You can register:
- In person: 1385 Woodroffe Avenue, Ottawa, ON Room C150
- By phone: 613-727-0002 or 1-800-565-4723
- Online: by visiting our online calendar
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| Altered States - Mixed Media Textile Surface Design MMA5004 |
Students explore textile surface design and produce a Surface Design Journal (9x12) page for each technique. Exercises include painting directly onto fabric, stamping, foiling, textile manipulation through piecing, stitching, gathering and folding, raw edge fused applique, as well as discharge dyeing.
Date: July 21 to 25, 2008
Tuition: $288.68
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Instructor: Karen Goetzinger
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Karen is an award-winning artist, teacher, and lecturer currently living in Ottawa, Ontario. She is known for her finely-detailed wall hangings that employ a kimono-shaped canvas influenced by her roots in traditional quilt making, couture construction, and her passion for vintage Japanese textiles and design. Her work has been exhibited by public and private galleries in Canada and the United States, in museums, at regional fibre art shows throughout North America and hang in private collections internationally. |
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| Fabric Painting Techniques for Landscape and Textural EffectsMMA5007 |
Students learn how to use four different water-based textile paints on habotai silk and white cotton fabric. Silk paint is used with clear and coloured gutta resist to create images on backgrounds for landscapes that can be further embellished with hand or machine embroidery. Transparent, opaque and pearlescent textile paints are used in conjunction with the silk painted landscapes and in diluted form to create textural fabrics and landscape fabrics suitable for embroidery or quilting. Pencil crayons are also used to add details. Students create a binder or file of many samples for reference.
Date: July 26 to 27, 2008
Tuition: $150.00
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Instructor: Margaret Vant Erve
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Margaret , a professional embroidery artist and teacher, creates work which depicts the Canadian rural and woodland landscapes, birds and floral studies. Margaret uses a variety of textile paint mediums and crayons to paint her fabric prior to applying hand and machine embroidery. Margaret’s work can be found in many private collections across North America.
For more information on Margaret Vant Erve's work, visit www.cyberus.ca/~vanterve
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| Screen Printing on Fabric MMA0354 |
Have you always yearned to create beautiful, original fabrics with your own imagery? In this course using traditional screen printing techniques as well as experimenting with improvisational screen prints, you will learn how to mix and match your very own colour palette, using environmentally friendly Colour Vie pigments. Discover how to make a silk screen and how to create simple motifs as well as fabrics with repeating imagery. You will also learn how to use a variety of techniques for creating artwork, which will then be used to make a permanent photo emulsion screen. This silk screen can be washed and reused, enabling you to experience printing countless colour combinations with your own imagery.
Date: July 28 to Aug 1, 2008
Tuition: $367.43
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Instructor: Gunnel Hag |
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Gunnel studied Textiles at Stockholm University, Sweden and at the Royal College of Art, London, England. Gunnel’s clothing and interior fabrics have been represented at International Design exhibitions. As a concerned teacher and practitioner she helped to develop and promote the Colour Vie Pigment System (water based) and has been working with it for the past twenty years.
For more information on Gunnel's work, visit www.colourvie.com
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| Stitch Paint Embellish MMA0362 |
This course shows beginners how to do basic free motion machine embroidery and challenge the more advanced by expanding their repertoire of skills. Students have the opportunity to learn how fabric dyes, paints, fusible interfacings, soluble films, as well as how collage and applique can be combined with free motion machine embroidery. Inspiration for some of the projects and/or samples comes from nature and urban and natural landscapes. Demonstrations, instruction and individual critiques will increase awareness of the use of colour, design and texture. Students spend the week developing their skills through exercises and work on one or more projects developed from those exercises or from the student's own ideas.
Date: July 28 to Aug 1, 2008
Tuition: $288.68
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Instructor: Sylvia Naylor
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Sylvia Naylor was educated in England where she later became a teacher specialising in textile crafts. She then studied at City & Guilds of London Embroidery and Textiles. She was awarded a silver medal for the highest marks in the country in her year. She has taught workshops in Canada, the U.S. and England. She has won numerous awards and has been featured in several publications. This year she will have articles in Quilting Arts and Bernina magazine (Switzerland).
She has exhibited her artwork extensively in galleries in England, Canada and the U.S. Her work is in private collections in many countries. Visit www.sylvianaylor.com for more.
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| Tell me a Story MMA5006 |
Whether working from a favourite children's story, a folktale, a bible story, or a personal life story, students learn to create an illustration of a story using fabric paints, collage and hand or machine embroidery. Students may use inspiration from another source, but they create their own image. Excellent drawing skills are not required, just a creative mind, lots of resource materials and the desire to experiment. Students may work in the techniques of their choice.
Date: July 14 to 18, 2008
Tuition: $288.68
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Instructor: Margaret Vant Erve
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Margaret Vant Erve, a professional embroidery artist and teacher creates work which depicts the Canadian rural and woodland landscapes, birds and floral studies. Margaret uses a variety of textile paint mediums and crayons to paint her fabric prior to applying hand and machine embroidery. Margaret’s work can be found in many private collections across North America.
For more information on Margaret Vant Erve's work, visit www.cyberus.ca/~vanterve
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| Think Like and Artist MMA5005 |
Make the transition from traditionally designed quilts to ART quilts! There are two parts to every art quilt. The technical expertise of stitching, applique, quilting, blocking, binding and the ART part which is more ephemeral and esoteric, as it requires many years of questioning, risk taking and imagination to develop. Students start along the road to this development and using a series of hands on exercises, students focus on the important elements of creativity. Each morning and afternoon, students work on projects that address certain challenges faced by every artist.
Date: July 7 to 11, 2008
Tuition: $367.43
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Instructor:
Pamela Allen |
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Pamela (BFA Queens University) has exhibited widely in Canada, the U.S. and abroad for the past 23 years. Since 2001 her work has been exclusively in the fabric art medium.
Pamela has taught in the Fine Art department at Queens University both on campus and as an instructor in Northern Canada through the Aboriginal Teachers Education Program (ATEP). Since 2002, she has been leading workshops for fabric art in Canada, the U.S. and as far away as South Africa.
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| Traditional Hand Hooked Rugs MMA0363 |
Traditional rug hooking is the time honored method of making rugs and mats by pulling loops through a burlap or linen backing. These rugs can be decorative or functional and only requires one technique, so whether you are a beginner or novice, everyone is welcome. Students work on the patterns of their choice. Beginners start with a school house block, then move on to something of their own choice. How to design, transfer and colour plan rugs is the focus of the course as well as dyeing demonstrations and the different styles of rug hooking.
Date: July 7 to 11, 2008
Tuition: $288.68
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Instructor:
Heidi Pivnick
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Heidi has been a rug artist and teacher of traditional hand hooked rugs for 10 years. She teaches at rug hooking schools throughout Canada and the United States as well as in her studio. Many of her works have been in Galleries throughout North America and in private collections.
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