Members' Meeting/Workshop

Greetings All,
There will be an August 25th Members' Meeting & Workshop. Please join us August 25th for an exciting meeting, studio tour, and workshop at Stephanie Nordlin's beautiful lakefront house in Poplar Grove, IL.

Workshop description: We will work on transfer dyeing silk scarves. A kit is $10, OR bring your own materials: white silk scarf, muslin 2" wider than scarf and 4" longer, 8 silk ties (will get cut up), scissors, and curling ribbon any color.

Logistics: We will have potluck lunch at Noon, then a meeting, studio tour, and start the workshop at 1:30.

Please RSVP by August 20th to Barbara (BJSCO@comcast.net) , we need to let Stephanie know how many people will be attending the workshop. Workshop limited to 18.

Even if you can't do the workshop, feel free to come for the meeting and tour.

Driving Directions: From Chicago take I-90 to Genoa Rd exit at Belvidere. Turn right at light and go to Rt 76 (at the fairgrounds). Turn right and go to Candlewick Lake entrance on left. Stop at gate and give name and my address, 1672 Candlewick Dr. Go to next stop sign and turn left onto Candlewick Dr. Go 1.5 miles to blue house on lake. We have a STRICT 25mph SPEED LIMIT and FULL STOP at signs.

From the north exit I-90 at Rt 173 and go east to Rt 76, turn right and go to lake entrance on right. Follow above instructions to house.

Call Stephanie's cell 815-621-0641


SDA MEMBER'S EXHIBITION:
Blind Eye: The Result of Doing Nothing, the first ever Midwest SDA members' exhibition.Which will be anofficial part of Chicago Artist Month, including an artists talk on October 20th.

Exhibition Concept: Too often we see tragic situations that result from the lack of action. This exhibition hopes to explore the destructive results of ignoring a situation, including people's ignorance to thinking everything will be ok when they choose to not get involved in making the world a better place. This includes small everyday actions to the grand and global.
Pieces will be 15" x 15" and must be able to hang on a wall

Due in early September 2012

Check out IL SDA blog for full prospectus
Exhibition will be at The HumanThread Gallery in Pilsen in October

Open to all Midwest Surface Design Association members and Jeannette Thompson has asked that SAQA members be included in this exhibit. So let's work hard to get our peices done. It should be an interesting and thought provoking exhibit!

Maggie Weiss Thermofax Workshop

Greetings All,

Sunday afternoon on April 22nd I spent a wonderful time at Maggie Weiss's studio for a workshop on thermo-faxing.  There was great food, drinks, and lots of creativity flowing and I had a grand time.  Below is a small slide show of the group doing their thing and I hope that you enjoy it.

Reminder

I just wanted to remind everybody about our meeting tomorrow March 18th at 12 noon at Akemi Cohn's studio. Akemi will fix a simple lunch. Please feel free to bring something to accent the meal as well as a piece or two of your work for show and tell.

Akemi will discuss a bit about her work and her use of colored rice paste resist technique (Nassen Katazome) using natural dyes, various Shibori techniques, indigo dye, Sashiko stitch, felting, nuno felting, and also explain how to cut traditional Japanese stencil for Katazome.

Information about our upcoming spring exhibition, Blind Eye: The Result of Doing Nothing in Pilsen at The HumanThread gallery will also be discussed.

Save the date, Sunday April 22 we will be meeting at Maggie Weiss' studio. You can see her work on her website. She will be offering a Thermofax mini-class. Check her site out Here .

The Illinois Chapter Of The SDA Meeting This Sunday Has Been Cancelled

Hi,
The SDA Illinois chapter meeting this Sunday May 15, 2011 has been canceled. Please stay tuned for information on the next scheduled meeting.

Thank you

Pictures from the last meeting and Info on the next meeting

Hi!
I just wanted to put up some of the pictures I took at the last SDA-IL meeting back in January. Our last meeting was held at the Fine Line Creative Art Center in St. Charles, Illinois. We had a great time looking at each others artwork and got a wonderful tour of the Fine Line's class, gallery and store spaces. There were some wonderful quilts being displayed at the time. Anyway, we had a good crowd of about ten or eleven people. Here are some examples of the artwork seen during our Show & Tell:



Fabric Collage by Frances Temchin (the above two photos)



Nuno Felt by Ausrine Kerr (the above two photos)


Various works of felt and silk by Frances Krueger-Jackson (the above photo)



Beaded work on fabric by Marianne Biagi (the above two photos)



Garments by Sara Hochhauser (the above two photos)



Quilt by our Illinois Representative Darcy Berg (the above two photos)



Felt works (hats, vest, bags, etc.) by Camilla Krueger (the above two photos)

Everything shown was truly lovely and better than my pictures for sure! Our next meeting will be held on Sunday May 15th at 11:00am at Marianne Biagi's studio. Everyone is invited to bring a dish for a potluck lunch. Sign in to the yahoo group for SDA-IL for all the particulars. I hope all you Illinoisans near and far will try and make it.