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Laura shares about Weaving for Justice Sale

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CWG member, Laura Martin has supported and donated to this organization.  She would like to share this announcement.

WEAVING FOR JUSTICE PRESENTS

 

7th ANNUAL TEXTILE SALE

to BENEFIT MAYA YOUTH

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Taylor Rey of Las Cruces modeling a huipil woven on a back-strap loom by a weaver from San Lucas Tolimán, Guatemala. Donated by Jim Swearingen to Weaving for Justice to raise scholarships for Maya youth.

Friday October 29th & Saturday October 30th, 2021

11 am – 5 pm, NMSU University Museum Courtyard, Kent Hall,

1280 E. University Ave., Las Cruces, New Mexico

 

20% discount for all students!

 

All proceeds from sales of donations will go to Maya students in Belize, Guatemala, and Chiapas, Mexico to help them continue studying, despite the many obstacles they face.  Weaving for Justice partners with the Maya Educational Foundation in this project (www.mayaedufound.org)   

Parking is free on campus on Saturdays. Other days single-day and weekly NMSU visitor parking permits are available through the NMSU website: https://park.nmsu.edu/visitor/Although we will be outside in the Museum courtyard, we would appreciate your wearing a face mask to help us all stay safe.  Contact weavingforjustice@gmail.com for more information.

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Fifty-three individuals generously donated over 1,000 woven garments, household items, jewelry, books, pottery, and tourist items from Mesoamerica and other parts of Latin America to Weaving for Justice to raise funds for scholarships for Maya children and youth. The photo above is of one special donor family – Robert and Miriam Laughlin and their daughter Liana. The year is 1960 and Bob and Mimi are with Liana and her godfather, Romin Teratol of Zinacantán, Chiapas. Romin became Bob’s partner in his research on the Tsotsil language of Zinacantán. Bob went on to become a renowned linguist of Mayan languages, Mimi a writer of short stories about life in highland Chiapas. Both Bob and Romin have passed on. Romin’s son, Xun, is now Director of Sna Jtz’ibajom (House of the Writer), an organization of Maya writers in San Cristóbal de Las Casas which mentors University students who will benefit from this fundraiser.

 

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A WAKE

 

Great Aunt:

 

There’s no end to sickness,

death won’t go away.

 

At least you’re not the only one;

I’m going to die, too.

 

All of us will become Earth.

All of us will be mud.

 

There are no two ways about it:

I’m coming right behind you, here beside you.

 

Little marigold:

Flower of death:

 

How many are buried beneath this cross?

How many underneath our prayers?

 

By Maruch Méndez Pérez from

Incantations: Songs, Spells and Images by Mayan Women

 

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Days of the Dead are coming soon, a special time to remember loved-ones who have passed on. If you plan to make an altar in your home, we recently received many cloths like the one in this photo which make a lovely background for photos and offerings. The cloths are woven by weavers in Mujeres Por La Dignidad, a Zapatista co-op based in San Andrés Sakam Ch’en de Los Pobres, Chiapas. They come in many colors and are 10 “ wide x 20 “ long and cost $25. If you are not able to come to our October sale and would like to purchase a cloth, we sell the black one on Instagram.

Saturday, October 16th sale at our store!

From 10 – 4 pm on October 16th we will have our monthly sale at our store at Makai Suites, 525 E. Lohman Ave., upstairs in Suite C, Las Cruces, New Mexico. All proceeds from sales of textiles from Chiapas co-ops go to the weavers to help them stay on their lands and not be forced to migrate. Please stop by if you are in our area.

 

We also sell remotely on Instagram, both the donated textiles as well as textiles from Chiapas cooperatives. Links to our Instagram and Facebook pages are on our website homepage – www.weaving-for-justice.org

We welcome DONATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS which help us sustain our all-volunteer organization and assist the weavers during these difficult times. You can find the DONATE button on our website homepage. While there you’ll see links to our membership page and our 2021 ANNUAL NEWSLETTER with an overview of our work with weaving groups and scholarship students over the past year.

Curating Handmade: Textiles from South Asia presentation is Feb 20

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reminder:       Find registration details below.

This will be at 1pm Cleveland time and 11am Colorado time

Embroidered phulkari textiles on view in Handmade Creating Textiles in South Asia, Photo by Lori Kartchner.

