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.

de Young Museum of San Francisco
Golden Waterfalls, Windblown Pines: The Story of Kimono
June 28, 2008

Textile Arts Council Slide Lecture featuring speaker Betsy Sterling Benjamin, Koret auditorium, 10 a.m.

The Textile Arts Council presents Golden Waterfalls, Windblown Pines: The Story of Kimono, with Betsy Sterling Benjamin, artist, researcher and author specializing in Japanese textiles. Ms. Sterling is the author of The World of Rozome: Wax Resist Textiles of Japan, and has exhibited her own work and lectured widely. She lived for eighteen years in Kyoto teaching at the university level, and is now on the faculty of the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. Free to TAC members, $10 general, $5 for FAMSF members and students. For more information, please visit http://www.famsf.org/deyoung.

Ocelot Studios
Uzbek Ikat Workshop with Rasul Mirzaahmedov
July 17-19, 2008

This is a rare opportunity to learn about the unique process used to create the incredible, bold ikat of Uzbekistan. Master Rasul Mirzaahmedov has been recognized world wide for his textiles, and has created various cotton, silk and silk velvet ikat fabrics for Oscar de la Renta. Rasul is a fifth generation textile artist who is preserving his family’s textile tradition through training the next generation of ikat weavers and dyers in Central Asia.

In this three day workshop, learn about the traditional Uzbek process of warp-dyed ikat: drawing and binding the design, then dyeing with acid dyes in multiple colors. Students will see Rasul demonstrate warping a traditional loom and will have the chance to participate in the warping and weaving process. The cost is $550 plus $60 materials fee.

For more information, please contact Angelina DeAntonis at Ocelot Studio and Workshop, 2345 Harrison St., San Francisco, CA 94112 or call (415) 821-7288.

Ocelot Studios
Slide Lecture about Uzbek Ikat
Friday, July 18
7:30 pm

Rasul Mirzaahmedov will discuss his traditional abrband, or ikat, and give attention to the technical details of natural dyeing and ikat processing. For more information, please contact Angelina DeAntonis at Ocelot Studio and Workshop, 2345 Harrison St., San Francisco, CA 94112 or call (415) 821-7288.

San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles
Batik: A Collection of Beauty and Heritage
Sunday, July 27 from 2-4 pm

Join us for an afternoon of immersion in the beautiful and intricate world of Javanese batik. Learn about all aspects of batik design with collector Noeleke Glenn Klavert. If you are a batik collector please bring some of your examples for an opportunity to share and discuss them with Klavert and program attendees. Lecture tickets are $15 and may be purchased online at http://www.sjquiltmuseum.org/calendar or by calling 408-971-0323 ext.14. Members receive a $5 discount at the door with membership card.

San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles
Sha Sha Higby in Transition
Saturday, August 23 from 2-3:30 pm

Spend an hour with the fascinating visual and performance artists Sha Sha Higby as she describes the experiences that shaped her unique aesthetic and performance sensibilities.
Lecture tickets are $15 and may be purchased online at http://www.sjquiltmuseum.org/calendar or by calling 408-971-0323 ext.14. Members receive a $5 discount at the door with membership card.

San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles
Sha Sha Higby performs In a Cloud of Glass
Sunday, August 24 at 6 pm

Legendary performance artist Sha Sha Higby whirls within a dense, lacy thicket of her own design in this exotic sculptural costume and puppetry dance. Higby is internationally renowned for her evocative and haunting performances. The performance includes a processional gamelan and accompaniment to Higby’s performance by the award-winning Balinese orchestra Gamelan Anak Swarasanti. The performance opens with Indonesian dances by Harsanari. Performance tickets are: $15 for members in advance; $20 in advance; $10 children; $25 at the door (if available). Purchase your tickets early at http://www.sjquiltmuseum.org/calendar or 408-971-0323 for this rare South Bay performance.

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

Washington

Creativity Center
Batik Wokshop with Nia Fliam and Agus Ismoyo
July 12 – 13, 2008
10:00 am – 4:00 pm

A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study batik-making with two world-renown artists and Fulbright scholars. Nia Fliam and Agus Ismoyo will introduce you to the tradition and technique of this ancient art form while you learn to create your own vibrant detailed cloth. All supplies and equipment are provided for this two-day hands-on intensive workshop. $350 includes all materials. For more information, please visit http://www.bainbridgeislandcreativitycenter.org

Creativity Center
Public Presentation by Nia Fliam and Agus Ismoyo
July 10, 2008
7:00 – 9:00 pm

Nia Fliam and AGUS Ismoyo (ISNIA) will give a public lecture about batik. For more information, please visit http://www.bainbridgeislandcreativitycenter.org

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 http://www.ArtistRetreatinRome.com, where you will also find the homepages of all the workshop facilitator artists.