Fiber Art Now

02/18/2025

Important conversation:
Gather with fellow academics, researchers, artists, designers, technologists, and architects to discuss the re-emergence of a textile-based education as part of a vibrant and future-facing pedagogy. This inaugural half-day conference will kick off a regional focus on the role of textiles in contemporary education. Hosted by UCLA's Department of Design Media Arts,Thinking Through Textiles: Future Pedagogies will explore the intersections of aesthetics, textile technique, cross-disciplinary studies, and new material insights, while introducing opportunities for collaborative engagement.

Thinking Through Textiles is a series of multidisciplinary talks that explore the transdisciplinary nature of textiles, fiber as shape-shifter, textiles as embodied meaning, and various related points of praxis.

Friday, February 21, 2025
8:30 - l pm
UCLA Broad Art Center

Details and ticket here: https://tinyurl.com/56hd5s68

02/17/2025

Exciting to hear about the construction of this treasured book at the Los Angeles Public Library.
Has anyone had the opportunity to go see this?

"Kitty Maryatt, educator and proprietor of Two Hands Press, located in Playa Vista, California, discusses her spectacular recreation of the Blaise Cendrars and Sonia Delaunay 1913 publication, La Prose du Transsibérien. This beautiful artists’ book is a recent addition to the Book Arts Collection. Printed by letterpress with hand-painted pochoir, the book needs an extra set of hands to open it up and display the art and poem as one long piece. "

02/17/2025

Tapestry
Judith Poxson Fawkes (1941 – 2019) was an American tapestry weaver based in Portland, Oregon, who exhibited her works nationally beginning in the 1960s. Image © Judith Poxson Fawkes
Beginning in 1989, she exhibited works at Russo Lee Gallery in Portland, Oregon. Her linen inlay, double weave and pattern weave tapestries are in the permanent collections of the American Crafts Museum, City of Seattle, Clark College, Greenville County Museum of Art, Knight Library, and Stanford University.
According to the Washington State Arts Commission, Fawkes produced "elaborate woven tapestries that explore architectural and geometric forms, as well as the interplay of light and color". She was "highly regarded for her intricate tapestries", according to the Museum without Walls.

02/17/2025

Aya Fiber Studio is hosting Joomchi workshops. The process has beautiful results.

Why Not Joomchi? with Jiyoung Chung
Mon, Feb 24, 2025, 9:00 AM EST – Fri, Feb 28, 2025

Joomchi is a unique Korean traditional way of making textured handmade paper using water and eager hands. The terminology originated from the meaning, “making a Joomoney (Pouch)”. The record says that the Koreans started making Joomchi in the Goryeo Dynasty, A.D.918 – 1392. A few remaining Korean treasures are made with this technique: purses, folding pouches, outfits for rain, etc. Joomchi creates strong, textural, and painterly surfaces by layering and agitating Hanji (Korean mulberry papers), which are not easy to rip/tear and create a locking surface: As time goes on, the surface becomes more and more elegant and aged-looking, surfaces sometimes look like leather.

This class offers students the opportunity to become acquainted with its history, usage, and role in Korean society, as well as the hands-on techniques and reinterpreted adaptations into contemporary art form.

Joomchi’s usages are diverse and can be incorporated into surface design, collage, new ways of drawing, one-of-a-kind book art, wearable, unconventional body ornament, or sculptural object: 2-D & 3D functional or fine art-oriented works. The possibilities are endless!

Registration will OPEN 4/15: https://ayafiberstudio.corsizio.com/event/65eb403cf69a5a52a3ddc22a

02/16/2025

We are sharing the love today and giving you $10 off your first year of Fiber Art Now! Use coupon code LOVE25 at checkout to take advantage of this special offer.

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02/16/2025

Haptic&Hue

A bonnet made of lace? Yes - but look again, this is an entirely natural lace made of Jamaican bark and in this weeks Friends of Haptic & Hue we go on the trail of this kind of lace and lots of others with that make up part of a mystery collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Find out more on Thursday. www.hapticandhue.com/friends-haptic-hue/ And if you want to see this piece it’s in the collection of Saffron Waldon museum in Essex.

02/14/2025

Featured Artist: Jennifer Davies 🌟 Jennifer's piece 'Takeaways' has been selected for Excellence in Fibers X! Don’t miss it—
Check out the latest issue of Fiber Art Now to explore all the incredible artists featured in this year’s exhibition! 🧵💫
https://www.fiberartnow.net/winter-2025/

02/14/2025

We are sharing the love today and giving you $10 off your first year of Fiber Art Now! Use coupon code LOVE25 at checkout to take advantage of this special offer.

