Uncovering The Surface
June 6 - June 10
Post-Conference Workshops

You do not need to be a member of SDA to take a workshop

ONE-DAY DEMONSTRATIONS
MONDAY, JUNE 6

* Photographing Textiles
Jeffrey Bruce
Have you ever been frustrated trying to take a great picture of your work? This workshop is designed to help you learn to look at the lights and shadows in order to 'see' the way your camera does. Jeff will start with a slide presentation that will be followed by a photo and lighting demonstration. Both conventional and digital photography will be addressed, and the class will include extensive discussion. Participants are encouraged to bring slides of their own work. Individual critiques of slides will be available at the end.
Level: All levels
Workshop Fee: $80 - Supply Fee: $5

TWO-DAY WORKSHOPS
MONDAY, JUNE 6 -TUESDAY, JUNE 7

Shibori: A Look at Neglected Techniques
Ana Lisa Hedstrom This workshop is full
Investigate the traditional and contemporary possibilities of shibori techniques that have been largely unappreciated by American artists: Katano shibori (stitching through accordion folds) Shirokage white shadow (stitching and wrapping on a rope), Tesuji (pleating fabric around a rope), and Hotaru shibori (cotton ball resist). On the first day we will remain fairly faithful to the original techniques in order to learn skills and grasp the basic concepts. The second day will be experimental - using contemporary tools and surface applications. Ana Lisa will bring samples of Japanese shibori, examples of her own work, and books and catalogs to instruct and inspire.
Level: All levels
Workshop Fee: $165 - Supply Fee: $20

* Artists and Communities:

The Nuts and Bolts of Successful Projects
Bonnie Lee Holland

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This workshop is for artists who want to share their materials, techniques, ideas, processes and own work in the community. Topics explored through exercises, discussion, slides, samples and a hands-on mini project include: artist roles (teaching artists, collaborators, trainers and managers of large projects); finding opportunities (Artist-in-Education programs, prisons, museums and other funding sources, plus programs artists can develop themselves or through collaboration); factors for successful projects (matching projects to groups, time, scheduling, funds, resources, group process, communication, artist fees, negotiation, contracts and marketing); and common problems - how to avoid or fix them.
Level: All levels
Workshop Fee: $165 - Supply Fee: $25

THREE-DAY WORKSHOPS
MONDAY, JUNE 6 - WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8

Working from the Inside Out: The Creative Process
Jean Williams Cacicedo this workshop is full
We are all heirs to a wealth of inner personal resources that can take shape and form through the creative process of art making. Students will uncover the infrastructure that informs our lives through the awareness of personal mythology. We will focus on forming ideas, images and themes for work made possible through memory, reflection and conversation. A blend of writing, drawing and paper collage exercises will be used incorporating basic design principles. Supportive critiques and discussions on how we can better define, develop and sustain our ideas will provide students a challenging environment for the development of art making.
Level: All media interests and levels welcome.
Workshop Fee: $225 - Supply Fee: $10

* Bogolan Fini (Mud Cloth) Modified
Judy Dominic

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When Mali children get their clothes muddy, their mothers have a wonderful way of making it into art! Actually, the traditional method of Bogolan Fini, dyeing cotton cloth with mud, is a serious artistic way of telling the stories of the village. Learn the traditional process as well as the nonscientific Dominic version. During the workshop you will create your own striking story designs using local mud on cotton cloth. A bonus is the opportunity to learn the 'mud dance' while connecting with the earth and gaining an appreciation of the Mali culture.
Level: All levels
Workshop Fee: $225 - Supply Fee: $20

Self-Portraits: Art in Our Own Image
Deb Erikson

This workshop has been cancelled.

