April 5, 6:30 pm Corvallis Arts Center Lower Level Contemporary fiber art encompasses all form of artwork that use fiber as a medium

Issue 36: March 2011

participate. The next meeting is scheduled for April 5.

Table of Contents Announcements

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Event Briefs

Show and Tell

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Featured Presentation

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Call for Artists

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Events

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A retrospective exhibition, “Laurie Herrick: Weaving Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow” will be held March 18 through July 30 at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland. See the Events section for details.

Future Programs

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March 2011 Meeting Announcements Dues!

Tash Wesp, who was the featured speaker at our June 2010 meeting, will have fiber art creations for sale at the following events: •

The Oregon Country Fair, Booth #670, in Veneta, Oregon (13 miles west of Eugene), July 8 – 10.

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Stillpoint Farm Women’s Festival in Veneta, Oregon, August 20.

Annual dues of $20 are still being collected. If you • Cedarwood Winter Fair, at Cedarwood Waldorf haven't already given your check to Shirley School in Portland, Oregon, in December (the Strub, please do so as soon as possible. At the exact date has not yet been set). same time, please check that your contact information is up-to-date, so we can be sure that She also will be teaching three classes on felting all paid members are receiving the newsletter. later this year. See the Events section for more information. Art and Design Group Meeting The Art and Design Group meets on the second Wednesday of each month at the Philomath Public Library, starting at 3:30 p.m.; the next meeting will be held on April 6. The group discusses our individual efforts at completing the exercises outlined in the book Art+Quilt: Design Principles and Creativity Exercises, by Lyric Kinard. For further information contact Cheryl Jordan or Barbara Gordon.

Critique Group Meeting The Critique Group meets on the second Tuesday of each month from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. at the Philomath Library. All CFA members, with or without work of their own to critique, are invited to

Book Sale The May 3 CFA meeting will feature a sale of books and magazines, from our members to our members. Begin now to select books and magazines in the field of fiber arts that you’d like to sell. Please see the Future Programs section for more information.

The meetings and newsletters welcome announcements and news of events. Please pass along any information that you think might be of interest to other CFA members!

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Show and Tell Ginny Morgan designed and created this pillow top with an appliqued embellishment. The source of the design was copyright-free clip art that Ginny found on the Web.

Karen Miller shared some quilts she had recently finished. Here she holds up one of the art quilts she completed prior to her knee surgery.

Monine Stebbins modeled another example of a garment she has made from one of Karen Miller's patterns, a coat of sheer fabric embellished with embroidery and beads.

Karen and Nancy display a large quilt that Karen had made for her daughter. Nancy Bryant shared a book, Fashioning Fashion, showing a fashion collection from the

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18th and 19th century. The collection is on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She also modeled one of the scarves available from the main speaker of the evening, Barbara Setsu Pickett.

learning about the many forms of the art of ikat. Ikat is an Indonesian word for a method of weaving that uses a resist dyeing process similar to tie-dye on either the warp or weft fibers, or both. She first shared a lecture and photos of her trips researching the widely diverse cultures that all produce versions of woven silk ikat velvet. In her presentation she displayed a set of photos from her trip to Uzbekistan, where ikat velvet is called abrand, meaning “tying rainbows and clouds.”

Featured Presentation Ikat Velvet and Shibori Scarves Dr. Barbara Setsu Pickett is a professor at the University of Oregon, where she teaches fiber arts. She specializes in velvet weaving, shibori, and book arts. She has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Commission, the Oregon Arts Commission and the Institute of Turkish Studies and has been an artist-in-residence at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. For the past two decades she has been weaving velvet and researching techniques, traveling all over the world and studying with master velvet weavers. She has studied in Italy, France, England, Japan, China, Turkey, and Uzbekistan,

Barbara also shared photos and information on the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market, held the second weekend every July. There is stiff competition to exhibit at this festival. The second portion of the program presented silk scarves, hand dyed in her Mihara Shibori Studio. The shibori process produces intricate patterns through the use of various tying methods prior to dyeing the silk fabric, without requiring use of chemical resists. Above: Barbara Setsu Pickett unfolds a shibori scarf after it has been wrapped, dyed, steamed, and allowed to dry.

