Katazome, Then and Now with Karen Illman Miller

A thorough discussion of the traditional art of Japanese stencil dyeing, with slides and examples of antique fabrics and of my own work, illustrating where it has taken a contemporary surface designer and fiber artist.

Karen Miller was born in Oakland, CA in 1946. She was a marine biologist before becoming an expert on katazome, the art of Japanese stencil dyeing. Using her own hand cut stencils to apply a resist paste she produces fabric for art quilts, as well as silk garments, linen hangings and indigo dyed cottons.Her work has been exhibited twice in Japan. She has shown her work in numerous juried and group shows. Her work was accepted to Visions 2002, In 2009 she had Oregon solo shows at the Newport Visual Arts Center, Benton County Historical Society and the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center in Portland. She shows regularly at the Japanese Garden in Portland and Kobo in Seattle. Her work is in numerous private collections and hangs in the Washington D.C. office of Jane Lubchenco, the head of NOAA.

She has taught katazome nationally and internationally and published several articles on katazome. She was invited lecturer at the Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe New Mexico. She was featured on Oregon Public Broadcasting TV Oregon Art Beat in October 2007.

Karen’s website is: http://www.nautilus-fiberarts.com/

“How String Changed the World”

We welcome acclaimed fiber artist, Cameron Taylor-Brown to our guild meeting Thursday, February 16th, 7-9:30.

Our talk will start at 7:15, in order to be finished on time.

http://www.camerontaylor-brown.com/

Cameron is based in Los Angeles, and studied fiber arts with Ed Rossbach at UC Berkeley.

Her artwork is widely exhibited and has been published in American Craft, Fiberarts, Shuttle, Spindle and Dyepot and the Fiberarts Design Books Four, Five, Six and Seven . She travels Southern California and Arizona as the regional representative for several top yarn companies, including Rowan, Filatura de Crosa and Manos del Uruguay. An experienced teacher and facilitator, she conducts workshops throughout the country exploring design, color, creativity and the collaborative process.

Cameron Taylor-Brown was a founder of ACCESS Community Arts & Education, a consulting partnership that worked with classroom teachers and artists to make direct connections between the arts, curriculum, educational content standards and community arts experiences. Two accessARTS models, Start with Art and Arts in the City , were developed with the support of California State Charter School Grants. These classroom-tested models were disseminated throughout the state of California in 2004-5. accessARTS strategies remain central in Cameron’s approach to teaching and learning.

Supplies each guild member should bring:

2-4 small sticks – each 10-12 ” long, no more than 1/2 inch or so in diameter

about 2-3 oz of plied yarn, 800-3,000 yards per pound

a handful of un-spun fiber, any type

a handful of small rocks (each about the size of a quarter or so)

scissors

masking or duct tape

digital camera suggested

January 19, 2012:

Stephenie Gaustad

Will present a program on

Spinning for Weaving

cotton blossom courtesy of J. Ruane

Stephenie is an artist, designer, illustrator, weaver and experienced teacher. She has just produced a DVD on spinning cotton for Interweave Press.

December, 2011: Holiday Party, Potluck and Gift Swap

Dinner setup with live music began around 6 pm, Potluck at 6:40, and a new method of running the gift-swap by means of a clever poem, so all swapping happened before any unwrapping, was a delightful success.

November, 2011: DVD and Discussion

October, 2011: Kathy Rousso

Kathryn Rousso weaves, writes about, and photographs baskets and bags. She has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Washington, a Certificate of Merit in Northwest Coast Basketry and Textiles from the Totem Heritage Center in Ketchikan, Alaska, and a Master of Fine Arts in Textile Arts and Costume Design from the University of California, Davis. Her first baskets were woven under the guidance of Delores Churchill, Holly Churchill and many others at the Totem Heritage Center. Rousso was exposed to Mayan textiles as a Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala during the late nineteen-eighties and later discovered new weaving techniques and materials in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Indonesia, and New Zealand. In 2001 she was awarded a Fulbright grant to conduct research on maguey net bags in Guatemala. Her time is now split between Ketchikan Alaska, Guatemala, and Mendocino, California where she is the textile coordinator at the Mendocino Art Center. Her contemporary baskets incorporate elements of twined, looped, and braided maguey fibers, cedar bark and spruce root, plus a few surprises.

Here is her website for those people who would like know more about her, and see some of her current works.