Hope you'll come join the fun in the Big Apple next week at Lion Brand Studio and the Textile Center in Brooklyn. Please contact the venue directly to sign up.
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. Time will be set aside for the teacher to individually discuss with students their ideas for future projects. Participants must be proficient in basic knitting techniques; knowledge of crochet is also helpful.
Student Supply list:
Bring knitting needles in different sizes, including double pointed needles, crochet hooks, scissors, tapestry needle and a notebook. Students should bring unusual “linear elements” for experimental knitting which could include (but is in no way limited to) raffia, twine, fabric strips, plastic or wire. Students should also bring a reasonable amount of light colored, plain (not slubby) yarns in 2 colors for an ongoing sampler. If you have other materials that you would really like to explore, make sure to bring them with you.
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 beautiful but simple 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 basic knit and crochet skills necessary.
Materials list
Please bring size 2-5 knitting needles and similar sized crochet hooks. However, if you prefer to work either smaller or larger, make sure to pack appropriate sized tools. Double pointed metal needles are only 7” and thus easier to knit with. Bring jewelry pliers and wire cutters if you have them though this wire is fine enough to use scissors, if needed. If you would like to incorporate beads into your work, it would be best to bring them. Also, this can be fine work so bring magnifiers if you use them. Extra spools of wire will be available for purchase from instructor as needed.
Museum curator Deborah Corsini says, “Primary Structures, our second major exhibition of art knitting and crochet, examines the creative versatility of these simple techniques and its metamorphosis into a powerful and significant art.” With work ranging from the architectural to graphic abstractions, from pioneers and established artists as well as contemporary emerging artists, the upcoming exhibit scheduled for continues to showcase the emergence of sculptural art knitting as a 21st century medium of imaginative and cutting edge artistic innovation.
Inhale by Helen Pynor
Curator Deborah Corsini and guest co-curator and artist Adrienne Sloane have drawn work from a vastly different group of visual artists working in the medium which includes the work of:
Xenobia Bailey
Arline Fisch
Susie Freeman
Sheila Klein
Tracey Krumm
Valerie Molnar
Sheila Pepe
Mary Walker Phillips
Helen Pynor
Yvette Kaiser Smith
Tatyana Yanishevsky
The exhibition runs from May 17– August 7, 2011. An opening reception is scheduled for Sunday, May 22 from 2–4 pmwith a curator’s talk, Knitting Unfettered by Adrienne Sloane on Sunday from 1–2 pm.
A hands-on workshop, “Knitting with Wire Master Class” with co-curator and artist Adrienne Sloane will be offered in conjunction with the exhibition on Saturday, May 21,
from 10-4:30pm.
Workshop reservations and information at www.sjquiltmuseum.org/calendar or call 408.971.0323 x14.
Expand your knitting horizons and get wired! In this class we'll cover the basics of knitting using 28-32 gauge wire by making a simple knit bracelet that we will embellish as time allows. The class will cover resources and materials and various techniques for successful wire knitting. Wire working or jewelry making skill not required but students should know how to knit and purl. Finish time depends on experience level and work pace.
Expand your knitting horizons and get wired! In this class we'll cover the basics of knitting using 28-32 gauge wire by making a simple knit bracelet that we will embellish as time allows. The class will cover resources and materials and various techniques for successful wire knitting. Wire working or jewelry making skill not required but students should know how to knit and purl. Finish time depends on experience level and work pace.
Artful Knit: A Sculptural Approach to KnittingTextileCenter, Minneapolis, MN
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. Time will be set aside for the teacher to individually discuss with students their ideas for future projects. Participants must be proficient in basic hand or machine knitting techniques; knowledge of crochet is also helpful.
Liberated from traditional forms, knitting is enjoying a renaissance and is now being shown widely in galleries and museums. This slide talk will cover knit artists, Adrienne Sloane’s work, its influences and directions, and also include work by other artists changing the landscape of knit art today.
Knitting Spring; Wandering in the Garden of the Knit MuseSaturday and Sunday, April 17 & 18, 10:00-4:00
Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CTwww.creativeartsworkshop.org
This class will explore the use of color and design using knitting fundamentals to create various three dimensional shapes taking advantage of knit’s natural tendencies. By manipulating stitches and working with conventional techniques and materials, students will problem solve and integrate new ideas to create their own designs and end up with a garden bouquet. For the intermediate knitter who wants to be pattern free and use up leftover yarns as a bonus. Let’s do some botanical knitting together.
Knitting and crochet are enjoying a renaissance as artists reinterpret and liberate them from their traditional forms to create new bodies of work now being shown in galleries and museums internationally. This slide talk will cover some of the recent amazing work by established and emerging artists who are helping to change the landscape of fiber art.
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 such as short rowing, protrusions and bulges, 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. While this will initially be a process oriented workshop, there will be opportunity to work on specific sculptural projects to innovatively incorporate these new ideas as well as design future sculptural projects.
Participants must be proficient in basic knitting techniques. Knowledge of crochet is also helpful.
Quiet Revolution: Knitting and the Political Landscape
July 13-18, 2010
Maybe Mme Defarge* was on to something. Within the framework of its recent renaissance, knitting has been more widely used as a medium of creative as well as political art. Experimenting with non-traditional materials and using knit in non-conventional ways, this class invites participants to explore sculptural knitting as an expressive art form with a focus on how to create meaning and message. By manipulating stitches and solving knitting geometry, participants will learn to ‘think knit’. The class will cover a range of dimensional techniques to help produce shape and stability as participants execute their ideas. We will examine the work of other knit artists and discuss what works and why. We will also discuss the ways in which knitting has recently exploded into the public space through the current international wave of guerrilla and graffiti knitting. Participants must know basic knitting techniques and be interested in engaging in a lively dialogue on the world around us while working on their own pieces.
* In Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, Madame Defarge secretly knit a register of the names of the revolution’s intended victims.
