Winter Classes

Begin, detail

Join me this winter at the Arlington Center for the Arts,

three opportunities to explore surface design on fabric and paper.  

 Thermofax Printing

10AM-2PM Saturday January 25, 2014

Time Travel, detail

Bring fabric,  paint, and a sense of adventure.  You will quickly be creating unique, personal, exciting designs.

 Special gift for coming out in the cold: a coupon good for a free thermofax screen. Redeem at any first Saturday at Lowell Fiber Studio.

Image Transfers for Fabric and Paper

Saturday February 8, 10AM-2PM

In the Way, detail

Learn how to move a photographic image to paper or fabric, without damaging the original. We'll sample a variety of techniques, using paint, medium, water, and heat. Only a few seats left.

Freeform Fabric Collage

Thursday evenings, 7-9:30pm

January 30-March 27, 2014

Elegy, detail

Perform magic with glue, paint, screens and stencils. 

Push yourself beyond the prescribed.We'll play our way into the possible. Along the way, learn how to examine a work-in-progress for its potential, and how to rework "failures" into new materials.

All levels welcome, just be willing to explore.

Contact me with any questions. To register, call Arlington Center for the Arts at 781-648-6200. Or click on the images here to register on-line.

Nine reasons to visit

You need to come to Western Avenue Studios. Look what's waiting for you:

One of my all-time favorites: A Dog Lamp by Barbara Fletcher

Just a few shots from this last weekend's open house.
There's so much more.
 You'll find yourself inspired.

Floor cloth by Karen Cabral Sullivan 
Purse from hand-printed fabric by Linda Dunn

  Sculpture by Glenn Szegedy

 Cambodian artistry in the Loading Dock Gallery

 Crocheted "Soft Stones" necklace by Gwen Stith

 Hand-dyed vintage linens at Lowell Fiber Studio

  Pottery from Muddy Girls Studio 

 Felted vessels by Judi Davidson

 Paper lamp by Barbara Fletcher

The place is huge - don't expect to see everything in one day. 

But wear your walking shoes, and come enjoy a blast of creativity. 

Big hint: the main elevator is SLOW. For a faster ride, enter where in the "elbow" where the two mill buildings meet. Buzz the freight elevator. Lovely young people will be running it both Saturday and Sunday. When you get in, ask to go to the fifth floor. Then drift as your whimsy takes you: down halls, stairwells, across the bridge between buildings and back again.

Looking for me? Bring this map. Or just ask where the 5th floor bathrooms are. My studio is right next door.

Open Studios

122 Western Avenue Studios, Lowell

Saturday and Sunday

December 14-15

Noon-5PM

Do you have enough for the day?

Sometimes life hands you what you need.

Even on the internet.

I was trying to stream Diane Rehm, and instead stumbled on these two essays. 

Bill Harley, on getting by with less than you thought you needed:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1114640

And Philip Gould, on how imminent death illuminates how much one actually has:

 

http://vimeo.com/40581476

Makes the work, whatever it is, make more sense. Put your shoulder to the wheel. Carry the water. And call a friend.