I need to start by once again welcoming all new members and for the steady stream of renewals. Leandra Spangler, our membership chair, has worked very hard to keep up with this and gather all the information needed for the membership records and membership booklet. Thank you Leandra!

As the weather starts to improve and we begin to look forward to sunny days and our gardens, I hope you are also inspired to participate in the exhibitions coming up this year. The venue for ¡Fibra Vive!, in collaboration with Innovations in Textiles 8, has changed. We will be exhibiting at The Old Orchard Gallery in Webster Groves. They are very excited about working with us and I think everyone will be happy with the space. Please consider entering this juried exhibit with work that has been inspired by any Latin American theme you want to experiment with. Remember it’s “Innovations”, be “Innovative!" There will be many Innovations festivities and events happening in St. Louis beginning in August and going through October. I am really thrilled that MoFA can be an exhibiting part of the events. We will also host a two-day workshop and lecture with artist Judy Coates Perez the weekend of September 19th. More information will be delivered this summer concerning workshop opportunities and our opening reception.

Other events coming up include a Spring Art Rummage Sale at the St. Louis Artist Guild Saturday, May 2. We are asking members to donate items that we can sell in order to raise money for an LCD projector. The Guild has been used for numerous lectures for MoFA and does not have this equipment. We are really hoping that this effort from the Guild members and MoFA will provide funding for this equipment and on September 17th, Judy Coates Perez lecture will be set to go!!! Check the Message Board in March to see how you can donate items and volunteer to help.

Is MoFA only alive in St. Louis? Is MoFA only alive in Columbia? MoFA is alive where you want it to be for you! Whereever you live, MoFA can be alive in your area. It really only takes two people to form a gathering. Share your work. Exhibit at your library. Make a proposal for a workshop in your community. Have a lecture. Once you receive the MoFA Brainchild Listing of members by location (thank you Leandra) you can find your MoFA fiber mates, CONNECT, AND MAKE MoFA COME ALIVE WHERE YOU LIVE! That is participating in your organization.

Don’t forget to send all these wonderful events to Carlene Fullerton for the calendar and then send her a blurb about what happened for the Newsletter. This is our 2009 Challenge. Make MoFA Happen! We need to do it as a group and we need to do it where we live.

May all your spring flowers come back in full bloom this year and your fiber ideas continue to grow in your mindful garden.

Sincerely,
Judy Cobillas
2008-10 MoFA President

The MoFA 2009 Membership directory was mailed the week after Valentine's. If you have not received one, please contact: Leandra Spangler. At the time of the printing, we are 88 members strong. Thank you all for sending your renewals in a timely manner. I do appreciate it. The quarterly newsletter will contain updates and corrections. Please modify your membership directory to keep it current! Browse through the directory and find the people in your region — introduce yourself, have coffee, share your fiber stories, and get to know one another. Connect and make MoFA come alive where you live!

Leandra Spangler
Membership Chair

Please add the following names to your directory:

Mignon Hatton              Jeanette Fischer                 Sharon Kilfoyle               Maria Caruthers

It is with great sadness that we inform you that Sandi Smith passed away on Thursday, February 19. Leandra Spangler, longtime MoFA member, remembers Sandi as:

“…a long time fiber enthusiast, natural dyer, weaver and papermaker. If I’m not mistaken, she attended the first gathering which grew into Missouri Fiber Artists. I met Sandi in the 70’s when she was my student teacher at West Junior High School. She taught coil basketry while there and sparked my first interest in basket making. Sandi taught art for many years until her health made it too difficult. 

She was a 40 year cancer survivor and recovered from several strokes. Sandi was a fighter and remained positive no matter the prognosis. She had recently turned 60.”

Our condolences to Sandi’s family and many friends.

Tracy Deniszczuk won first place in the Interweave Press', FiberArts magazine wet felted fiber postcard contest. Tracy’s postcard will be featured in the April issue of FiberArts magazine and will be on their website March 1. Tracy is also looking to buy a used drum carder. Her contact info is needlestoneart@aim.com.

Visit Marilyn Grisham's gallery in Wichita, Kansas: THE FIBER STUDIO, 18 Commerce, Wichita, KS, 316-303-1996, fiberstudio1@sbcglobal.net. Her 2009 schedule will have each show open on the second Friday of each month and the closing artist reception on final Friday Gallery Crawl.

Joanne Kluba’s books were on exhibit at The Creative gallery, 3232 Ivanhoe Avenue, St. Louis Mo, 63159 from February 1-March 1, 2009.

Pat Owoc’s work will appear in two juried exhibitions: Women and Environment, Women’s Caucus for Art-St. Louis and Philadelphia chapters, SLCC-FV, St. Louis, MO (March 2-March 31 — opening reception March 5, 6-8). Other work will be exhibited in two more exhibitions under the auspices of Quilt Surface Design symposium, June/July at The Works Gallery, Newark, OH, and the second September/October at The Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH. She will also have work on display in the Surface Design Association member show — Surface Matters, Surface Design Association, Kansas City, MO (June-August). Pat will also be part of eARThworks 2009, Missouri Coalition for the Environment, Regional Arts Commission, St. Louis, MO (May 8-May 30 — opening reception May 8, 6-9 with a reception/auction on May 30 starting at 6pm).

