• NUMBER 1 • VOLUME 55 • NOVEMBER 2023 •

Letter From Our President,

Jane Wolfe

“Without self-expression, life lacks spontaneity and joy. Without service to others, it lacks meaning and purpose.” Laurence Boldt

Welcome to a new year at CFG. I am honored and delighted to be your new president, and look forward to the many ways we will express our love of our art.

Kicking off the new year we are launching new postcards, new classes, and new opportunities to grow and express yourself. As your new president, I invite you to consider how you might be of service to others.

I want you to make this guild your own by finding opportunities to serve that fit your time and talents. Here are some of the possibilities:

• Mentoring – if you have given workshops successfully, there are members who want to learn from you.
• Design – If you see how details fit together and want to explore how to make a software upgrade represent the guild’s future, join the design team.
• Owl Eyes – Keep on the lookout for meeting rooms that are free or low-rent. Also look for places and people to bless with the new postcards.
• Promote Yourself – Offer your artistic expressions at the Christmas bazaar during the December meeting. Take advantage of the one-time ad in the newsletter. Shout out your successes in the newsletter. Share your art in any of the small groups.
• Get Creative – what are some other ways you feel drawn to contribute to your organization.  Let me know and we will make it happen.

Make CFG work for you! Make it your guild, a place to explore, create and expand yourself. If you haven’t volunteered for a way to serve and express your unique talents, do it now. We look forward to playing with you.

Please click on the boxes below to read these documents

December 13, 2023

Social Hour 9 AM

Meeting Begins 10 AM

Congregation Neveh Shalom

2900 SW Peaceful Lane,

Portland, OR 97239

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Speaker: Ann Williamson

Needles and Thread:

My Journey Designing and Making Art to Wear

CFG Holiday Bazaar

An opportunity to sell your handmade items.

At the December 13th CFG meeting we will be offering members the opportunity to sell handmade items to others in attendance. Opening at 9:15am, items will be available until the meeting starts at 10am and during breaks throughout the morning. Tables will be set up in the lobby of Neveh Shalom, 2900 SW Peaceful Lane, Portland.

If you are interested in selling your handmade items, please respond to Jill Hoddick at hoddick@up.edu and tell us whether you need a whole table or half and what type of work you will offer.  You are responsible for all financial transactions. We will accommodate as many artists as possible on a first come, first served basis.

For those of you who are ready to get some holiday shopping done, this is the place! Please bring cash if possible.

Contact Jill at hoddick@up.edu with questions or to sign up. If you signed up previously with Susan Allen, you are on the list.

Ideas About Drawing

by Glenda Mah, President Elect

Sometimes inspiration is hard to come by, especially if you think "I can't draw." I have no formal art training and I was reading on Quilting Daily and gleaned the following tips:

1. Even simple drawing skills give you more confidence to express yourself and create your own designs.
2. Warm up by drawing large loops on the page. This also works while you are at the sewing machine - if you prefer. 
3. Set a time on your phone and limit the practice to 2 minutes. Do a series of 5 - 2 minute drawings. 
4. Do not judge or criticize yourself while you work. 
5. Quilting and drawing are connected. The more you can draw, the more you can begin to sew in an improvisational and off the trail way. 

I especially liked tip #4 - sometimes we are our own worst enemy! Maybe take 2 minutes tomorrow and draw circles on paper and then sit down to the sewing machine and repeat the process - you never know what might happen! 

Thank you to Galadriel Breezy!

More Walker Bags Needed!

Galadriel Breezy made 29 beautiful Walker bags for Columbia FiberArts Guild donation to St.Vincent’s Rehabilitation Center, Portland. Thank you, Galadriel. 

A reminder, keep making walker bags for CFG outreach and if you know of a facility who would benefit, please contact me.

Use the pattern I’ve given or design your own. I can also provide you with fabric. 

If you would like to help in another way please consider donating fabrics or thread for bags. We like using interior fabrics, just something a little more substantial than quilting cottons.

Fabrics, threads and completed bags may be dropped on my front porch (see address below) or given to me at a quarterly meeting or Creative Wearables or Surface Design meeting.

Thank you to our stitchers and donors!

Karin Graves

Outreach Coordinator

510 SW Meadow Drive

Beaverton, Oregon 97006

503-804-2648 

Karinagraves2@frontier.com

Membership Renewal Time

If you have not already done so, join or renew your Columbia FiberArts Guild membership by clicking the red JOIN NOW button at the bottom of the home page on our website columbiafiberartsguild.org

For questions about membership, contact Linda Hansen, lindap_hansen@yahoo.com

Join us to learn about Ann Williamson’s journey from an art history major to fashion designer of unique and elegant art wear. Ann’s clothing incorporates a diversity of hand-sewing techniques: beading, appliqué, piecing and embroidery. Her garments exemplify her love of exquisite natural fabrics and the palette of colors and textures they offer. With images and actual garments of past and present work, and how-does-she-do-it 'in process' examples, Ann will share her life in building her business and refining her skills and techniques.

