Full of great ideas, explanations of artistic processes and materials, inspiring images from nature….just makes you want to get in that studio space and make something!
Darilee
Mar 052012
Our super-talented Loft Employee and Educational Coordinator, Darilee Sims, is primarily a fiber artist and has developed this incredible retreat for the end of April. This is not a Loft event but we wanted to pass it along to those of you who want to have an awesome time in the mountains creating knitted projects this April. Sign up quick! Visit the website for more details: woolinthewoodsretreat.com
Feb 212012
WE NEED 5 MORE PARTICIPANTS TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN!!! Sign up today.
Learn to paint your own delicate silk scarf or a vivid wall hanging! Silk is a fabulous fabric that takes color wonderfully. Wear old clothes and be ready to create something beautiful. No experience necessary. We need 8 people to make this class happen so sign up with a friend! Call us at 706-548-5334 or come by and make your $45 seat deposit. Here’s a peek into what you’ll be doing.
:::: Rene Shoemaker, a fine artist who creates textile art on silk. Using dyes as her paint, and silk as her canvas, she seeks to capture beauty in the every day surroundings that we live in. Graduating with a fine art degree from the University of Georgia was only the beginning for Shoemaker – she considers her real training to have come from life, living, and her interactions with people, places and things. Her pleasure in silk painting pours through in the the relationships she creates via colors, lines, shapes, and balance. To Shoemaker silk is a medium that speaks of light and movement, texture and weight, delicately voicing her artistic understanding of both place and community.
You can view her work in person at Jittery Joe’s Five Points (it’s hanging from the ceiling) and online at reneshoemaker.com or coffeecuppress.tumblr.com.