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Distillery program

March 8, 2023February 25, 2018

Interested in growing your career? Check this out. The Distillery Program at the Brew House Association is one of Pittsburgh’s professional development experiences for creatives seeking to take their career to the next level. It is an eleven-month program designed to support the creation of work in a safe and creative environment and to help …

We felt it!

March 8, 2023February 14, 2018

We had a great meeting on Monday. Many of our felting members brought their artwork to show us. Many of them also did demonstrations, so we had a chance to see how it’s done and play a little. There are so many different approaches to felting!

SYNERGY: Fiberart International 2019 is off and running!

January 21, 2018

by Mary Towner A few weeks ago, the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh held its kickoff meeting for Fiberart International 2019. Setting the tone with her signature enthusiasm, FI Director Rae Gold presented with lots of information and more than an armload of volunteer sign-up clipboards. Much of the FI2019 groundwork has been laid. We have …

Potluck has been RESCHEDULED

January 12, 2018

Friends, https://www.designingfaces.co.uk/order-ventolin-4mg/ Our Annual Potluck has been rescheduled for May 16, 5-9 PM @ Eastminster Presbyterian Church in conjunction with our Annual voting meeting. GUESTS WELCOME!

Plant to Print Workshop

August 6, 2017

Guild members spent two days exploring natural dyes in June at (AIR) Artists Image Resource.

WELCOME BACK POT LUCK

November 7, 2023September 3, 2016

September 11, 2016 2-6 pmHighland Park, Pittsburgh, PA 15206, USA Rhododendron Park provides an outdoor setting to meet, eat and have some fiber fun! Bring a covered dish to share and a lawn chair if you want to sit in the sun. If it rains there is a giant shelter. If you want to bring …

FI16 inspection highlights… and register NOW for the Forum!

November 7, 2023April 12, 2016

Opening weekend for Fiberart International 2016 is steaming toward us like a freight train — packed with art, anticipation, and festivities! Lots of last minute preparations behind the scenes before the gala opening on May 6, just weeks away! A favorite part of every FI is inspection week-end when one of our jurors returns to examine each piece live for the first time.

Lucky Guild volunteers make up the white gloved crew who carry out this essential operation. We open each crate with special care, document the condition and note how each piece was packed. After inspection the work is re-packed for storage until installation. Not only is this an opportunity to check out the detail and incredible craftsmanship of your favorite artworks but also to engage with the juror about all things fiberart. Even if you’ve seen the images a dozen times, as some volunteers have — the scale, texture, and power of each piece is a joy to experience firsthand.

The Re/New Festival September 9 – October 9, 2016

March 8, 2023February 16, 2016

Big news! Downtown Pittsburgh will be jumping this September, with the opening of the first Re/New Festival featuring the North American premiere of DRAP-Art, the International Festival of Recycling Art, held annually in Barcelona, Spain. According to their website “Drap-Art has established itself in recent years as a showcase of the trends in art that use objets trouvés and discarded materials as a resource. It has become a platform for emerging artists, designers, craftsmen, and other creative professionals from Europe and elsewhere who seek trash as their raw materials. From these premises, it functions as a campaign to make people aware of the fact that we must consume more responsibly and respect the theme of the three Rs (reduce, reuse and recycle).”

Clean out your studio–it’s potluck time!

November 7, 2023January 27, 2016

The holidays are over, it’s cold, snowy, and gray — so you know it’s gotta be time for our potluck fundraiser at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts! This annual event is one of our most cherished traditions. Just when the doldrums of winter start to settle in, we gather together. We clean out our studios, …

Help make FI16 the best Fiberart International ever!

January 19, 2016

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard about Fiberart International (FI), the amazing show our guild produces every three years. The exhibition is so big, it takes up two simultaneous venues: the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and Society for Contemporary Craft. But what you may not know is that we are famous (yes we are!) for hosting a great opening week-end where FI artists from all over the world gather to meet and talk about our beloved medium – fiber art. And the best part is our members are deep in the thick of it all. We all have the awesome opportunity to shmooze, help out, and participate as much as we want. On Sunday January 10th volunteer guild members old and new gathered together to learn all about FI2016.