FiberArts Guild of Pittsburgh

Lecture by Ben Cuevas
2022-12-05 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Online
December 5, 2022 – 2 PM ETRegistration is free for members, $5 for guests.Registration opens about a month before the lecture. Please register on the Registration Form

Born in Southern California in 1987, Ben Cuevas is an artist whose work is rooted in concepts of otherness and intersectionality, inspired by his queer, non-binary, HIV-positive, and Latinx lived experience. As these multiple components inform his practice, identity directly influences his artwork, which is naturally interdisciplinary. Cuevas received his B.A. in mixed media, installation, and photography at Hampshire College, in 2010.

A central part of Cuevas’s artwork is based in textiles, underscoring queer/feminist ideologies within the long and gendered history of women’s work with fiber-based materials. These artworks have been shown across the US with exhibitions held at The Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles, Museum of the City of New York, The Leslie-Lohman Museum in New York City, and others.

Cuevas’s work also speaks to queer histories and the idea of the archive through his photo-based works centering images of sexual minorities from past into the present. This can be seen in his piece Ghosts of the Trucks of the Westside Highway, and his ongoing photo series titled Reinserted.

Several books and publications feature Cuevas’s work, such as DUETS: Ben Cuevas & Annie Sprinkle in Conversation, published by Visual AIDS; Queer Threads: Crafting, Identity, and Community, edited by John Chaich and Todd Oldham. Acclaimed as a public speaker, Cuevas has given talks at institutions including, Brown University, Ohio State University, The Museum of Sex (NYC), and the Fire Island Artist Residency. bencuevas.com

Studio Visit with Meg Prall & Teal Fitzpatrick and Show and Share- Online or in Person
2022-11-20 14:00 - 16:00 | Radiant Hall, McKees Rocks, 734 Thompson Avenue, McKees Rocks, PA, 15136, United States
November 20, 2022, Sunday 2PM
Studio Visit : Guild Members Meg Prall & Teal Fitzpatrick
Show and Share at Radiant Hall, 734 Thompson Avenue, McKees Rocks, PA 15136 Radiant Hall McKees Rocks

2-3 pm Studio Tour: Teal Fitzpatrick & Meg Prall, FGP members 3-4:30pm Show & Share: In Person at Radiant Hall McKees Rocks & Zoom

Teal Fitzpatrick is a fiber artist living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania whose primary practice is non-traditional, hand-stitched rug art. Teal is particularly interested in the emotional impact of color, creative expression of depth in two-dimensions, the function of archetypal images and geometry in visual communication, and creating work that both compels and startles.

Meg Prall is a fiber artist living and working in Pittsburgh, PA. Her current series includes intimate self portraits as the basis for her embroidery work. She also spends time knitting, sewing, and making rugs.

Show & Shares as well as Critiques will become hybrid. They will be both in Person at Radiant Hall, 734 Thompson Avenue, McKees Rocks, PA 15136, and also on Zoom. Please register so we can update you on any changes to the format. Registration opens about a month before the event. Please register on the Registration Form You have a choice to be there: –IN PERSON if you are vaccinated, boosted and masked, or 10 days after you have recovered from Covid or –On Zoom.
What is the difference between a Show & Share and a Critique? You can attend both! You can attend even if you have no work to share. Show & Share: for members who don’t want suggestions, they just want to show off, share what they are working on, and meet other Guild members. Critique: for members who want constructive suggestions about their work to solve technical, aesthetic or presentation problems. This is a fun way to stay connected and get inspired!!

Surface Design Silkscreen Workshop
2022-11-05 11:00 - 15:00 | AIR – Artists Image Resources, 518 Foreland Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15212, United States
The Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh presents a Surface Design Silkscreen Workshop at Artist Image Resource with a focus on abstract imagery for diversified uses in your work. Screen print on fabric, paper, and other surfaces! Master printmaker, professor, and AIR staffer, Feliks RK Pyron, will lead, with assistance from Guild members, Petra Fallaux and Patty Kennedy-Zafred.

Location: 518 Foreland Street, Northside, Pittsburgh 15212
Date: November 5, 2022 – 11AM to 3 PM
Fee for: Fiberarts Guild Members $50 Non-Member Guests: $60
Registration Form (Registration is limited to 10 people)

The fee includes two instructors, silkscreen ink and printing equipment, and the use of multiple prepared screens to share with other participants. Students supply their own fabric and or papers.

Ahead of time: The images are approximately 10 “x 12”, your fabric must be ironed onto Freezer paper ahead of time. Any type of fabric should work, the colors are water based textile inks.