Registration for 2024 Workshops opens December 10, 2023

Sign up for the upcoming 2024 workshops will begin December 10, 2023, Noon PST

Remember to put this on your calendar.

Places in these workshops fill fast!

Jane writes: 'My passions include the psychology of artistry and meaning. Everything I teach and do is filtered through a deep connection to the energetic, spiritual aspects of human experience. I believe each of us has an inherent creative intelligence. Making things – whether it's cooking, painting a room, or dyeing cloth – is supremely satisfying.

'In the process of creating we are linking to every generation of makers before us and reaching for the Divine at the same time. It's a gift and a pleasure everyone should experience. And can.'



Jane teaches and lectures internationally, has authored several books about surface design, creative inspiration, and botanical and improvisational screen printing. She has mounted numerous solo exhibitions and is a recipient of the Quilt Japan Prize, and Gold Prize at the Taegue (Korea) International Textile Exhibition. In 2019 she was named Artist of the Year by the San Antonio Art League.

Examples of Jane's complex cloth

Call for Entry - Paint and Stitch

Our next CFG online exhibition will be titled Paint and Stitch. CFG members are encouraged to submit to this call so that we might exhibit your work on the website. Submissions will be taken December 1-29 and juried soon thereafter. The submission link can be found at the end of this article.

The committee is interested in seeing how you interpret the theme Paint and Stitch. How do you combine painting on fabric with stitching?  Do you create dye painted fabrics and make them into wearables? Do you work on wholecloth quilts that recreate your summer flower garden?  Do you add texture to your fiber pieces with thick paint or dye?  Are you using unique techniques to embellish 3-D fiber structures? Show us!

Last June artist Susan Brubaker Knapp shared her work at our CFG meeting, whose work is a great example of this theme. She paints her image and then adds details with thread sketching followed by quilting.  See the following examples of her work:

Croton (2010)

by Susan Brubaker Knapp

10.25"h x 7.25"w

Pink Coneflowers (2010)

by Susan Brubaker Knapp

15.25"h x 15.25"w

Jurying takes place by photograph. Be sure to look at the link for our photographic guidelines below. Submissions will be open December 1-29. We want work submitted that has not already appeared in our CFG online exhibitions. General exhibition guidelines can also be found in a link below. The submission form will be available December 1 and the link can be found in this November newsletter and in a special E-blast you will receive close to December 1. 

Please contact Jill Hoddick if you have questions: hoddick@up.edu

Diane English



Diane English had two works selected for Art Quilts: Breaking Rules at Vision

Gallery in Chandler, Arizona, from November 18, 2023 – January 12, 2024; The Story These Lips Could Tell and Remembrance.

The Story These Lips Could Tell

photo credit: Diane English

Remembrance

photo credit: Diane English

Kathie Kerler

Kathie Kerler is pleased to announce her triptych, P is for Poppy and Periwinkle, has received first place in the innovative category at the Pacific International Quilt Festival in Santa Clara, California.

P is for Poppy and Periwinkle

by Kathie Kerler

photo credit: Kayley Hoddick

On another note, a winemaker’s mother took a photo of Kathie’s quilt and showed it to her daughter, the vintner. This woman has used poppies on other types of wines she has made and thought the center panel of P is for Poppy and Periwinkle would be great as the label on her next Zinfandel. The mock-up of the label is shown. My name will be on the label on the back. Just goes to show you never know what will come out of exhibiting your work.

Ladella Williams

Ladella Williams attended the latest weaving conference in Bend, Oregon, and took seminars from John Marshall and Judilee Fitzhugh. Judilee spoke about indigo, which Ladella had already grown herself and used for dyeing. Another of Judilee's seminars was on slow stitching, with which a design patch was made out of blue fabric and white thread. This patch could be used to make a bag or pouch along with other fabric and embellishments.  Ladella is awaiting inspiration to finished it.

Meetings

Our new meeting place is St Andrews Presbyterian Church,3228 SW Sunset Blvd, Portland, Oregon. It is located just up the hill from Neveh Shalom where our CFG meetings are held. Our meeting schedule for the 2024 is Feb13 on Zoom, April 9, May 14, July 9, Oct 8, and Nov 12, all at St Andrews. 

