FiberArts Guild of Pittsburgh

FGP Community Celebration
2024-11-03 14:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Velum Fermentation, 2120 Jane Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15203, United States
Did you participate in Knit the Bridge? Crochet a flower for Pop des Fleurs? Add your embroidery to Pittsburgh’s Calico Dress? Contribute to Delli Speers’s fence (Wright’s Way) in the South Side? Take part in the Pole to Polls Vote sign project?

Join us as we celebrate the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh’s community-building art installations that have become a part of Pittsburgh’s rich arts history in the last decade!

Pieces from each installation will be on display, as well as the entire Pittsburgh Calico Dress.

There will be dessert to eat and friends all around. Velum Fermentation is a family friendly environment with activities and games for all ages. Bring the whole family to celebrate fiber art!

Honor a Guild Member

As part of our celebration, the Guild will honor some of our members with a new tradition . . . the First Annual Guild Awards! Do you know someone who’s made an impact with volunteer efforts and community building? Nominate them by contacting Staci Offutt with a brief description of their nominee’s contribution.

Velum Fermentation has TWO entrances: the main entrance on Jane Street and an accessible entrance on Mary Street (look for a sign for Ascend Climbing Gym).

This event is free, but please let us know you are coming.

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Spotlight: a Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh Member Exhibition
2024-10-20 00:00 - 2024-11-08 23:59 | North Hills Art Center, 3432 Babcock Blvd, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15237, United States
Artist Talk: Friday, November 8, 5 pm – 7 pm

Spotlight, a Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh member exhibition, will focus on the unique voices and artistic practices of our diverse member-base. FGP members, this is a chance to share your passion, your spirit, and your point of view. What has influenced your work over the years? How has it changed? Was there a turning point that brought you to the way you work today? A technique with which you are obsessed? What is your relationship with your art? This salon-style exhibit allows our members’ individuality to take center stage.

Join us Friday, November 8, as we celebrate the member artists whose work appears in the Spotlight Exhibition! Hear about the artists’ inspiration and process. Artist talks are a wonderful way to learn new things about fiber art while connecting with friends! You don’t want to miss it!

Exhibition Chairs: Debra Tobin and Staci Offutt

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FGP Board Meeting
2024-10-08 19:00
Monthly meeting of the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh’s Board.

Guild members are always welcome at our monthly board meetings! If you would like to join virtually or in person, please let us know you are coming by clicking the event link and filling out the attached form.

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Spinning, Carding & Weaving Special Interest Group
2024-10-06 13:00 - 15:00 | Wild Child Stitches, 2729 Murray Ave, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15217, United States
BC (before Covid) programs and activities by the Guild included interest groups – small groups of Guild members who were particularly interested in one fiber medium or technique. Groups were informally structured and self-governed, each deciding how, where, and when to meet, and how to focus their activities.Our two recent skill share workshops that focused on spinning and weaving resulted in a group of members who want to explore starting a group that meets on a regular basis.

Our host Dayle Kendall from Wildchild welcomes us to unwind, spin, and card as we plan how to continue our mission to have regular gatherings with like-minded fiber friends to learn and share information about creating and using yarn and thread from animal and plant fibers.

If you are interested or simply want to learn more, please join us! This event is free, but please let us know you are coming.

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Skill Share: Photograph Your Work
2024-10-05 11:00 - 14:00 | Natoli Field, 6944 Presidents Way, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15206, United States
The deadline for Spotlight, our upcoming member exhibition, is coming up soon (Oct 12). Let the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh help you photograph you work for submission!

Join FGP President Staci Offutt to learn how to take pictures of your work using natural light and your own phone camera. Staci will bring a backdrop and her truck to set up for 2d and 3d work.

We’ll meet outside at Natoli Field in Morningside. Bring your work and your own lunch. We’ll supply the rest!

Rain date is October 12. (you’ll still have time to submit!)

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FIBER BASH: STASH SWAP & SILENT AUCTION
2024-09-22 13:00 - 18:00 | Holy Spirit Church – St Matthew Parish, 608 Farragut Street, Millvale, Pennsylvania, 15209, United States
Join us as we bring back a Guild fundraiser where we have fun with all our fiber friends trading, swapping and bidding on each other’s stash and artwork.

Schedule

1:00-2:30 pmDrop off your unwanted, gently used art and craft supplies, fabrics, notions, fibers, yarns, and books to donate to our Paper Bag Raffle.