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of the following categories: New Horizons (garments by persons who have been weaving, knitting, crocheting, spinning, or felting for fewer than three years), Far Horizons (fashions inspired by foreign countries or other cultures), Beyond the Horizon (“far out” fashions using unusual materials, structures, and/or designs), and Explorer's Club (fashions showcasing the artist's search for excellence in creating unique garments). Each artist may submit up to four entries. The deadline for submitting entries into the conference fashion show has been extended to April 12. Questions can be addressed to Nancy Bond Hemming at [email protected]. For fashion show entry forms and more information, see http://www.exploringfiberhorizons.com/.

Infinity Art Gallery Deadline: April 15, 2011

Barbara and her son Michael brought a nice collection of shibori scarves for CFA members to admire and purchase. We had a wonderful time trying them on and advising each other on which ones to purchase. Look for some of our new scarves being worn at upcoming CFA meetings. Last September she gave a similar presentation on ikat weaving to the Seattle Weavers’ Guild; there is a good article in Weavezine on this at http://www.weavezine.com/weavegeek/swg-velvetweaving-dr-barbara-setsu-pickett. In addition, there

is an overview article on ikat on Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikat.

Call for Artists Association of Northwest Weavers’ Guilds Annual Conference Deadline: April 12 The 2011 conference of the Association of Northwest Weavers’ Guilds will be held at Willamette University in Salem, from May 30 through June 5, 2011. The conference includes a fashion show, “Fashionable Explorations.” Fashion show garments may be submitted in one

Infinity Art Gallery has issued a call to all fiber artists for its online exhibition. Infinity Art Gallery is an international online gallery that provides juried art exhibits. The gallery serves artists by promoting their work and putting collectors in touch with artists. This call is open to all fiber artists. Judging is based on composition, concept, content, and overall excellence. The number of pieces selected for exhibit will be determined by jury and gallery discretion. Several awards totaling $2,200 will be given out. The online exhibition will open on May 15, 2011. Jury selected artwork will be exhibited for three months on line at InfinityArtGallery.com; award winners are displayed in the archives indefinitely. Thousands of visitors view the exhibits each week. The gallery displays all submissions in preexhibit shows, so everyone has the opportunity to be seen. (Artists may choose not to pre-exhibit.) The deadline for submissions is April 15, 2011. Artists pay an entry fee of $25 to submit either one or two works of art. Artists may enter more than once. Applicants should submit high-quality images that are acceptable for viewing online. Each artist retains all copyrights. See http://www.infinityartgallery.com/upcoming/fiber-arts/

for submission information.

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Collectors are encouraged to directly contact artists, or their representatives, to purchase art. No commissions are taken by Infinity Art Gallery for sales generated via the exhibition. There is no charge to use the website and no membership fee. The only charge is the entry fee for online exhibits.

“Quilt County” Math Exhibit at The Arts Center Deadline: April 19, 2011 The Arts Center is seeking artwork for the Quilt County 2011 exhibition from September 3 through 25, 2011. They wish to exhibit art that is not necessarily a quilt, but that deals with the same premise that quilting does: many small parts comprising a larger whole.

The exhibition’s opening reception will be held July 14, 2011. The show closes August 18. Sales of exhibited works are encouraged. There will be a 30% commission (15% to the gallery and 15% to Astoria Visual Arts) on any works sold. The juror is Barbara Setsu Pickett, Associate Professor Emeritus in the Art Department at the University of Oregon and the featured speaker at the March 2011 CFA meeting. Work created in any fiber media and/or using fiber techniques is eligible for inclusion. All artwork must be presentation-ready.

The entry fee is $35.00 for up to three images. Applicants must provide a CD with images in JPEG format of work that will be available for the exhibition, with one full view and one detail view for each image submitted. Each CD must be This year they are looking for artwork that was accompanied by a completed entry form. The created with mathematics as a recognizable application deadline is May 20, 2011, with guiding principle, since so many quilts have notification June 4 – 6. Accepted work is due mathematical elements in their design. They hope June 30. For more information, see to introduce math in a playful and artful way, with http://www.astoriafiberarts.com/. a visible connection between art and science, so Astoria Bicentennial that art is experienced as a research method. The exhibit is open to all media, and computer art generated directly from code will be allowed. Tessellation, geometrics, sequences, and similar themes are envisioned. Both two-dimensional and three-dimensional art will be accepted. Artists and mathematicians are encouraged to submit for the exhibit, but due to The Arts Center’s mission, the selection will be based more on aesthetics than on mathematical content. See http://www.theartscenter.net/ exhibitions/call-to-artists/ for more information.

