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Wednesday: Surface Designs on Fabric [18-Adult]

10/25/2017 10:00 AM - 12/20/2017 03:00 PM ET

Category

Adult Classes + Workshops

Location

Loft

Summary

Discover the potential of creating a finished design directly on fabric, using relaxed and playful silkscreen techniques. Cutting, slashing tearing and drawing with a seam ripper will create the marks that provide paper resists for our silkscreened compositions. The design and use of thermofax screens will be explored and will allow us to add a variety of textures to our work. Using blank silkscreen to add solid colors of dye, complex designs can be achieved by layering areas of thickened dyes with these multiple techniques. Beautiful fabrics can be used as quilts or simply as “art cloth”. All levels.

Teaching Artist: Judy Langille
Class dates: Wednesdays, October 25-December 20. No class 11/22. 8 weeks,
Class time: 10:00am-3:00pm

Registration fee includes materials fee:
Regular: $535 | Members: $485

Late fee of $25 will apply from October 18

Description

Materials list - Please bring the following to the first class:
- Rubber gloves, apron
- Plastic from dry cleaning bags or light weight plastic to wrap fabric in to take it home. It will need to be washed the next day.
- Freezer Paper- sold at grocery stores
- Fabric- can be 100% cotton, silk or rayon that is prepared for dyeing – we will discuss this in the first class.
- Blank silkscreen frame- at least 12” x 18”- but can be bigger. All wood should be covered with duct tape, or shellacked before workshop.
- Old hand towels for cleaning up.

About the Teaching Artist: Judy Langille is a nationally acclaimed fiber artist and experienced art educator, who has received grants from the Geraldine Dodge Foundation. She has taught at a variety of levels, including K-8 in several New Jersey and New York school districts, college level at William Paterson University and adults at the Newark Museum. Judy has received numerous surface design awards for her quilt art and hand dyed fabrics and has had many pieces accepted at the most prestigious shows, such as Quilt National, Visions, and Art Quilts Philadelphia/Elements. She has had her work published in numerous publications, most recently in the Surface Design Journal where she co-authored an article called, “One Cloth, One Fabric: Whole Cloth Composition”. In February 2009 she was the Artist of the Month on www.jerseyarts.com. She continues to work in her studio, show her art and teach in artist in residence programs around the country.