Cuyahoga Weavers Guild

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Countdown to Sunday’s Reception. Please join us.

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Our opening reception for our Weavers show at the Beachwood Community Center is this Sunday from 1 pm to 2:30 pm.
Please come if you can. Bring your family and friends. The show is big and beautiful. Refreshments are being provided.
We have a floor loom and a big inkle ready to go. Wheels are welcome. Feel free to bring any fiber skill you want to show. If you aren’t demonstrating, consider docenting. Some curious minds may have questions that only a weaver can answer.
Please wear your official Cuyahoga Weavers Guild blue apron if you have one. New name tags are available for all active members.
See you Sunday!

MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR OUR WEAVING GUILD EXHIBIT 

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MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR OUR WEAVING GUILD EXHIBIT 
Here is the latest and greatest information for everyone regarding our Exhibit at the Beachwood Community Center. There have been many changes so please take note carefully.
April 3-10– Get your pieces to Patty
April 12–Set up
April 14-May 6–Show open to the public
    8:00am-4:00pm Monday thru Friday
April 20–11:30am, Monthly Guild Meeting at the show location, brown bag lunch
April 30–1:00-2:30pm, Open House with us providing demonstrations.

CWG Study Group meets Thursday, April 6, 2023 and NOT March 2

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Cuyahoga Weavers Guild Study Group
April 6, 2023 10:00 AM

The Brietzmanns* will be our host.  RSVPs are appreciated.

Additionally, this is a very convenient time to bring your show submissions.  The exhibit committee is requesting any captions, photos of your process, weaving education notations to accompany your work.

*refer to the members roster for address or email. (Note: the roster page is under repair, but Jean and Bob’s details are there.). Or email below:

newsletter@cuyahogaweaversguild.com

Here’s our mission.

BOTANICAL

In May, Study group gathered for the finale of the year and harnessed the concept for our coming year Study topic, Botanical. pastedGraphic.png

Whether you choose:

a fiber (i.e., hemp, cotton, bamboo, linen,)

a dye (i.e., indigo, madder)

a subject (i.e., weave a pictorial, tapestry, a color flow as in botanical subject)

a botanical object to weave (i.e., a three-dimensional object maybe, or felt?)

or a combination

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The choices are vast, there being almost no restrictions. Using imaginations and all the resources we have available to us; this should prove to be a wonderful project. And exceedingly interesting for our exhibit that will be on display in April.

Bring your current work, questions, show and tell.

 

Chagrin Wenk Gallery show on currently canceled

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Hello Weavers,
This would have been the week to collect items for a show at the Chagrin Arts Wenk Gallery. The Executive Director has told me that they are going to cancel that show. They are taking into account the virus spread and have decided it is not worth the exposure during the show. I am grateful to you all for responding to my inquiry for this show, both for your conservative comments and for your enthusiasms to participate. The Director would like to participate with the Weavers at a future date and has been delighted with our cooperation . She sends Holiday greetings to all.
Thank you,
Patty

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

October Program invitation for October 14 and 15. Both are virtual.

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Plan on watching the Cleveland Museum of Art virtual program on Wednesday October 14 at 12:00 noon. You can find the program on the museum’s web site.  It is a Close Looking at a Distance (CLAD) program featuring the Korean Embroidery exhibit.  This ‘field trip” will be virtual.
Follow this with our Zoom meeting to discuss and expand on our virtual visit with the museum’s staff and share our personal experiences with embroidery and/or Korean textiles. The Zoom meeting is scheduled for Thursday, October 15 at 11:30 am (our regular meeting day and time).  Once again, be on the look-out for an invitation from Lynne.
About CLAD–
Cleveland Museum of Art has  a program called Close Looking at a Distance-CLAD- and on Wed Oct 14 at 12 Noon, they are having a Virtual Event About the Korean Embroidery exhibit that will be closing at the end of this month. It is easy to access on a computer.
    Go to cma.org/events/virtual-events
    Look for the pop up for Close Looking at a Distance
    There is data about times and an introduction.
    Scroll down to Join the Conversation and follow the prompts.
From CMA’s website:

Close Looking at a Distance: Scrutinizing the Stitches

Wednesday, October 14, 12:00 p.m.

What can a wedding gown, liberally decorated and lovingly patched and repaired, tell us about the culture, values, and artisans from which it emerged? In this CLAD session, join host Key Jo Lee and curator of Korean art Sooa McCormick for a guided look at an intricately embroidered garment from the CMA’s permanent collection, currently on view in the exhibition Gold Needles: Embroidery Arts from Korea.

Upcoming exhibit of interest to the guild is:
A new exhibit in the Textile Gallery will be coming November 22 featuring the textiles of the Guna, an indigenous territory in Panama. Think Mola!

A note about visiting in person:

The museum is open with the normal distancing and masking restrictions if anyone does want to try to see the Korean exhibit before it closes. Check their web site for details.

CWG Program News and COVID-19

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Patty and Sheri share:
This April our weavers guild had many exciting events and opportunities planned and on the calendar. Many of them we have been looking forward to for more than a year. And, BOOM! now we have nothing! Well, we can make the adjustment, it will be different, but we will still be weaving and we will still want to see each other and share information as well as beautiful hand woven projects as we have been doing for 50+ years.
As of today, April 6, 2020, we have notified our guild members that the Study Group meeting for April 2nd. and the April 3rd. hanging of the show at the Beachwood library will not take place.
Further cancellations are:
                The entire show at the Beachwood library has been cancelled considering the library being closed until further notice.
               We are cancelling our workshop with Sara Bixler April 23 & 24. Sara was considering her possibilities of video workshop or mailing us the workbook materials for the workshop. We have not talked to her for a final determination but when we do we will make the proper refunds to each weaver who had signed up for the workshop.
               We will not, obviously, have to take down the show on April 24 & 25.
As for May, I wish I could use my Seer skills and be able to predict what the virus situation will be in May. At this time, I am assuming the normal study group meeting will take place on May 7 and the regularly scheduled Guild  meeting will continue on May 21. We hope so! Meantime, I suggest we consider an email vote for officers for the next Weaving Year, 2020-2021. We will hopefully be able to have the show in Chagrin Falls in conjunction with the Valley Art Center’s Art by the Falls Festival. That is still on the Art Center’s “Cautiously Optimistic” calendar.  June 1 will be our set up.
Won’t we be delighted as we meet next, the days will be warm, our greetings reflecting how pleased we are to see each other, our weaving efforts will look brilliant! Meantime, Weave ON!

Update from Elfriede

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Dear Weavers,
because we have to stay home (and weave) for a while, some of our planned events are

cancelled:
There will be no study group meeting at Jessie’s house on April the 2nd.
The set up for our show at the Beachwood library on April 3rd is cancelled. The show will not

take place because the library is closed all of April. We do not know at this time when it will be open again.

We are still hoping to do the show in Chagrin Falls in June. We will keep you informed as to events there.

At this time there is no definite news about our meeting and workshop in April. It does not look too good, but Patty will be in touch when she has more information.

I hope you are all in good spirits and healthy. Keep sending pictures and news. Elfriede