2:30 pmPot Luck: Bring a covered dish to share at the potluck lunch.

3:30-6:00 pmPaper Bag Raffle: Tickets will be 5 for $1. Bring some address stickers for the back of your raffle tickets and a large tote bag for your winnings. You can go home with treasures from someone else’s stash for next to nothing!

Silent Auction: Donate a piece of your fine art, craft, quilt, wearable, or services to the Silent Auction (write-in bids).

Bring a guest, including members of other fiber guilds (quilt, embroidery, sewing, knitting, crochet guilds). Questions? Contact Barb Grossman at scrapwerx1@gmail.com

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FGP Board Meeting
2024-09-10 19:00
Monthly meeting of the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh’s Board.

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A Fair in the Park
2024-09-06 00:00 - 2024-09-08 23:59 | Mellon Park, 1047 Shady Ave, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15232
Join The Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh in the MAIN TENT at annual Fair in the Park, hosted by the Craftsmen’s Guild of Pittsburgh in Mellon Park!

We have been invited to attend to display some of our members’ work and do demos that include spinning, weaving, needle felting, and more.

If you’d like to join us, we’d love to have you hang out with us!

Questions? Contact Barb Grossman at scrapwerx1@gmail.com

FGP Board Meeting
2024-08-19 19:00
Monthly meeting of the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh’s Board.

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Spinning, Carding, & Combing Skill Share
2024-08-18 13:00 | Sixth Presbyterian Church, 1688 Murray Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh members and friends!

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Spinning, Carding and Combing Skill Share

If you want to learn new skills, please join us! If you want to share your skills, please join us! We’d love for you to bring a friend!

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Pot Luck Picnic & Outdoor Fiber Social
2024-08-10 12:00 - 16:00
NEW DATE!

Join us to share food, show your fiber work, and connect with members who have the same passion for fiber as fine art, fine craft, and joy!

OUTREACH OPPORTUNITYThe outreach committee is launching a sustainable weaving kit project. We are inviting you, our guild members, to participate by creating a small piece on the prototype looms. We will have some weaving kits with detailed instructions available at the picnic for you to take home.

Bring a lawn chair and covered dish to share. *Please label ingredients for allergy concerns*

Stick around for a post-picnic Show & Share!

As in previous years, we’ll gather in Diane Myers Morrissey’s spacious backyard. See the FGP Eblast for directions or email Barb Grossman at scrapwerx1@gmail.com

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Protohaven Tour
2024-07-21 14:00 | 214 North Trenton Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, 15221, 214 North Trenton Ave, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15221
What is Protohaven? Let’s all find out together! We have made arrangements with Protohaven to give us a private tour.

Protohaven is maker space for all ages.

They have a textile studio, laser cutters, 3-D printers, vacuum forming machines, mig welding capability, an elaborate woodworking workspace, blacksmithing area, metal working space, a jewelry studio with wax casting equipment, storage, classes, a small gallery and a whole lot more.

This event is free, but we need to let them know our headcount in advance. Please register below by July 14 to let us know you’re coming.

You’re welcome to bring a guest.

NOTE: Space is limited for group tours, however, if we exceed the numbers, we can add a second group to start a half an hour later.

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Erie Art Museum Membership Exhibition Virtual Artists Talk
2024-07-12 12:00 - 13:00
Join us online to hear from juror award winners Sarah Entsminger, Michelle Browne, Camilla Brent Pearce, Jane Ogren, and Nancy Quick Langer. Each artist will speak about her process and her award-winning piece. There will be time for Q & A afterward.

We hope you’ll be there to listen, learn, and celebrate our members’ fiber art!

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Drop Spindle Skill Share
2024-06-30 13:00 - 15:00 | Sixth Presbyterian Church, 1688 Murray Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
“Drop spindle” is a fun way to make yarn and a skill that can be used by many fiber artists including weavers, knitters and crocheters.

Please join us at the Sixth Church basement in Squirrel Hill to learn or share your knowledge of hand spinning and watch demonstrations of spinning on a drop spindle and on a wheel. Members will be there who can help you get started on a spindle.

Drop Spindles will be available for purchase or borrow if you don’t have one. One of our members is making them by hand for this event.

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Studio Visit with Stefanie Zito
2024-06-15 10:00 - 12:00
Stefanie Zito invites us to visit her “Garden Studio” at Garfield Community Farm. Please dress appropriately for the weather, as well as the possibility of ticks and poison ivy. If we get serious rain, we will meet in Stefanie’s Studio close by.

