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Vivacious Vessels: Fiber Wrapped Coil Baskets with Vicki Assegued
Mar
1
11:00 AM11:00

Vivacious Vessels: Fiber Wrapped Coil Baskets with Vicki Assegued

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Wrap beautiful fabric strips around a rope core, and use fancy yarns and strings to secure and coil it all into an elaborate basket, creating any shape that you choose. We'll decorate the piece with embellishments, handles, or anything that excites your aesthetic sensibilities. No art or basket-making experience is necessary and all levels are most welcome. Perfect for beginning through advanced artists.

All materials will be supplied, including a large and wonderful selection of fabrics, yarns, rope, clips, and basket-making needles. Please bring fabric scissors if you have them, and household scissors if not. Optionally, you're most welcome to bring fabric, yarn, lace, trim, string, buttons, beads and other fibers and embellishments.

$130 (all materials included)

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Textile Cards with Mirka Knaster
Mar
14
10:00 AM10:00

Textile Cards with Mirka Knaster

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There is no need to toss textile stuff into the landfill. Using a variety of fabrics, yarns, threads, papers, embellishments (beads, feathers, etc.), and whatever else is at hand, we will create abstract compositions to fit inside Strathmore photo frame cards (5”x7”). They can be used as unique cards for special occasions or inserted into inexpensive frames to become personal gifts of original art.

$95 (all materials included)

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Ultra Textural Weaving on a Unique Substrate with Vicki Assegued
Apr
4
11:00 AM11:00

Ultra Textural Weaving on a Unique Substrate with Vicki Assegued

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In this highly innovative and fun workshop, you’ll learn many techniques for weaving, knotting, wrapping, tying, sewing, coiling and twisting of fiber materials to build your dynamic and stunning piece to hang on the wall. The surprising and versatile foundation for this weaving is plastic fencing, which opens the creative journey into much more than weaving. You’ll also make fringe, tassels and pompoms to add texture and delight.

$130 (all materials included)

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Going Beyond the Frame with Vicki Assegued
Jun
7
11:00 AM11:00

Going Beyond the Frame with Vicki Assegued

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You'll begin by wrapping a frame with gorgeous fabrics and fibers, creating a foundation for adding elements within, around and beyond the frame. You'll then learn an exciting variety of techniques for creating all sorts of parts and pieces to add on to your artwork, turning it into a gorgeous and unique wall piece.

$130 (all materials included)

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Stuffed Vessels - Adventure into Dimensional Fiber Sculpture with Vicki Assegued
Jul
5
11:00 AM11:00

Stuffed Vessels - Adventure into Dimensional Fiber Sculpture with Vicki Assegued

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You'll start by building a stuffed shape, covering it with a foundation of beautiful fabrics, and then having a wonderful time decorating and developing it. You'll learn to make a variety of fun shapes and parts to attach to your vessel, adding texture and dimension. You can build a base and a top, shaped as you choose it to be. This workshop is packed with learning many techniques for going all out with decorating and embellishing your art, which can include all kinds of wrapping and making of various objects to hang on your piece, as well as tassels, fringe, pompoms, and so much more.

$130 (all materials included)

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