FiberArts Guild of Pittsburgh

FGP Members' Spotlight Exhibition
2023-03-11 - 2023-04-07
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FGP Members' Spotlight Exhibition
2023-03-11 - 2023-04-07 | North Hills Art Center, 3432 Babcock Blvd, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15237, United States
Membership Exhibition
Where: North Hills Art Center – 3432 Babcock Blvd, Pittsburgh, PA 15237
When: March 11th – April 7th, 2023
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 11, 2023, 7 – 9 pm
Chairperson: Katie Bulova: bulovakatie@gmail.com and Debbie Penley: penley75@verizon.net
The Member Spotlight show will focus on your artist’s voice. What captures the spirit of your art practice? This is a chance to share YOUR passion, your unique 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 to your art? This exhibit is a chance to let all of our members’ individuality take center stage.
This is a non-juried exhibition, however, one artwork per artist may be selected depending on space.
There will be a limited print run of the catalog for the Member Spotlight show at $30 each. If you would like a catalog, please pre-order it at https://fiberartspgh.org/exhibitions/catalog-order-form/. We need at least 40 in order to keep the cost at $30.

Opening Reception 3/11 7-9
The Artist talk 4/2 from 3-5

Ann Coddington- Workshop at Contemporary Craft
2023-03-09 09:00 - 2023-03-12 17:00 (America/New_York) | Contemporary Craft, 5645 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15201, United States
Workshop with Ann Coddington at Contemporary Craft.
25% discount available for FGP members.
More information coming soon.

Critique- Online or in Person
2023-03-03 18:00 - 21:00, 2023-01-17 18:00 - 21:00 | Contemporary Craft, 5645 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15201, United States
Registration opens about a month before the event. Please register on the Registration Form

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!!

Grow in Fiber Grant information session
2023-02-23 19:00 - 20:00 | Online
Wanting to encourage our members to explore new opportunities and expand their experience, the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh is excited to offer “Grow in Fiber” Grants. Whether members consider themselves a novice or professional, current members are invited to apply for this developmental grant. This is a fiber focused grant opportunity for artists from various backgrounds and genres; you don’t need to be a fiber artist, but the grant proposal must be fiber focused. This can include artists exploring fiber for the first time.
This grant is open to Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh members both in and out of the area. You don’t need to be a FGP member to apply; but if you are a recipient of the grant, joining FGP is a requirement.

Grow in Fiber Grant page
There will be an information session on February 23, 2023 @ 7PM ET via Zoom.

Join us https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87902104021?pwd=[REDACTED]

Lecture by Janice Lessman-Moss
2023-02-15 11:00 - 12:30 | Online
Wednesday, February 15, 2023 / 11:00 am ESTRegistration is free for members, $5 for guests.Registration opens about a month before the lecture. Please register on the Registration Form

Janice Lessman-Moss is a weaver who uses the unique vocabulary of digital design in relation to the binary functioning of threads on the loom to create her art. She has been awarded numerous Individual Artist Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council beginning in 1984, and received an Arts Midwest/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Crafts. Lessman-Moss won the prestigious Governor’s Award for the Arts in Ohio in 2016, the Cleveland Arts Prize Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019, and a coveted United States Artists Fellowship also in 2019. Her work been presented throughout the United States and internationally, including solo exhibitions at the Kent State University Museum, Galleria Willa in Lodz, Poland, the Museum of Fine Art and Culture in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Praxis Gallery in Cleveland. Other exhibition highlights include: “Neo Geo,” at the Akron Art Museum; “Fiberarts International 2013 and 2016,” Society for Contemporary Craft and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA; “New Material World,” Sheldon Museum, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; “Rijswijk Textile Biennial 2011,” Museum Rijswijk, Netherlands; the second and seventh ”Cheongju Juried Craft Exhibition,” Korea; and the first, second, third and fourth “International TECHstyle Art Biennial,” San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, California. A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Lessman-Moss resides in Kent, Ohio where she is Emeritus Professor at Kent State University.

janicelessman-moss.com

Show and Share- Online or in Person
2023-02-07 12:00 - 14:00 | Contemporary Craft, 5645 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15201, United States

Writing your artist statement
2023-01-22 15:00 - 17:00 | Online
Writing your artist statement: 2, 1 ¾ hour sessions, Saturdays, January 22 and 29 Zoom, 10 am to 11:45 am with Sam Milford, free to Guild Members, limit to 8 people.
Registration opens about a month before the event. Please register on the Registration Form
Do you struggle with writing an artist statement that captures your personality and perspective while at the same time addressing the theme of a show? In this two-part workshop we will spend the first workshop reviewing some key points in writing an artist statement and get started with one of our own. In the second meeting we will share the struggles and joys of writing the statement and share what we have written with the anticipation of constructive criticism.Sam Milford is a fiber artist who has been a guild member for over 20 years. She has recently retired from teaching Communication Studies at California University of Pennsylvania and has had success having her work juried into many shows.

