Classes and Workshops

Paper weaving is a quick and fun way to play with color, image and pattern—without a loom! Even if you’ve never seen a weaving draft and don’t know warp from weft—you can do this!

Discover the diverse work of several artists working in this medium today. Learn how to choose papers for weaving, how to decorate them yourself if you want, how to cut strips, choose a weave structure, read a draft and do the actual weaving. Make choices that will make the images and patterns you choose sing! Finally, learn how to finish and mount your completed weaving.

In-person: 4 hours.

Online: 4 hours over 2 sessions, with option to add one-hour midweek check-in session

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Paper weaving is a quick and fun way to play with color, image, and pattern—without a loom!  Even if you’ve never seen a weaving draft and don’t know warp from weft, you’ll be weaving by the end of the workshop. A paper-woven surface is also great for adding collage and mixed media to, so come explore the possibilities!

Paper weaving is even more fun when you work with papers you’ve designed yourself.  So we’ll begin by using watercolors to do surface design on papers that we’ll later slice up for weaving.   For inspiration we will view the diverse work of several artists working in this medium today.  You may also bring your own previously-decorated or found papers.  Through lecture and demonstration, you will learn how to choose papers for weaving, how to decorate them, how to cut strips, choose a weave structure, read a weaving draft, and how to do the actual weaving.  You can also experiment with added other media to your weaving such as dried plants, threads or yarns, or other weaveable elements.  We will emphasize choosing papers and weave structures that create maximum visual interest and interaction between image and weave.  Finally, we will look at how to finish and mount your completed weaving.   I will share several handouts and resources.

Suitable for:  everyone 9th grade and up.  Previous weaving experience helpful but not required.

In Person: 12 hours: two six-hour in-person sessions over two days

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Enjoy a slide show of Molly’s journey through a variety of fiber media over 30 years: quilts, papermaking, dyeing, embroidery, weaving and mixed media.

In-person or online: 1 hour includes Q and A.

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Collage is uniquely modern art medium—bold, surprising, and innovative, making use of fragments and mixed materials to convey new conceptual ideas. We will look at examples of collage by fine artists and discuss the design principles that make a collage succeed.  You’ll practice making your own collages using fun prompts and several kinds of materials.  Learn how collage can be a great way to develop designs for your own work in other mediums. 

In-person: 3 hours.

Online: 2 hours with optional second session for feedback on student work.

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Feeling stuck on a project? Not sure of the way forward in your creative practice? I’m happy to meet you over Zoom or in my home studio for coaching that meets you where you are. Email me for details.