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Self-portraits are powerful and revealing, fun and silly, all at once. Participants will create self-images using digital cameras, snapshots brought from home and contour drawing, an expressive style of drawing where one looks into a mirror instead of at the paper while drawing. The powerful tools of Adobe PhotoShop will be explored while manipulating or combining these images before final printing on silk fabric that has been prepared by the student. Continued embellishment using the student's specialty fiber art techniques will also be encouraged, including, but not limited to, dyeing, beading or embroidery.
Level: Beginner to intermediate
Workshop Fee: $225 - Supply Fee: $30

* Traditional Turkish Felt Rug Making
Mehmet Girgic

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Learn from a true master of traditional Turkish felt making without traveling abroad. Students in this workshop will learn the centuries-old method for creating a colorful, multipatterned Turkish Kece, or felted carpet. By layering natural-dyed wool roving, this method of felt making allows for wonderful expression of line and shape. Each participant will complete a small felted carpet. Please note that this is a physically demanding workshop, as the rugs are thick and must be hand felted for durability.
Level: All levels, but must be physically healthy.
Workshop Fee: $225 - Supply Fee: $40

Printmaking with Disperse Dyes
Lisa Grey This workshop is full
Delve into the expanding world of applying imagery to paper and fabric. Explore the unique properties of disperse dyes as applied to printmaking. Participants will create several monoprints using a heat press and different types of printmaking papers on synthetic fabrics, while experimenting with various ways to alter or enhance the print, including under-painting, texturing, screen printing and fusing fabrics to the paper's surface. Possibilities range from subtle to intense color and painterly to abstract design. Using an ink jet printer loaded with sublimation inks, we will add computer-assisted designs to the mix. Come prepared to play!
Level: All levels
Workshop Fee: $225 - Supply Fee: $50

* Textile Design on the Computer
Sigrid Piroch 

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See and compare features of dozens of user-friendly and affordable weaving, graphics design and image management programs for the PC running under Windows in a Mac-like environment. Work with programs and features you select to create colorful, exciting and original designs! Learn to access and use resources from the Web. Get a handle on working with unique drafts, color models, and image modification and enhancement. Adopt software that is a match for your surface design interests. Where do YOU want to go today?
Level: All levels
Workshop Fee: $225 - Supply Fee: $30

Japanese Indigo: Part 2 - Dyeing
Rowland and Chinami Ricketts
Students will experience firsthand the challenges posed by various combinations of resist techniques and materials when working with indigo through the completion of a length of ori-nui shibori cloth (fold and stitch shibori). Students' understanding of the skills necessary to work with a traditional Japanese indigo vat will be enhanced through demonstrations of plain and gradation dyeing, katazome and yarn dyeing techniques, as well as by looking at contemporary and historical textiles that illustrate these techniques.
Level: Preconference workshop Japanese Indigo Part 1: Vat Preparation is suggested, but not required.
Workshop Fee: $225 - Supply Fee: $50

"Painting" with Freestyle Machine Embroidery
Carol Shinn this workshop is full
Explore imagery and surface enhancement using a basic sewing machine. Emphasis will be on creating a surface saturated with layers of threads. Develop your own style of 'mark making' with shading, hatching and color mixing. Sample ways of using heat transfer images, dissolvable fabric, collage and couching. We will discuss designing, troubleshooting, finishing and presentation. After initial exercises, attention is given to developing individual ideas and projects. Students may work two or three-dimensionally. Computerized machine-controlled patterns will not be covered.
Level: All levels, but should be familiar with sewing machines.
Workshop Fee: $225 - Supply Fee: $25

* Handmade Paper: Exploring the Surface
Jo Stealey

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Learn to paint with over-beaten paper pulp to create unusually designed, visually rich surfaces, where the images are integrated directly into the sheet of paper. Students will explore sheet forming techniques, a variety of methods to paint with pulps and collage materials into the paper, methods to emboss or print on paper (manually

or computer generated), and ways to turn these papers into two or three-dimensional forms. Special attentionwill be given to the unique effects that can be achieved with over-beaten, high-shrinkage pulps.
Level: All levels
Workshop Fee: $225 - Supply Fee: $40

