Shape Intensive Workshop- The Textile Museum - Washington DC

Saturday, July 14th, I will be presenting the one-day workshop: Shape Intensive at The Textile Museum in Washington, DC.

This workshop is part of a series of workshops held in conjunction with the current exhibition, Sourcing the Museum, featuring the work of renowned textile artists and work  inspired by items in the museum's collection.  These new works are exhibited alongside the inspiration pieces.

The Shape Intensive workshop is structured so that anyone interested in this topic can participate regardless of their chosen medium.  All studies will be worked in paper and will form the foundation of a portfolio for future study.  Follow the provided link for more details and information for registration.

Artists in the exhibition include Olga de Amaral, James Bassler, Polly Barton, Archie Brennan, Lia Cook, Helena Hemmarck, Ayako Nikamoto, Jon Eric Riis, Warren Seelig, Kay Sekimachi, and Ethel Stein.

Thank you for spending time at Studio 24-7.  I love hearing from you and hope you will join me at The Textile Museum for a fun-informative day.

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Finding Your Shape Vocabulary

Barbara Holder and Ann Hanewald get down to business cutting

shapes to explore in a composition.

This past Tuesday evening I had the pleasure of presenting my work to The Mountain-Lakes Quilters, a large quilt guild with member from a wide area of upstate South Carolina. This lecture was followed on Wednesday by a workshop entitled Finding Your Shape Vocabulary. The group was made up of some very accomplished quilters who wanted to "try something" different and we had a wonderful day working with the development of unique shapes and shape relationships.

Aija Seflic filled her table with unique and personal shapes

which she then carried into fabric.

This is a better view of some of the shapes Aija created.

The four blocks on the left show part of the composition Aija created. The block

on the right is one she carried into fabric.

Barbara Sokol created her shapes explorations with great energy and soon

had a table full of shapes to work with.

Here Barbara is starting to explore a larger composition. On the right is

Donna Barnhill who developed an interesting idea with stacked

shapes resembling stones. Very Zen.

Another view of Barbara and Donna's work in progress.

Shirley Woods and Carolyn Harris are shown here as they begin

the process of working with cut paper.

This is Carolyn's design wall showing her shapes exploration

Jean Wachs did a great job exploring.

Marilyn Wall is an acomplished quilter who is a self described

realist. She really stretched with her organic exploration.

At the end of the workshop everyone had begun their work in fabric or had their concept ready to work in fabric. The were an excellent group and I'm looking forward to seeing photographs of their finished pieces.

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