Letter From Our President,
Cheri Jolivette
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I am so looking forward to our next meeting in March. This is the first time that we will be “live” in 2 years. We will have a new meeting place: Grant Park Baptist Church at 2728 NE 34th Ave, Portland. The sanctuary is a large space! Chairs can be moved around. If you want to keep more distance from other people, you can move to the side or the rear or the balcony of the church.
NOTE: you must show your Covid vaccination card, and you must wear a mask! These rules will be in place for this meeting even if the Governor changes State requirements….
I hope you enjoyed our extra zoom lecture with Kim Thittichai on Wed. The meeting was recorded and will be available on the members only page of our CFG website until March 31st.
Our next extra zoom lecture will happen in May.
Also this will be my last meeting as President. I will be turning the gavel over to your new President Susan Allen at this time. It has been my pleasure to run our meetings for this last year and a half.
Remember it’s almost time to look for new members for our Board. Please contact me if you have an interest in joining the Board. We are a great group!
Look elsewhere in Newsletter for directions to Grant Park Baptist Church.
Cheri Jolivette
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CFG Quarterly meeting information
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Our first in person quarterly meeting in a long time.....
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10am, Wednesday March 9
Grant Park Baptist Church
2728 NE 34th Ave
Portland, Oregon
Directions from downtown Portland:
Take I-84 East. Take NE 33rd Ave exit (going north).
Drive past Grant Park.
At next light turn right onto NE Knott St; you will see the church at 2728 NE 34th Ave.
Park across the street in parking lot.
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Masks must be worn and Covid 19 vaccinations are required for everyone attending.
Vaccine cards (paper or electronic) will be checked at the door.
See Program section below for details of our speaker and workshop.
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Introduction to Our 3 Special Interest Groups
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Columbia FiberArts Guild members are welcome to join any of our 3 special interest groups, which each meet more frequently than the guild as a whole. Find out more below:
Creative Wearables
Creative Wearables consists of a group of about 35 CFG members that especially enjoy creating interesting garments, sharing them and sharing techniques to help create unique garments or fashion accessories.
Looking forward into the new year, we will continue our Zoom meetings at 10am on the 3rd Monday of each month until we are free to meet live again! In December we enjoy the annual CFG meeting instead of our own meeting.
All the meetings for this year have a member signed up to share a technique or something/ someone of interest to the membership.
Too, this year we have 3 different Challenges scheduled…..one due for March, one for June and
one for September that many like to participate in. There is a small fee (usually $10) for those participating in a challenge to defray costs of photos and transporting garments to exhibits.
At this time we only have one exhibit committed for. We will have our garments & accessories on display at the Cultural Center, Fiber Arts Studio Gallery in Lincoln City, January & February 2023.
Surface Design
Surface Design is a group of fiber artists focused on all facets of applied design, where members inspire creativity and innovation in textile art through workshops, demonstrations, speakers, and field trips along with sharing of each other's work and problem-solving techniques.
Our next Zoom meeting will include a featured presenter, demonstration and sharing of new products and tools, social media highlights, and a member show and tell.
Surface Design is currently meeting on Zoom the first Tuesday of each month 6-8pm. Participation is free with Columbia FiberArts Guild membership.
High Fiber Diet
High Fiber Diet is a group of fiber artists committed to advancing their art and producing a juried traveling exhibit of their work each year. As a subgroup of Columbia FiberArts Guild, membership in CFG is required to join, plus an additional $10 dues. HFD meets 7 times a year consistent with the CFG year with meetings on the 3rd Tuesday of months when there is not a CFG meeting.
The annual exhibit is juried by qualified non-member jurors. Members have the opportunity to submit work in the fiber technique of their choice. The concept of each exhibit is defined by an exhibit committee that also manages the exhibit from collecting work, arranging jurying, installing the exhibit at venues and finally returning unsold pieces. Work to be considered for the upcoming exhibit is collected each July. Our current show is Can You Hear It? and will be on display the month of April at Alberta Street Gallery in NE Portland and later in June and July at the Brookwood Library in Hillsboro. Our upcoming show theme is Tightwire. See the High Fiber Diet section further on in the newsletter for details.
