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Textiles Today: Redefining the Medium
The Durango Arts Center,
in conjunction with its upcoming exhibit, Textiles Today: Redefining
the Medium, will be offering workshops led by three exhibiting artists: Wendy
Huhn, Liz Axford, and Lisa Klakulak. These artists have conducted workshops at
prestigious arts and crafts institutions such as Penland School of Crafts,
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and the Arrowmont School of Arts and
Crafts.
Durango Arts Center
Attn: Textile Workshops
802 E. 2nd Ave
Durango, CO 81301
Acrylics and Textiles
with Wendy Huhn
May 4-6
This is a technique
based workshop covering; instant medium transfer, gel transfers to fabric, gel
skins, molding paste and gel stencils, distress crackle paint techniques, and
screen printing. The end product of the workshop will be a book of samples and notes
we assemble into a reference book. Textile artists have long avoided
acrylic paints, but they can be used to great effect on fabric. By adding the
correct GAC (Golden Acrylic Colors) medium, one can preserve the soft hand of
fabric and avoid the hard plastic feeling associated with acrylics.
Workshop fee: $300
Materials fee: $25 per
student
Class size: 15 students
For more information:
http://durangoarts.org/events/textiles/acrylics-and-textiles-with-wendy-huhn
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Shibori, by Gum with Liz
Axford
May 18-20
The class will center on the scouring process and the use of
Procion MX dyes to subsequently color the fabric. If time and facilities
permit, we will also explore discharging black and other colored organza, with
or without overdyeing. The techniques I use are very easy and even novices will
be comfortable with the dyeing process by the second day. A traditional
Japanese technique, Shibori is defined as three-dimensional shaped resist. When
dyed, a distinctive pattern, a signature of the type of shaping, is revealed.
Organza and gazar, silks whose natural silk gum has not been removed in the
processing and finishing, offer a unique opportunity to selectively scour the
silk gum while shaped and bound by shibori. When dyed, the areas where silk gum
remains will dye differently, revealing the distinctive shibori patterning;
furthermore, if left un-pressed, the shaping used for the resist will remain
indefinitely. Over the course of the class, each student can expect to
scour and dye 3-10 yards of fabric with one or more layers of patterning. The
materials fee will cover the cost of shared dyes and chemistry, and (some)
resist materials; students provide their own fabric.
Workshop fee: $300
Materials fee: $10 per
student
Class size: 15 students
For more information:
http://durangoarts.org/events/textiles/shibori-by-gum-with-liz-axford
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Handmade Partial Felts with Lisa Klakulak
May 24-27
An intensive four-day
course celebrating the breadth of possibilities available in the felt medium
when making your own partially felted sheets of fleece verses purchasing
commercially available pre-felts. Participants will understand the microscopic
mechanics of felt, how to blend their own colors, and the importance of thin,
cross hatched layers for integral and quick felting surfaces. An initial
technical study of making partial felt and applying cut shapes to a background
of fleece will result in understanding the range of edge quality, shape sizes,
surface dimension and color/fiber permeation achieved by the duration of
agitation (amount of fulling) when using partial felts. Then make educated
choices regarding the surface qualities desired and create partial felts to be
cut for repetitive patterns and/or to be felt appliquéd in a mosaic style for
recognizable imagery. Finally, apply these partial felts to a felt form created
on a resist to understand how the density of partial felts can be assistive in
sculpting a 3-D form.
Workshop fee: $400
Materials fee: $50 per
student
Class size: 12 students