FiberArts Guild of Pittsburgh

Critique- Online or in Person
2022-05-12 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | 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 pre-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 with Wen Redmond
2022-05-03 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
May 3, 2022 – 1PM ESTRegistration for this program is required.Free program for members – $5.- for non-members.
New England artist, Wen Redmond’s fascination with photography finds expression through printing manipulated original photographs directly onto various mixed media substrates, and specially treated natural fibers to create unique stitched photographic textural constructions. She calls this work, Digital Fiber.
Redmond continues to investigate the digital world but also imaginative presentations that add to the pioneering exploration of her media which gives her work edge. Each work is unique and created individually.
Redmond’s techniques can be further investigated in her latest publication, Digital Fiber Art and Other Mixed Media Masterpieces. She delights in creating dialogue, changing perspectives and perceptions of fiber.

Wen Redmond

Lecture with Wen Redmond
2022-05-03 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
May 3, 2022 – 1PM EST
Registration for this program is required.
Free program for members – $5.- for non-members.
New England artist, Wen Redmond’s fascination with photography finds expression through printing manipulated original photographs directly onto various mixed media substrates, and specially treated natural fibers to create unique stitched photographic textural constructions. She calls this work, Digital Fiber.
Redmond continues to investigate the digital world but also imaginative presentations that add to the pioneering exploration of her media which gives her work edge. Each work is unique and created individually.
Redmond’s techniques can be further investigated in her latest publication, Digital Fiber Art and Other Mixed Media Masterpieces. She delights in creating dialogue, changing perspectives and perceptions of fiber.

FGP ANNUAL MEETING and ThrED TALK: Dimensional Fiber
2022-04-28 17:00 - 18:30 | Online
Thursday, April 28, 5 pm on Zoom

Dimensional Fiber and Annual Guild Voting Meeting, featuring member artists, weaver Megan Adgate, and felter Debbie Penley. Both artists explore the dimensional aspects of fiber in their work.
Debbie Penley, a self -taught artist, worked in clay for many years, and found a love for fiber making amigurumi animals out of crochet. Then she discovered felting and realized that she could make pieces faster, the rest is “history.”
Megan Adgate is a self-taught fiber artist who creates sculptural tapestry. Her work explores themes of manipulation and control, getting inspiration from the symbiotic relationships of plants. She sells her work online and at pop-up markets throughout the city. Please remember that our annual business meeting is when we elect our new Board of Directors. After the short meeting we will have a ThrED Talk program.

Lecture with Judith Content
2022-04-13 13:00 - 14:30 | PA
Judith Content has been a full time studio artist for more than 40 years. She graduated from San Francisco State University in 1979 with a BA in Fine Art with an Emphasis in Textiles. Her arashi-shibori dyed, discharged, pieced and quilted silk wall pieces have been exhibited nationally and internationally and included in major public, private and museum collections worldwide. Recent solo exhibitions include Shadow Dance (2020) at the Visions Museum of Textile Art in San Diego, CA, Evanescence at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA and Tansey Contemporary Gallery, Denver CO, 2019.

Content participated in the invitational 15th International Triennial of Tapestry at the Central Museum of Textiles in Ludz, Poland, 2016. The Texas Quilt Museum organized a retrospective exhibition of her work Intuitive Symmetry: Works on Silk in 2015. Judith has work touring in the SAQA exhibitions 3D EXPRESSIONS and Connections, and the Invitational SAQA exhibition. Layered and Stitched: 50 Years of Innovative Art.

Content was one of four featured artists in the Craft in America documentary series: QUILTS and participated in the accompanying exhibition at the Craft in America Center, Los Angeles, CA. (2020)

Museum collections include the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textile, The Museum of Art and Design in New York and the International Shibori Collection, Nagoya, Japan. Personal collections include, John Walsh, Maureen Hendricks, Del Thomas and Martha Sielman.

Judith has served as juror for Quilt National and Quilt Visions and is President Emerita of the Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) where she created and chaired the SAQA Exhibition Program. Key publications include Craft in America, Celebrating Two Centuries of Artists and Objects, Textiles: The Art of Mankind, and SILKby Mary Schoeser, Masters: Art Quilts I, by Martha Sielman, The Art Quilt by Robert Shaw and Memory on Cloth: Shibori Now, by Yoshiko I. Wada.

In addition to working with textiles, Content enthusiastically explores other creative tributaries including jewelry design, sculptural crochet, and ephemeral landart installations.

Judith Content

Lecture with Cynthia Lockhart
2022-03-16 13:00 - 14:30 | PA
Cynthia Lockhart’s fiber art is infused with a kaleidoscope of diverse influences such as: nature, fashion, music, dance, travel, African and other cultural arts. Lockhart’s textiles are distinguished by their pulsating colors, which simulate the vivaciousness of her African ancestry, and by their irregular, organic shapes and circles.
The artist’s textile creations, which push the boundaries of the traditional quilt form, are composed of colorful fabrics arranged in dynamic patterns. Her fashion and accessories design background provide the perfect platform for creating exquisite three-dimensional artwork. Lockhart’s fiber art tells a story – one that encourages people to understand the diversity of people, cultures, and beauty in the world around them.
As an award-winning international artist, she is an active contributor in the design arts community. As Emerita Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati, Professor Lockhart has lectured at conferences and museums throughout the United States, Japan, Italy and France. She is a member of the Women of Color Quilters Network. In 2021, Lockhart received the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award.
Cynthia was a Fiberart International 2013 participant artist.