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We currently have 110 members, of which 16 are new members.
Any membership related questions, please contact:
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News From
Our Program Chairperson, Karen Miller
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March 9, 2022
Diane Ericson - live lecture, 'Inspired Design and Making'
Workshop March 10-11 $250, up to 18 students 'Garment Design and Draping'
Diane is a garment designer, teacher and surface designer, especially with her use of stencils. She lives in Ashland, OR and hosts wonderful retreats several times a year. Having participated several times I (Karen ed.) can attest that she is wildly supportive of the creativity of the individual participants and she has a wonderful approach to design, creative details and repurposing garments.
In the workshop: Diane will help us take a group of fabrics that will coordinate into an entirely personal draped garment, She suggests using some details from commercial patterns or garments we know we like. There are still a few places open in the class.
June 8, 2022 evening meeting
Kerr Grabowski - Zoom lecture, 'The Challenge of Making Work “just for me”'
Live/Virtual Workshops June 9-11 & possibly also 13-15 $160 10-12 students,
'Deconstructed Screen Printing'
We have been in conversation with Kerr Grabowski about the format for her virtual class presentation. She will send a supply list ahead of the class in time to order what we need, and prepare YouTube videos describing setup and dye mixing for those who are newer to the process of deconstructed screen printing. The three days of class will run from 9:30 to 4 on Zoom with taped demos morning and afternoon and access to her throughout the day for questions. She hopes to have people share pictures via email of their progress at the end of the day so she can do a slide “critique” later.
At this point Kerr's class has 12 members signed up with another 3 on the wait list...put your name on the wait list if you think you might be interested as plans can change and a space might open up.
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Dream in Color Hits Website
Our fourth CFG website gallery offering will be available to view by March 1. The Committee curated 16 beautiful pieces that all speak to the theme of Dream in Color. We hope you enjoy this exhibit.
The Committee also wants to announce that we have decided to go with only 2 exhibits for the next year. Submissions will be taken in May and November of 2022. Each exhibit will be highlighted on the website for 6 months. The themes will be Free Motion Stitching for May and Hand Stitching for November. We hope that you will consider entering any fiber related work you have created. You will also need to submit both a full and detail photo so that curators can study the stitching.
More information will be sent later.
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Above: One gallery piece
Crocosmia
by Sarah Williams
24" x 48"
Photo credit: Mike Williams
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Pat Fifer sold a small piece, Huachuca Mountain Autumn, in a SAQA Arizona trunk show titled Arizona Understated during Tucson’s Quilt Fiesta.
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The northeast facing canyons of the Huachuca Mountains in southeastern Arizona with their spring-fed streams provide a moist cool environment unusual in the desert southwest.
Trees like sycamores and maples grow along the streams, often within a few feet of cacti, yucca, and agaves.
During the Fall, the trees begin to change color, showing as much autumn blush as many trees in more temperate climates of the U.S.
Manipulated image in Photoshop and printed on a home inkjet printer. It is stitched and painted.
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Huachuca Mountain Autumn
12" x 16"
Photo credit: Pat Fifer
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Kathie Kerler’s quilt, P is For Poppy and Periwinkle, received a 2nd place award—Landscaping in the Road to California show. The quilt has also been juried into the upcoming American Quilter’s Society show in Branson, Missouri.
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P is for Poppy and Periwinkle
67" x 39.5”
Photo credit: Kayley Hoddick
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Tightwire
What tightwire are you walking on? Life is full of balancing acts. Often one teeters on the line between things in conflict. They may be literal, personal, political, ecological, financial, temporal, or artistic. To walk the tightwire requires one to be bold, daring, and free from fear.
Whatever your inspiration, enjoy the process and embrace the tightwire when creating art work for this exhibit.
Art work will be submitted at the July HFD meeting.
If this theme sounds intriguing or if you like to explore ways to interpret a theme with whatever fiber technique you use, consider joining HFD. There are opportunities to volunteer on the exhibit committee as well as the venue committee, which is continually building relationships with possible exhibit venues and submitting proposals to venues.
