Fiber Festival 2007
The Leelanau Community Cultural Center is sponsoring the seventh annual Fiber Festival opening on Friday, October 5th from 5 to 8 pm and Saturday, October 6th from 10 am to 5 pm at the Old Art Building in Leland. 17 artists with original fiber art will exhibit and sell their work in mediums of paper, wearable art (clothing), tapestry & woven handbags, weaving, quilts, knits, fiber sculpture, art dolls and basketry. Admission is free and open to the public.
This year’s featured artist is the legendary fiber artist, Mary Turak of Glen Arbor. Share her enthusiasm for knitting wearable art using multi-fiber yarns and original designs.
Fiber Festival exhibitors are Kathie Briggs, fiber art dolls and quilts; Doris Guffey, cashawls; Linda Kustra, hand knit wearables; Krys Lieffers, hand woven rugs; Ann Loveless, landscape quilts; Krystal Ann Miller, original design tapestry handbags; Majel Chance Obata, hand made paper journals and boxes; Helen Raphael, Native American basketry; Chris Roosien, hand painted yarn & original patterns; Rebecca Ashley Ross and Julie Funk, boiled wool items; Marie Scott, basketry, knitting and crochet; Lynn Spitz-Nagel, hand spun woven animals and folk people; Amy Tyler, hand spun yarns & knitted items; Cheryl VanZee, kids sweaters and hats; Barbara Waddell, paper, pendants and woven items; Kristin Underhill Welch, felted vessels.
New this year, the Fiber Institute will introduce a week of exploring the fiber arts with a series of workshops on paper making, basket making, fabric painting, spinning yarns and flax, knitting, fabric collage doll and a Stone Soup quilt! The workshops are scheduled from Monday, October 1 through Friday, October 5. Classes are listed at www.oldartbuilding.com or call 231-256-2131 for a brochure.
