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Museums will be closed:
Monday, November 11 for Veterans Day
Thursday & Friday, November 28 & 29 for Thanksgiving
Fiber Art Workshop with Kami Watson
Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts with host a Fiber Art Workshop with artist Kami Watson on Saturday, November 6 from 11am-3:30pm at the art center’s Southall-Moore House. Participants will learn the wet felting technique known as Nuno (wet felting wool fiber and silk fabrics together) to create a loose fitting cowl.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Ms. Watson is a second-generation fiber artist. She explores the traditional art of wet felting (the fusing of raw fibers into a textile form with soap, water and agitation) as well as the contemporary techniques of Nuno (fabric) and laminate (multi fabric layer) felting.
“A nomadic past with a focus on environmental conservation and humanitarian services has exposed me to global influences in design and culture, eclectic natural and man-made environmental aesthetics, and has fostered my desire to create functional and visual art with an ecological sensitivity. I combine renewable natural fiber resources, salvaged and reclaimed fabrics, and my own hand dyed fabrics and fibers to organically create each of my works of art. I allow the materials I use, and influences and experiences in my life, past and present, to guide me instinctively in color and design. Deliberately abstract, but not random, my play of color and pattern placement are meant to evoke emotion.” -Kami Watson
WORKSHOP FEES
$80 Fee include instruction and all felting materials. Participants are asked to bring 3 old towels for their work surface.
Learn about the wet felting technique known as Nuno and create your own loose fitting cowl. This wool felting workshop will be led by fiber artist Kami Watson on Saturday, November 6 from 11am-3:30pm at Kennedy-Douglass Art Center Southall-Moore House. Fee will include instruction and all felting materials. Participants are asked to bring 3 old towels for their work surface.
Two-day Batik Workshop with Jamie Lynch for children ages 8+
Children’s Batik workshop with Jamie Lynch
Art educator Jamie Lynch will teach a two-part Batik print workshop on Saturday, August 7th from 10:00 a.m. to noon, and Sunday, August 8th from 1p.m.-3p.m. at the Kennedy-Douglass Art Center Southall-Moore House. Participants will learn how to dye cloth and create patterns using the batik wax resist method.
Batik is an art medium and methodology for creating vibrant and colorful designs, usually on cloth. Although the exact origins of the batik process have not been determined, evidence of early examples of batik have been found in the Far East, Middle East, Central Asia, and India from over 2,000 years ago, it is likely that the craft spread from Asia to the islands of the Malay Archipelago and west to the Middle East along the caravan trading route.
Jamie Lynch has been an art educator in the Shoals for over twenty years, she has taught at both Muscle Shoals and Florence city schools. She currently teaches art lessons from the Sunflower Studio, her studio space at the Southall-Moore House.
The August 7th/8th workshop fee of $20 includes instruction and all materials and tools.
1-day Ceramics Workshop with Aaron Benson
Join us for a 1 day Ceramics Workshop with Aaron Benson at the new ceramics studio at Kennedy-Douglass! During this one-day workshop with Aaron Benson you will learn how to combine traditional slab building methods to create one of a kind plant containers. Participants will work through designing, building, and decorating their vessels. After you build your planters you will learn how to glaze and fire them, and we will have cut flowers and small plants for you to fill your ceramic planters with! Come join us and get your hands in dirt as we explore the endless possibilities of working with clay.