TAA Quick News

Textile Art Alliance of the Cleveland Museum of Art- October 2008

The Textile Art Alliance is committed to supporting its members--if you have an event or news that you would like to share with TAA members, please e-mail all pertinent information to Sandy Shelenberger  at sandyshel@roadrunner.com and we will include it in the next group announcement.

Quick News is now also available on the TAA Website: www.taacleveland.org

It's That Time Again..........

TAA Membership Renewal

The roster is currently being made out. Don't be left out!!  Send in your renewal now to be included.
Send your membership renewal to:  John Coyne, Affiliate Coordinator
                                                       Cleveland Museum of Art
                                                        1150 East Blvd.
                                                        Cleveland, OH 44106-1797

Make you check out to TAA.  Thank-you for your continued Support!!                                       

Textile Art Alliance Fashion Show

Fifth Annual Wearable Art Fashion Show & Boutique

Sunday, October 19, 11:00–5:00
 LaMalfa, 5783 Heisley Road,
 Mentor  (Route 2, Heisley Road exit south)

11:00 Boutique Shopping

1:00 Fashion Show & Lunch

3:00–5:00 Boutique open to the public, $5 at the door

Preview one-of-a-kind wearable art clothing and accessories and then enjoy lunch and a runway fashion show. Tickets $45; includes morning boutique shopping, fashion show, lunch, runway sales. For advance reservations contact John Coyne at 216 707-6819; Chris at 440–816–0967; or taafashionshow@windstream.net. Additional information available at www.taacleveland.org

This popular event is a fund-raiser for the CMA Textile Department.  Get your reservations in early!!

FIBER FRIENDS 

TAA members June O’Neil, Ruta Marino, Barb Lind, JoAnn Giordano, Kathleen Van Meter, and Marty Young will be exhibiting fiber works at the South Wing Gallery  in Cleveland Heights. Brit Friedman and Sharon Bell, whose works were shown in Focus: Fiber 2008, will also be participating in the show.  The exhibit cannot be defined as a “quilt show” as the fiber pieces present a wide array of approaches to working with fabrics, threads, and various other non-quilt materials.

  The South Wing Gallery is located in St. Paul’s Church, 2747 Fairmount Blvd, Cleveland Heights, at the corner of Fairmount and Coventry Road.

Curated by Martha Young, the show runs from September 5 through November 2, 2008.
For information contact Marty Young at byoung4480@sbcglobal.net or phone (216) 932-2966

Final Opportunity for 2009 Members Show!

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1:00-2:30

This will be your last chance to choose a textile to use in your entry for the 2009 Members Show.

Choose from the wonderful selection given to TAA by the CMA Education Department. These modern and historical textiles will be used as inspiration and/or for inclusion in your artwork which will be entered in the upcoming TAA Members Show. Don't miss this opportunity!

at the home of Marty Young
3098 Berkshire Road
Cleveland Heights
(North of Cedar, West of Lee)
For info:  byoung448@sbcglobal.net or (216) 932-2966

Stan Hywet Stitchery Showcase

Stan Hywet Needlework Guild will hold their 39th Annual Stitchery Showcase in conjunction with Ohio Mart, October 2nd thru October 5th from 10am to 5pm at Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens 714 N. Portage Path, Akron, Ohio.   Groups can pre-purchase  10 or more tickets at a discount.

       For further information or prepurchase of tirckets contact Betty Jo Scurei at bscurei@yahoo.com or call 330-923-8850.  

Knitting/Yarn Workshops

LUCY NEATBY WORKSHOPS - sponsored by The Crooked River Knitting Guild and River Colors Studio,October 21 & 22, 2008     $60 each

The Crooked River Knitting Guild and Rivers Colors Studio are pleased to bring Lucy Neatby to Cleveland to teach two 6-hour workshops in October. Lucy is a self-confessed fiberholic, hand-knitting designer, teacher, and former Merchant Navy Officer from Canada.  Check out her work at www.tradewindknits.com.

For information & to register contact Heidi Massengil:  440-835-4709 or Heidi@StitchCleveland.com .

