A detailed, printable schedule for the 2024-2025 year is on the Events Page.
Monthly meeting on Monday February 17 – Zoom only – Marianne Fairbanks – Loud Volumes Soft Stuff
The exhibition titled, Loud Volumes Soft Stuff, by Sofia Hagström Møller and Marianne Fairbanks offers an explosion and interrogation of woven cloth. Through expanded structures, new materials and dimensional investigations Hagström and Fairbanks’ present works boldly activate the eye and more subtly focus on the entanglements of woven cloth and their meanings, both personal and political. Traditional, digital and nonconventional weavings will be presented, colliding handweaving with digital technology and largely experimental forms.
Check her website for more information on Marianne’s weaving.
When and Where
If you are interested, but not yet a member, come and meet us! Our meetings are on the third Monday of the month from September to May. Doors open at 6:30, meeting generally starts at 7 p.m. at Oakwood Village University Woods, 6205 Mineral Point Road, Madison, WI 53507.
Volunteers Needed
Historian. The Historian shall maintain official and unofficial documents, papers, samples, historical records of the organization and shall provide and disseminate said documents as appropriate.
Workshop Committee members needed! If a few people step up, you can share the work.
Tech person needed, not a board position but we do need a couple of people who can set up the Zoom meetings. If there are more than one person, they can trade off the months.
Announcements
- Back and Forth Exhibition (02/27 – 03/28, 2025) is a 2-person exhibition featuring the work of Marianne Fairbanks (USA) and Sofia Hagström Møller (DK), who live an ocean apart and have developed a creative exchange of ideas that push both to unfold and invent new approaches to their practice and textile-based works. They will show works, created over several years, made remotely and together, that show a visual dialogue between their culturally informed approaches to weaving and making, highlighting a playfulness in material use, color and sculptural experiments. In the summer of 2024, during a 2 week residency at @thejellyreading they started using cardboard and other discarded materials in their studies and experiments to push weaving into more dimensional forms. Reception: Thursday, February 27, 4:00pm-6:00pm, Joyce Paddock Bliss Gallery, Carroll University, Main Hall, Waukesha WI 53186
- At the top of the page, click on Education and then on Workshops to see workshops that are currently planned. Coming soon: Friendship Bag Workshop, Saturday March 1, 10am to 4pm.
- Unstable Design Lab at CU Boulder has a series of talks where a series of artists talk about experimental weaving in their fiber art practice. You can stream them live or watch them later on youtube. https://unstable.design/experimental-weaving-talks/
- If you would like to sell your weaving at the Art Fair on the Square (7/13-14/24), you need to give a check for $50.00 to Kate Lieber to be put on the list of artists. You will get a link to submit your tax number to the Art Fair committee and information on what you need to do. We will have a meeting at some time in the future to discuss procedures.
- Equipment Policy The procedure for borrowing Guild equipment can be seen on the Members Only page.
- Here is a podcast that many members will appreciate.
- WEAVE A REAL PEACE (WARP) was founded in 1992 at Weaver’s Convergence as a community of textile people who worked with artisans all over the world in fair trade or development work. They present monthly online panel discussions that are free and open to all.
Please let us know if you have any questions or comments regarding the information presented. madisonweaversguild@gmail.com.
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