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TACtile Textile Arts Center classes for fiber arts
May Classes
Registration is open at TACtilearts.org
Specialty Beading Classes
sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Bead Society and held at TACtile
Mixed Media Textile Artist Bead Classes
with Larkin Vanom
Beaded Cuffs
Friday 5/18/12 9 am – 4 pm
Class Fee: $70 (including kit fee)
Make an elaborately beaded bracelet that wraps around your wrist like the cuff of a well-tailored shirt. This project will expand your design, color, and beading skills; allowing you to create a wearable work of art. The cuff is sized to fit your wrist, and the pattern provided can be adjusted to allow you to make a beaded cuff as a gift. The class will focus on design, color, finishing, and altering the basic shape, as well as stitch techniques.
Talisman/Hues and Cues
Saturday 5/19/12 9 am – Noon
Class Fee $35 (including kit fee)
This class will focus on understanding and using the meanings of color, shape, and symbols, both personal and universal, to create artwork with meaning, spirit, emotion, and personal resonance. Applying this information to whatever your art form may be, will allow you to create personally meaningful art, while using symbols that can be universally recognizable.
Beaded Buttons
Saturday 5/19/12 1 pm – 4 pm
Class Fee: $35 (including kit fee)
This is a great way to use leftovers from larger projects, and small enough to carry when you travel. Beaded buttons can embellish a garment, wall hanging or home decor project. All it takes are a few beads, a button form, a scrap of fabric and your imagination. It is a very easy introduction to the world of bead embroidery.
Tiny Beaded Vessels
Sunday 5/20/12 9 am – 4 pm
Class Fee: $70 (including kit fee)
Using bead embroidery stitches, students will create a small, encrusted treasure. The three or four-sided vessel will be in their own chosen color scheme. Charms, buttons, or small cabochons may be used as the focal point on one or all sides of the vessel. The class will focus on beading stitches, color, and design as well as the construction of the vessel.
Marketing with Pizzazz for Artists by Marketing Coach Carol Naff
TACtile Textile Arts Center presents:
How to Find Your Place in the Market: Get Paid for your Creative Achievements
You know that you’ve created something you want to share with the world. So why not learn how to get the word out to more people? TACtile presents this marketing workshop to help you learn the fundamentals of marketing your business and getting results.
Marketing Coach Carol Naff will teach you how to:
- identify the best low-cost, no-cost marketing solutions,
- find resources to help you in your business,
- create a web presence with or without a website,
- avoid dead ends and pitfalls that wastes time and energy, and
- learn strategies for creating and implementing a successful marketing plan that gets results!
Saturday, March 10, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. TACtile Textile Arts Center. For more information, call Carol at 303.337.4394 or visit her website at solobizmarketing.com and to register, visit TACtile
February at TACtile- come enjoy the sunshine
It’s February and spring is just around the corner. We are gearing up for spring and all of the exciting things that come along with it. There are always lots of fiber art to feast your eyes on at the gallery at TACtile, so plan to stop by just to say ‘hello.’ Always check our website for additional items.
SewFA Lounge
The Sewing and Fiber Arts stitch lounge is up and running on Thursdays from 12-5 pm.
Stop by and chat while you work on your project and make use of our equipment. WIFI, cutting tables, sergers, machines, pressing stations, & tools all available at a minimal fee.
Bring your projects to get creative inspiration and a helping hand from Jennifer McPherson, aka Macoopadoop, local Denver designer and stitch guru. Plan to visit our sewspot!
Beginning Weaving: Weave a Scarf
with Peg MacMorris
Saturday 2/4/12 and Saturday 2/11/12 12-4pm
Member $80.00 Non-member $95.00
Kit fee (including loom rental) $25
If you are a fiber enthusiast who has always wanted to learn how to weave, or someone who is intrigued with what weaving is all about, this is a class for you. Elementary weaving concepts and terms like warp and weft will be introduced. Each student will learn to use a rigid heddle loom (supplied) to weave a scarf. You will learn to dress the loom with your yarn, to weave and to do some finishing techniques for your scarf. Other kinds of looms will be discussed or demonstrated.
Gone Batts
with Patricia Martinek
Sunday 2/5/11 4-5 pm
Member $45.00 Non-members $55.00
Kit fee: $15
In our fifth Sunday Spin-In, come play with the drum carders! We will have several on-hand with piles and piles of fibers and colors to layer, blend and spin in the mixtures of your imagination. We will cover color theory, the color wheel, optical blending, how to blend well two dissimilar fibers, card several ways to keep colors and fibers separate, and then spin from the batts to compare the results. We will also make garnetted yarns with thrums and yarns. Basic spinning experience necessary.
For more information on these classes, registration information and supplies needed, please log onto our website: tactilearts.org.
Call for Fiber Art Instructors
The TACtile Textile Arts Center community is actively seeking teachers/instructors to share their textile arts expertise and inspire, enlighten, and share their art with others in the community. 
The instructors can offer classes for any textile art discipline creating fashion to home décor to gift items, accessories, and unique new fiber art techniques. We would also like to develop a class in Color theory. The classes are usually 2-3 hours, ½ day, or full day workshops, or whatever the teacher feels is appropriate. In our new location in Denver, we offer an abundance of space and great light for the teacher and students to feel free to spread out and create!
If you would like to explore sharing your gift around the fiber arts, we would love to hear from you. All artisans in our community are welcome to contact us over the next few weeks (or months). Feel free to email Dianne Denholm, the Executive Director, at dianne@tactilearts.org, with any class ideas or questions. You may also go to tactilearts.org classes to click on the Teacher link at the middle, right on classes page to get in contact with our Education Chairperson. Download the application and submit it.
We are excited to have you share your creative expression that will inspire many others!