Textile Arts Council of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco

Curating Handmade: Textiles from South Asia, Past and Present with Cristin McKnight Sethi

February 20, 2021. 10 a.m. PST

This is an online presentation via Zoom; registration required

https://museum.gwu.edu/handmade-creating-textiles-south-asia

Artists, cooperatives, and workshops across Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan are creating new textile designs inspired by centuries-old traditions. Join George Washington University art history professor Cristin McKnight Sethi and curator of the forthcoming exhibition, “Handmade: Creating Textiles in South Asia,” at the GW Textile Museum as she shares artist stories alongside vibrant examples of handmade saris, scarves, and other garments. To learn more about the exhibition and related programming please visit https://museum.gwu.edu/handmade-creating-textiles-south-asia.

Patty shares this.

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January 2021

My first online class is live…and FREE!
Collection of inspiring images from online class.
Finally! I have succeeded in creating an online classroom and publishing my first class. And it is FREE!

For all the turmoil we experienced in 2020, it was certainly a year of learning new things for me. Shooting and editing video, creating an online classroom website and actually publishing a class were the biggest. I could not have imagined how much time and energy it would consume.

Do I wish all that learning time had been directed toward actual weaving? A little. However, I love teaching and was determined to find a way to continue during the pandemic quarantine.

The class is titled: Color, Pattern, Shape Part 1: Harnessing Fiber Art Design Ideas. You can access it through my online classroom HERE. It is a handy exercise I developed for those times when I can’t figure out what to weave next–a little warm-up for the creative side of your brain.

When you first visit the classroom, you’ll notice I headlined it Speaking of Weaving. Sound familiar? On that landing page, scroll down, and you will see the new class card. Click on that to enroll. If you have never taken a class on the Thinkific learning platform before, you’ll need to register. Follow the links to the course dashboard. The lessons will be arranged in chapters down the left side. As you finish a lesson, you’ll be prompted to move to the next.

The course is available on demand, so you can start anytime and work through it at your own pace. There are opportunities to interact with me and with others in the class: through an assignment you can upload for my review, the discussion feature on each lesson and a community group where you may post pictures and comments.

PLUS, there’s a bonus offer for completing all the lessons, assignments and follow-up survey: A $10 DISCOUNT off the next class in the series: Color, Pattern, Shape Part 2: Translating Ideas into Original Textile Designs. I am still working on that one, but hope to have it ready by March.
Enroll Now

Curating Handmade: Textiles from South Asia presentation is Feb 20

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Lynne sends this. Find registration details below.

This will be at 1pm Cleveland time and 11am Colorado time

Embroidered phulkari textiles on view in Handmade Creating Textiles in South Asia, Photo by Lori Kartchner.

Textile Arts Council of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco

Curating Handmade: Textiles from South Asia, Past and Present with Cristin McKnight Sethi

February 20, 2021. 10 a.m. PST

This is an online presentation via Zoom; registration required

https://museum.gwu.edu/handmade-creating-textiles-south-asia

Artists, cooperatives, and workshops across Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan are creating new textile designs inspired by centuries-old traditions. Join George Washington University art history professor Cristin McKnight Sethi and curator of the forthcoming exhibition, “Handmade: Creating Textiles in South Asia,” at the GW Textile Museum as she shares artist stories alongside vibrant examples of handmade saris, scarves, and other garments. To learn more about the exhibition and related programming please visit https://museum.gwu.edu/handmade-creating-textiles-south-asia.

Online Lecture from Textile Museum of S. California–Jan 9 at 2:00pm EST

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Abaca cloth is woven from the outer sheath of the trunk of a banana species indigenous to the Philippines.

ONLINE LECTURES

Textile Museum Associates of Southern California

Woven Dreams from Sacred Mountains: Textile Traditions of the Tboli & Blaan of Mindanao

January 9, 2021. 11 a.m. PST.
This is an online presentation via Zoom
Webinar Registration here

http://www.tmasc.org/default.htm The Tboli and Blaan people of the southernmost island of Mindanao in the Philippines offers some of the most beautiful, skillful and sacred examples of material culture to be found throughout Southeast Asia. The weaving of the abaca ikat fabric (tnalak) has become synonymous with the Tboli, as has their intricate beadwork, embroidery and brasswork which richly decorates their garments. The Blaan, sister tribe to the Tboli, weave their own treasured and rare abaca ikat cloth (tabih). Their spectacular heirloom garments are adorned with impressive patterns of hand-hewn, mother-of-pearl beads.  Independent researcher and collector Craig Diamond presents the ikat weaving traditions of both tribes as well as identifying and discussing the impressive garments worn by both the men and women.

A Weaver of Note—Jack Lenor Larsen

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This comes from Patty,

“It is interesting to read about and see the interview with a really big name in American Textile Design in the 20th & 21st Centuries.”
Cranbrook Mourns the Passing of Jack Lenor Larsen

Jack Lenor Larsen at loom, 1954. Courtesy of Cranbrook Archives, Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research.

