WORKSHOP: INTRODUCTION TO SHIBORI AND NATURAL DYES
DATES: Workshop #1: Saturday, November 12, 2011 from 12:00pm to 4:00pm. Fee: $75.00.
Workshop #2: Sunday, November 13, 2011 from 12:00pm to 4:00pm. Fee: $75.00.
Advance registration is required due to time, space and materials provided to each student.
NOTE: The above are separate workshops. However, students wishing to attend both days ($150.00) will be able to continue and advance their creations and personal instruction. Please notify HCA at the time of registration so the instructor can prepare for continuing students.
INSTRUCTOR: Carol Gustavson, BFA
Gustavson is an international, award winning Traditional Japanese Shibori artist. Her shibori art pieces are exhibited and collected world-wide, including Japan, and she has been a visiting artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A professional full-time studio artist, her expertise in shibori is accompanied by extensive knowledge in a spectrum of textile and fine arts. She is also a kimono designer, tailor and costumer. Her client list includes TV, stage, professional entertainers, celebrities and Imperial families. Due to time constraints, Gustavson rarely conducts workshops and adequate advance registration is highly recommended.
Shibori is a fascinating traditional Japanese textile art dating back to the eighth century. It is a method of creating designs and patterns on textiles using resist hand-techniques. The results are a unique variety of beautiful and stunning designs and textural effects unobtainable, and unrivaled, by any other art form. Natural dyes, equally historic, are eco-friendly dyes created from organic materials found in nature. The spectrum of natural dye colors is rich and complex and cannot be duplicated with synthetic dyes.
This workshop will include a lecture, extensive display of shibori, demonstrations, discussions, shibori and natural dye insight and instruction. Fine, natural fiber textiles (i.e. silk, wool, etc.) and organic dyes will be provided and used. Each student will create their own array of shibori and natural dye samples and learn a variety of techniques, processes and methods. Everyone will be assisted and instructed according to their level. This is an intensive yet fun and exciting workshop! Come rested and prepared to create mystical shibori and learn how to obtain nature’s colors from your own back yard. Shibori is intriguing and addictive. You will leave transformed and also begin looking at nature in a whole new way whether you are a non-artist, quilter, weaver or painter.
This workshop is open to adults of any level - from non-artists to experienced. For this special workshop, students will be provided with all materials for creating and dyeing shibori at no additional charge. Upon registration, students will be given a short list of items to bring such as rubber gloves, apron, pencil, etc.
Carol Gustavson’s Traditional Japanese Shibori will be on exhibit at the Hutchinson Center for the Arts from November 1 through November 18, 2011. Open to the public, on Friday, November 4, 2011 from 7-9pm an opening reception will be held and Gustavson will give an artist’s talk during the event.