C. Campbell Folk School
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
Over the course of this class, participants will develop a personal language of forms by experimenting with knitting fundamentals and working with the enormous possibilities of three dimensional knit. By manipulating stitches and solving knitting geometry, participants will learn to ‘think knit’. The class will explore the use of non-traditional materials and cover a range of dimensional techniques to help create shape and stability. There will be opportunity to work on specific sculptural projects to innovatively incorporate these ideas. For inspiration, we will also view a slide show and discuss artists who use knitting techniques as a means of creative expression. Participants must be proficient in basic knitting techniques. Knowledge of crochet is also helpful.
September 19-22
Textile Society of America 13th Biennial Symposium Washington, DC
Textiles & Politics
Unravelling Political Knitting Panel Chair
Sept 29-30
Canterbury Shaker Village, NH
www.shakers.org/
knit anything: NOt clothing
Develop a personal language of forms by experimenting with knitting fundamentals to uncover the enormous possibilities of a three dimensional knit. By manipulating stitches and solving knitting geometry, participants will learn to 'think knit'. The class will explore the use of non-traditional materials and cover a range of techniques to help create shape and stability when working in three dimensions. Your new knitting vocabulary can be applied to sculptural or wearable creations. This is a process-oriented workshop, with time devoted to making samples and experiments as you learn each technique or concept. Participants must be proficient in basic knitting techniques; knowledge of crochet is also helpful.
Vogue Knitting LIVE! in Chicago
October 26- 28, 2012
Knitting Wired
Expand your knitting horizons and get wired! Wire is a wonderful, flexible medium to use to make delicate and interesting jewelry. In this class we'll cover the basics of working with wire and make simple but beautiful pieces that can also be embellished with beads. The class will cover resources and materials and various techniques for successful wire knitting and crochet. Wireworking or jewelry making skill not required but knit and crochet skills necessary
