New Category - Education
While doing some cleaning and organizing of my quilt business files I gathered together all the information about classes I’ve taken over the years. I am a self taught artist in that I have never taken any formal art classes although I have attended several art quilt workshops over the years.
I created a new blog category to my posts on this topic and to start off here is a list of the classes I’ve taken over the years. I’m not sure if it’s complete but it’s close. Note that the years/class titles for some of the classes might be wrong as I didn’t keep all my notes.
- 1995 Taking Risks and Breaking Rules with Elizabeth Bush.
- 1996 Painting with Fabric with Jean Neblitt.
- 1997 Creative Precision String Piecing with Caryl Bryer Fallert.
- 1997 Drawing with Thread with Caryl Bryer Fallert.
- 1997 Small Works with David Walker.
- 1998 Color Theory with Ricky Tims.
- 1998 Painting and Composition with Natasha Kempers-Cullen.
- 1999 Dye Painting with Hollis Chatelain.
- 1999 Design Workshop (I can’t remember the name of this class) with Pauline Burbidge.
- 1999 Improvisational Piecing with Nancy Crow.
- 1999 Sets and Variables with Nancy Crow.
- 2000 Fabric Collage (I can’t remember the name of this class) with Jane Birch Cochran.
- 2000 Sets and Variables with Nancy Crow.
- 2000 Dye Painting with Ann Johnston.
- 2001 Raw Revenge with Sue Wademan.
- 2001 Sets and Variables with Nancy Crow.
- 2003 Master Class (similar to independent study) with Sue Benner.
- 2004 Working in a Series with Nancy Crow.
- 2005 Independent Study with Nancy Crow.
The classes between 1995 and 2000 were all in Colorado (except the Nancy Crow) and mostly sponsored by Front Range Contemporary Quilters. Colorado brings in a lot of well known teachers through this organization and also with the more traditional statewide guild, Colorado Quilt Council.
I traveled to attended the workshops from 2001 through 2005 as I was looking for more advanced classes than I can find locally.
My thought is to highlight each of these classes at some point in my blog, with a review and some photos of the work I did during the class. I also want to talk about how these classes effected my work and direction as an artist so stay tuned for these over the next few months (or year).
Posted by Lisa in: Art Education
Diane said,
January 26, 2006 @ 11:54 pm
What a great idea to do this, Lisa. I’ll look forward to reading about your experiences in these workshops and how they influenced you. I can see the influence of Nancy Crow in your work, certainly!
Beth Robinson said,
January 27, 2006 @ 4:54 am
I also would enjoy reading about the workshops, so please do take the time to write. I haven’t commented on your blog before and also want to mention how much I enjoy your mix of subjects and seeing your work.
Patty Altier said,
January 27, 2006 @ 5:58 am
What a great help this will be for everyone! I am self taugh and have only taken one class in 20+ years - Shirley Stutz’s free motion machine quilting. It is quite an investment to take a class so reading your impressions would be a great help in making a decision as to whether a class would be worth the investment and increase my skills. Thanks!!
Lisa Call said,
January 27, 2006 @ 9:40 pm
Glad to know this is of interest. For me it’s a way to reflect back and think about how these classes have helped with the progress of my work and to think some about where I want to go from here in terms of future workshops.
Rayna said,
February 4, 2006 @ 7:16 pm
Great idea, Lisa. I’ve taken very few workshops in my lifetime — and most have been surface design process workshops. But I have taken workshops with two of the people on your list: one I loved and it changed the way I work; the other one I hated. Since this is such a subjective thing, it will be very interesting to read your ‘reviews.’ I’m staying tuned. Blogspot’s server is down for a change, so I guess I really have to get back to work.