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Program Notes:
There are several program changes. Please check days, dates, times and venues on this new schedule and mark your calendar accordingly. |
The Weavers’ Guild of St. Louis is excited to bring Karen Selk
formerly of Treenway Silks to St. Louis for two wonderful workshops.
Karen has been a textile designer and artist since 1972. Her primary focus has been weaving and fusing felt with silk. A quest for knowledge of all aspects of silk has taken her throughout Asia researching the history and heritage of silk traditions. She travel teaches sharing her approach through lectures and workshops. The cloth, culture and people of other countries as well as the life in Karen’s garden are the source of her creative spirit. Karen is the author of numerous magazine articles, an educational poster about the life cycle of the silkworm and a silk fusion video. As managing director of Treenway Silks for 30 years she has designed and developed new yarns, fibres, kits and colour palettes.”
Karen will be teaching a 3-day silk weaving workshop and a 1-day silk fusion workshop. The weaving workshop will be March 2-4, 2012, and the fusion workshop will be on March 5. We are also planning to have Karen present a lecture for the guild on Tuesday March 6th. Please check our website 'Workshop' page for registration forms or contact Dale Pessin at dale@pessin.net or 314-614-7375 for further information. Both workshops have a limited number of participants, so please get your registration in quickly to make sure there is a place for you. |
ATTENTION KNITTERS AND SPINNERS STUDY GROUP
Have you missed our meetings these past months?
Plan to bring a brown bag lunch to our April 24th Guild meeting,
along with your knitting and/or spinning project.
We will meet following the morning program by Chad Alice Hagen,
have our lunch, and share our latest projects.
Our usual room 102 is reserved until 4 PM, so plan to
stay, catch up, and work. Not a regular member of the group?
Everyone is welcome - plan to stay. If you have knitting or
spinning problems or questions, we'll be glad to help. |
Chad Alice Hagen three-day workshop,
"Resist Dyeing on Wool Felt and Wrapped Journal”.
Chad has been a feltmaker and dyer since 1979. She received her BA in Art and Master’s in Textile Design from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has written three books, Fabulous Felt Hats, The Weekend Crafter: Feltmaking, and Fabulous Felted Scarves. Her work has appeared on the covers of Surface Design Journal, Fiberarts and Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot Magazine.
Chad has taught feltmaking extensively since 1984 to adults and children throughout the United States. Since 2000 she has taught spring classes in England, Holland, Ireland and Germany.
Hagen’s feltmaking specialty and passion is resist dyeing of hand-felted wool. Chad has some really wonderful pieces on her website for your viewing pleasure: www.chadalicehagen.com/portfolio/index.html
This workshop, underwritten by The Doris Oglander Fund, is being held April 21-22-23, 2012. Please visit the guild’s “Workshop” page for more information. Chad will also be presenting two very different programs at the day and evening meetings on April 24. We hope you’ll make time to attend as many of the activities as possible while we have this wonderful artist in St. Louis. |
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