TACtile is looking forward to hearing from you soon!
Fiber Arts Classes at TACtile
TACtile Textile Arts Center offers several classes for artists and beginners alike:
ReDesigning Sweaters
with Donna Christopher
11/12/11, 9 am – noon
Create a new look for an old sweater by changing the design! Come see a collection of redesigned sweaters and explore style and new design ideas. Learn some quick and easy tips on how to visualize your design options.
Cut up your old sweaters or ones from a thrift store and go home wearing a new favorite sweater! As an example, you can turn a pullover or turtleneck sweater into a versatile cardigan, add panels, cut off cowls, lengthen or shorten sweaters or sleeves, or add some interesting fabric, trim, or buttons to update your sweater.
Felt Wallet w/ Needle Felted Design
with Lalania Carrillo
Sunday 11/13/11 1-4pm
Learn the art of needle felting into felt fabric. In this class we will needle felt a simple design into a piece of felt fabric. When the design is complete, we will hand-stitch the felt fabric into a lovely, lined wallet, with a button hole closure. The wallet is the perfect size to hold a checkbook, cash, or can be a small clutch.
Designing for Textiles
with David Johnson
Saturday 11/5/11 1 – 4 pm
Saturday 11/12/11 9 am til noon
This class will introduce students the design elements directly associated with tapestry weaving. We will use cut and paste techniques to create cartoons in preparation for going to the loom. We will also talk about inspiration and where ideas come from. How do we communicate in a visual language and what do we have to say?
Wooly Woolen Yarns
with Patricia Martinek
Sunday, 11/6/2011, 1 – 5 pm
The second workshop in our Sunday Spin-Ins, this class will cover what you need to learn to make a lofty warm woolen yarn. We will use hand carders and variable fibers and colors to make rolags, then use these plus prepared drumcarded batts to learn several methods of long-draw spinning including the instructor’s specialty, the ergonomic “medium” draw. Basic spinning experience required.
For more information on these classes, registration information, fees, and supplies needed, please visit our website: www.tactilearts.org.
Artists: Find Your Place in the Market
How to Find Your Place in the Market: Get Paid for your Creative Achievements
Saturday, October 22, 1-4pm with Carol Naff, TACtile’s marketing leader
TACtile Textile Arts Center
You know that you’re a great artist, so why not let others know it as well? TACtile presents a workshop for artists who want to learn the fundamentals of marketing their businesses and getting results. This workshop will teach you how to identify the best low-cost or no-cost marketing solutions for your business, avoiding dead ends and pitfalls that waste your time and energy, and the basics of creating and implementing a successful marketing plan that gets results!
From 
a class participant:
“Thank you, Carol! “Your class was invaluable to me. It really helped me understand how much is involved in, successfully, turning a hobby into a business and it gave me some great tools for making it happen. I also really enjoyed all of the interaction by the participants. What a great group! “Hope I see you at TACtile ” Tish Gallagher
And another recent participant:
“I really enjoyed the marketing class for artists. Your information on press releases in particular was very valuable. It never would have occurred to me to write a release about myself. You have given me lots to think about. Thanks again, Carol, for the wonderful class.” Carmen Kwolkoski, Montana Girl
Instructor’s Web Site: marinerco.com and solobizmarketing.wordpress.com
More information and registration at TACtilearts.org
Artists: Find Your Place in the Market
How to Find Your Place in the Market: Get Paid for your Creative Achievements
Saturday, August 27, 1-4pm with Carol Naff, TACtile’s marketing leader
- TACtile Textile Arts Center
You know that you’re a great artist, so why not let others know it as well? TACtile presents a workshop for artists who want to learn the fundamentals of marketing their businesses and getting results. This workshop will teach you how to identify the best low-cost or no-cost marketing solutions for your business, avoiding dead ends and pitfalls that waste your time and energy, and the basics of creating and implementing a successful marketing plan that gets results!
From a class participant: “Thank you, Carol!
“Your class was invaluable to me. It really helped me understand how much is involved in, successfully, turning a hobby into a business and it gave me some great tools for making it happen. I also really enjoyed all of the interaction by the participants. What a great group!
“Hope I see you at TACtile ” Tish Gallagher
More information and registration at TACtilearts.org
Winter Wonderland – Already!?
In case you’re reading this from somewhere besides Colorado, here’s a news update: it’s been snowing here. A LOT. On my patio outside there are 24 inches of the white stuff sitting on the chairs. The second school snow day of the year and it’s not even Halloween yet, and I think we’re all feeling like we’re in a winter wonderland time warp.
Actually, I love snow. It makes everything bright and clean, and reminds me of Christmases at my grandmother’s house in Salt Lake City, warm and cozy with lots of yummy cookies. There are lots of reasons to celebrate our unexpected largess of snow—water for the trees, days off from work or school, cross-country skiing in town. Most of all, though, the snow makes me itch to get into my studio and MAKE STUFF (no more playing in the garden!). It reminds me that the holidays are coming and it’s a great time to get started on gift projects.
TACtile is making it easy to get back in the studio with a wealth of great classes. Learn to make chenille scarves with Ann Carlson, beaded buttons with Jennifer Riefenberg, or felted bags and jewelry with Bonnie Kramer. Just getting your feet wet in the textile world? Take Beginning Sewing or Beginning Knitting. Our own Dianne Denholm will help you start that dream fashion boutique you’ve been thinking about but haven’t known how to create. Check out the TACtile website to see a full list of classes and register for the ones that strike your fancy.
Snow also helps us remember to slow down – in our cars, and in our life. Take time to do the things you love. Spend some time nourishing and warming your soul with beautiful textiles. Sometimes getting ‘snowed under’ is a good thing!
October 29, 2009 at 2:16 pm Kathy Mitchell-Garton Leave a comment
