Sulmona, ITALY
2012
 Spike and Sue Wademan
Spike's class is going ahead. Registrations still open. Spike is an amazing artist with a huge reputation world wide. Read about and view his work and the class he has lined up for you here. Spikes Workshop | Meet the wonderful Wademans. Arrival 13th June to departure 20th June 2012 This class is going ahead as scheduled. There are still vacancies. Meet Sue and Spike Wademan. Sue, an international textile artist and Spike also a renowned artist, are all the way from New Zealand. Both of them are going to teach here. They are pictured here on the shores of the beautiful Lake Wakatipu, in Queenstown, where they are privileged to live. Likewise, we are privileged to have them on our team. Luck would have it that they happen to be in our part of the world in 2012. They are touring Europe and UK, so we snaffled them up. Sue is an amazing textile artist and has been teaching internationally for years. You can read all about the wonderful class she has designed just for you here. |
 Pamela Allen  We are really happy and proud to announce Pamela has won Professional Quilter's 'Teacher of the Year' award for 2012. We congratulate Pamela on this wonderful achievment and consider ourselves privledged to have her teach here with us in Italy. | Pamela Allen. From Kingston in Canada. Arrival 20th June to departure 27th June 2012 Deadline for registration is 11th April 2012 Pamela (B.F.A. Queens University) has taught in the Fine Art department at Queens University both on campus and as an instructor in the Far North through the Aboriginal Teachers Education Program (ATEP). In addition, Pamela has received nine Artists in the Schools Grants from the Ontario Arts Council through which she has gained much experience and inspiration teaching young children. Since 2002, she has been leading workshops for fabric art in the U.S. and Canada and has traveled to South Africa to teach there as well. Pamela has been a full time artist for several decades and has been working in fabric since 2002. She has exhibited in many national and international quilt art exhibitions and has won numerous awards for her quilts among them awards from IQA Chicago and Houston, major award from Quilt Canada and other venues. She has had her work published in the Quilting Arts Magazine, Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, and the Canadian Quilters Magazine. Her work has been included in the recently published Masters: Art Quilt (Lark books) and Creating with Fabric (Tweetiejill Publisher). Pamela has made an instructional DVD as well, called THINK LIKE AN ARTIST! She began her art teaching experience at Queens University Fine Art department and now teaches fabric art in Canada and the US and as far a field as South Africa. I had fulfilled my dream of being an artist late in life.....I got a Bachelor of Fine Art in 1982 at the age of 34,.and began a career of painting, collage and assemblage art. But all along it kept occurring to me that the images I did would make very good art quilts. If only I could SEW! Learning to make an apron in grade 8 was the only experience sewing I had (and didn’t we ALL!) Learn about the wonderful class Pamela has planned especially for you here Pamela's class |
 Elaine Quehl. |
Elaine Quehl. From Ottowa, Canada Arrival : 27th June to Departure 4rd July 2012 Deadline for registration is: 18th April 2012 Elaine Quehl is an award-winning Canadian quilt artist, teacher, and dyer who specializes in colourful and intricately-stitched pieced and appliquéd art quilts. Her nature-themed quilts are recognizable for their drama, depth and contrast, exuberant colour and abundant texture. Elaine’s work has been juried into numerous exhibits at the national and international level and has been widely published, including 500 Art Quilts, and Art Quilt Portfolio: Natural World (upcoming 2012). A resident of Ottawa, she is in great demand as a teacher, and travels across the country delivering workshops and lectures to colleges, summer art programs, guilds, conferences and shops. Elaine is currently a part-time faculty member at the Haliburton School of the Arts, where she teaches in the summer arts program. She is recognized for her expertise in free-motion machine quilting, fabric dyeing, and many innovative techniques for creating original quilts. As a skilled dyer, Elaine's luscious hand-dyed fabrics are also in high demand, and she has been selling them across North America for the past 8 years. Elaine grew up on a farm in Southern Ontario (Waterloo County) where she was surrounded by traditional quilts made by her great grandmothers, grandmothers, and mother. She began her quilting adventure in 1996 as a traditional quilter, but soon found herself seduced by art quilts and became devoted to developing her own artistic abilities in this medium. Have a look at the fabulous class Elaine has devised for you here. |
 Connie Rohman | Connie Rohman Arrival: 18th July to Departure 25th July 2012 Deadline for registration is: 9th May 2012 Fiber artist Connie Rohman’s work is influenced by the landscape of her childhood, both interior and exterior. She creates fabric collage, fiber wall art, and art quilts. She hand dyes her fabrics, and uses traditional materials and methods to explore abstract shape, line and color. Her artwork can be found in public installations and private collections in the United States and Canada. Connie has won numerous awards for her work, and has exhibited internationally and in museums. Connie has a great class designed for you here. |
 Lura and Kerby Smith Artist Statement Kerby Smith The intriguing thing about fabric art is that it provides both a visual and tactile interaction with the person who is engaged with it. Biography Kerby C. Smith has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art from Hobart College. For many years the focus of his creative work was in traditional photography, winning awards at various venues in the west. He regularly shows his work at the Chris Sorensen Gallery in Fresno, CA and the Timberline Art Cooperative in Oakhurst, CA. His shift to the fabric arts was heavily influenced by his wife’s work with art quilts and together they wrote Secrets of Digital Quilting From Camera to Quilt. The book was released in February of 2010 by C&T Publishing. He is a member of Studio Art Quilt Associates and currently teaches digital fabric printing at major seminars such as Empty Spools Seminars at the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove.Find out how Kerby has developed this class for you here.