Coastal Fiberarts 2011 Deadline: May 20, 2011 Astoria Visual Arts, a non-profit, community-based visual arts association, is launching a new fiber arts exhibit to be held in the Art Center Gallery of Clatsop Community College in Astoria, Oregon. The goal is to provide a new venue for works created using both traditional techniques and materials as well as contemporary and innovative fiber art.

Scarf Competition

Deadline: May 14, 2011 The Astoria Fiber Arts Academy is sponsoring a knitting competition for scarves commemorating the 2011 Astoria Bicentennial. Knitters from across the Pacific Northwest are welcome to participate. A juried exhibition will be held May 21 and 22. The competition entry must be a scarf designed and created by the artist. The scarf should incorporate the colors of the Astoria Bicentennial of gold, blue, and red. Scarves also may incorporate the word "Astoria" and the dates “1811” and “2011.” Scarves must be made after March 18, 2011 and prior to May 14, 2011. A panel of judges will assess entries. Awards will be given in the categories of People's Choice, Best Design, Best Innovation Best Craftsmanship, and Retail Store Winner. At the knitter's discretion, scarves may be offered for sale at the Fiber Arts Academy retail store, with a 25% commission. Retail sales price will be determined by the entrant; suggested minimum price is $100. 5

For more information and online registration, see http://www.astoriafiberarts.com/scarf-competitionsummary.htm. Registration for the contest ends

May 7 at 5:00 p.m. Entries are due by 5:00 p.m. Saturday, May 14.

Giustina Gallery: Sixth Annual Community Art Exhibit Deadline: June 29, 2011 The Giustina Gallery at Oregon State University’s LaSells Stewart Center will host a free, non-juried community art exhibit, open to anyone who resides or works in Benton and Linn counties. Artists of all ages and skill levels are encouraged to participate. Entry forms for the exhibition are available at http://oregonstate.edu/lasells/gallery. Bring artwork (only one piece of art per person) and completed entry form to the Giustina Gallery at 875 SW 26th Street, Corvallis, OR 97331. Submissions are due June 29 at 4:00 p.m. The exhibition will run from July 5 through July 28, 2011. The gallery will hold an artists’ reception, free and open to the public, on July 8 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

“A Few of Our Favorite Things” Fabric and Fiber Art Exhibit Deadline: June 30, 2011 In conjunction with Quilt County, the Giustina Gallery at OSU’s LaSells Stewart Center will host a juried exhibit featuring current work of Oregon fabric and fiber artists expressing and expanding the bounds of quilting. The theme of the exhibit is “A Few of our Favorite Things.”

The exhibition will run from September 1 through September 30, 2011. The gallery will hold an artists’ reception, free and open to the public, on September 9 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Events Samplers International: A World of Needlework “Samplers International: A World of Needlework” runs from March 11 through April 30, 2011, 2011 in the Moreland Gallery of the Benton County Historical Museum. With generous support form the Sampler Consortium, the Museum is showing more than 50 pieces spanning 260 years of samplers from the U.S., Mexico, France, England, Scotland, and Scandinavia, in a variety of styles, stitches, and materials. This show includes samplers of all kinds, from contemporary to antique, from alphabet samplers to birth announcements, in a display gathered from many private collections. Don't miss this fascinating exhibition! The Benton County Historical Museum, at 1101 Main Street in Philomath, is open free to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more information call 541-9296230 or visit http://www.bentoncountymuseum.org/.

