October Newsletter

Hi Everyone!

What a beautiful Fall we’re having. I hope you’re getting out to enjoy the Fall Colors!

I am trimming my workshop offerings as I head toward a partial retirement but here are 2 with sign-up deadlines coming up-

1 Join Wen Redmond And Michele O’Neil Kincaid

Sign UP Deadline Dec 10, 2014!!

Fiber Art Directions!

Feb 28 to March 9 2015

Come enjoy good food, fine vessel, Caribbean, and quilting!

Select from 6 stress free, fun workshops!

Questions and booking, please contact Gloria Cook, Cruise Consultant

Toll free or 888-719-7698 email gloria@cruise-consultants.com

Itinerary http://tiny.cc/baa0mx

Or

http://cruise-consultants.net/quilt/caribbean/gem/gem.htm

puzzle quilt

holographic work

piecing in the flow

2 Hudson River Valley Art Workshops Dec 4-7


Greenville, NY

Holographic Memories and More
           

         Complete an innovative 3-D effect, Holographic Image, from your own photograph, painted fabric and photo-silk screened image. This unique presentation will amaze your friends and is so much fun to create! Each student will mount and finish a 12x14 picture!


Some pre-workshop image preparation.

info http://www.fiberartworkshops.com/fiber-art-workshop-instructors/wen_redmond.htm


Greenville, NY 

holographic work with hand painted and thermal fax silkscreen borders

side view

and

There is a list of my workshops on my blog tabs on top-  http://fiberartgoddess.blogspot.com

and if you scroll my blog - there are posts about different workshops.

and I have occasional sales on my Sales Blog-  http://wenredmond.blogspot.com 

Published

500 Traditional Quilts- 3 early works

Upcoming Exhibits

NEW DIRECTIONS ’14, Barrett Art Center’s 29th Annual National Juried Contemporary Art Exhibition

            Our distinguished juror for New Directions ’14, Lynne Warren, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, has thoughtfully and carefully selected 52 works by 74 artists from a total of 653 eligible entries from 202 artists nationwide.

            The New Directions ’14 exhibit will be on display from Saturday, September 27, 2014 through Saturday, November 8, 2014 in the historic Barrett Art Gallery 1850’s townhouse, located at 55 Noxon Street, Poughkeepsie, New York

Multiplicities: New Directions in Fiber- IMAGO Foundation for the Arts 


36 Market Street
Warren, RI 02885

On View Friday, October 17 - Saturday, November 8, 2014
Artist Reception October 24, 2014

Exhibit Invitational ‘Living with Craft’ Wayne Art Center, 413 Maplewood Avenue, Wayne, PA 

Exhibit Invitational "Fibrations" Great Hall in Springfield, VT. Opens on November 7, 2014, and go through Spring 2015

Radical Elements Foundation Arts Center, Silver Springs, MD

Dinner at 8, Houston at the International Quilt Festival. TX

SAQA Auction, ‘When I think of You’- sold

And a big YES from Quilt National!

Local exhibits at 100 Market St Alternative Gallery and New Hampshire Art Galleries Portsmouth and Emporium Gallery South Berwick Me

DVD”s

New DIGITAL FIBER Technique!

Textured Photography!

Explore a new avenue for your quilt art using a combination of digital photography and textured backgrounds.

http://www.interweavestore.com/digital-imagery-in-fiber-art-dvd

Holographic Memories DIGITAL FIBER Technique DVD

Now available as download and on sale!

Capture your loved ones or favorite subjects in lifelike imagery.

http://www.interweavestore.com/holographic-memories-workshop-download

PROCESS

If you’re curious about my process, I have done a blog post about my process of "Amazements of the Tender Reflections" that was accepted in Houston at the Quilt Festival.

http://fiberartgoddess.blogspot.com/2014/05/amazements-of-tender-reflections.html

Thanks!

Workshop series- Holographic Memories

Holographic Memories or Holographic Images Workshop evolved when the computer, digital camera and printing were available in the early 2000's.  I have loved photography since I was in my 20's and now I could use it in my art! 

I print on a variety of fabrics and substrates and have a workshop dedicated to that called Digging into Digital Printing. An exciting workshop too.

This workshop evolved from printing on transparent materials, specifically  silk organza.

Fog Rising- 3 photo placement 

I began layering it on my media media work, when I noticed it created a shadow image as I lifted the printed silk from the carrier paper. 

Fog Rising detail sideways to show effect 

Whoa! 

I set to figuring out how to present this in a fiber construction that makes a 3-D image when viewed. 

The Holographic technique was born!

I published this in Quilting Arts Magazine, 2007 and was invited to do a Quilting Arts TV show, the second TV series.

It is available as a download from Interweave. (Link on the right sidebar.)

Now I share this technique in workshops. I have several coming up including a Cruise this winter. (Please click on the tab at the top of this blog on Scheduled Workshops for more information.)