| Meet Lura Schwarz Smith and Kerby Smith Arrival for both their classes is: 25th July to Departure 1st August 2012 Deadline for registration is 16th May 2012 Lura has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art from San Francisco State University. She has been producing art quilts since 1975, originally showing in galleries in the 70s and 80s. Since the 90s she has shown quilts and received awards at regional, national, and international quilt shows. Several highlights of her career in the quilt world over the past decade are that one of her quilts was named one of the “100 Best American Quilts of the 20th Century,” and she was included in the “30 Distinguished Quilt Artists of the World” exhibit at the first Tokyo Dome quilt show in 2002. She is a member of various art quilt groups such as Studio Art Quilt Associates and the California Fiber Artists. Find out what Lura has in store for your class here ****************************** |
 Rayna Gillman | Rayna Gillman Arrival 1st August to Departure 8th August 2012. Deadline for registration is 23rd May 2012. Bubbly Rayna, is an award-winning artist whose work has appeared in galleries and museums across the U.S. She works spontaneously, always bringing her intuitive sense of color and design into the work. An internationally known teacher, she infuses her students with a sense of play and encourages them to use the words “what if?” as they experiment in their own work. She was nominated for the Teacher of the Year Award in 2010 by Professional Quilter magazine. Her best-selling book, Create Your Own Hand-Printed Cloth, published by C&T, was nominated for two book awards, and her second book, Create Your Own Free-Form Quilts, is already a runaway best seller that is motivating quilters to break free and create their own original work! She is a member of the Surface Design Association, SAQA, and a juried member of the Art Cloth Network. Rayna has appeared on national television as a featured artist on Simply Quilts, Quilting Arts TV, and has written for Quilting Arts, Quilters Newsletter, Art Quilting Studio, and online quilt publications.. Her work has been featured in many books and is in private collections in the U.S. and Europe. See the class Rayna has in store for you here |
 Averil Stuart-Head I also have private classes for up to 3 students at my house and studio in Introdacqua. 2 day classes, 3 day classes and 5 day classes. Inquire here avehead@gmail.com | Averil Stuart-Head Arrival: 8th August to departure 15th August 2012 This class is going ahead as scheduled. There are still vacancies My work styles and techniques vary and are a mixture of: textile art/fibre art, mixed media paintings/collage, ceramic sculptures, silk papermaking and felting. I like to experiment with different photo transfer technique's. Much of my work includes the process of layering and my satisfaction comes from building up texture. I love that time has marked, peeled, rusted and corroded the surface, similar to the facade of a old painted wall or an old relic, creating an effect that is rich in colour, texture and history. Through the use of multi-layered techniques, I like to peel back the layers as if going back through the passage of time. This provides contrast and interest and allows the viewer to explore the composition past the immediately obvious central themes. Now, 2012, I am happy with the style I am developing and I intend to push the boundaries and explore my '6 Step Textile Artistry Adventure' procedure more fully. Check out the class I have developed for you here: |
 | Phyllis Cullen Arrival 8th Aug to departure 15th Aug 2012 Deadline for registration: 30th May 2012 Complementing her medical studies and extensive postgraduate training, she has also studied art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Chico Art Center, and School of Light and Color with Susan Sarback in Sacramento. She teaches workshops locally and internationally in art quilting. Work has won numerous awards in quilting and fine arts venues. Phyllis has designed a fabulous class for you here: |
 Leni Levenson Wiener | Leni Levenson Wiener Arrival 15th August to departure 22st August 2012 Deadline for registration is: 30th May Leni Levenson Wiener is an art quilter and instructor living in New Rochelle, NY. She has authored three books: Thread Painting (2007), Photo-inspired Art Quilts (2009) and 3-Fabric Quilts (2011). She teaches workshops and classes that range from beginner quilting through art quilt techniques. Leni holds a BA in Art History and a combined MA from Italy in Museology and Restoration/Conservation of Works of Art; she participated for a season at the Tel Gezer archaeological excavation in Israel as part of her undergraduate education and worked in the restoration laboratories of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence as part of her graduate studies. Prior to working full time as an artist, Leni was a freelance commercial photographer. Since 2006, she has been a full time artist and instructor, teaching traditional quilt classes locally and running a monthly art quilt workshop. Leni's work can be seen in many juried and invitational shows across the US, and has also exhibited internationally. She as contributed articles for several art quilt magazines and journals. Leni has organised a super class for you here: Leni's Class |
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