Collect and Connect

Details
Room
Visual Arts Classroom
Presented by
CTAC Traverse City
Begins
Ends
Time
9:30-4:30 with a one hour lunch break
Grade Range
Adult - Adult
Member tuition
$515.00
Non-member tuition

$565.00 (become a member)

Discount
Member's Early Bird Discount: Register by March 31 and save 10%!
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Supplies provided
No
Art Area
Visual Arts
Medium
Fibers and Textiles
Mixed Media
Description

In this 4 day experimental workshop you will investigate both materials and techniques, and explore the ways in which they can be assembled and combined. We will construct with crocheting, coiling, twining, netting (looping), wrapping, stitching, cobbling, random weave, and plaiting. Fabrics, sticks, shells, stones, seedpods, wires, metal pieces, plastic bags, and grasses are only some of the materials that may be incorporated. You can focus on completing one or more pieces, for the wall or tabletop, or create daily "samplers" that may or may not be put together into a larger piece. The possibilities are limited only by your interest and imagination.

Country Inn and Suites of Traverse City is offering a limited number of rooms at a discount for 2018 Summer Workshop students.  Call Kristi at Crooked Tree Arts Center for details  231-941-9488.

Instructor(s)

Jackie Abrams

Workshop Instructor
CTAC Traverse City
http://www.jackieabrams.com

I have been a fiber artist for over 40 years, using and adapting well-practiced basket-making skills. My materials include silk and cotton fabrics, archival paper, wire, sand, thread, buttons, encaustic wax, and acrylic paints and mediums. I work intuitively, the colors and textures of the materials informing the vessels I create.   The vessels I create often refer to women’s bodies as containers of shared experiences and individual stories, which shape and hold the content of their lives. They speak of the importance of the women in my life, of their strengths and sorrows, their growth and joys. More recent vessels are faceted, created to hold our important invisible things: dreams, thoughts, ideas, wishes.   My craft-development work with women in Africa has had a profound influence on my art and on my life. I have learned to simplify, to let the forms and the materials speak for themselves.   I collaborate with each piece as it develops, allowing a dialogue to emerge. Each of my vessels can stand alone or be joined with others in support and unity, as a community of “women.” As with actual women, each one has a story to share, a role in the world. 

Cancellation & Class Policies

Cancellation Policy for Multi-Day Workshops

Crooked Tree Arts Center reserves the right to cancel any multi-day, sequential-day workshop that does not meet its minimum student enrollment 30 days prior to the first workshop session.  If a workshop is cancelled by CTAC for lack of enrollment, CTAC will offer a full refund to the student in the manner in which tuition was paid. (Cash payments will be refunded by check.)

Student Withdrawal
Requests for cancellation by the student at least sixty (60) days prior to the first day of the workshop will be honored (minus a $20 processing fee).  Requests for cancellation by the student between thirty (30) and fifty-nine (59) days prior to the first day of the workshop will receive a 50% tuition refund . NO REFUNDS will be given for a student cancellation made less than thirty (30) days prior to the first day of the workshop.