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2009-2010 Programs

September 9: Workshops Revisited

Welcome Back!  Bring your show and tell items showing what you did this summer.  Did you remember the Summer Challenge? We’ll have an extended Show & Tell, and a lively discussion of the 2009-2010 year for Telaraña.

October 14: Claire Campbell Park of Pima Community College’s art department presents “The Color Connection: Painting and Fiber  an examination of the connection between color theory, fiber and painting since M.E. Chevreul.”  Claire is an accomplished fiber artist who teaches color theory.  She will also be presenting our first workshop of the year: “Creating with Color Fearlessly” on Friday.  (Who is M.E. Chevreul?  In 1855, he wrote “The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colours, and their applications to the arts: including painting, interior decoration, tapestries, carpets, mosaics, coloured glazing, paper-staining, calico-printing, letterpress-printing, map-colouring, dress, landscape and flower gardening, etc.” What an all-inclusive title – something for everyone!)

November 11:  Telaraña’s Tapestry Treasures

Our own Mary Dieterich & Beverly Hunt are accomplished tapestry weavers (and good friends) who have won many awards.  One works large and the other exquisitely small.  We’ve asked them to share with us their memories, their perspectives on fiber arts and their advice on how to get involved in juried shows.

December 9: Lady Tess Countess Truehart Fashion Advisor to Nobility (aka Theresa A. Nesser) dresses a model in Elizabethan garb while discussing the social implications of textiles.  Enjoy special music and food.  Come dressed in your medieval costume and join in the fun (see pictures).

January 13:  Carolyn Webb of Tucson, AZ will discuss historical knitting and crochet.  Carolyn is a lifetime collector of fiber arts memorabilia and a fabulous felter.  She will also be presenting a felting workshop later in the week.

February 10: Knit Happens.  One of the newest fiber arts stores in our area.  Come and see what they have to offer.

March 10: Judith MacKenzie McCuin (tentative) A prominent figure in the fiber arts community, Judith will be making a visit to our area to make a stop at the Renaissance Faire, give 3 workshops and two guild presentations – to us, and Arizona Desert Weavers & Spinners. 

April 14:   Joanne Tallarovic of Flagstaff will present "Unblocking the Block" -- How blocks identify not only weave structure, but codes that identify the units of each A-B-C-D block.  This is an interactive program, bring graph paper and pencil.

May 12: Annual Stash Reduction Sale and Summer send-off Potluck