Non-TSA Workshops, Short Courses
and Lectures

These listings are for informational purposes only. Inclusion does not imply endorsement by TSA. Please do not contact TSA regarding these events. Correct contact information is included in the announcement.

Arizona

Blue River Wilderness Retreat
Natural Dye Workshop with Jane Hoffman
August 8-10, 2008

Blue River Wilderness Retreat, Alpine, AZ
This 2 1/2 day comprehensive workshop shows you how to create a rich palette of beautiful, lightfast and washfast color from natural dyes. We will be using native, cultivated, and imported dye material including plants from Jane's dye garden. She will share her knowledge and methods for producing many shades of color from each dye-pot. You will learn to prepare the dye, to mordant and dye protein fiber (i.e. wool, silk, mohair, alpaca), and to experiment with color by using post-mordant baths, exhaust baths and over-dyeing. For beginning and intermediate dyers. Materials will be provided.

Class fees are dependent upon number of participants:
4 = $240; 5 = $192; 6 = $160; 7 = $138; 8 = $120; 9 = $107; 10= $96
Materials fee: $25

For more information, email j.hoffman@frontiernet.net and see
http://www.blueriverretreat.com and http://www.artistsregister.com/artists/AZ104

Waugh Mountain Alpacas
Tapestry Weaving Workshop
August 23-24, 2008

Sat. 8:00 am - 5:00pm, Sun. 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Alpine, Arizona

This year's event in the annual workshop series will be a Tapestry Weaving workshop taught by return instructor Jane Hoffman from Blue, Arizona.

Beginning level introduction to tapestry weaving at our beautiful ranch setting. Fellowship with friends old and new. Advance registration required. Cost: $175 per person, includes cost of the loom (yours to keep), materials, and breakfast and lunch both days. For more information, please see http://www.waughmtnalpacas.com

California

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Fourth R. L. Shep Triennial Symposium on Textiles and Dress
Talking Cloth: New Studies on Indonesian Textiles
October 18, 2008

Join us in a full day of lectures featuring international scholars discussing their recent research and discoveries regarding the textiles of Indonesia. For information, email shepsymposium@lacma.org.

DeYoung Museum of San Francisco
Crossing Stitches and Crossing Borders: Iu Mien Embroidery in a Global Community
Saturday, May 10, 2008

A lecture by Dr. Sandra Cate
Koret Auditorium, de Young Museum
10:00 a.m.
The Textile Arts Council presents Dr. Sandra Cate with Crossing Stitches & Crossing Borders: Iu Mien Embroidery in a Global Community. Dr. Cate is an anthropologist and folklorist who has studied the embroidery of the Iu Mien since the late 1980s. She plans to bring examples of this wonderful work and we hope to have a demonstration as well. Free to TAC members, $10 general, $5 for FAMSF members and students.
Please call 415 750-3627 or email tac@famsf.org for more information.

Florida

American Tapestry Alliance
Educational Retreat: "Channeling Your Muse: Experimentation, Research, Innovation, Design"
June 29-July 1, 2008

Joan Baxter and Mary Zicafoose will lead the American Tapestry Alliance's educational retreat. Following Convergence 2008 in Tampa Bay, the retreat will take place at Eckerd College June 29th through July 1st, 2008. For more information and registration see http://www.americantapestryalliance.org or contact Mary Lane at marylnae53@mac.com or phone (360)754-1105.

Massachusetts

Fiber Art Center, Amherst, MA
Classes in Fiber Arts

The Fiber Art Center’s classes are ongoing and can reflect the work on exhibit in the Gallery. The Fiber Art Center offers classes in many different fiber techniques for all discipline levels. Please see their website for more information, including current classes and registration forms. http://www.fiberartcenter.org/classes/classes.html

International Listings

Canada

Textile Museum of Canada
Workshop: Pojagi with Chunghie Lee
Textile Museum of Canada
Postponed due to visa issues

This workshop will provide a rare chance to learn how to reinterpret the colours and shapes of traditional Korean pojagi (wrapping cloths) from an international artist. Lee will demonstrate and teach and machine stitching techniques to create contemporary patchwork designs with organza.
For more information see http://www.textilemuseum.ca.

Italy

Rome, Italy
Italian embroidery and lace making, hand weaving and quilting workshops
See http://www.ArtistRetreatinRome.com for workshop dates.

Fort Collins, Colorado resident Amalia Davies is teaming up with Colorado Front Range and Italian fabric artists to offer workshops in traditional Italian embroidery and lace making, hand weaving and quilting at her family’s villa in Rome, Italy. Each workshop instructor brings over 10 years of experience in his or her respective field.

This is a rare opportunity to explore first hand the Roman Culture and Lifestyle.

“The candidate for our vacations” Davies says “must love to explore, to enjoy observing the way Romans live, to ride the buses and trams, to walk on cobblestone, to brush shoulders with, and to eat and snack at the same places as the locals”.
The fee for a stay starts from $1,250, including eight nights in double rooms, daily breakfast, some meals, escort from/to the airport, walking tours, visits to yarns sale outlets and fabric art markets, and two fabric artisans in their studios and several other amenities.

Davies accompanies workshop participants traveling from Denver to Rome and ensures guests arrive safely at the Villa. “It seems that my life come to a full circle in the middle,” says Davies, who holds a Ph.D. from Colorado State University. “Now I can be an interpreter across the two cultures which have shaped my life and give my mother the opportunity to share the treasures of our origins.”

2008 events include three tours in Central Italy, taking the guests to visits renowned museums and local fiber artists in their studios in Tuscany, and Latium, in addition to attend (and take part) in a juried show of fiber art while seeing demonstrations of several techniques.

For more information about Artists Retreats in Rome visit www.ArtistRetreatinRome.com, where you will also find the homepages of all the workshop facilitator artists.

Czech Republic

North Carolina State University Summer Studio
May 16-July 1, 2008

The Prague Institute offers students the opportunity to participate in the Fibers and Surface Design Studio, and students can choose one of two GER courses being offered. A knowledge of the Czech language is not expected. On arrival in Prague, students will attend an orientation session including basic Czech language instruction and a city walking tour. The program also includes field trips to other European cities, visits to museums, galleries, designer and artist studios, evening performances and other cultural events. The studio will focus on both experimental approaches using frame and off frame structural techniques, stitching and hand and/or digital surface design and printing. The instructors will be Susan Brandeis and Vita Plume. For more information visit the NCSU website.