When you subscribe to Fiber Art Now, you’ll be getting:
Four print and digital magazines per year (January, April, July, and October).
A FREE back issue was mailed to you at sign up.
Instant access to the Fiber Art Now digital archives. (That is 12+ years of digital back issues . . . absolutely free!)
Instant access to 20 original Fiber Art Now ebooks.
30% discount on Call for Entry fees.
Exclusive monthly deals on tools, materials, books, and more.
Don’t forget to enter coupon code LOVE25 at checkout to take advantage of this special offer!
Click here:
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02/14/2025

Artist Spotlight ⭐️ Tshen Shue's piece 'Bow Vessel' has been selected for Excellence in Fibers X! Don’t miss it—
Check out the latest issue of Fiber Art Now to explore all the incredible artists featured in this year’s exhibition! 🧵💫
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02/13/2025

"Barns Have Stories" show announcement!
I'm joining master fiber artist Susan Feller of Augusta, W.Va., for a multimedia exhibition set to open on March 8 at the Grasshopper Gallery at Lost River Trading Post, located in Wardensville, W.Va., at 295 E. Main St. The exhibit will be on display until April 27.
"Barns have Stories" was inspired as Susan observed the methodical deconstruction of a large barn in Augusta, W.Va. over a period of several weeks. This experience drew Susan’s attention to other barns in the area, in various states of repair, as she looked at their design, their materials, their engineering, and their wear.

"Barns have Stories" show announcement!

I'm joining master fiber artist Susan Feller of Augusta, W.Va., for a multimedia exhibition set to open on March 8 at the Grasshopper Gallery at Lost River Trading Post, located in Wardensville, W.Va., at 295 E. Main St. The exhibit will be on display until April 27.

"Barns have Stories" was inspired as Susan observed the methodical deconstruction of a large barn in Augusta, W.Va. over a period of several weeks. This experience drew Susan’s attention to other barns in the area, in various states of repair, as she looked at their design, their materials, their engineering, and their wear.

Susan invited me to contribute work to the exhibit because of my interest in painting rural landscapes and subjects. I'm also a child of farm life and spent many days hanging around barns and farm sheds at my grandparents' and parents' farms, so I feel a deep appreciation for these structures.

In coming days I'll share more about the work Susan and I are creating for the exhibit, as well as some sneak peaks at my paintings.

You can also follow Susan's creative process (and see what she is working on for the show) at Susan L. Feller, Artwools

02/13/2025

So many great workshops with top-caliber teachers!!

I know there are a lot of places in the US that are freezing, however, temperatures here in Florida have gne back up into the mid 70's and low 80s - so call your fiber bestie and make plans for a "fiber-cation" escape!
https://ayafiberstudio.corsizio.com/

Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens Discover Stuart Florida Fiber Art Now MartinArts South Florida Surface Design Association Surface Design Association (Members Only Group) Natural Dyeing of the 18th Century, in a Modern Setting: Classical Natural Dyes - Suzanne Dekel BINDINGS & TECHNIQUES FOR ARTIST’S BOOKS Joomchi

02/12/2025

Artist Feature: Terri Shinn 🎉
Her piece Blue Palo Verde, is part of Excellence in Fibers X! 🌿✨

See more of her work at and check out the latest issue of Fiber Art Now to explore all the incredible artists featured in this year’s exhibition! 🧵💫



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02/11/2025

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02/11/2025

David van Buskirk, One of the artists in our Winter Issue, shares the inspiration behind his artwork in his email newsletter today. He talks about a rafting trip on the Colorado River in 2021 that occasioned my inspiration to undertake the production of Out on a Limb (Elves Chasm), which embodies the undulating rock formations and variegated color contrasts found in the Grand Canyon. Adapting a loom structure that’s been in existence since prehistoric times, my use of hand weaving to realize this unique work’s form and structure served as a welcome antidote to my many years as a professional textile designer producing complex dobby weaves for the textile industry on a computerized loom.

Out on a Limb (Elves Chasm), 2024 (detail)
Cotton, wool, foraged tree branch
74 x 58 x 22 inches
Check out the artist's website
https://www.dvbart-design.com/
Or follow him on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dvbart_design
AND get the Winter Issue of Fiber Art Now.
His work will also be available to view at the Excellence in Fiber exhibit at the Schack Art Center in January 2026.

02/11/2025

This looks like an exciting class with at Aya Fiber Studio - Show us your Fiber ReImagined!

MULTI MEDIA FIBER with Betty Busby
Mon, Mar 10, 2025, 9:00 AM EDT – Fri, Mar 14, 2025, 4:00 PM EDT

ONLY 1 space left!

For several years Betty has been exploring the use of various nonwoven materials in her fiber art. They have been a wonderful addition to traditional fabrics, extending the range of expression that can be achieved.

The class will include samples of different types of non woven materials, ways to produce images with them, and methods to incorporate them to extend the range of expression that can be achieved with traditional fabrics.

In addition, Betty has developed new ways of painting fabrics. Students can make samples using her methods and materials, and combine them with the nonwovens as desired.

She will bring her electric cutting machine and demonstrate its use with both the non wovens and vinyl. Instruction on its use and design features will be included.

The aim of the class is to give each student many exciting ideas to experiment with.
Fiber Arts Collective