January 23, 2010
Ilze Aviks | Durango, CO | Repetition to Revelation

ILZE AVIKS has a BFA from the University of Kansas and an MFA from Colorado State University. Her tapestries and stitched cloth are included in numerous public and private collections. Aviks has contributed essays and reviews to Fiberarts and Surface Design Journal and her work has been published American Craft Magazine, Fiberarts, Surface Design Journal, Southwest Art and two Fiberarts Design Books, number Three and number Five.

Ilze Aviks | Book of Hours: Release 78"x40" Pigment on linen cotton thread; painting and resist, hand embroidery

February 20, 2010
Gail Rieke | Sante Fe, NM | Artist As Traveler

GAIL RIEKE is a collage/assemblage artist and teacher. She received her BFA and MFA from the University of Florida and her artwork is represented in numerous permanent and private collections throughout the country, including the Museum of New Mexico and the Albuquerque Museum. She has taught workshops at various venues including the San Francisco Center for the Book, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Segal Studio in Montreal, Penland School of Crafts, and the Split Rock Arts Program at the University of Minnesota.

Gail Rieke, Blaze of Glory - Layers 1, 2, 3, 4 Kyoto and Korea 2007

March 12, 2010 - March 14, 2010
Diane Banks | Harrisonburg, VA | Building Sculptural Forms

This three-day workshop will focus on building three-dimensional structures using a variety of found materials and joining techniques.

DIANE BANKS is an Associate Professor of Art and Coordinator of Foundations at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.  She received her MFA in Sculpture from Syracuse University.  She has had residencies at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony and most recently at the Julia and David White Artist Colony in Costa Rica.  She is a recipient of an NEA grant in Sculpture and her work is in the collections of the Renwick and the Mint Museum.

Diane Banks

March 19, 2010 - March 21, 2010
John Marshall | Covina, CA | Japanese Yuzen Dyeing

JOHN MARSHALL teaches internationally, specializing in Japanese natural dye techniques. At the age of seventeen he went to Japan to apprentice with master craftsmen and has pursued his love of Japanese textiles for the past forty years. His art work has been exhibited at the Textile Museum and the Japanese Embassy in Washington, DC and at the De Young and Asian Art Museums in San Francisco. He has had exhibits sponsored by Kodansha and the US State Department with work appearing regularly in periodicals such as Surface Design, Ornament, and FiberArts.

April 10, 2010
Robert Ebendorf |  | Jewelry with a Voice

ROBERT EBENDORF, an internationally recognized metalsmith and educator, currently holds the title of Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor at East Carolina University.  He received his BA and MFA from the University of Kansas and also received a Fulbright to study at the State School for Applied Arts and Crafts in Oslo, Norway. A founding member of the Society of North American Goldsmiths, Ebendorf is represented in many worldwide collections including the Metropolitan Museum, The Victoria and Albert Museum in England, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Mint Museum of Craft + Design.

Necklace, 1972, sterling silver, 14k gold, ivory, bone, copper, amber, and wood by Robert Ebendorf

April 30, 2010
Kurt Weiser | Phoenix, AZ | Surfaces

KURT WEISER holds a MFA from the University of Michigan and a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute.  He was the Director of the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Helena, MT from 1977 until 1989.  He is presently a Regents Professor at Arizona State University.  He has twice received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and has work published in over 35 books. Weiser has exhibited extensively since 1982 with the Garth Clark Gallery in New York, Los Angeles and Kansas City; as well as the Frank Lloyd Gallery in Santa Monica.

Shown: Untitled Vessel, 1994, Cast Porcelain, china paint, 17 1/2" x 10", Donald & Barbara Tober Collection

June 12, 2010 - June 13, 2010
Jan Wutkowsky | Wilmington, NC | Sensational Straw Hats: Three Millinery Skills

Learn traditional millinery skills with focus on three different ways to make straw hats — blocking parisisal capelines, blocking and free-forming sinamay yardage, and sewing straw braids.  

JAN WUTKOWSKY studied millinery with Waltraud Reiner at the Melbourne, Australia, School of Millinery, and has taught old-world hatmaking throughout the US since 1998.

