Textural Vessels runs from October 18 – October 25, 2023
This class is now full for 2023! Watch for it again in late 2024!
The online classroom opens on October 9th for introductions and materials discussions.
Workshop Fee: $225.00 USD
The materials list for this can be found HERE. This class works mainly with wool prefelt and basic felting tools- all easy to acquire and/or make!
There are so many exciting surfaces we can create by manipulating prefelt.
In this Zoom based class, we’ll look at five of them, incorporating them into a highly textured, cylindrical vessel.
I’ve been wanting to explore these surface manipulations for over a decade, and finally, they found the right time and place to come to life! I’m really excited to share these easy-to-create textures. These surface textures require no resists and no sewing, only knots and folds, some very sharp and crisp and others more fluid and organic. They work together beautifully with a great range of dimensions and unity created through the simple palette. This palette emphasizes the textures and shadows they create.
The workshop takes place over 5 half day Zoom sessions. These meetings will be recorded and released immediately in the online classroom, for anyone that can’t attend live, due to scheduling or time zone. There will be time in each Zoom session for Q and A’s. Following the live session days, there are an extra 3 days available in the online classroom for you to post your finished pieces and ask any further questions. This project takes about 7 hours to complete, and extra time is allowed for in the Zoom sessions, to allow for answering questions. You can work along with me, during the Zoom session, or watch the recorded session and complete each stage of the work on your own time.
In my Zoom based workshops, my Zoom Technician, Emily, joins us for all sessions to help you with any issues in accessing the meetings, and also to ensure everything goes smoothly, with no technical issues during each session. This way we can all focus on our felting, and not our devices or technology! I also always have one or two class assistants join our meetings, who have worked with me for years and are familiar with my techniques and the project. They’ll help answer your questions and direct your questions to me during the meetings, to be sure I see and hear all questions during those sessions. It’s so important to me that you receive the best, most clear and easy-to-follow instructions and advice in any class!
This class is entirely Zoom based- the video meetings are all recorded but there are no extra pre-recorded videos or PDF’s. You have unlimited access to the class materials, including video recordings and class discussions.
Class schedule:
October 18th: Zoom Session 10:00- 1:00pm (PDT)
Introduction, first layer layout, first surface prefelt manipulation elements
October 19th: Zoom Session 10:00- 1:00pm (PDT)
Remaining prefelt manipulations, surface work, layout complete
October 20th: Zoom Session 10:00- 1:00pm (PDT)
Fulling your work
October 21st: Zoom Session 10:00- 12:00pm (PDT)
Final shaping, including ironing and steaming
October 22nd: Zoom Session 10:00- 12:00pm (PDT)
Review and Q and A
October 23nd- 25th: Online classroom time to share work and ask questions
These meetings will be recorded and released immediately in the online classroom, for anyone that can’t attend live, due to scheduling or time zone. You can work along with me, during the Zoom session, or watch the recorded session and complete each stage of the work on your own time.
This is a handy time calculator to figure out what time the session will run in your time zone:
Textural Vessels runs from October 18 – October 25, 2023
The online classroom opens on October 9th for introductions and materials discussions.
The first Zoom Session is on October 18th at 10:00am PDT.
Workshop Fee: $225.00 USD
Workshop materials, including the instructional Zoom recordings, plus the online classroom discussion, will be available to you indefinitely- for as long as my learning platform exists! You have permanent access to all the learning materials!
If you have any questions at all about this class- please do email me!
