I
was very proud and happy Friday night to see the amazing work our Guild
produced for the Dunedin Fine Arts Show. The turn-out was incredible. A big
Congratulations needs to go to Cathy Simms, who won first place for the
Elemental Show and Bonnie Ward for second place. Thank you, Sara Butz, for
putting this all together and coordinating with the Dunedin Fine Arts
Center. I'm also excited about the upcoming classes that Dana Maley has put together
for the next few months. They are very diverse and interesting. Everyone should
try out one that interests them. Don't forget to talk to me or another Board
Member about any new ideas or direction you would like to see happen with the
Guild. Thanks for all your contributions,
Cindie Townley
This month we're struttin' our stuff in the Tampa Bay Surface Design Guild's Member Show 2015 at Dunedin Fine Arts Center (DFAC). Our show is part of "Common Threads" which is the theme for a Quartet of Quilts and Textile Exhibits which opened on Friday night, May 29th.
As
you check out the show below, please let us know if you do not see your
work. There was a lot to see and photograph and something may have
slipped through the crack. If so, we will update this blog, and feature
your work in the next months newsletter as well. Thanks for contributing to a
wonderful show.
Members win the Elemental: Florida Invitational Quilt Show.
In addition to our own show, some of our members were invited to enter the Elemental: Florida Invitational Quilt Show which is another one of the four shows in the quartet. Elemental show was won by a TBSDG member Cathy Simms with fellow member Bonnie Ward taking second. The winning piece was actually a collaboration between Cathy Simms and Kathy Hays on the art quilt, Earth Elements, which was juried into the ELEMENTAL show. Guild members will remember Kathy's Hays's challenge to the guild to combined felted wool (which she created and provided to guild members) with stitches to build a nontraditional combination of felted wool and quilted stitches and other embellishments. The result was very organic and different from other entries in the show. Obviously, these judges liked the result. A number of other SDG members also experimented with the wool/quilting combo and so perhaps we may be at the beginning of a new trend.WAY TO GO LADIES! Be sure to check out their creations as part of the Elemental show at DFAC as well.
Opening Night Photos
DEMO Saturday
On Saturday, May 30th, members of the Guild did surface design demonstrations at DFAC. Below, check out Annie Wade, Marlene Glickman, Mei Ling Seger, Gail Crotty, Leanne Kroetche, and the model, showing off the scarf she made at Marlene's table. In the photo below that are Bonnie Bowman, Angelea Carpenter, Kim Sherrod and Leanne. These the great and creative ladies that showed up to demo their stuff.
Reminders:
The leftover Art
Supplies from the free table at the meeting will go with Donna Isaac for the County Sheriff's Program
for At Risk Kids.
Our August meeting can not be held at the Suncoast
Hospice Center. Sara Butz was able to secure the Florida Craft Art Meeting room
at no charge for that evening. Please note the change on your calendar. Florida Craft Art (formerly Florida Craftsman) is at 501 Central Ave, on the corner of Central and 5th St, downtown St. Petersburg. The meeting room is on the second floor.
Show & Tell from the May Meeting
Surface Design Guild Workshops
Remember to sign up at the meeting - so bring your checkbook!
June 14th - Felted Wall Hanging with Leanne Kroetche
The class will be held at Leanne's house so that the class has access to
her dryer for the wet felting (and her stash!!!) Participants will create a wet felted “canvas” with a wool
base which will be 'painted' with fiber to add color and texture. Felting
needles and embroidery stitching will be used to add dimensional elements to
the composition. All of the materials to create the wall art are
included in the fee. Your felted piece can be used for a wall hanging, purse or
journal cover - depending upon your preference.
Cindie's wonderful piece at the Dunedin Fine Art
Center was made in a previous class.
The class is both instructional as well as a challenge for your
surface design creativity because you will need to come up with a design in advance of the class. For inspiration, I have attached a photo
of the banyan tree wall hanging that I created in preparation for the class. In addition, you may want to check out the following Pinterest
sites.
Please contact Leanne directly threadedartwear@gmail.com once you know generally what
theme you have in mind so that she can ensure that she has sufficient roving and
embellishments available for your color scheme with silk fibers, roving, diva
yarns and other fun stuff to play with.
Supplies List: Please bring extra towels and needle felting
tools if you have them.
July19 - Encaustic Wax, with Kathleen Fulmer
Indian Rocks Beach Art Center - Time and cost details are tbd.August 16…bohemiannie!bag, with Annie Wade
10am to 5pm
at IRBAC cost is $ 35.00 Back by popular demand, this is Annie's workshop on bag making. It's a don't miss. More details in the July Newsletter.
Saturday & Sunday, Sept.
