Morning (11AM): “Design a Digital Vision Board”
Afternoon (1PM): “Fiber Art: Become the Artist You Want to Be”

AM - Design a Digital Vision Board: Learn how to gather creative ideas in a digital vision board to focus on specific topics like:  color, weave structure, nature inspiration, or artist inspiration.  Christine leads this program using a simple digital tool to organize ideas and inspiration, helping you to put in order the information that will support and grow your creative efforts.  (this includes a free download from her website)

PM - Fiber Art: Become the Artist You Want to Be: Christine will lead us through her resource. The visual arts are a dynamic, exciting place for individual expression and the communication of important ideas to viewers of art. But, there can be a mystery about how a real artist works and what processes they use to express their creative ideas. Fiber artists also utilize tools and techniques to create artistic expressions. I am introducing you to Studio Thinking, a set of 8 Habits of Mind that will strengthen your own art making. There is a free download of this resource on Christine’s website.

About Christine:

Christine’s explorations began in traditional fiber processes: crochet, sewing, knitting and embroidery. She began weaving at age 19 and this process has been central to her artistic creations. The interlacement of wire with fiber intrigued her to the degree that she explored weaving with wire solely for the last 30 years. The woven metal fabric that results from weaving wire and fiber together creates a unique art material she is able to utilize in sculptural expressions. Her work explores space and line, in the undulating forms she creates. The process allows her to draw from traditional hand weaving techniques and structures that are re-interpreted into exciting contemporary sculptural forms. The dance between the wire and the fiber produces a material that is hard enough to maintain a shape, but soft enough to have gentle curves and planes.