Option: To have your own pattern prepared on a screen for the workshop, your digital image must be emailed Felix at info@artistsimageresource.org by October 20; the cost is an additional fee of $25, with payment due at the time of registration.

If there is not adequate registration , the workshop will be cancelled and fees refunded. Masks are requested, and there is adequate space for safe distancing. Metered parking is available directly across the street; there is limited street parking which requires a permit.

If you have questions about this workshop, please contact Michelle Browne mlbatoast7@gmail.com or Patty Kennedy-Zafred pattykz@aol.com.

Lecture by Adrienne Sloane, FI2022 and FI2019 artist
2022-11-01 13:00 - 14:30 | Online
Tuesday, November 1, at 1 pm
Lecture by Adrienne Sloane, FI2022 and FI2019 artist, as part of the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh Fall Lecture series.
Registration is free for members, $5 for guests.
Registration opens about a month before the lecture. Please register on the Registration Form
Adrienne Sloane is a mixed media artist with a focus in fiber techniques. Using iconic imagery, her work is frequently a visceral response to the moral and political landscape of the day. By visually addressing the frayed and unraveled places around her, Sloane’s seeks to promote thoughtful dialogue about critical questions as we navigate the difficult times we live in.

A contemporary fiber artist with a political focus, Adrienne Sloane has deeply explored all forms of sculptural knit structures out of her Massachusetts studio. Increasingly embracing a broad range of approaches and techniques while remaining mindful of the rich historical context of her medium, Sloane addresses timely yet universal issues hoping to promote thoughtful dialogue about critical questions as we navigate our difficult times.
Sloane’s work has won many awards and has been widely published. She has work in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Fuller Craft Museum, the Goldstein Museum of Design, and The Kamm Collection as well as private collections. She has worked with indigenous knitters in Bolivia and Peru and also taught and exhibited internationally.

Lecture by Adrienne Sloane
2022-11-01 13:00 - 14:30 | Online
Tuesday, November 1, at 1 pm
Lecture by Adrienne Sloane, FI2022 and FI2019 artist, as part of the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh Fall Lecture series.
Registration is free for members, $5 for guests.
Registration opens about a month before the lecture. Please register on the Registration Form
Adrienne Sloane is a mixed media artist with a focus in fiber techniques. Using iconic imagery, her work is frequently a visceral response to the moral and political landscape of the day. By visually addressing the frayed and unraveled places around her, Sloane’s seeks to promote thoughtful dialogue about critical questions as we navigate the difficult times we live in.

Critique- Online or in Person
2022-10-20 12:00 - 14:00 | Contemporary Craft, 5645 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15201, United States
Show & Shares as well as Critiques will become hybrid. They will be both in Person at Contemporary Craft in Lawrenceville, 5645 Butler Street 15201 and also on Zoom. We will reevaluate monthly to see if we continue with this modality. Please register so we can update you on any changes to the format.
You have a choice to be there:
–IN PERSON if you are vaccinated, boosted and masked, or 10 days after you have recovered from Covid or
–On Zoom.
What is the difference between a Show & Share and a Critique? You can attend both! You can attend even if you have no work to share.
Show & Share: for members who don’t want suggestions, they just want to show off, share what they are working on, and meet other Guild members.
Critique: for members who want constructive suggestions about their work to solve technical, aesthetic or presentation problems.
This is a fun way to stay connected and get inspired!!

Lecture by Jim Arendt
2022-10-11 11:00 - 12:30 | Pennsylvania
Registration opens about a month before the lecture. Please register on the Registration Form
Jim Arendt is an Associate Professor of Visual Arts and Gallery Director at Coastal Carolina University. He received his BFA from Kendall College of Art & Design and his MFA from the University of South Carolina. He has participated in residency programs including The Fields Project in Illinois, Arrowmont’s Tactility Forum, and From Waste to Art VI in Baku, Azerbaijan. He’s been invited to teach at Penland School of Craft and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts.
Recently, Arendt received First Prize during Fiberarts International 2019, was short-listed for The 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art and a 2018 finalist for the Elizabeth R. Raphael Founder’s Prize, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA. He has received the South Carolina Arts Commission Visual Artist Fellowship 2014 and his work received the $50,000 top prize at ArtFields 2013. His work was chosen for the 2013 Museum Rijswijk Textile Biennial, Netherlands, and he has work include in the Arkansas Art Center’s permanent collection of contemporary craft.
He has juried numerous local, regional, and national exhibitions in support of the arts across the country.
www.JimArendt.com