The Art of Manipulating Fabric
Colette Wolff
Venture into a kind of surface design that exploits the contrasts between high-relief and low-relief elevations, as well as smooth and rough textures. You'll use the simplest of means - a length of cloth, a threaded needle, the hand-guided running stitch-to alter the one-dimensional flow of the fabric. Working with three-dimensional effects, such as wrinkles, gathers, folds, fringes, puffs, and stuffed or padded elements, you'll create a bas-relief compositionÐa small art panel constructed with manipulated techniques that play with light and shadow. During the process, you're free to explore each manipulated configuration following the direction you're inspired to take.
Level: All levels
Workshop Fee: $225 - Supply Fee: $15

 

FOUR-DAY WORKSHOPS
MONDAY, JUNE 6 - THURSDAY, JUNE 9

Surface Design Fabrics Only a Weaver Can Make
Catharine Ellis
Taiten shibori is a little-known traditional shibori process, practiced in Japan in the early 20th century. It is done on a loom and makes use of a plain tabby structure to create resists for dyeing or other surface applications. Rich and complex layers of color can be created by means of immersion dye, direct application and discharge. Resists will be applied at different stages of the dye process. All dyeable fibers are suitable for this workshop and the process will easily transfer to the weaver's own studio work.
Level: All levels, but must be able to set up a floor loom and weave tabby or plain weave.
Workshop Fee: $300 - Supply Fee: $30

* Weavefeltings: Textured Surfaces Through Weaving and Felting with Different Materials
Christine Keller

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In this workshop you will explore the opportunities of combining weaving and felting to get strongly textured surfaces. You will see that mixing wool yarns with other materials will open a variety of possibilities to control the shape and surface of the fabric. We will look at examples together, and from there you will start to weave your own samples. Different weave structures will be developed, including basic double weaves. At the end of the workshop we will felt the samples together and exchange experiences. We will also discuss production weaving and hints to save time in the fabrication process.
Level: Intermediate to advanced
Workshop Fee: $300 - Supply Fee: $50

Sculptural Crochet
Tracy Krumm

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The crochet hook is a tool by which fabric can be made and things can be connected. This workshop explores the nature of crochet as a format for sculpture; alone or combined with other materials and techniques. We will explore diverse materials, such as wire, plastics, plant fibers and strips of fabric and paper, in addition to various yarns. The focus will be on form, content and technique, along with discussions about concept and material appropriateness. Participants should have some experience with crochet, as we will dive right into studio work.
Level: Intermediate to advanced
Workshop Fee: $300 - Supply Fee: $30

FIVE-DAY MASTER CLASS
MONDAY, JUNE 6 - FRIDAY, JUNE 10

Master Class: Balancing the Surface: Nature and Chemistry
Joy Boutrup and Yoshiko Wada This workshop is full
Explore different ways to strike a balance between hand manipulation and technology. Using both natural and synthetic materials coupled with traditional skills and innovative methods, the two instructors will experiment with materials and techniques to find inventive and successful combinations. They will consider a variety of possibilities taken from a wide breadth of textile practices: from the East, from the West, referencing industry practices, and artisanal techniques.
Level: advanced.
Workshop Fee: $450 -  Supply Fee: $65

For More Information:
Conference Registration starts Jan. 3, 2005. 

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You do not have to attend the conference to attend a workshop, however you will have an additional $50 "workshop only" fee.
You do not need to be a member of SDA to take a workshop.

If you are not a member but would like to request a conference brochure, e-mail Marie Plakos: marie.plakos@att.net

Questions:

For all conference related questions:
Carolyn Kallenborn
Kansas City Art Institute
4415 Warwick Blvd.
Kansas City, Missouri 64111
816-802-3370
e-mail: cmkallen@earthlink.net


For SDA Membership Information:

Joy Stocksdale
The Surface Design Association
P.O.Box 360
Sebastopol, CA 95473-0306
707-829-3110
e-mail: joystocks@worldnet.att.net

Did you miss the last conference?
"Hands On"       June 5 - June 8, 2003
Recap of the conference
Original 2003 announcement