October 21, 2008   COLOURS - THE MORE THE MERRIER

Free yourself from the tyranny of dye lots and find use for your odds and ends.  Experiment and play with yarns, learn about yarn storage, handling and preparation of palettes for your projects.  Compose your own yarn without spinning and blend your own colours without a dyepot by mixing weights and fibres.  Try a variety of techniques including gradual shading, stranded knitting and intarsia, both controlling colours and using random oddball techniques.  Embellishing or removing colour 'errors'.

October 22, 2008  VARIOUS VARIEGATIONS

How often does a beautiful skein of hand painted yarn knit up to be a disappointment? Discover new ways of knitting with your hand painted yarns. Look at the styles of variegated yarns and for which purposes they are most suited. Try stranded patterns, slipped stitches, intarsia, bobbles and assembled knitting.  Garment/project planning, how to tackle garments to avoid blotching and mismatching of sections.

Quilt Exhibit

TAA member and past President June O’Neil is one of 5 artists nationally who have been invited to show their work at Depth and Breadth: Quiltmaking in the Twenty-first Century.  The exhibition will run from October 12, 2008 thru January 4, 2009 at the Butler Institute of American Art, Trumbull Gallery, Howland, OH.  TAA member Mary Lou Alexander is curating this exhibition. 

Cleveland State University:   The 18th People's Art Show

October 24 - December 5, 2008  in the Main Gallery 

The biennial People's Art Show is a Cleveland tradition in its 25th year -- a free and open, unjuried exhibition celebrating, creativity, diversity, imagination, and freedom of expression. Any person may exhibit 2 original works of art of any size in any medium. All entries are exhibited. Works must be entered in person on October 10, and 11, from 10 am to 4 pm. Pick-up Friday and Saturday, December 5 and 6, 10am-4pm.

Opening reception with live art performances: Friday, October 24, at 6pm. Other events TBA.

Member News

The work of Shirley A. McElhaney, "The Last Seduction" is on exhibition at The Ohio Collage Society's 2nd Annual Invitational Exhibition at the Mansfield Art Center in Mansfield.  The exhibits from from September 21, 2008 - October 26, 2008

Shirley also has her work, "November Dream" on exhibit at the Nessen Gallery in Warren, Ohio.

 Congratulations  Shirley!

 Lakeland Community College Fine Arts Gallery Presents:

Director’s Choice: FIBER

September 2 – October 16, 2008

Curated by Mary Urbas

Gallery Hours: Mon- Fri 9 AM- 9 PM, Sat & Sun 9 AM- 5 PM

This event and all Gallery exhibitions are free and open to the public.

The Gallery will be closed  October 7

Eighteen local and regional artists (Seventeen women and one man!), will exhibit works that explore the possibilities of fiber and incorporate the many different techniques of surface design and embellishment, weaving, felting, quilting and collage into mixed media quilts, wall hangings and sculptural artworks.  TAA artists include:  Jennifer Liston Dykema, Christine French, Meaghan Weidner and Martha Young.

Gallery Coordinator: Mary Urbas 440-525-7029 murbas@lakelandcc.edu

View virtual images of this exhibition and previous ones online at www.lakelandcc.edu/gallery

Apronicity Program

We are participating in the Fabric Shop Hop's Apronicity program but would like our program to be year round. Our goal is to provide aprons to women in a local shelter in northeast Ohio. If you are interested in making an apron and sending it to us, we will make sure that it is given to a woman at the shelter. We will add a special note or card with positive thoughts into the pocket. Or, if you would like to add your own card, that would be wonderful. We are also interested in ATC's or any other special crafts/surprises that you would like to add to your apron that can be placed into the apron pockets.

If you are interested we are offering customers 20% off of their orders from our website untilOctober 31st. All that you need to do is type in - Apron - in the coupon code box. We are hoping that you will use at least some of that fabric to make aprons for the women!

When you finish your apron, please mail it to: Sondra Borrie - 57 East Shore Blvd., Timberlake, Ohio 44095. I am having them mailed to my home because they are precious gifts for special women. We will then mail them to Sonja Tugend, who is a fiberartist on our website, and she will deliver them to the shelter.

Sondra Borrie, Owner

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