Opening Reception for Behind the Mask - Membership Exhibition
2022-10-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Latrobe Art Center, 819 Ligonier Street, Latrobe, PA, 15650, United States
A Juried Members’ Exhibition of the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh.
Where: Latrobe Art Center – 819 Ligonier Street, Latrobe, PA 15650
When: October 6th – November 2nd, 2022 – Monday-Saturday 10AM to 5PM
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 6, 2022 – 6 to 8PM
Chairperson: Carolyn Carson: carolyncarson753@hotmail.com and Barb Kubala: hangarounds@verizon.net
Entry Deadline: August 1, 2022
Exhibition prospectus
Essentially, a mask conceals something from view. While we have spent the last two years literally wearing masks to protect ourselves and others, in a metaphorical sense all people ‘wear a mask’ to hide feelings, beliefs, thoughts, pains, behaviors, attitudes, desires and longings, a past, secret sides that few may know. As we move beyond the notion of masks for protection from a virus, let’s think about that ubiquitous mask in human nature. Let’s explore some of our hidden natures through our art work. Let’s explore desires of things we’d do if we could be masked and undetected. Would you rob a jewelry store or try out for “The Voice?” Let’s explore our secrets – the things we do that others do not know. Are you an expert sky diver, and no one knows? What’s behind your mask? Or, let’s explore the mask we ‘wear.’ How do we show ourselves to the world? What is it we do want people to see?
JUROR
James Arendt
An Associate Professor of Visual Arts and Gallery Director at Coastal Carolina University, Jim Arendt received his BFA from Kendall College of Art and Design and his MFA from the University of South Carolina. He has participated in multiple residency programs including The Fields Project in Illinois, Arrowmont’s Tactility Forum, and From Waste to Art VI in Baku, Azerbaijan. He has also been invited to teach at Penland and Arrowmont.
The first prize winner in Fiberarts International 2019, Arendt was also short-listed for the 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art and a 2018 finalist for the Elizabeth R. Raphael Founder’s Prize at Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh. He has received the South Carolina Arts Commission Visual Artist Fellowship 2014 and his work received the $50,000 top prize at ArtFields 2013. His work was chosen for the 2013 Museum Rijswijk Textile Biennial, Netherlands, and he has work included in the Arkansas Art Center’s permanent collection of contemporary craft.
Mr. Arendt has juried numerous local, regional, and national exhibitions in support of the arts across the country.

Membership Exhibition-Behind the Mask
2022-10-06 10:00 - 2022-11-02 17:00 | Latrobe Art Center, 819 Ligonier Street, Latrobe, PA, 15650, United States

Fiber Fest Potluck
2022-09-10 11:00 - 16:00 | Pennsylvania
Please register so we can plan better: Registration Form
Come join us at our Welcome Back Fiber Fest Potluck!
Saturday September 10, 2022 from 11AM to 4PPM. Rain or shine: Bring the kids, new members and friends!
At guild member Diane Meyer’s lovely backyard in McCandless.
Demonstrations and presentation followed by lunch and Show&Share.
Bring a chair, a potluck dish and your work to share.
9519 Old Perry Hwy (Pine Haven Lane) McCandless, PA 15237
PH# 716-725-1639

Potluck Schedule!
11 – 12:30 Presentations & Updates

Staci Offut & Cheryl Hopper present their recent trip to Sweden and their workshop with FI22 artist Hannah Streeferk! Photos! Workshop Samples ! (Hannah made the giant crochet map of the world on the cover of FI22 )

Kari Roslund will give a demonstration of her Felting and a sneak peek of her upcoming workshops at Contemporary Craft!

Susan Swarthout will give updates on the Red Dress Project at the Frick Museum and Coral Reef Project at the Carnegie Museum ! Both are community fiber projects; Susan will give details on how guild members can get involved.