Description

Create your own holographic image with this inventive digital fiber technique!

Using your imagination and digital photographs, capture your loved ones or favorite subjects with an innovative 3-D effect. 

Each student will mount and finish an 8 x10 piece. Some pre-workshop image preparation.

Summer 2014 Happenings and Upcoming Workshops

 Web Exhibits

SAQA 2014 Auction Join in to bid a a variety of 12x12 art quilts-

                            http://www.saqa.com/memberArt.php?ID=3152

                  My found objects statement was featured on Crystal Marie Neubauer
‘s blog-http://otherpeoplesflowers.blogspot.com/2014/04/found-object-friday-with-guest-artist_18.html

          I       Interview on line- http://www.artsyshark.com/2013/05/10/featured-artist-wen-redmond/

Local  Exhibits

I was honored to be included at 100 Market St, Alternative Gallery and New Hampshire Art Association's Lincoln Levy Gallery in Portsmouth, NH 

This summer I will have 2 works in Art Quilts at the Whistler Museum, Lowell, MA.

I have work at most of the League of NH galleries and Sharon Arts Center in the western part of the NH. 

This summer I will have 2 works at Living with Crafts Exhibition, The Leagues famous Sunapee Fair, inside the main building. That fair is a blast. 

And several exhibits at Art 3 Gallery, Manchester NH

Exhibits just finished

What the Fiber, Princeton, NJ  

Expressions of the Natural World Monmouth Museum, NJ

PSAQA ARTQUILTSwhimsy! Page-Walker Arts NC

Featured, March,Artist WCA website

Picture Perfect, NEQM, Lowell MA

A Common Thread, Textile Center MI

CHICAGO URBAN ART RETREAT CENTER 

Sacred Threads Tour, HerStory

Upcoming Exhibits-

Radical Elements Foundation Arts Center, Silver Springs, MD

Artist as Quiltmaker, OH

Dinner at 8 Houston at the Quilt Festival. TX

WORKSHOPS

September 12 & 13

Serendipity Postcards at eclectic Paperie in Exeter, NH 

A Blog post about this past Spring Workshop-

http://fiberartgoddess.blogspot.com/2014/05/we-have-lovely-time-at-eclectic-paperie.html

121 Water Street, Unit 1E (Lower Level)

Exeter, NH 03044

Phone: 603-580-1527

website- http://eclecticpaperie.com/localclasses.html

Dec 4-7 2014

Hudson River Valley Art Workshops 

Holographic Memories and More

Complete an innovative 3-D effect, Holographic Image, from your own photograph, painted fabric and Thermal Fax silk screened image. This unique presentation will amaze your friends and is so much fun to create!

Each student will mount and finish a 12x14 piece.

Greenville, NY 12083

www.artworkshops.com

www.fiberartworkshops.com

July 27-31, 2015

Quilting by the Lake for Session II:

Holographic Memories and More

As seen in Quilting Arts Magazine and Quilting Arts TV Show! Capture your loved ones or favorite subjects with life like imagery. Using your photographs, create holographic effects with my innovative digital fiber technique. We will create a 5x7” picture mounted on 12x14” bars with Thermal Fax screen-printing highlights on your hand painted fabric ‘frame’! Easy and so exciting!

Add nature printing to the mix for create a unique art journal or additional highlights.

Auburn NY

https://www.quiltingbythelake.com

DVD”s

New DIGITAL FIBER Technique!

Textured Photography!

Explore a new avenue for your quilt art using a combination of digital photography and textured backgrounds.

http://www.interweavestore.com/digital-imagery-in-fiber-art-dvd

Holographic Memories DIGITAL FIBER Technique DVD

Now available as download and on sale!

Capture your loved ones or favorite subjects in lifelike imagery.

http://www.interweavestore.com/holographic-memories-workshop-download

PROCESS

If you’re curious about my process, I have done a blog post about my process of "Amazements of the Tender Reflections" that was accepted in Houston at the Quilt Festival.

http://fiberartgoddess.blogspot.com/2014/05/amazements-of-tender-reflections.html

Stalking the Wild Prints Meets Green Mixed Media Journal

My last workshop was a combo of Stalking the Wild Prints and Green Mixed Media Journal. 

A lovely combination!

Front Cover 

First we will build an up-cycled journal to use for our printing samples.

pages made from recycled cards & junk mail

gesso, paint & texture!

Besides being easy and lots of fun to make, the materials are free and don’t add to the landfills. The journal can be made as simply or as artfully as your muse suggests.

nature prints on all kinds of substrates 

Gather found natural items to print like leaves, grass, and ferns- perfect to get outside!

sample prints glued in 

We'll experience a type of printmaking, very simple, easy and you won't want to stop! This technique is similar to a monotype, the incidental and the unintended become part of the image. 

Stitched

 published in Cloth, Paper, Scissors 

simple notched journal complete