Work accepted for exhibit will exemplify innovation in use of fabric, fiber, weaving, quilting, Neocolor II Class at and surface design techniques and excellence in Jannilou Creations artistic composition and craftsmanship. Work Nancy Bryant will teach a fiber must consist of at least 50% fiber or fabric. arts class “Adventures with Neocolor II Crayons” Artists who intend to participate should submit a on Saturday, April 9, 9:30 to 4 pm at Jannilou CD with images of their artwork (only three pieces Creations quilt store in Philomath. Neocolor II wax per person) and a completed entry form to the pastel crayons work beautifully to color fabric. Giustina Gallery at 875 SW 26th Street in Rubbing plates add texture to the colorful Corvallis by June 30, 2011 at 4:00 p.m. Entry creations. For additional information or to register, forms are available at http://oregonstate.edu/ call 541-929-3795. lasells/gallery. 6

CFA ColorHue Workshop The CFA ColorHue Workshop is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 7. Currently the class limit of 12 students has been reached. If you signed up for the workshop, please pay the $25 instructional fee (based on 12 participants) at the April 5 meeting if you are a CFA member, or $35 if you are not a CFA member. Make checks payable to CFA. If you are coming to the workshop and cannot pay at the April 5 meeting, please send your check to Nancy Bryant, 4128 NW Peppertree Place, Corvallis, 97330 by April.11. The materials fee of $35 will be paid with cash or check to Barbara Pickett at the May 7 workshop. Additionally, Barbara will bring some of her scarves to sell, so if you missed buying one or more at the March CFA meeting, you have another opportunity.

Tacoma, Washington on August 26 through 28. Information about the show can be found at http://apwq.org/quiltshow-2011.html. Admission is $10 for a three-day pass for members or $10 per day for nonmembers. Lectures are offered on various topics on Friday and Saturday (these are $10 each). Advance registration is required for the lectures. Hotel accommodations run $139 to $155 per night for a double-occupancy room.

Textiles of Central Asia Tour Vista360 invites fiber artists on its 2011 tour “Exploring the Silk Road: A Journey to the Creative Heart of Central Asia.” Participants will travel to Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan this summer to explore the culture and traditions of these extraordinary places, with a special emphasis on textile arts.

The tour is scheduled for August 16 through September 10, 26 days and 25 nights (14 days for Kyrgyzstan only). The itinerary in Kyrgyzstan includes Bishkek, Lake Issyk-Kul and Karakol, the village of Kaji-Sai and the summer pastures above it, and a trip to the center of the country At the April 5 CFA meeting, we will sign up to bring items for the group to share, such as ironing and the heart of feltmaking – Kochkor, Tash Rabat, At Bashy, and Naryn. An optional boards, irons, large buckets for rinse water, etc. extension of the tour to Uzbekistan includes Oregon Weaving: Tashkent, Fergana valley (center of silk production and various crafts), the ancient city of The Tradition Continues Khiva (UNESCO World Heritage site), lovely and The Arts Center Main Gallery will historic Bukhara, and Samarkand. showcase an exhibition of woven textile art from Contact Candra Day of Vista360 at 307-733-3082 May 28, 2011 to June 25. There will be a or [email protected] for more information and reception on Wednesday, June 1 from 5:30 p.m. pricing, or see http://www.vista360.org/. to 7:00 p.m., and a Brown Bag Talk on Wednesday, June 8 from noon to 1:00 p.m. If you want to attend the workshop but have not signed up, we would be happy to put you on a waiting list. If someone who has signed up cannot attend, we may be able to accommodate you.

The Corvallis Handweavers and Spinners Guild will curate this show, in which four well-known artist-weavers – Rosalie Neilson, Dee Ford Potter, Shelley Socolofsky, and Kathe ToddHooker – exhibit their creations. Their work is a time capsule for weaving in Oregon. See http://www.theartscenter.net/exhibitions/main-gallery/

for more information.