Last week, we were saddened to learn of the passing of Jack Lenor Larsen (Fiber ’51). Considered one of the most influential and prolific textile designers of the 20th century, Larsen explored both modern style and historical methods in his practice.

In a 1998 interview with The New York Times, he said, “I like ancient techniques and the cutting edge. The extremes are always more interesting than the middle.”

At the University of Washington, Larsen was a teaching assistant to Cranbrook Academy of Art alumnus Ed Rossbach, who suggested Larsen continue his studies at the Academy. He received a scholarship at Rossbach’s recommendation and completed his graduate course work in only nine months, graduating from Cranbrook with his MFA in 1951.

In 1952, he opened a studio in New York City and went on to shape the textile design of postwar American homes and workplaces, including Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, Eero Saarinen’s Miller House, and Pan American Airlines. Read the obituary in The New York Times here for a full record of his illustrious career.

“First and foremost, Jack Lenor Larsen was a maker. His use of traditional hand techniques and materials that he adapted into innovative technologies and applications was transformative,” said Susan R. Ewing, the Maxine and Stuart Frankel Director of Cranbrook Academy of Art. “His profound leadership and critical vision for contemporary crafts especially impacted the educational and outreach missions of the American Craft Council and the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. His legacy will continue to resonate and inspire a contemporary generation of 21st-century makers, educators, and companies. We at Cranbrook celebrate his global influence, inspiration, and contributions to our shared ideals.”

His textiles are in the permanent collections of Cranbrook Art Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs at the Louvre, which gave him a one-man retrospective in 1981.

He is profiled in the upcoming publication, With Eyes Opened: Cranbrook Academy of Art Since 1932 and will have work featured in the exhibition of the same name opening at Cranbrook Art Museum in June 2021.

Watch an interview with Larsen here, filmed just last year by furniture manufacturer OFS.

If you like Molas, mark your calendar for Wednesday December 8 at noon.

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Follow the Cleveland Museum of Art and its Desktop Dialogue.
Fashion Identity: Mola Textiles of Panama.   
https://www.clevelandart.org/close-looking-at-a-distance

Stitching Complexity

Wednesday, December 9, 12:00 p.m. EST

Join program host Key Jo Lee and CMA research fellow Andrea Vazquez de Arthur for a deep and guided exploration of a single mola, made using appliqué and reverse appliqué techniques. Learn about these processes and their complex associations with the Guna understanding of the universe.

Watch the most recent Desktop Dialogue to learn more about the meaning of molas, the subject of the current exhibition Fashioning Identity: Mola Textiles of Panamá, in Guna culture.

Check out the program about Molas at Cleveland Museum of Art

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Look for it on Wednesday, November 18 at noon.   A Desktop Dialogue from CMA

https://www.clevelandart.org/desktop-dialogues

Their description follows:

How do materials and fabrication processes convey meaning in a work of art or design?

Join CMA research fellow Andrea Vazquez de Arthur and museum guide Leonardo Pérez Carreño from the Museo de la Mola in Panamá City, Panamá, for a conversation about making and meaning in molas, a key component of traditional dress among indigenous Guna women and the subject of the upcoming exhibition Fashioning Identity: Mola Textiles of Panamá.

https://vimeo.com/event/443819

 

https://vimeo.com/event/443819

https://vimeo.com/event/443819

A Holiday show and sale opportunity. Submit to Patty on Nov 16 -20.

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Hi Weavers,
Our Guild has been asked to participate in a Holiday Show at the Wenk Gallery in Chagrin Falls from Nov. 23-Dec.23, 2020. There will be other artisans there including a ceramicist, painter, glass maker and a jeweler. We have at least three people who have agreed they are willing to show their items. This will not be a Weavers show but an opportunity to sell our items at the Holidays. Some weavers have declined the opportunity which says this is not a true Weavers Show where we usually try to display a lot.
I will be able to gather the items the week of Nov 16-20 and I will help with the display. Please contact me.
Each weaver will have to put a hang tag on each item with your name, piece information and a retail price. You  do not have to show a lot of items. We will not be expected to sit in the gallery during the times (10 am-3:00 pm week days) it is open to the public. Frankly, I discouraged this for distancing reasons.
The Gallery will be closed the week between Christmas and New Years so items will be able to be picked up Jan 4th.
Chagrin Arts, the sponsor of this show, has said they would love to have us back at the gallery at a later date. They loved our show last year and hope we will keep it in mind for—WHENEVER.
Thank you and weave 0n….
Patty