Upcoming events*Not all events listed are hosted or sponsored by the WWG.
Oct 11 - 14 Fibers and Beyond, Jansen Art Center, Lynden WA
You can now download the Acceptance Criteria and Entry Form. Oct 21 WWG October Meeting & Field Trip Nov 8 - 11 *Tinkuy 2017, Gathering of the Textile Arts in Cusco, Peru Nov 18 WWG November Meeting Dec 16 WWG December Meeting Jan 20 WWG January Meeting Feb 17 WWG February Meeting July 6 - 12 2018 *HGA Convergence, Reno, NV ...see below for details... |
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Recurring eventsDaytime Weavers Group meets year-round on the 4th Wednesday of every month from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the historic Roeder Home, 2600 Sunset Dr. in Bellingham. Members of the public are welcome.
Small loom group meets the third Saturday of each month, at the Bellingham Library, noon-3pm. Spindrifters meet the 2nd Saturday of the month and share with Skagit County. |
2017 WWG Fibers & Beyond Annual Show & Sale - Oct 11 - 14
At the Jansen Art Center, in Lynden, WA
The purpose of the show is to provide education on fiber arts, and offer for sale, handcrafted items made by members of the Whatcom Weavers Guild. We are looking forward to the Fibers and Beyond event planned for next October. It will include exhibits at the Jansen Art Center for the months of September, October, and November, a guild sale, a keynote speaker, and several workshops during October. For more information about a specific workshop or the keynote address please click on the links below.
FIBERS AND BEYOND KEYNOTE by Dr. Susan Pavel, sa’hLa mitSa, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 7 pm
POWERFUL COLOR FOR WEAVERS with Gail Harker, Friday, Oct. 13, 9-4
COAST SALISH TWILL OR TWINE WEAVING with Dr. Susan Pavel – sa’hLa mitSa Tuesday and Thursday, Oct 10 & 12, 9-4
SURFACE DESIGN FOR THE WEAVER: The Exciting World of Warp Painting with Liz Moncrief, Thursday, Oct. 12, 9-4
FELTED BOWL WORKSHOP with Donna Hunter, Saturday, Oct. 14, 1-4 pm
FELTED FLOWER VASE WORKSHOP with Donna Hunter, Saturday, Oct. 14, 9-noon
FELTED HAT WORKSHOP with Donna Hunter, Friday, Oct. 13, 10-3
CRACKLE WEAVE with Liz Moncrief, Friday & Saturday, Oct. 13 & 14, 9-4
DYEING WITH LICHENS with Dr. Susan Pavel – sa’hLa mitSa, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 9-2
BEGINNING RIGID HEDDLE WEAVING with Susan Torntore, Friday and Saturday, Oct. 13 & 14, 9-4
OVER AND UNDER with Gail Harker, Saturday, Oct. 14, 9-4
Please download the 2017 Acceptance Criteria here and the Entry Form here.
If you plan to stay in Lynden during the conference, the Inn at Lynden is will have special room rates available for conference participants. Please call the Inn at 360-746-8597 for reservations and let them know you are part of the conference. More information about the Inn can be found at www.innatlynden.com
The Fibers and Beyond Exhibit Opening is on the Jansen Art Center Website and Facebook, and press releases have gone out.
If you are on Facebook, you can help promote our event by doing the following:
1. log into your facebook account
2. Go to the event page https://www.facebook.com/events/162429040979009
3. Click that you are "Interested" and "Going" to the event (even if you aren't sure you can attend).
4. Invite your friends to attend by clicking on "Share" then choosing "Invite Friends" then select individual friends by scrolling through your friends list and clicking on those you think would be interested and then clicking on "Send Invites"
5. Share the event on your page by clicking on "Share" then choosing "Share in Newsfeed." then you can type a little introduction such as "Come see me and my artwork in this amazing exhibit at the @Jansen Art Center." If you type a @ before Jansen Art Center, and then click on our icon when it pops up, we will see your share and we can like it to make it show up in more people's newsfeeds. After you type your message, click "Post."
Thank you for helping us spread the word about this event and helping it be a success!
WWG October Meeting & Field Trip - Oct 21
Coded Threads: Textile and Technology – This Exhibition brings together fourteen visual artists who use new textile technologies in their art. New Textiles comprise a range of materials: spider silk, nanotechnology, bioculture, smart textiles (conductive threads, fiber optics), and incorporation of Arduino microprocessors. September 27 to December 8 Western Gallery, WWU Campus
10 am business meeting, at St James Church, followed by member show and tell, break for lunch (bring your own) then carpool to the WWU campus for a tour of the exhibit. Stay on campus for a tour of the Outdoor Sculpture collection, visit the WWU Library or have coffee at a campus eatery. Parking $1.00/hour on weekends.
