Learn to Weave from an award-winning fiber artist in this 2.5-hr workshop at the Genesee Orleans Regional Arts Council. Students will learn the beginners skills such as weaving basics including warping, selection of materials, tools and basic techniques. Students will warp and weave during the instruction time and leave with beginners weaving knowledge and a completed fiber art piece ready to finish and hang. Loom not required: Use of loom and tools set provided for use in class (available a la carte upon request).
Thursday, September 4
Time: 6:30 PM – 9 PM
Use of 12×16 Lost Pond Looms student loom and tools set provided for use in class.
About your Instructor:
Tami Fuller is a second-generation fiber artist and educator native to WNY. Her work integrates the traditional foundations of hand-constructed processes with modern technique. Her workshops are designed with an eye toward revitalizing and modernizing fiber, ensuring the continuation of these skill sets by exposing the art form to new people within new contexts. She teaches retreats and workshops throughout the North East. Her work has received awards from NY Sheep and Wool, Lake Affect Magazine, Arts Council for Wyoming County and the Carnegie Art Center.
In 2022, she was defined as a WNY artist culture-maker and a recipient of the NY Council on the Arts “Creatives Rebuild NY” grant, tasked with rebuilding arts access post-COVID. She is an internationally published fiber artist whose work has appeared in Fiber Art Now and her work can be found in collections in the United States, Canada and Australia. She works out of East Aurora, and is an exhibiting member of the Buffalo Society of Artists, the Weavers Guild of Rochester and Buffalo Weavers Guild and is a 2021 Roycroft Emerging Artist in Fiber.
September 4 | 6:30pm - 9pm | Registration Required
Info:
https://goart.org/beginner-hand-weaving/
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