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EspaΓ±ola Valley Fiber Art Center

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October 2024

Greetings EVFAC Community, here’s October!

✴︎ Artist of the Month Trish Spillman has added new works - stop by the shop and check them out!

✴︎ All Members Annual Meeting & Potluck on September 28th - name announcement β€” keep reading!

✴︎ October 20th - πŸ‘ πŸ‘ Come skirt with us at Los Luceros!

✴︎ October 23rd - EVFAC’s Lecture Series Presents: Churro Sheep as Climate Heroes, 5:30-7:30pm. Email Kim to RSVP: director@evfac.org

✴︎ Last chance to register for several of our special upcoming classes!

Announcements

Annual All-Members Meeting

During our all-members meeting on September 28th we covered a lot of ground! If you’d like to read the minutes for the updates discussed, here they are. 

The major update, the one you’ve all been waiting for - - - the vote - - - for EVFAC - - - or NMFAC - - - was - - - -

An OVERWHELMING vote for EVFAC !!! 

We will proceed with this name going forward, and will work to shift records where needed. We’ll hold onto NMFAC for the time being however.

You’re Invited: Come Skirt with Us!

It’s that time of year again!

On Sunday October 20th the Churro flock at Los Luceros Historic Site will be getting sheared. Join us ! - help skirt the fleece and get to know the Churro breed and fiber quality. We’ll be starting about 9:30am and will go until the flock is sheared.

Upcoming Open Classes

Youth Fiber Studio

Check out our Youth Fiber Studio page, and our UPCOMING Youth Classes! We have some exciting opportunities this fall and beyond for learning about all things fiber. Youth ages 9-14 of all skill levels are welcome to enroll! 

Fall classes run Sundays from 10:30am - 3:30pm and cost $10 for members / $15 non-members.

  • November 10th: Rigid Heddle Weaving with Peg Ickes

  • November 17th: Fun and Easy Origami
    with Hari Kaur Khalsa

  • December 1st: Silkscreening with Gel

If you are interested in teaching a youth class at the Center in Spring 2025, email Kim at director@evfac.org

Mineral Hide Tanning with Marissa Sieck
October 19th-21st

Register today for Mineral Hide Tanning with Marissa Sieck (follow the link to read details about the class). 

October 10th will be the last day to register and 1 more student is needed to run the class!

Dyeing with the Watershed
with Scott Sutton
Saturday & Sunday, November 2nd & 3rd

We're thrilled to host Scott Sutton, aka Pigment Hunter, for a very special workshop. Scott's weekend workshops typically cost around $400, but we're pleased to offer this course to our members (and non-members!) at a subsidized rate. A few spaces remain - register today!

Location details for Day 1 will be sent out this week!

At the Center

EVFAC’s Artist of the Month

Meet Trish Spillman

Our Artist of the Month needs no introduction: it's the founder of EVFAC herself, Trish Spillman! Trish will be EVFAC'S September and October Artist of the Month and she has a beautiful collection compiled of DECADES of her own handmade works, from embroidery to weavings to gorgeous wreaths on display! For the entire months of September and October you will be able to come into EVFAC to see a sampling of the creative energy that led to her creations and inspired her to start EVFAC back in the 1990s.

The focus of Trish's collection is the sharing of her works with the public but there will be a selection of items available for purchase from her collection available online at our Artist of the Month Collection page.

Artist Statement:

My exhibit is a sampling of the variety of my artwork over the years. The pieces include pictorial rag hangings, rag runners, panty hose rugs, embroidered wall hangings, shawls, towels. felted jewelry, and my newest pinecone wreaths. 

At the age of 10 I did my first weaving. It was a small purse done on a simple cardboard loom for a third grade study of Navajo culture.

75 years later I am still weaving! I have expanded to embroidery, crochet, beading, felting and quilting. Always of great importance to me is use of color and a bit of glitz!

Now my focus is to use a lot of my fabric, yarn, dyes, pantyhose, and beads before I get too old! I am trying to β€œreuse, recycle, and repurpose.”

I am fortunate to have friends come to my studio weekly to weave and help me with things I can no longer easily do: making warp, tying up looms, helping with dye pots, and using my stash of β€œstuff”.

I remain a strong supporter of EVFAC, which I founded almost 30 years ago. I hope you enjoy my current work as well as works from the past. - Trish Spillman
 

EVFAC is proud to highlight and promote our local artisans!

Would you like to be considered for Artist of the Month?

Email Debbie at retail@nmfiberartscenter.org Please include a couple of photos and a brief description of the works/skills you would like to showcase. Selected artists will be featured in our online Artist of the Month Collection and in our storefront window. They will also receive a special commission rate for their month!

Around Town

Fall ushers in a season of abundance, as we celebrate bountiful harvests born from summer's diligent labor. EVFAC attended the Harvest Festival at Los Luceros this year. We made a chamisa dye pot and had fun playing with that. Our fabulous volunteer and rigid heddle instructor Peg Ickes came along with several warped up rigid heddle looms. At one point in the day, a grandmother, son, and granddaughter were all weaving together! Of course people walked away hooked…

It was so nice to see so many familiar faces at the Mountain and Valley Wool Festival this past weekend! It was also great to meet new folks, and see some gorgeous woolen creations!

Pictured above - Annie MacHale gracing our booth demonstrating her Inkle-woven wonders!

EspaΓ±ola Valley Fiber Arts Center
EspaΓ±ola Valley Fiber Art Center

325 Paseo de OΓ±ate
Espanola, New Mexico
United States

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