19 & 20 Eco Printed Books, with Kim
Sherrod & Margaret Hillman
Time for this two day workshop is TBD. Location is IRBAC cost is $ 60.00
Photos of May's Workshop
Please remember to wear your creations to the next meeting for show and tell. The two sisters, Celeste and Mary, that conducted last month's workshop were a hoot and very good at keeping the Charm School on task. Check out the photos below which include not only the creations being done by the class but also elements of the Goatfeathers trunk show. They brought many amazing things that they do to inspire our creativity. They also had us introduce ourselves and we found out that Cindie was a stripper in her former life!!! Okay, she was a member of the local house-painters union and was a paint stripper...
Mini Workshops:
Angie Knowles has lined up following schedule. She is also begging for volunteers for future workshops.
June, annie! Wade will demonstrate fabric beadsJuly - Sharon Appler doing Sticky Foil on 3D objects
August - Marlene Glickman - foiling on cards and fabric
In the Mini Workshop at last month's meeting, Kim Sherrod demonstrated Freemotion Portraits.
These are notes jotted down during Kim's demonstration. She started by saying that the key
to the process is to get a line drawing of the face you want to reproduce. You can Google ‘line drawing’ to get an image
of almost anyone, but as an artist, please remember that someone owns the image
you get. To do a line drawing yourself,
take a photo and crop just the head. If
it was not digital to begin with, scan it into your computer. You will need some sort of software that will
allow you to generate a line drawing.
Kim uses Corel. Use artist
effects/posterize or art-media/pencil in the photo tool you use (Picasa is free). Or, hand copy the main lines of the photo
using tracing paper or acetate. Your
goal is to get a line drawing of the face.
To get the image onto fabric, tape the fabric and image (acetate or
tracing paper) to a window. Use a frixon
pen to trace the image (the kind that will disappear under heat). You can also use sulky solvy to put the image
on with sharpie – be careful that the sharpie may color the fabric as the solvy
dissolves. Trace the lines you put on
the fabric with your machine, using free motion – that means feed dogs dropped
on Kim’s machine. Additional
advice: 1) Be aware that you could be
making a creepy image so don’t practice with your cute grandchildren. 2) The
pencil disappears completely but the other techniques (sulky solvy, etc) may get trapped under your
stitches. 3) Practice, practice, practice. Most important tip is to throw the bad stuff away. You need to practice and your practice work is mostly not worth keeping.
Workshops offered by Guild Members
June 5 - Indigo Dyeing Workshop with Angie Knowles
Other Workshops
The Surface Design Organization sent information on the following workshop (thanks to Sara Butz for sharing with us).
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Quote of the Month: “Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.” Danny Kaye
In case you missed it last month, our own Bonnie Bowman participated in the Dunedin Fine Arts Center Garden Party. Here she is with her felted ladies.
TBSGD Meeting 11 May 2015
Welcome
The meeting was called to order by Cindie Townley
Cindie asked if anyone left
a piece of white flannel fabric on the desk at Dunedin when turning in their
art? Cindie has it.
Cindie asked would like a volunteer for pictures during
show and tell. Annie Wade volunteered to
do it for us.
Introduction of New
Members and Guests
Guest – Kendra Newman from Sarasota. She was the president of the Sarasota
Guild. She set up our web site. She’s into making clothes now – recycling
things.
No other new members were present to introduce this
month.
Treasurery Report – Ann Thomas
Right now we have $2771.50. Membership is currently 74 members paid up to
date.
August Meeting Change
The room at Hospice is not
available for August. We need to find a
meeting spot that is central to the area.
We can $100/month to use this room so we can donate that to the
facility. Someone will find out if
McDonas (?) (Tampa) or FL CraftArt are available and let Cindie know.
Shows – Sara Butz
Sara sent out an SOS to pick
up the invitations/posters for the show that will be on over the summer. Everyone volunteered to help and thanks to
Cathy Simms who picked them us for us. Members
should help themselves to a flyer. The
opening is FRIDAY, May 29th. We will let you know when to pick up your
work. If you are gone, please arrange in
advance to have someone in the Guild grab it for you.
Demo Day at DFAC – Bonnie
says… if you signed up to do a demo, get
there by 10am. We can go right up until
2pm. If you want to do a demo, you can
still sign up. Tables will be set up in
the atrium. Let her know if you need
power.
We are doing demo day on the
day after the opening – 10 til 2pm. See
more info later.
Also, there is a sock puppet
show in the kids museum this summer.
Mei Ling is at Carolyn
Kosar’s gallery in Ybor. May 18 – June
18th. Mei Ling says that the artists
reception is May 28th from 4-8.
Workshops – Dana Maley
May – Goatfeathers is this
Sunday. The Charm School necklace was
passed around. They will be coming down
from north FL. Cost is $60. Includes everything except the base necklace
and one odd piece of jewelry you bring.
10:00am – 2:30.
