Weeklong Intensive: Introduction to Weaving

Date: Monday, June 22 – Friday June 26

Time: 10am – 5pm (daily!)

Description:

Let’s dive deep into weaving for a week!

This is a 100% beginner weaving workshop, where we will learn to use multi-harness floor looms to create cloth!

We will work with 8-harness looms, and explore myriad ways of creating interlacements of warp and weft to create cloth!

Because of the “intensive” format of this workshop, we will be able to immerse oursleves completely in the fun and magic of weaving and using a loom.

You can expect to learn how to go from having bunch of cones or balls of yarn to woven cloth! We will go through steps and ways to dress the loom (that means get the yarn on the loom) and we will try different techniques for interlacing yarn. We will look at drafts and patterns and we will talk some histories and other fun contexts too!

Our goal will be a woven sampler of possibilities and a foundation for future weaving work!

Tuition: $425 + $30 materials fee

Note: We really want you to join us in the studio! Full and partial tuition scholarships are available to offset some of the financial burden of attending a class.

Please fill out the application here! You can expect to hear from someone on the CC staff within 2 weeks.

If you have any questions, email Jamie Boyle, Fibers Program Manager, at jboyle@contemporarycraft.org, or leave a voice message for them at 412-465-1628.

Materials: All materials will be provided

Location: Contemporary Craft, Timmons Studios (5688 Butler St., Pittsburgh, PA 15201). Note, this workshop will take place in the Fleischner Family Fibers Loft, which is on the second floor of the building.

There are 2 entrances to the Timmons Studios.

• One entrance is facing Butler Street. To access the Fibers Loft from the Butler Street facing entrance, there are a total of 32 stairs to ascend.

• One entrance is facing 57th Street. This entrance is accessible by ramp, with no stairs to ascend. There is a lift inside the building to access the second floor.

If there are accessibility accommodations we can provide, or if there is anything you would like us to know before you arrive, please feel free to call Jamie Boyle at 412-465-1639 or email jboyle@contemporarycraft.org.

Cancellations and Refunds: Workshop cancellations are decided three business days before the start date. If workshops must be cancelled due to insufficient enrollment, the entire class fee will be refunded by check, to your credit card, or Contemporary Craft account for future workshops.

Refund Policy: Student refund requests must be made at least three business days before a class begins. There will be a $25 cancellation fee. No refunds will be given without three-business days notice. Processing of refunds takes approximately three weeks.

About the Artist

Jamie Boyle is an artist and weaving teacher who recently moved back to Pittsburgh after living for more than a decade in a studio apartment in Brooklyn, NY with a partner and two cats. They attended public school from grade school through graduate school. Jamie’s first weaving teacher was the artist Ann Hamilton, in whose studio they worked for several years after completing an MFA in sculpture. Subsequently, Owyn Marisol Ruck, Kira Silver, Isa Rodrigues, Kelly Valetta, and Jose Picayo taught Jamie who to use a multi-harness floor loom as a tool for weaving. They have had the great honor of sharing a love of weaving with communities of learners at the Park slope Center for Successful Aging, the National Council of Jewish Women NY Lifetime Learning Center, the Museum of Arts and Design, and the Textile Arts Center, among others. Jamie has participated in artist residencies at the Textile Arts Center (Brooklyn, NY); the Museum of Arts and Design (New York, NY); through the SU-CASA program administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council; and Contemporary Craft (Pittsburgh, PA). Currently, they serve as the Fibers Program Manager at Contemporary Craft.