Schools
A complete listing of fiber arts schools which offer classes that can vary from time to time. These are generally an organized courses of study, presented by established educational institutions and foundations. Schools and classes are added on a regular basis.
Fine Line Creative Arts Center
January 1, 2010 through December 31, 2010
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Year-round classes and workshops in textiles, surface design, basketry, all crafts. 6N 158 Crane Rd., St. Charles, IL 60175. 630 584-9443; fax 630-584-9490.
John C. Campbell Folk School 2010 Classes
January 1, 2010 through December 31, 2010
Classes in weaving, felting, surface design, basketry and other non-fiber related areas for all skill levels. Non-competitive learning via weekend and week-long classes year-round. Come for the day... concerts, tours, crafts shop, nature trails and more.
Sievers School of Fiber Arts
January 1, 2010 through December 31, 2010
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Sievers School of Fiber Arts is an internationally known, three-season visual arts and crafts school on beautiful Washington Island in Door County, WI. Founded in 1979, Sievers has maintained a reputation for its outstanding faculty, small class size, and a special kind of place -- where people come together in a nourishing environment to discover or refresh their creative spirit. Ph: 920-847-2264, Fax: 920-847-2676
Textile Learning Center at the Mission Mill
January 1, 2010 through December 31, 2010
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Mission Mill Museum preserves Mission houses, an Oregon Trail settler's house, a historic church and the structures, equipment, and original water-powered turbine of the Thomas Kay Woolen Mill with related artifacts. The classes available through our Textile Learning Center offer something for everyone, from the merely curious to the advanced fiber artist. Open Studio provides students and weavers with an opportunity to use the Textile Learning Center Studio. Studio use includes various multiple harness looms, a surface design printing table, textile tools and a resource library. Plan a project, try out different equipment, or simply enjoy the company of fellow textile artists. A basic knowledge of the equipment you intend to use (i.e. the ability to thread a loom) is required. Formal instruction and project materials are not included. Open Studio is staffed by volunteer weavers. 503-585-7012
The Ozark Folk School
January 1, 2010 through December 31, 2010
Learn to create heirloom-quality music, crafts and fun. Spinning and natural dyeing, rug braiding, quilting, battenburg lace and hickory seat weaving. The Ozark Folk Center State Park, P.O. Box 500, Mountain View, AR 72560. 866-898-1075(V/TT).
Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum
January 1, 2010 through December 31, 2010
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Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum in Decorah, Iowa, offers year-round classes in weaving and other fiber arts. Teachers are from the U.S., Canada, and Norway. Unique to Vesterheim is the opportunity to learn from the museum's collection of 5,500 textile artifacts. Ph: 563-382-9681
The Marshfield School of Weaving
January 4, 2010 through December 10, 2010
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The Center for Traditional Textile Studies was founded in 1976 by Norman Kennedy to teach the methods of textile production as practiced by professional handweavers of rural Britain and America in the 18th & 19th centuries. Classes include weaving, dyeing and spinning.
Visiting Artists Workshops
March 20, 2010 through November 15, 2010
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Fall River, Massachusetts. 1 to 5 day workshops on dyeing, surface design and other aspects of textile coloration. open to all skill levels, from beginner to advanced, unless noted in the course description.
Pacific Northwest Art School.
April 10, 2010 through November 11, 2010
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Located on beautiful Whidbey Island in the heart of Puget Sound, we are a visual arts education school offering a slate of fiber workshops each year taught by a visiting faculty well known and recognized in their field inclduing Michele Wipplinger: Natural Dyes, Jeannette DeNicolis Meyer: Vanishing Act: Discharging Dye with Immersion Bath, Jean Hicks: Millinery Topics in Felt, Gail Crosman Moore: Marriage of Surface: Small Scale Felt and Embellishment, Ana Lisa Hedstrom: Shibori-New Applications, New Materials, Jane Dunnewold: The New Complex Cloth, Jean Williams Cacicedo: The Textured Cloth, Carol Soderlund: Color Mixing for Dyers, Suzanne Punch: Advanced Painting on Silk, Shannon Wardroper: Layers of Intrigue: Intro to Textile Collage, Michele Wipplinger: Plant Dyes, Sharon Costello: Felt and Fabric Harmonies, Sharon Costello: Illuminated Felt Sculptures and Lamp Shades. See the website for a complete listing of workshops and registration requirements.
FLORENCE Art School 2010 Season
May 17, 2010 through October 16, 2010
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Glendale Springs located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Northwestern North Carolina is the home of FLORENCE Art School. The school offers one to three day workshops in a variety of mediums including the fiber arts. This season we are offering 'Felting Fun', 'Eastern & Western Handmade Paper', 'Rug Hooking', 'Handmade Paper', 'Phamphlet-Stitched Books', 'Think Outside the Book!', and 'Blue Ridge Tote Basket'. Please visit our website or contact the office for a complete listing of our workshops: 336-982-2499.
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