Our next Zoom meetings are Feb 15 at 7pm and April 19, time to be determined.
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CFG member, Karen Miller, will be doing a presentation at our Zoom meeting about making katazome vestments for Diana Akiyama, the new Episcopal Bishop of Oregon.
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Our next Zoom meeting is on Tuesday March 1, 6-8pm.
It will include a featured presenter, demonstration and sharing of new products and tools, social media highlights, and a member show and tell.
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Announcements of Local Fiber Events
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Art in the Pearl
Art in the Pearl is the one of the highest ranking shows in America and in the top 10 Fine Art Shows, nationwide. Our reputation brings artists from as far away as south America and Canada to our gorgeous city as well as patrons from across the country. The show is the only one of its kind, run entirely by artists and continues to this day (26 years strong) to be one of the top National Art Shows relied on by artists to support their career and craft.
Click on the button below to see details of our current call for entry including submission dates and other deadlines:
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Submitted by Ryan McAbery, new board member in charge of PR at Art in the Pearl.
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Felting Workshops
Carrie Moore, owner of Carrie Moore Studios, a working and teaching studio in Clackamas County about 18 miles from Portland, wanted to let us know about a workshop that may be of interest to CFG members.
Marjolein Dallinga www.bloomfelt.com is coming from Quebec, Canada to teach 2 workshops, Felt in Form I and Felt in Form II, in March 2022.
The workshops are socially distanced, masks required, and cost $450 for each 3 day workshop.
Marjolein is best known for her costume design for Cirque Du Soleil and theater companies across Europe.
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"Dear friends,
With a heavy heart I must share that one of our members, Judith Trager, has passed away on January 19, 2022. She had encephalitis and had recently suffered two strokes. We were lucky that she was able to be at home in Longmont, Colorado with hospice care at the end and that her son Scott, daughter Jamal, husband Trager, and cousin Annette Hill-Onstott were all with her at her crossing.
I, along with many, will so miss this beautiful, creative, strong willed, pioneer of our craft and our organizations. Ms. Judith Trager, a force to be reckoned with, cool as can be, a social ring master, an artist who spoke her opinions with honesty but no malice, a fantastic cook, a faithful loving partner to Trager and, my very dear friend.
In 2020 her last piece, “Braintangles,” was juried into Visions Art Museum, Interpretations 2021, which was one of her career goals. A very large 3D piece, beautiful, flowing free, threads swaying, alive in the center of the gallery, right where she wanted to be. This is how I will remember her always.
Trager, her husband, observed, “She lived a creative, sparkling, inquisitive life and had asked that her family and friends celebrate in her memory. That wish will be met. In the meantime, we hold her in our hearts and hope you will do the same.
Love & Light to all,"
Judith Quinn Garnett
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The Fine Print
Please send items for publication in the newsletter to:
The Columbia FiberArts Guild meets quarterly in March, June, September and December. No newsletter is published in those months. The newsletter is published seven times a year: October, November, January, February, April, May, July/August. Deadline for articles is around the 10th of the month of publication and will be detailed in the email reminder for articles.
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2021-2022 Executive Board & Committee Chairs
President: Cheri Jolivette
President Elect: Susan Allen
Secretary: Lottie Smith
Treasurer: Beth Wells
Online Exhibits: Jill Hoddick
Membership: Carolyn Walwyn
Newsletter: Sue Redhead
Outreach: Katie Walwyn
Program: Karen Miller
Program Elect: Peggy Ellis, Lottie Smith, Emily Stevens
Publicity:
Webmaster: Doug Garnett &
Judith Quinn Garnett
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CFG Board Meetings
Meetings are held monthly on the first Monday when there is no quarterly meeting and are open to the membership to attend. Contact the President for more information.
Committees are: Exhibits, Membership, Newsletter, Outreach, Programs, Publicity and Webmaster
Minutes of meetings are posted in the CFG Newsletter.
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Creating with FiberArts together for over 50 years . . .
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