June – 14th 9am –
5pm. Leanne Kroetche Cost is $100. The supplies list will be sent from Leanne if
you sign up. She held up a piece that’s
been worked 6 hours so a finished product is achievable. It can be any size you want. The class is for you to be creative and you
will need to supply the design theme, background color and a skein of roving. Bring ribbon, silk, art yarns, crystals,
embroidery thread, or anything you have lying around from your stash. The most critical item is that you need to bring
is towels. Maximum of 10 people for
this.
Dana said Kathleen Fulmer is willing
to teach encaustic wax or silk paper making for July or August’s workshop. Supplies can be $20-70 and a heat source for
encaustic wax. Look for more details in
next months newsletter; if you have a preference, let Dana know.
Angie Knowles – Mini Workshops
Angie begged for people to
do Demos.
Next month Annie will demo Fabric
Beads.
We need someone for
July. (Potentially Sharon Appler doing
sticky foil multi-media on found objects).
Marlene will do August –
foiling on Paper or Fabric.
Kim Sherrod demonstrated
Freemotion Portraits.
Kim issued a challenge to
just try this and bring the results to the meeting in October.
Show and Tell
Trish Sande – Suddenly it’s
Spring Rabbit. Her Granddog, Penny.
Necklace inspired by one she saw in Portland
Annie Wade – Bobbin a day
quilts – “A funny thing happened” story quilt & Island Scene with green fuzz & part of a
big quilt that became bookmarks and now is small.
Linda Dawson – It’s been a
while since she’s been here. The first
piece she needle felted and then free motion stitched the holes. Next was parts of a series of quilts she’s
making based on swiss cheese leaf.
Atonal (B/W); Green swiss cheese leaves; Abstract swiss cheese
leaves. Combination of organic and
abstract. Next one will be 3D leaves.
Kathy Hayes – First, Ecoprint
a silk/wool blend vest with three different kinds of leaves. Second, a Nuno felted top that she did for
her E-Book on seamless garments. Next
month, her runway dress from Project Handmade.
Dianna Frazier - Shearless
Sheep wool dyed and made into some balls, beads and a pennant. If you want some, let her know. She has access to someone that is giving it
away by the handfuls.
Sarah Butz – Necklace
inspired by someone in France with crochet and flowers. Journals made with her Cinch machine
Carol Bickford – Ice Dying T
shirts and Silk broadcloth. Sharon
Appler, ice dyed bar mop towels.
Bonnie Ward – Quilt challenge
based on a house or home. 3D houses based on Quilting Arts magazine house.
Pat Bryce, Gail Crotty, Angie
Knowles, Cathy Sims, - Kathy Hayes
workshop products.
Angie Knowles – Missed guild
last month to attend a Workshop in Arizona with a Nigerian indigo artist. Learned how to do a natural Indigo vat,
Cassava resist paste, stencils out of tin. Google “adire resist dying” for more
info. She’s doing a class on June 5th. This info is in the newsletter.
Marlene Glickman – Top from
freebie African fabric, Australian fabric, Oriental Fabric – her challenge she
gave herself to use all her printed fabrics.
Silk fabrics that she’s dyed with Colorhue dyes. Angie’s challenge bobbin
a day challenge she took lots of little pieces, Japanese fabric, hand dyed silk
to make boxes – many, many boxes that stack inside other boxes. Oh man… Oh dear, Marlene seems to be doing more than one
bobbin a day.
Kaisa(pronounced Kasha) Kase
– Mandala quilts accepted into Sacred Threads exhibit. .
Peggy Dubar – Foiling on her
shirt inspired by Marlene’s workshop.
Dorothy Boynton – Paper
Mache chairs and cardboard doll
Kim Sherrod – Dolls with
Dairy creamer bottles, cardboard niche, masking taped, paper mache, and paper
clay. Wire basket hats. She called them Findes keeper, loser, weeper
dolls.
Announcements:
Ann Thomas’s niece Alena
Hennesey and ex sister in law have opened an art gallery in Ashville, NC. Rose Water Gallery and Gifts.
Donna Isacc is working with
Pinellas County Sheriff’s office doing art workshops for disadvanted kids – she
will be taking anything left over on the free table to support this. She will talk about it next month.
Last year, we gave $150 to
three different art centers to fund art camps.
Dunedin, Beach Art, Morean. Total
of $450. This year, we are using the
entry fee $$ collected from the Dunedin show to fund the scholarships. Sarah Butz moved to spend $450 to for
scholarships for this year. Dana Maley
seconded. Motion carried unanimously.
Marlene Glickman said that
she has some more scarf inventory in 11 x 72 lightweight silk that you can’t
get from Dharma or Thai silks. She got
them directly from China. See her for
more details.
Correction: We pay $50/month to Hospice so the fee for
the August meeting should line up with that.
Adjourn