Writing your artist statement
2023-01-22 15:00 - 17:00 | Online
Writing your artist statement: 2, 1 ¾ hour sessions, Saturdays, January 22 and 29 Zoom, 3 pm to 4:45 am with Sam Milford, free to Guild Members, limit to 8 people.
Registration opens about a month before the event. Please register on the Registration Form
This workshop is full but you can register for a waiting list in case we have an opening.
Do you struggle with writing an artist statement that captures your personality and perspective while at the same time addressing the theme of a show? In this two-part workshop we will spend the first workshop reviewing some key points in writing an artist statement and get started with one of our own. In the second meeting we will share the struggles and joys of writing the statement and share what we have written with the anticipation of constructive criticism.Sam Milford is a fiber artist who has been a guild member for over 20 years. She has recently retired from teaching Communication Studies at California University of Pennsylvania and has had success having her work juried into many shows.

Lecture by Michael James
2023-01-11 13:00 - 14:30 | Online
Wednesday, January 11, 2023 / 1:00 pm EST
Registration is free for members, $5 for guests.
Registration opens about a month before the lecture. Please register on the Registration Form
A Massachusetts native, Michael James lives and maintains a studio in Lincoln, NE. From 2005 to 2020 he chaired the Department of Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, whose faculty he first joined in 2000 after thirty years as an independent maker. At UNL he held the Ardis James Professorship and taught graduate and undergraduate courses in foundation design, textile design and quilt studies. His textile art is included in the collections of the Museum of Arts & Design in NYC, the Baltimore Art Museum, the Racine Art Museum, the Newark Museum, the Fuller Craft Museum, the Mint Museum, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Shelburne Museum, and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (DC), among others. In 2015 the Renwick Alliance honored him as a Master of the Medium in textiles, for lifetime achievement, and he is the recipient of the Luminaries Award from the Fuller Craft Museum (2011), the Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award of the University of Nebraska system (2009), the Nebraska Arts Council’s Governor’s Arts Award (2008), the Lincoln Arts Council’s Mayor’s Arts Award for Artistic Achievement (2003), and an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth (1992), his undergraduate alma mater. His work is represented by Modern Arts Midtown in Omaha, Nebraska.
https://www.michaeljamesstudioquilts.com/

Lecture by Michael James
2023-01-11 13:00 - 14:30 | Online
Wednesday, January 11, 2023 / 1:00 pm EST
Registration is free for members, $5 for guests.
Registration opens about a month before the lecture. Please register on the Registration Form
This program will not be recorded.
A Massachusetts native, Michael James lives and maintains a studio in Lincoln, NE. From 2005 to 2020 he chaired the Department of Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, whose faculty he first joined in 2000 after thirty years as an independent maker. At UNL he held the Ardis James Professorship and taught graduate and undergraduate courses in foundation design, textile design and quilt studies. His textile art is included in the collections of the Museum of Arts & Design in NYC, the Baltimore Art Museum, the Racine Art Museum, the Newark Museum, the Fuller Craft Museum, the Mint Museum, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Shelburne Museum, and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (DC), among others. In 2015 the Renwick Alliance honored him as a Master of the Medium in textiles, for lifetime achievement, and he is the recipient of the Luminaries Award from the Fuller Craft Museum (2011), the Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award of the University of Nebraska system (2009), the Nebraska Arts Council’s Governor’s Arts Award (2008), the Lincoln Arts Council’s Mayor’s Arts Award for Artistic Achievement (2003), and an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth (1992), his undergraduate alma mater. His work is represented by Modern Arts Midtown in Omaha, Nebraska.
https://www.michaeljamesstudioquilts.com/

