Lectures
Dolls by Contemporary
Dollmakers
Focusing on dollmakers in Michigan, slides and actual dolls will
illustrate techniques and styles of dollmakers working primarily
in the textile medium $175
Dolls from Handwoven Fabrics
Don't waste those scraps or that tiny bit of woven end and threads
of your warp! Slides and actual pieces will give you ideas for using
your hadwoven fabric and, especially, those precious bits to make
your own unique dolls. $175
Make a Face!--and Hands, Too
A slide presentation with actual pieces illustrates ways
to make faces and hands for fabric dolls. if time allows, a short
hands-on session gives an opportunity to draw and paint faces on
fabric, and gain ideas fo many ways to achieve expression with unusual
techniques. $175
Surface Design on Fabric
Examples of fabris that have been printed, painted, airbrushed,
stamped, stenciled, dye discharged, photo transferred, machine embroidered,
and embellished are shown. $175
Photo Transfer Techniques for Fabric
Do you have a favorite family photo that you would love to include
in a quilt or doll you're making? There are numerous techniques
available to transfer images to your textile piece. The wide range
of possibilities will be discussed as well as many samples and finished
pieces shown. $175
The Evolution of My Work
A slide/lecture presentation on Jennifer Gould's progression from
earliest tapestries, the development of her work in dolls, to her
most recent pieces. Actual pieces as well as many dolls from her
collection will be on hand. $175
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Workshops
Designing
Dolls
Do you have great ideas for your own uniquely designed dolls but
you don't know how to go about puttingthose ideas into reality?
For the adventuresome---no patternerns are handed out! Through preassignment
sheets and on-on-one talks in class, learn how to develop those
ideas into 3-dimensional shapes from patterns. Also learn about
special fabric usage and embellishments. Participants will produce
at least one of their own uniquely designed dolls. A three-day workshop
includes drawing/painting faces, making 3-D needle-sculpted faces,
and hands. Basic sewing machine skills and a sewing machine for
every participant required. Two or three 7-hour days. Maximum 13
participants. $350/day plus other requirements.*
Dolls from Handwoven Fabrics
Don't throw away those scraps or that tiny bit of woven end and
threads of your warp! Save it, or weave extra, to bring and make
a doll uniquely your own. Also, learn ideas to design and weave
dolls, as well as using those little bits of hard work you must
can't stand to throw away. One 6 to 7-hour day. $350/day
plus other requirements.*
Make a Face--and Hands!
In a one day workshop, participants practice drawing, painting,
and embroidering faces for fabric dolls. If time allows, a short
time is spent sampling photo transfer techniques for faabric. In
a two- or three-day workslhop, participants go on to making 3-D
needle-sculpted faces, and hands (with fingers!), and how to attach
those to fabric doll bodies. Or pre-arrange to study certian types
of facemaking and hands. Basic sewing machine skills and machine
required for each participant in the two- and three-day workshop.
One to three days. $350/day plus other
requirements.* Materials fee per participant.
Fabric Collage
Enjoy a fun, relaxing and exciting time taking fabric to make fabric
by putting together textile pieces with hand embroidery, freeform
machine embroidery, basic machine stitches or your machine's decorative
stitches. Use handwoven fabric, felt, antique kimono, surface designed
fabrics, or commercial fabrics. One to two 7-hour days. $350/day
plus other requirements.*
Surface Design on Fabric:
Printing and Painting Learn to make your own stamps and stencils
to create surface designs on any fabric. Also resists and an airbrush-like
technique will be tried using textile paints to produce exciting
patterned fabrics. One to three days. $350/day
plus other requirements.* Materials fee per participant.
Surface Design on Fabric: Embellishing
with the Sewing Machine Explore the many exciting ways to add surface
imagery using the sewing machine. Free-form machine embroidery to
fabric manipulation and embellishment will open up unimaginable
possibilitiies for combinations of designs. One to three days. $350/day
plus other requirments.* Materials fee per participant.
Jennifer's Doll Patterns Using
one of Jennifer's published patterns, create at least one doll of
your very own. Materials fee for pattern; kit also available. One
day. $350/day plus other requirements.*
*Other Requirements Transportation/milage (at current IRS rate),
food, and lodging. |