Jan Wutkowsky

June 15, 2010 - June 22, 2010
Guadalupe Vélez García | Mexico | La Fabricación De Papel De Base

GUADALUPE VÉLEZ GARCÍA Titulada en Licenciatura en Arquitectura por la Universidad La Salle, y cuenta con estudios de postgrado en Artes Visuales en la Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas de la UNAM. Tuvo la oportunidad de tomar clases con maestros como: Luis Nishisawa, Santiago Carbonell, Víctor Cauduro, entre otros. Además ha participado en diez y siete exposiciones colectivas en Querétaro, Guanajuato, Matamoros y en el Distrito Federal. Cuenta con exposiciones individuales en San Antonio. En la Galería Semmes, en la ciudad de Querétaro siendo sedes: el Palacio de Gobierno, Museo de la Ciudad, Galería Municipal y el Tecnológico de Monterrey; en el Distrito Federal presentó su obra en la Universidad la Salle y en la ciudad de Toluca en el Tecnológico de Monterrey. La maestra trabaja las técnicas en pintura de: encáustica, manufactura de papel, esmalte en metal y grabado. En el plano de la escultura trabaja con acero y piedras naturales.

GUADALUPE VÉLEZ GARCÍA has a degree in Architecture from the Universidad La Salle, as well as graduate work in Visual Arts at the National School of Plastic Arts of the UNAM. In addition, she has studied with Luis Nishisawa, Santiago Carbonell, Víctor Cauduro, among others. Vélez has participated in group and solo exhibitions in Querétaro, Guanajuato, Arrogant and in the Federal District, as well as in San Antonio. Vélez works in encaustic painting, handmade paper, metal enamel, engraving and sculpture using steel and natural stones.

June 25, 2010
Jan Harrell | Houston, TX | Enameled Surfaces: Images Captured in Enamel

Discover innovative ways to use traditional and non-traditional enamel techniques in the 3-day intensive workshop focused on small panel works and jewelry-scale objects.

Jan Harrell received her BFA from Texas Tech University and her MFA in sculpture from the University of Houston. She has been the enamel instructor at the Glassell School of Art in Houston for 17 years. Jan enamels on large scale, sculptural, and jewelry scale objects. She shows nationally and internationally; her work is included in many books and can also be viewed at www.janharrell.com.

"Maze Series Brooches" Champleve 4"x2"x1/2" 2002

June 26, 2010
Matt Kelleher & Shoko Teruyama | Marshall, NC | Personal to Collaborative Work

Mat Kelleher & Shoko Teruyama:  Kelleher received his MFA from University of Nebraska-Lincoln, his MA from the University of Northern Iowa and his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute. Teruyama received her MFA from Wichita State University, KS and her BA from Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan.  Kelleher and Teruyama have been studio artists in Marshall, NC since 2008

Shoko Teruyama, ceramic

October 7, 2010 - October 10, 2010
Ambar Past & Maruch Mendes Peres | Chiapas, Mexico | Alquimia Para Principiantes

AMBAR PAST was born in Durham, NC. At 23, Past immigrated to Mexico and became a Mexican citizen. She became an itinerate teacher of natural dyes for the National Indian Institute living in remote areas of Mexico, Nicaragua, and Guatemala. For more than 30 years she has made her home in the Highlands of Chiapas where she has worked in the collecting, recording, and translating of Tzotzil ritual poetry. Her poems and stories have been published in Spanish, English, Italian, Bosnian, Polish, Lithuanian, German, French, and Japanese.

MARUCH MÉNDEZ PERES was born in Catixtik, a Tzotzil Maya hamlet in the highlands of Chiapas, México. She has worked as a shepherdess, a spinner of wool and yarns, a weaver, a potter, charcoal maker, and is a midwife, curandera (faith healer), singer and seer. Peres is a holy woman, a virgin who never married, but she has adopted seven children. She is also a respected community leader and has worked for many years in the founding and facilitating of a number of cooperatives, including Taller Leñateros. Peres is one of the authors of the anthology, Incantations by Mayan Women.