Stefanie is a Certified Permaculture Designer who grows dye plants from which to extract natural dye for her three dimensional weavings. Stefanie currently has art work at the Erie Museum as part of the Fiberarts Guild Member Show. She also recently had a solo show of her work at Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild. In 2023 she was a Grow in Fiber grant recipient through the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh.

Please sign up to join us and we will send you the address for the garden and the studio. To discover more of Stefanie’s work, visit her website or find her on Instagram at @stefaniezito_studio

Only TWO spots left for this event! To sign up, contact Michelle Browne directly at mlbatoast7@gmail.com

Studio Visit with Rebecca Hebert
2024-06-09 13:00 - 15:00 | Radiant Hall, McKees Rocks, 734 Thompson Avenue, McKees Rocks, PA, 15136, United States
Join us at Radiant Hall in McKees Rocks to tour Guild member Rebecca Hebert’s studio and learn about her work and process.

Rebecca was a professional fundraiser for non-profit and educational institutions for more than 30 years. Retirement gave her the opportunity to immerse herself in the fiber arts, knitting, crocheting and weaving. She is a well known weaving instructor, teaching new weavers to turn yarn into amazing fabrics – scarves, prayer and fashion shawls, table runners, napkins, blankets and wall hangings. She looks forward to sharing her work and to inspire those who may not think of themselves as artists to let go and create!

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There will have light refreshments in the classroom next door. Contact Michelle Browne mlbatoast7@gmail.com for car pool or driving directions.

NOTE ABOUT ACCESSIBILITY Be aware that there is no elevator at Radiant Hall. Rebecca’s studio is on the second floor.

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Studio Visit with Rona Chang
2024-06-06 16:00 - 18:00 | Radiant Hall Lawrenceville, 4514 Plummer St, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15201, United States
Join us at Radiant Hall in Lawrenceville for a Studio Visit with Fiber Entrepreneur Rona Chang of Otto Finn Shop + Studio.

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Rona is one of the winners of the 2023 Grow in Fiber awards. Rona and her team make amazing wearables using second-market and sustainable materials

We will meet at 4 pm at the sewing studio at Radiant Hall, 4514 Plummer St. (Ground floor, one flight down)

Then we will walk to Rona’s cutting space at her retail shop at 4607 Butler St next to The Gourmandine Bakery. (It’s one block away from Radiant Hall.)

Parking is free on Butler St in front of the shop but also on Plummer St., 46th St. and many of the surrounding streets.

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Meetup
2024-05-19 14:00 - 16:00 | Sixth Presbyterian Church, 1688 Murray Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Join us at Sixth Presbyterian Church in Squirrel Hill to connect, talk fiber, and enjoy time with friends!

Fiber Feedback
2024-05-19 13:00 - 14:00 | Sixth Presbyterian Church, 1688 Murray Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Are you getting work ready to enter into Fiberart International 2025? Join us before today’s Meetup to fine tune your work or improve the presentation of your work before you photograph it. Need a photographer? We have recommendations…

Meetup with Rebekah Joy from Flux Bene
2024-05-10 14:30 - 15:30 | Contemporary Craft, 5645 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15201, United States
Join us at Contemporary Craft to connect, talk fiber, and hear a presentation from Rebekah Joy. Rebekah Joy is a textile artist who loves nature. Flux Bene is her textile recycling project whose mission is to facilitate the reuse of 10,000 garments by June of 2025. She and her team in Pittsburgh upcycle discarded second- hand garments into pieces that people are excited to wear again. Everything they produce is minimal-waste and gender neutral. They also now create pdf sewing patterns to help you upcycle your own clothing! For more information, see Flux Bene’s 10k Garment Project

General Membership Meeting
2024-05-05 16:00 - 18:00
Join us on Zoom for the most important meeting of the year, when we will vote in a new slate of board members:

ANNOUNCEMENT OF 2024 BOARD NOMINEES

Term 2023-2026Ruth BedeianDebbie Penley

Term 2024-2027Jamie BoyleDavid AndersonLeslie RikerCathy Trostle-Oliver

2025 NOMINATING COMMITTEE

Chair: Christine Bethea

Members: Debbie PenleyNisha BlackwellPenny Mateer

Kirsten Ervin – 2024 Nominating Committee Chair

Stephanie Zito

Rona Chang

The meeting will feature short presentations from Stephanie Zito and Rona Chang, last year’s Grow in Fiber Grant recipients.

