THSG Workshop
Freedom of Expression Painting Warps on the Loom

Instructor:  Sarah Saulson
Date:  March 23-25, 2022
Location: Mini Time Museum, 4455 E Camp Lowell Dr, Tucson
Time:  9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Cost:   member  $225;  non-member $ 310
Materials Fee:  $25 Fees payable to instructor in cash on first day of class
Level: Participants should be confident with warping the loom and have a basic understanding of 4-shaft weaving.
Maximum # of students: 15

In this dyeing and weaving workshop, we will have lots of spontaneous fun painting warps with fiber reactive dyes, after the loom is warped. With this wonderful technique you’ll discover yourself working with color and pattern in a loose, free, expressive way, creating large-scale abstract forms. We will paint enough warp to explore the possibilities of the technique, and for l or 2 scarves. We will learn how to mix our own colors working from primary hues. The workshop is primarily hands-on, but includes lectures and handouts on dye technique and safety, basic color theory, and special considerations when weaving painted warps. Students bring pre-warped table or floor looms to the workshop.

About the instructor:

Sarah Saulson started weaving as a child in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and has pursued fiber arts as her full-time profession for more than three decades, for most of that time in Syracuse, NY, her current home. Her practice includes both studio work in complex weaving, dyeing and spinning as well as teaching nationally and internationally.    She teaches weaving in the School of Art at Syracuse University and dyes and weaves on a computerized dobby loom. She writes about weaving, conducts school residencies, and teaches at conferences and to guilds. Her teaching philosophy is to help participants build a conceptual framework that they can then apply to their own weaving . . . to empower themselves, shaping their own weaving destinies by having thinking tools that help with answering the weaving questions they may encounter in the future.

Participants may register at the monthly meeting, electronically from the website using PayPal, or by snail mail to Tucson Handweavers and Spinners Guild, PO Box 64355, Tucson AZ 85728.  Registrants receive full refund if Workshop is cancelled by THSG. Cancellations received 14 days prior to registration deadline receive full tuition, refund less $10 cancellation fee. Cancellations received 8-13 days prior to registration deadline receive 50% refund. No refunds for cancellations received 7 days or less prior to registration deadline. Cancelations must be in writing and sent to workshops@thsg.org.   Please direct any questions to workshops@thgs.org.
THSG wishes to acknowledge the technical support provided though the grant of a Catchafire membership by the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona.

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