Up-Coming Fiberart Workshops : 2023-2024

COMING WORKSHOPS

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COMING WORKSHOPS -

 

The Aya Fiber Studio is pleased to invite regional, national and internationally acclaimed fiber-artists into the studio to give lectures, fiber workshops and critiques for a wide range of fiberart studio practices and techniques. These visits will provide studio students direct interaction with the artist and LIVE hands-on- learning experiences. Our intimate setting and small classes provide students with direct instructor attention.

Coming Workshops are listed by the month and the link for more info and registration is in the button below:

August 2024

November 2024

December 2024

January 2025

February 2025

March 2025

April 2025

Click on any link below to learn more or continue scrolling to see upcoming fiberart workshops! You can also click on the greyed out squares in the calendar on the upper right to see what is happening on any day!

Featured
Selective Degumming on Raw Silk
Nov 5
Selective Degumming on Raw Silk
Discharge- Removing Color
Nov 6
Discharge- Removing Color
Open Studio Time
Nov 7
Open Studio Time
Morakami
Nov 9
Morakami
Deconstructing Nature with Kerr Grabrowski
Nov 11
Deconstructing Nature with Kerr Grabrowski

Let Nature be your muse as you embrace and trust the unexpected and unpredictable. Explore line, texture and form via fiber reactive dyes and easily removable screen stencils such as wax and paper, deconstructed screen-printing, polychromatic printing, direct dye application and more.

In this workshop, we will use the screen in an intuitive, experimental way as well as in a stencil based, more traditional way.

Expect to come away with personal rather than technique based forms of expression. Eco printed fabrics and papers as well as plain cellulose and silks are appropriate.

https://ayafiberstudio.corsizio.com/event/66b506d85fce9b56467b6ce4

Lighthouse Art Center- Eco-print Workshop
Nov 16
Lighthouse Art Center- Eco-print Workshop
SOUTH FL SURFACE DESIGN ASSOC November Meeting
Nov 17
SOUTH FL SURFACE DESIGN ASSOC November Meeting
Shibori Stitching and Binding- drawing with Thread
Nov 19
Shibori Stitching and Binding- drawing with Thread
Studio closed for holiday
Nov 22
Studio closed for holiday
Intro to Shibori/ Indigo | Suzanne Connors
Dec 3
Intro to Shibori/ Indigo | Suzanne Connors
Hobe Sound
SDA Holiday Bazaar
Katazome: Japanese Paste Resist with Suzanne Connors
Dec 10
Katazome: Japanese Paste Resist with Suzanne Connors
Morakami
Dec 14
Morakami
SOUTH FL SURFACE DESIGN ASSOC December Meeting
Dec 15
SOUTH FL SURFACE DESIGN ASSOC December Meeting
Studio closed for holiday
Dec 23
Studio closed for holiday
PATTERNING THE PATTERNS with Amy Nguyen-
Jan 7
PATTERNING THE PATTERNS with Amy Nguyen-
Lisa Binkley Workshop
Jan 13
Lisa Binkley Workshop
SOUTH FL SURFACE DESIGN ASSOC January Meeting
Jan 19
SOUTH FL SURFACE DESIGN ASSOC January Meeting
Marbling: Eco-Friendly Fabric Printing with Natalie Stopka
Jan 21
Marbling: Eco-Friendly Fabric Printing with Natalie Stopka
Lighthouse Art Center- Eco-print
Jan 25
Lighthouse Art Center- Eco-print
Maximum Resist Shibori: Willow, White Shadow, and More with Carole Anne Grotian
Jan 27
Maximum Resist Shibori: Willow, White Shadow, and More with Carole Anne Grotian
Batik ADIRE Tie-Dye with Gasali Adeyemo
Feb 4
Batik ADIRE Tie-Dye with Gasali Adeyemo
SOUTH FL SURFACE DESIGN ASSOC February Meeting
Feb 9
SOUTH FL SURFACE DESIGN ASSOC February Meeting
The Art of Bookmaking with Claudia Lee
Feb 10
The Art of Bookmaking with Claudia Lee
Natural Dyeing Seminar : Classical Natural Dyes Created in Modern Setting
Feb 16
Natural Dyeing Seminar : Classical Natural Dyes Created in Modern Setting

Natural Dyeing of the 18th Century, in a Modern Setting: Classical Natural Dyes at your Fingertips

Create stunning colors from plans, inspired by the recipes of the old masters, adjusted to fit a modern dye kitchen.

Day one: 

On the first day, you learn about the systems and economics of the 18th-century natural dye industry. Specifically in the South of France, which was the leading economic force of that century.

We learn about the master dyers of the era and their recipe books.

Practical instructions:

  • Correct cleaning of natural fibers

  • Water ratios

  • WOF calculations

  • Record keeping and building a library.

  • Practice and test: cleaning the materials you will be using for the rest of the trials.

  • Color: Learn how to set up an indigo bath

Day two

We will dye base colors of different shades of blue according to 18th-century shade cards. 

  • milky blue

  • azure blue

  • Kings blue

  • You will learn how to dye correctly, and how to maintain your vat for continued dyeing.

  • You will learn about the mordanting process for wool, and we will mordant part of our fabric for the following steps.

Day three

The yellows

You will learn a classical mordant bath for our wool fabric.

We will create a classical weld dye bath and a buckthorn berry bath and dye our yellow samples.

We will create 

  • Lemon Yellow

  • Warm Yellow

  • Vert Gay (cheerful Green)

  • Vert d’Herbe (herb green)

Day four

Going all out with Madder and Cochineal

Today you will learn how to create vibrant reds with madder

We will create Purples by over-dyeing our blue samples 

We will create ORANGE by over-dyeing yellow samples

  • Madder red

  • Scarlet red

  • Golden Cinnamon

  • Violet

  • Lila

Day Five

Greys, taupe and more. 

Learn how to reuse your dye baths and combine them with mordants to create even more stunning shades.

We will finish our dyeing and collect and cut all the samples to make your sample collection for future reference.

Morakami
Feb 22
Morakami
Beyond Joomchi
Feb 24
Beyond Joomchi
3 Day Batique Techniques with Muffy Clark Gill
Mar 3
3 Day Batique Techniques with Muffy Clark Gill