We’ll say thank you to outgoing board members, hear from nominees to the board, and vote in our new board members.

Please join us!

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Fiber Feedback and Studio Visit
2024-04-27 13:00 - 15:00 | 98 Oak Ln, Pittsburgh, PA 15225, 98 Oak Ln, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15225, United States
Join us for a Fiber Feedback at David Anderson’s studio on Neville Island. Bring work to share or come for the fiber community! We’ll hear from David and get to explore his studio.

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About David: David is a self taught weaver who began exploring color on a rigid heddle loom in plain weave. He now explores multi-shaft weaving, up to 12 shafts. Split-shed weaving is an interest, and he will have some to show at the meet-up. Explore his basement studio, view a half-dozen looms and look at a house full of hand-woven rugs and other treasures.

About David’s Neville Island studio: there are steps – 5 up to the door and 13 down to the basement. Street parking is preferred, please reserve the driveway for anyone who may not walk long distances. Parking on Pine street and Vivianna street are near the house. It is a blonde brick two story house on the river.

Fiber Feedback on Zoom
2024-04-17 18:30
Please join Debbie Penley with our monthly web-based fiber feedback As always, Zoom access links can be accessed in the monthly Eblast on in the member’s only portion of this site (under your membership area). These events are a great opportunity to connect with artists near and far, to find inspiration and to support the Fiberarts Guild community!

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April Meetup
2024-04-14 14:00 - 17:00 | Sixth Presbyterian Church, 1688 Murray Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This month’s meetup features an informal presentation by Guild Member Mita Ghosal. Mita is a choreographer whose new dance work Lost on a Loom examines lost South Asian Histories through Indian Textiles and Fabrics. Weaving dance, storytelling, and the history of fabric in Bengal, this dance theatre work draws parallels between the movement of material, and the movement(s) of people.

Lost on a Loom will premiere May 17 & 18 at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theatre.

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Grow in Fiber Grant Virtual Information Session
2024-04-11 19:00 - 20:30
Please join Katie Bulova and Karen Krieger for an information session on the upcoming Grow in Fiber Grant. The grant submission deadline is April 20th at 11:59 pm.

To register for this event, please contact Katie Bulova at bulovakatie@gmail.com

Member Exhibition at Erie Art Museum
2024-04-04 00:00 - 2025-01-19 23:59 | Erie Art Museum, 20 E 5th St, Erie, PA, 16507, United States
The 2024 Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh Juried Membership Exhibition at the Erie Art Museum.

Congratulations to all participating FGP member artists!

Important Update Regarding Erie Museum Closure and Exhibit Plans

Please note that the Erie Art Museum will be closed for repairs from December 25th to 27th, with the possibility of an extension through December 28th and 29th. Please check on museum hours before you plan your visit.

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Jurors

Laura Domencic, Executive Director, Erie Art Museum

Laura Domencic is an artist, curator, writer and educator who cultivates creative thinking in individuals and communities. She is the Executive Director of the Erie Art Museum and a lead partner and curator with The Documentary Works, a group that produces photo documentary exhibits on social and environmental justice.

Before her appointment to the Museum, she has worked as an independent arts consultant leading successful fundraising efforts for a variety of institutional and individual clients. She has also directed an artist residency program in Ambialet, France. Previously, Domencic served for 11 years as Director of the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.

Domencic received her MFA from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. lauradomencic.com

Jamie Keim-Pomorski, Program Manager & Designer, Erie Art Museum

Jamie is an artist living in Erie, Pennsylvania by way of Brooklyn, New York and Pensacola, Florida. she is an abstract artist and graphic designer with a BFA Fine Arts/Digital Design from Pace University in New York City. She is currently the Program Manager and Designer at the Erie Art Museum, as well as a practicing studio artist and an art teacher at the Inner City Neighborhood Art House. Jamie loves to volunteer and work with children in the arts and sciences, and is an active member of the urban forest committee of the city of Erie.Fluent in multiple Adobe programs, Jamie is a seasoned graphic designer with a bold understanding of space and composition. As an abstract painter, she uses creative, conceptual, yet sometimes unusual solutions to achieve desired textures and compositions. As an educator, Jamie encourages intuitive thinking and planning while creating with and educating others. As a program manager, she oversees local educational programs and initiatives and teaches alternative solutions to painting, collaging, and design.