Pacific West Quilt Show Formerly called QuiltFest, this juried quilt show is sponsored by Pacific West Quilt Association. It will be held in

Tash Wesp Felting Classes

Tash Wesp, the featured speaker at our meeting last June, will teach three classes in the coming months: Creating Felt Jewelry, as part of the Newport Paper Arts Festival at the Visual Arts Center in Newport, Oregon, April 23 – 25. • Make Wool Felt Slippers, the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Otis, Oregon, June 3 – 4. • Make a Felt Scarf – Shibori Dyed, at the Sitka Center in Otis, September 21 – 23. For more information, see Tash’s website at •

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Laurie Herrick: Weaving Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Portland-based designer-craftsman Laurie Herrick created widely recognized weavings from the 1940s until her death in 1995. A retrospective exhibition, “Laurie Herrick: Weaving Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow” will be held March 18 through July 30 at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland. The exhibit explores weaving as a living craft. Five contemporary artists will create personal responses to Herrick’s patterns, adding to this traveling exhibition. Selected patterns by Herrick and descriptive texts about her work are available as downloadable PDFs and links to images on Flickr.com. See http://mocc.pnca.edu/ exhibitions/1270/ for more information.

Fiber Arts Classes and Resources at the Eugene Textile Center The Eugene Textile Center offers classes and studio support to individuals with an interest in handweaving, surface design on cloth, and other non-woven fiber techniques. It also has studios for weaving and surface design and a retail shop for fiber arts equipment and materials. See http://www.eugenetextilecenter.com/ for more information and to make reservations. Classes to be held in the near future include:

Fridays, April 8, 22; May 6, 20; June 3, 17, 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m $15.00 each session Discharge on Cloth: Create interesting patterns on a variety of fibers using discharge, the process of removing color from cloth. Saturday, May 21, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. $60 + $20 materials fee Mixed Media Felted Scarf: Make softly felted scarves using a combination of merino wool, silk, colorful threads, and glitz. Monday, April 11, 5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. $40.00 + $12.00 materials fee

Future Programs April 5: The Best of Sewing Expo 2011 CFA members who attended the Sewing and Stitchery Expo in March will share highlights of their favorite purchases, vendors, seminars, and workshop experiences.

May 3: New Garments; Book Sale The meeting will feature garments made since our last show (May, 2010) from Sewing Workshop patterns and Marcy Tilton patterns.

In addition, we are planning to have a CFA members sale of books and magazines. Here’s Layering Dye and Pattern on Cloth: Explore the how it will work: techniques used to create complex designs on • Begin early (like TODAY) to select books and cloth by layering patterns. Class meets on three magazines in the field of fiber arts that you’d consecutive weeks. like to sell. Tuesdays, April 5, 12, 19, 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. • Determine the price. Label each and every $120 + $30 materials fee item with your name and the price of the item Water Based Resists: The class will try several on a removable label to be provided by CFA methods of applying resists on cloth to create at the April meeting (or come 15 minutes patterns; most are food-based and non-toxic. early to the May meeting if you can’t come to Saturday, June 4, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. the April meeting, pick up some removable $60 + $20 Materials fee labels, and quickly label your items). Indigo Dyeing from Start to Finish: Learn how • Write your first and last name on the outside to make an indigo vat, how to maintain it, and of your sales envelope that will be provided at how to dye beautiful shades of blue. the April meeting (or bring your own envelope Friday and Saturday, April 22 and 23, if you miss the April meeting). 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. • At the May 3 meeting, bring change and $120 + $25 materials fee small bills – $1.00s and $5.00s – and put it Indigo Drop In: Dye cloth and yarns in ETC’s into your sales envelope so buyers can make indigo pot. their own change. 8

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Bring a card table if possible. If you only have a few books or magazines, team up with one or two other members who have items to sell. Set up your card table, and put the labeled books on the table along with the sales envelope. If you don’t want to take checks, please make a sign that states “Cash Only” for your table. Go shopping at others’ tables. When you find something you want to buy, place the money for that book or magazine into the seller’s sales envelope, making your own change, or write a check to the seller. You’ll need to take home any unsold books or magazines that you brought. We will also have a “FREE STUFF” table for items that members might want to give away.

CFA Contact Information The Contemporary Fiber Arts Guild is an organization interested in all forms of contemporary artwork that use fiber as a medium. It meets on the first Tuesday of each month in the Corvallis Art Center basement classroom at 6:30 pm.

Website http://sites.google.com/site/ contemporaryfiberarts/ CFA blog http://contemporaryfiberarts. blogspot.com/ E-mail Pam Raby at [email protected] Nancy Bryant, Group Coordinator Shirley Strub, Treasurer Pam Raby, Website and Blog Barbara Gordon, Newsletter

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