Tinkuy 2017, Gathering of the Textile Arts in Cusco, Peru - Nov 8 - 11
Join ATA and the Center for Traditional Textiles of Cusco (CTTC) for an international gathering of indigenous textile artisans, textile enthusiasts, art historians, anthropologists, and many others to celebrate and share the wealth and diversity of our textile traditions. More than the sum of its workshops and demonstrations, Tinkuy is an experience that stays with you for a lifetime. Register in January to attend Tinkuy and hear keynotes and presenters at the colonial Cusco Convention Center. Watch traditional textile artisans from around the world demonstrate their craft and select from a menu of hands-on workshops. More details can be found here.
WWG November Meeting - Nov 21
Sock Monkeys for Skookum Kids: June Fraser Thistle presents her inspiring story, at a local intersection of fiber arts and social services, and invites us to share the warmth, healing and fun of craftivism in our community!
10 am business meeting at St James Church, followed by member show and tell, break for lunch (bring your own, coffee, tea and cookies provided) Program at noon, stay for hands-on Sock Monkey making or study groups.
WWG December Meeting - Dec 16
Holiday Potluck, Weavers Harvest & “Finishing Bee”
Members bring your work made in, or inspired by workshops at the ANWG conference, or other conferences and workshops in 2017. Scholarship recipients will present their short programs. Bring your unfinished items, we’ll set up tables for a “Finishing Bee” throughout the afternoon. Iron, Ironing board, sewing machine, fringe twisters, and shared expertise will get those projects done before the holidays. We’ll have an ornament-making table set up too. (For those who are all done with their projects) Bring a potluck dish to share, or a $1 to cover the cost of crock-pot chili or soup, your own napkin and table setting, and your unfinished work.
WWG January Meeting - Jan 20
Working With Color: It’s a Wrap! Matinee and hands-on color exploration. Inspired by Daryl Lancaster’s talk about ways to work with color, this program is a movie day, and hands-on session. Bring your bobbins and tail ends, small balls of yarn, even long thrums. We’ll watch one or two of the great color videos in the WWG Library collection (popcorn provided). Then we will arrange our colors and textures and make color wraps to use in planning future projects. Color wheels and other color planning tools will be available.
10 am business meeting at St James Church, followed by member show and tell, break for lunch then movie and color work.
HGA Convergence July 6 - 12 2018
Time to announce the 2018 Handweavers Guild of America conference Convergence 2018! It will be held next year at Peppermill Resort and Casino in Reno Nevada. Dates are July 6-12, 2018. I have attended a number of Convergences over the years and always have found them inspiring with exhibits, workshops, and opportunity to see first hand what is happening in our fiber community on a wider scale. Last year, few attended from WWG at Convergence 2017 in Milwaukee. However, it’s a great opportunity to learn lots, meet many, and have the opportunity to share rooms, transportation, memories. I hope our members will consider a Convergence experience.
At the Jansen Art Center, in Lynden, WA
The purpose of the show is to provide education on fiber arts, and offer for sale, handcrafted items made by members of the Whatcom Weavers Guild. We are looking forward to the Fibers and Beyond event planned for next October. It will include exhibits at the Jansen Art Center for the months of September, October, and November, a guild sale, a keynote speaker, and several workshops during October. For more information about a specific workshop or the keynote address please click on the links below.
FIBERS AND BEYOND KEYNOTE by Dr. Susan Pavel, sa’hLa mitSa, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 7 pm
POWERFUL COLOR FOR WEAVERS with Gail Harker, Friday, Oct. 13, 9-4
COAST SALISH TWILL OR TWINE WEAVING with Dr. Susan Pavel – sa’hLa mitSa Tuesday and Thursday, Oct 10 & 12, 9-4
SURFACE DESIGN FOR THE WEAVER: The Exciting World of Warp Painting with Liz Moncrief, Thursday, Oct. 12, 9-4
FELTED BOWL WORKSHOP with Donna Hunter, Saturday, Oct. 14, 1-4 pm
FELTED FLOWER VASE WORKSHOP with Donna Hunter, Saturday, Oct. 14, 9-noon
FELTED HAT WORKSHOP with Donna Hunter, Friday, Oct. 13, 10-3
CRACKLE WEAVE with Liz Moncrief, Friday & Saturday, Oct. 13 & 14, 9-4
DYEING WITH LICHENS with Dr. Susan Pavel – sa’hLa mitSa, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 9-2
BEGINNING RIGID HEDDLE WEAVING with Susan Torntore, Friday and Saturday, Oct. 13 & 14, 9-4
OVER AND UNDER with Gail Harker, Saturday, Oct. 14, 9-4
Please download the 2017 Acceptance Criteria here and the Entry Form here.