While Jamie accepts freelance digital design projects when she can, she focuses the majority of her free time and creative energy on studio work, working primarily on larger abstract paintings with mixed media. Most notably, she recently exhibited her paintings in group shows at Glass Growers Gallery, a solo show (i saw the light, August 2021) at the 1020 Collective, and a two-person exhibition (Come Highwater, June 2022) with fellow artist and Pace University BFA graduate, Julia Ennis, at the Kada Gallery. jamiekeim.com

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In-Person Fiber Feedback
2024-03-21 14:00 - 17:00 | Contemporary Craft, 5645 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15201, United States
Join us at Contemporary Craft for this month’s Fiber Feedback. Bring your work-in-progress or just come gather with fiber artist friends to see what everyone is working on.

If you are dropping off your work for the Erie Show, stop in, bring work in progress or see what others are up to! CC has a top notch gift shop and a fascinating ceramics exhibition. Weavers will want to see their growing loom collection. Wonderful things happen when we get together!

UK Artist Jennifer Collier - The Art of Paper and Stitch: Experimental Techniques Dresses Workshop Part 2
2024-03-17 10:00 - 12:30
This is Part 2 of Jennifer’s Experimental Techniques Dresses Zoom Workshop.

WORKSHOP IS FULL

Contact Michelle Browne mlbatoast7@gmail.com to get on the wait list.

About Jennifer

Paper pioneer and UK artist Jennifer Collier creates exquisite artwork from vintage recycled materials in conjunction with stitch; a contemporary twist on traditional textiles.

The papers serve as both the inspiration and the media for the work, with the narrative suggesting the forms. Through this marriage of unlikely materials old papers are transformed into something truly unique, delicate and complex.”I work from a studio in Stafford, and continue my self-employed career through the sale of my work, exhibitions and commissions. I run my own gallery, Unit Twelve, which is open to the public. The space houses six artist’s studios, including my own and hosts a changing program of themed, high quality contemporary craft exhibitions, curated by myself.

March Meetup
2024-03-03 14:00 - 17:00 | Sixth Presbyterian Church, 1688 Murray Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Join us for a monthly gathering to connect with friends, share resources, and learn something new!

This month features an informal presentation by Kirsten Ervin on how illustration informs her fiber work. Next, Kirsten will lead Creative Mark Making exercises to help you generate images freely.

UK Artist Jennifer Collier - The Art of Paper and Stitch: Experimental Techniques Dresses Workshop Part 1
2024-02-25 10:00 - 12:30
Experimental Techniques Dresses – A Two-Day Zoom WorkshopPart 1: Sunday, Feb 25Part 2: Sunday, March 17

WORKSHOP IS FULL

Contact Michelle Browne mlbatoast7@gmail.com to get on the wait list.

To start, the students will learn 5 ‘experimental’ techniques including melting plastics, fusing objects in plastic, waxing papers, wax entrapment in teabags, and transferring magazine images using “selotape”. Once they “have had a go at” these techniques they will make a two -part dress (bodice and skirt) using their favourite combination of techniques. The dresses will be hand stitched together and embellished with pockets, collars, buttons and handmade paper roses. Jennifer will demonstrate paper pleating, covered binding, button loops, pockets, collars and patchworking papers to create the ‘fabric’ for your dress. She will then go onto show how to put these together and construct the garment.

From Jennifer: “I am on the screen the whole time (except for the break) and do demonstrations at set times, so people can choose to work away from the screen, but come back to these times to watch the next bit.”

*Each student will need a copy of the template I will email and share with participants in advance for this workshop. Students will also need access to old/dirty irons for waxing papers.

About Jennifer

Paper pioneer and UK artist Jennifer Collier creates exquisite artwork from vintage recycled materials in conjunction with stitch; a contemporary twist on traditional textiles.

The papers serve as both the inspiration and the media for the work, with the narrative suggesting the forms. Through this marriage of unlikely materials old papers are transformed into something truly unique, delicate and complex.”I work from a studio in Stafford, and continue my self-employed career through the sale of my work, exhibitions and commissions. I run my own gallery, Unit Twelve, which is open to the public. The space houses six artist’s studios, including my own and hosts a changing program of themed, high quality contemporary craft exhibitions, curated by myself.