FGP Members' Spotlight Exhibition- Entry deadline
2023-01-09 | Online

FGP Members' Spotlight Exhibition- Entry deadline
2023-01-09 | Online
Membership Exhibition
Where: North Hills Art Center – 3432 Babcock Blvd, Pittsburgh, PA 15237
When: March 11th – April 7th, 2023
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 11, 2023, 5 – 8 pm
Chairperson: Katie Bulova: bulovakatie@gmail.com and Debbie Penley: penley75@verizon.net
Entry Deadline: January 9, 2023
FGP-MEMBER-SHOW-PROSPECTUS-23
The Member Spotlight show will focus on your artist’s voice. What captures the spirit of your art practice? This is a chance to share YOUR passion, your unique 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 to your art? This exhibit is a chance to let all of our members’ individuality take center stage.
This is a non-juried exhibition, however, one artwork per artist may be selected depending on space.
CALENDAR
Exhibition Duration: Mar. 11, 2023 – Apr. 7, 2023
Entry Deadline: January 9, 2023
Confirmation of entry: February 9, 2023
Drop off of work:
March 9 & 10, 2023, 3 – 6pm. For special assistance with drop off please contact: Katie Bulova bulovakatie@gmail.com or Debbie Penley penley75@verizon.net
Location:
North Hills Art Center
3432 Babcock Blvd, Pittsburgh, PA 15237
SHIPPED WORK: if shipping, contact Katie Bulova for details: bulovakatie@gmail.com
Deadline for shipping: March 1, 2023
Drop Off Artwork: Mar. 9 &10, 2023, 3 – 6 pm
Opening Reception: March 11, 2023, 5 – 8 pm
Pick up Artwork: April 10, 2023, 3 – 6 pm
GALLERY HOURS
Exhibition hours will be announced.
Submission REQUIREMENTS

Open to members of the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh.
All work must be either fiber in content or executed in a fiber technique.
Work must be original and cannot have been exhibited in a previous FGP member exhibition.
Entries must be ready to securely hang or install and any required hardware must be included. The North Hills Art Center utilizes a wall hanging system with hanging cables and hooks. Work may not be hung directly onto the wall. No work that requires being hung from the ceiling.
Submissions cannot exceed 36” in any direction. 3D work welcome.
As the North Hills Art Center facilitates classes throughout the week to all age levels, the gallery requests no images of nudity of a sexual nature, graphically violent or depicting gore, no use of or depiction of illegal substances.

UP to two entries will be accepted.
SALE OF ARTWORK

Commission on sales: 70% to the artist and 30% to North Hills Art Center

SELECTION PROCESS

Work will be selected from digital image submissions.
Selection will be based on which pieces fit in the space cohesively. At least one piece from each artist will be placed in the main gallery. Extra entries chosen may be displayed in the second-floor gallery classroom. The second-floor gallery space is not wheelchair accessible
An artist’s statement is requested of all selected artists.

IMAGE REQUIREMENTS

Artists may submit two entries. Each entry must include two images:

Image 1: full view of your submission
Image 2: detail
Images must show the edges of the work, be properly lit and in focus.

Work exhibited in a frame must include the frame in the digital image. Work framed under glass must be photographed without glass but noted that it will be displayed with glass.
Provide digital images at a resolution of approx. 2000 pixels on the longest side. Files must be under 3MB. Filename for each image must include:

1) artist’s last name and first initial
2) entry number (1or 2),
3) key word(s) from title (1 or 2 words only )
4) view (full or detail) for each image.
For example:
jones-m-1-bluecircle-full.jpg and jones-m-1-bluecircle-detail.jpg
NOTE: High resolution digital images will be requested of accepted
artwork for the catalog.
For assistance with submission requirements, please contact Debbie Penley @
penley75@verizon.net
SUBMISSION
https://fiberartspgh.org/exhibitions/submit-your-work/

DEADLINE: January 9, 11:59 pm. Submission entry opens October 10, 2022
A $20 non-refundable entry fee for up to 2 entries
PayPal is available on the website or you may make a check payable to the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh and send to Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh, PO. Box 9211, Pittsburgh, PA 15224

INSURANCE STATEMENT
The Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh will exhibit the utmost care for the safekeeping of all artworks while in the North Hills Art Center Gallery. It is up to the individual artists to insure their artwork if they feel it is necessary. North Hills Art Center will not be held responsible for damaged or stolen artwork.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Katie Bulova: bulovakatie@gmail.com or Debbie Penley: penley75@verizon.net

Lecture by Ben Cuevas
2022-12-05 14:00 - 15:30 | 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
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