We welcome new members at any time during the year. We are in process of planning and making art for our next show to be submitted in the fall of 2024.

For more information, contact our facilitator, Pam Pilcher.

A Different View Juried; Works Selected

A Different View committee congratulates the artists whose work was selected for our 2024 exhibit. The in-person jurying went quite well and we loved the very artistically knowledgeable and experienced curator/juror, Carissa Burkett. She was thoughtful in her “blind” jurying of the submitted work as she considered each piece and how it spoke to our prospectus.

There were 45 pieces submitted from 25 artists, with 1 piece withdrawn before jurying began. So, 44 pieces were juried; 39 wall-hung, 1 wearable and 4 (four)-3D works. Carissa selected 31 pieces for the show.

Congratulations to:

Susan Allen

Mary Arnold

Gerrie Congdon

Sherri Culver

Janet Darcher

Diane English

Noelle Evans

Pat Fifer

Terry Grant

Jill Hoddick

Glenda Mah

Mary McLaughlin

Karen Miller

Sherrie Moomey

Judith Phelps

Pam Pilcher

Susan Redhead

Emily Stevens

Sarah Williams

Marie Murphy Wolfe

Beverly Woodard

If your work was selected, please make sure to make a check out to HFD with your entry fee and send to Sarah Williams, our HFD Treasurer, as we do not have another in-person meeting until April 2024.

  Sarah Williams

  1002 Overview Ct NW

  Salem, OR 97304

You may bring your payment to the December 13th CFG meeting at Nevah Shalom instead, if you are attending the meeting.

Entries not selected will be returned to the artists at the CFG meeting as well, or by other arrangements. Please contact Pat Fifer if that is the case.

Entry Fees reminder: 

HFD members $30 fee for each piece accepted into the show; 

CFG non-HFD members $40 for 1st piece, $30 for additional pieces.

Venues

There are 4 venues secured for A Different View: 

• Second Story Gallery, Camas Public Library, Feb 1-29, 2024, with a reception Feb 2 from 5-8pm
• Grace Episcopal Church in Astoria, April 14 - May 19, 2024, with a reception April 16
• Art Loft in Astoria, May - June, 2024  
• Alberta Street Gallery in Northeast Portland October 2024, during Portland Textile Month

Meetings

Meetings are held every 3rd Monday of the month (except December) from 10am-12pm at St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, 3228 SW Sunset Blvd, Portland, Oregon, with a $2 meeting fee to help offset rental costs.

For more information about the Creative Wearables Group, contact:

Joyce Kelly, joycekellydesigns@gmail.com

Everyone is invited to stay in touch and share projects on our Facebook page at: Creative Wearables Group

The Portland Handweavers Guild

Annual Fall Show and Sale

Handwovens for the Holidays

The show and sale features six members of CFG: Christina Bergmann, Christina Brown, Nancy Erckenbrack, Karin Graves, Linda Hansen, and Chris Rossi.



It takes place at Multnomah Arts Center, 7688 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, November 18th and 19th from 10 am to 4 pm.

Garment

by Karin Graves

Accessory display

by Linda Hansen

Monoprinted silk scarves

by Christina Bergmann

Spotted by Jane Wolfe, CFG President

Event Calendar Submissions

CFG's calendar of events is found on our website, columbiafiberartsguild.org

Submissions for upcoming events such as:

• Small group meeting information and events
• Information for guild / small group meetings, such as guest speaker name, meeting location, etc.
• Art submission dates

may be sent to Terri Wanke, terri.wanke@yahoo.com

To view the calendar, click Events or go to the CFG homepage of the website, click Events (don't select a sub-option, just the Events tab) and scroll down the page a little way to view the calendar details. To view time and location of the event of interest, click on the entry.

The Fine Print

Please send items for publication in the newsletter to:

columbiafiberartsnews@gmail.com

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: November, January, February, April, May, July/August, October. Deadline for articles is around the 10th of the month of publication and will be detailed in the email reminder for articles.

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.

2023-2024 Executive Board & Committee Chairs

President---------------- Jane Wolfe

President Elect-------- Glenda Mah

Past President--------- Susan Allen

Secretary---------------- Linda Dyer

Treasurer---------------- Beth Wells 

Online Exhibits--------- Jill Hoddick

Membership------------ Linda Hansen

Newsletter-------------- Pat Fifer 

Outreach---------------- Karin Graves

Program----------------- Laura Lehroff, Marnie Murray

Program Elect---------- Valerie Bledsoe, Margaret Blake, Terri Wanke

Publicity-----------------

Webmaster------------- Doug Garnett & Judith Quinn Garnett

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