Petra Fallaux will give a preview of upcoming Surface Design/Silkscreen Workshop at Artist Image Resources in November

12:30 – 1:30 – Lunch

1:30 – 3:30 – Show & Share

Lecture by Ann Coddington
2022-09-08 13:00 - 14:30 | Online
Thursday, September 8, 2022 – 1 PM ET
Lecture by Ann Coddington, FI2022 artist, as part of the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh Fall Lecture series.
Registration is free for members, $5 for guests.
Ann Coddington utilizes a variety of traditional and innovative fiber techniques including twining, looping, lashing and netting in her sculptural forms. Her recent work is deeply rooted in organic vessels that reference the body, natural and found objects, that enter into a complex dialogue about our place in the world and our impact on the environment. Her work has been shown across the United States and Internationally with recent solo shows at the Contemporary Art Center in Peoria, Governors State University in Illinois, and upcoming at the Praxis Fiber Workshop in Cleveland. Coddington’s work was also selected for inclusion in the 2022 International Fiber Biennial in Pittsburgh this past summer.
Ann is a Professor of Art and Graduate Coordinator at Eastern Illinois University. She received her MFA from the University of Illinois Sculpture Department in 1993, and her BFA from the Colorado State University Fibers Department in1986. She is very active in teaching sculptural twining workshops around the world. Ann recently taught at the Penland School of Crafts, Indigo Blue Hawaii studios, the Chicago North Suburban Needle Arts Guild and upcoming for Fibre Arts Australia. Coddington serves as the co-chair of Exhibitions and as a member of the board for the National Basketry Organization.
Instagram: @abcoddington

Fiberart International 2022- Guided tour
2022-08-20 11:00 - 12:00, 2022-08-13 11:00 - 12:00, 2022-08-06 11:00 - 12:00 | Brew House Association and Contemporary Craft, BHA: 711 South 21st Street, Pittsburgh, PA ; CC: 5645 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA15203, Pittsburgh, PA, 15201, United States
Join a Fiberarts Guild Member, every Saturday at 11 am through August 20, for a guided tour through the 24th installment of the Fiberart International exhibition at both The Brewhouse Association and Contemporary Craft. Tickets are free but you must register in advance. Registration for FI22 Tours at Brewhouse and Registration for FI22 Tours at Contemporary Craft

MATERIAL DIALOGUE: FIBERS AS A LANGUAGE with Camila Pearce and Stefanie Zito
2022-08-20 10:00 - 11:00 | Contemporary Craft, 5645 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15201, United States
FI2022 Closing Event
Sunday August 20, 10:00AM at Contemporary Craft.
MATERIAL DIALOGUE: FIBERS AS A LANGUAGE with artists Camila Pearce and Stefanie Zito.

Membership Exhibition-Behind the Mask - Entry deadline
2022-08-01 00:00 - 23:30 | Latrobe Art Center, 819 Ligonier Street, Latrobe, PA, 15650, United States
A Juried Members’ Exhibition of the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh.
Where: Latrobe Art Center – 819 Ligonier Street, Latrobe, PA 15650
When: October 6th – November 2nd, 2022
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 6, 2022 – 6 to 8PM
Chairperson: Carolyn Carson: carolyncarson753@hotmail.com and Barb Kubala: hangarounds@verizon.net
Entry Deadline: August 1, 2022
Exhibition prospectus
Submit your work
Essentially, a mask conceals something from view. While we have spent the last two years literally wearing masks to protect ourselves and others, in a metaphorical sense all people ‘wear a mask’ to hide feelings, beliefs, thoughts, pains, behaviors, attitudes, desires and longings, a past, secret sides that few may know. As we move beyond the notion of masks for protection from a virus, let’s think about that ubiquitous mask in human nature. Let’s explore some of our hidden natures through our art work. Let’s explore desires of things we’d do if we could be masked and undetected. Would you rob a jewelry store or try out for “The Voice?” Let’s explore our secrets – the things we do that others do not know. Are you an expert sky diver, and no one knows? What’s behind your mask? Or, let’s explore the mask we ‘wear.’ How do we show ourselves to the world? What is it we do want people to see?
JUROR
James Arendt
An Associate Professor of Visual Arts and Gallery Director at Coastal Carolina University, Jim Arendt received his BFA from Kendall College of Art and Design and his MFA from the University of South Carolina. He has participated in multiple residency programs including The Fields Project in Illinois, Arrowmont’s Tactility Forum, and From Waste to Art VI in Baku, Azerbaijan. He has also been invited to teach at Penland and Arrowmont.
The first prize winner in Fiberarts International 2019, Arendt was also short-listed for the 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art and a 2018 finalist for the Elizabeth R. Raphael Founder’s Prize at Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh. He has received the South Carolina Arts Commission Visual Artist Fellowship 2014 and his work received the $50,000 top prize at ArtFields 2013. His work was chosen for the 2013 Museum Rijswijk Textile Biennial, Netherlands, and he has work included in the Arkansas Art Center’s permanent collection of contemporary craft.
Mr. Arendt has juried numerous local, regional, and national exhibitions in support of the arts across the country.
