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We welcome them to join us for this fun day Here’s the flyer: May18Flyer If you can print two-sided, one copy will yield 2 1/2 page flyers. If you can’t print two-sided, print just page 1-1! Our Spring Hook-in and Business Meeting will be May 18 at Our Lady in Randolph, VT from 9:00 – 3:00 Coffee and tea provided. Members are encouraged to bring their own lunch, and a snack or dessert to share. We’ll have a Red-Cup Auction , so bring your goodies / prizes. We’ll have two vendors: Stephanie Allen-Krauss and Pam Bartlett . Bring your checkbook, credit card or cash! Sand, Sea, Boardwalk and Me by Nancy Thun Presentor: Nancy Thun will share her process of designing and hooking. Cost to members: FREE! Cost to non-members: $45 (membership is only $35 per year, so why not join?) Registration opens March 15 at https://gmrhg.wildapricot.org Registration closes May 10 (the venue needs to know and so do we, so we can prepare name-tags and be sure to have enough tables, etc.) Optional workshop: Welcome Spring! Fine Shading/Flowers Workshop This workshop will focus on using value color swatches in #3, #4, or #5 cut. We will focus on shading techniques and blending values. taught by Sandy DuCharme www.vermontontrughookingstudio.com Sandy says: I can bring wool and patterns, or you may bring a current project. If you have a cutter, you may bring that as well.” Workshop Cost to members $45 Workshop Cost to non-members $75 Registration for the workshop will open March 15 and close May 10 or when all spaces are full. https://gmrhg.wildapricot.org If you choose to attend as a non-member, you do NOT have to also pay for the meeting. Remember: you can join for $35 and get workshop for $45! Your membership gets you our quarterly newsletter, and free or reduced admission to other events, and you can exhibit in our upcoming show. No Comments Save the Dates! Written on November 21, 2023 . Posted in News May 14-18, 2025 Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild Rug Show / School at Sugarbush, in Warren, VT. Get this on your calendar Think about how you can help the Guild — from publicity to hanging the show, we’ll need lots of volunteers. Watch for details in our quarterly newsletter and on this website. Here’s a Home Page” for the show, where all details will be added, as we refine them. Hooked in the Mountains 2025: a fiber arts show, with classes. No Comments Virtual Show 2023 is LIVE! Written on November 18, 2023 . Posted in News Visit the virtual show, which launched after lunch at our Hook-in on November 18, 2023. https://rugshow2023.gmrhg.org/ 57 artists more than 135 rugs four featured collections No Comments March Newsletter Available Written on March 15, 2024 . Posted in News Members: Please visit Newsletter Page for the link. Guest Access: Want to see what the members get? We’ll just ask for your email address. No Comments Seven Days covers the show in Randolph Written on March 14, 2024 . Posted in News Guild Members Kris McDermett and Barb Ackemann have pieces in this article about the show that Guild Secretary Fern Strong co-curated. Seven Days March 13, 2024 Article on the Randolph Vermont Fiber Arts Show Trichromancy” No Comments Four GMRHG members are in AVA Gallery exhibit in March 2024 Written on February 16, 2024 . Posted in News Four GMRHG members are in this show which runs March 1- 30 at the AVA Gallery and Art Center 11 Bank Street Lebanon, NH 03766 603-448-3117 https://avagallery.org/event/form-texture/ form + texture Contemporary Works in Fiber March 1-March 30th Artist Reception: Friday, March 8, 4-6 PM Celebrating Women’s History Month exhibiting artists include Sarah Ashe, Breslin Bell, Shari Boraz, Rosalind Daniels, Jennifer Davey, Janet Fredericks, Susan Gaffney, Karen Henderson, Eve Jacobs-Carnahan, Mon Kaczyk, Karen Kamenetzky, McKenna Kellner, Marya Lowe, Patricia Miller, Rachel Montroy, Sharon Myers, Leslie Roth, Marcie Scudder, Nancy Sepe, Gaal Shepherd, Gail Smuda, Susan Steinbrock, Fern Strong, Dayna Talbot, and Nancy Thun. From the intricate tapestries of ancient civilizations to the bold contemporary works of today’s textile and fiber artists, fiber endures as a unique and versatile medium for artistic expression. Its ability to convey emotion, texture, and color while straddling the divide between art and craft makes fiber art an essential part of the artistic landscape. In the early 1900s, artists who had been trained in the interdisciplinary techniques of art and design at the legendary Bauhaus school, began teaching internationally, helping to introduce a new generation to fiber techniques. Bauhaus graduate Anni Albers, one of the world’s most celebrated textile artists, only enrolled in the Bauhaus’s weaving workshop in 1923, because the courses she had been more interested in– painting and stained glass– were open only to men. Circumstances held me to threads, and they won me over,” she said in a 1982 panel discussion. Fiber art emerged within the framework of women’s liberation, civil rights, and antiwar activism. From the early 1960s to the late ’70s, fiber art became a movement. Artists — predominantly women — across Europe and the United States began experimenting with thread and fabric, often pushing materials into three-dimensional objects. Contemporary artist Sheila Hicks, a revolutionary in the fiber art genre, has lived and worked in her studio in Paris since 1964. Today, the curators walking in the door are different,” she says, they aren’t textile or craft experts— they are contemporary art experts.” [1] Fabric is linked to the body and integrated into our lives: we wear it, we sleep under it, we are wrapped up in it when we are born, and we are buried in it. By considering the weight of this, a new perspective expands; fabric and textiles are inherently conceptually complex. Fiber art has seeped into the practice of many contemporary artists, blurring the line between artistic disciplines, and incorporating assorted mediums and textural fiber materials. Today the buzzword in contemporary art might be materiality; materiality is a descriptive idea that involves the making, forming, or creating of a thing. [2] In other words, meaning is embedded into the specific materials selected while making an artwork to convey a thought or feeling. Fiber art sits comfortably within the parameters of materiality; sometimes thread” isn’t just thread.” It might be a metaphor to represent something larger, like a connection between the artist and the viewer– or a hopeful stitch between two conflicting nations. It might signify a mended wound, and a quilt might imply a blanket used to comfort loneliness. Fiber art can be purely aesthetic as well, distinctively a handmade work of art that is beautifully crafted. The exhibiting artists of form + texture have used brilliant colors, textures, sculpted forms, design, and materiality. Their handmade choices are aesthetically appealing, and poetic titles reveal a rich and personal visual vernacular. The exhibition is a feast for the eyes and heart. [1] Halperin,...