If you plan to stay in Lynden during the conference, the Inn at Lynden is will have special room rates available for conference participants. Please call the Inn at 360-746-8597 for reservations and let them know you are part of the conference. More information about the Inn can be found at www.innatlynden.com
The Fibers and Beyond Exhibit Opening is on the Jansen Art Center Website and Facebook, and press releases have gone out.
If you are on Facebook, you can help promote our event by doing the following:
1. log into your facebook account
2. Go to the event page https://www.facebook.com/events/162429040979009
3. Click that you are "Interested" and "Going" to the event (even if you aren't sure you can attend).
4. Invite your friends to attend by clicking on "Share" then choosing "Invite Friends" then select individual friends by scrolling through your friends list and clicking on those you think would be interested and then clicking on "Send Invites"
5. Share the event on your page by clicking on "Share" then choosing "Share in Newsfeed." then you can type a little introduction such as "Come see me and my artwork in this amazing exhibit at the @Jansen Art Center." If you type a @ before Jansen Art Center, and then click on our icon when it pops up, we will see your share and we can like it to make it show up in more people's newsfeeds. After you type your message, click "Post."
Thank you for helping us spread the word about this event and helping it be a success!
WWG October Meeting & Field Trip - Oct 21
Coded Threads: Textile and Technology – This Exhibition brings together fourteen visual artists who use new textile technologies in their art. New Textiles comprise a range of materials: spider silk, nanotechnology, bioculture, smart textiles (conductive threads, fiber optics), and incorporation of Arduino microprocessors. September 27 to December 8 Western Gallery, WWU Campus
10 am business meeting, at St James Church, followed by member show and tell, break for lunch (bring your own) then carpool to the WWU campus for a tour of the exhibit. Stay on campus for a tour of the Outdoor Sculpture collection, visit the WWU Library or have coffee at a campus eatery. Parking $1.00/hour on weekends.
Tinkuy 2017, Gathering of the Textile Arts in Cusco, Peru - Nov 8 - 11
Join ATA and the Center for Traditional Textiles of Cusco (CTTC) for an international gathering of indigenous textile artisans, textile enthusiasts, art historians, anthropologists, and many others to celebrate and share the wealth and diversity of our textile traditions. More than the sum of its workshops and demonstrations, Tinkuy is an experience that stays with you for a lifetime. Register in January to attend Tinkuy and hear keynotes and presenters at the colonial Cusco Convention Center. Watch traditional textile artisans from around the world demonstrate their craft and select from a menu of hands-on workshops. More details can be found here.
WWG November Meeting - Nov 21
Sock Monkeys for Skookum Kids: June Fraser Thistle presents her inspiring story, at a local intersection of fiber arts and social services, and invites us to share the warmth, healing and fun of craftivism in our community!
10 am business meeting at St James Church, followed by member show and tell, break for lunch (bring your own, coffee, tea and cookies provided) Program at noon, stay for hands-on Sock Monkey making or study groups.
WWG December Meeting - Dec 16
Holiday Potluck, Weavers Harvest & “Finishing Bee”
Members bring your work made in, or inspired by workshops at the ANWG conference, or other conferences and workshops in 2017. Scholarship recipients will present their short programs. Bring your unfinished items, we’ll set up tables for a “Finishing Bee” throughout the afternoon. Iron, Ironing board, sewing machine, fringe twisters, and shared expertise will get those projects done before the holidays. We’ll have an ornament-making table set up too. (For those who are all done with their projects) Bring a potluck dish to share, or a $1 to cover the cost of crock-pot chili or soup, your own napkin and table setting, and your unfinished work.
WWG January Meeting - Jan 20
Working With Color: It’s a Wrap! Matinee and hands-on color exploration. Inspired by Daryl Lancaster’s talk about ways to work with color, this program is a movie day, and hands-on session. Bring your bobbins and tail ends, small balls of yarn, even long thrums. We’ll watch one or two of the great color videos in the WWG Library collection (popcorn provided). Then we will arrange our colors and textures and make color wraps to use in planning future projects. Color wheels and other color planning tools will be available.
10 am business meeting at St James Church, followed by member show and tell, break for lunch then movie and color work.
HGA Convergence July 6 - 12 2018
Time to announce the 2018 Handweavers Guild of America conference Convergence 2018! It will be held next year at Peppermill Resort and Casino in Reno Nevada. Dates are July 6-12, 2018. I have attended a number of Convergences over the years and always have found them inspiring with exhibits, workshops, and opportunity to see first hand what is happening in our fiber community on a wider scale. Last year, few attended from WWG at Convergence 2017 in Milwaukee. However, it’s a great opportunity to learn lots, meet many, and have the opportunity to share rooms, transportation, memories. I hope our members will consider a Convergence experience.