New member Denise Williams has opened a small gallery in Crestwood Court, St. Louis, MO called Material Mosaics Studio & Gallery.  She will also be part of the Third Degree collaborative glass and fiber exhibition in conjunction with IT8

Deann Rubin's "Play Girl" is one of 49 art works chosen from 184 hand-woven tapestries by juror Jane Sauer to be in the American Tapestry Alliance exhibition Connections: Small Tapestry International. This show is a new small format (100 square inches maximum) exhibit sponsored by ATA. The exhibition venues are at San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles: May 5 - July 26, 2009 and Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, August 20 - September 20, 2009.

Leandra Spangler, Jo Stealey and Peggy Wyman are included in Web & Flow, a basketry exhibition co-sponsored by the National Basketry Organization March 6 - April 18, 2009 at the Textile Center in Minneapolis, MN.

As one of ten invited artists, Leandra Spangler created "The Cricket in the Thorn Tree", a mixed media quilt to be auctioned in The Invitational Reverse Auction of Fiberart, March 24-27. Great art, great cause. 100% of the proceeds are donated directly to the American Cancer Society through Fiberart for A Cause. Click here for more information.

New member, Jackie Weatherly (www.jlpweatherly.com) has a free-hand machine embroidery piece at Fontbonne University at their 8 Inch Miniature Art Competition that runs through February 27. The opening reception has already passed (February 6), but the show is still ongoing for a couple of more weeks.  Click here for the Fontbonne Gallery site.

New member Jennifer Weigel's floor installation Dutch Elm Disease, on display at the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri in Cape Girardeau, was recently featured in an article in the Southeast Missourian newspaper as well as the cover of the Arts section. Her Missouri Magic painting was among only three artworks chosen for print through the Les Bourgeois Collector's Label competition; a preview party will be held at Les Bourgeois Vineyards, just outside of Columbia in July, and Jennifer will have a solo showing of artworks on display from November 2009-February 2010. Jennifer will be performing her new Bitch piece in order to raise awareness of both puppy mills and derogatory labels in the upcoming WCA Women & Environment show at Florissant Valley Community College. Jennifer is also working towards a collaborative glass and fiber fusion exhibition called Common Threads to be held at Third Degree Glass on Delmar in September in conjuction with IT8.

Saturday, March 21, 2009 10am-12:30pm :: Board Meeting
Scenic Regional Library, 912 South Hwy 47 Warrenton, MO, 636-456-3321. All members are invited to attend.

Sunday, March 22, 2009 1-3pm :: STL MoFA Chapter Meeting
St. Louis Artists’ Guild, 3rd floor studio. All members are invited to attend!

Friday, May 1, 2009  3-7pm
Drop off tax-deductible donations at the Spring Clean Your Studio Rummage Sale, St. Louis Artists’ Guild.

Saturday, May 2, 2009 1am-4pm :: Spring Clean Your Studio Rummage Sale
St. Louis Artists’ Guild. Proceeds to benefit MoFA and the St. Louis Artists’ Guild.

May 12, 2009 :: Aberration Opening
Boone County Historical Museum, Columbia, MO

Thursday, September 17, 2009 :: Judy Coates Perez Lecture
St. Louis Artists' Guild, St. Louis, MO

Friday, September 18, 2009 :: !Fibra, Vive! Opening
Old Orchard Gallery, Webster Groves, MO
 
Saturday & Sunday, September 20 & 21, 2009 :: Workshop with Judy Coats Perez
St. Louis Artists’ Guild, St. Louis, MO

March 13, 14 & 15, 2009 :: Fiber Retreat
Lincoln University, Jefferson City, MO

March 28, 2009 9am-4pm :: Spring Craft and Fiber Show
Camden County Museum, Hwy 54 and V Road, Linn Creek, MO

March 28-29, 2009 :: Midwest Alpaca Owners and Breeders Association Invitational Alpaca Show
American Royal-Hale Arena, Kansas City, MO

May 15-June 30, 2009 :: FATE
Columbia, MO

May 16, 2009 10am-4pm :: Highland Fiber Artists Fiber Fair 2009 “15 and Going Green”
Webster County Fairgrounds, Marshfield, MO. Click here to email your request for information.

May 28-31, 2009 :: International Surface Design Conference
Kansas City, MO

June 13-28, 2009 :: Quilt Surface Design Symposium
Columbus, OH

June 25-27, 2009 :: Midwest Weavers Conference
H osted by the Iowa Federation of Hand Weavers and Spinners, Grinnell, IA

September 25-27, 2009 :: Innovations in Textiles 8
St. Louis, MO

Head to Toe: Fiber Art Wear from the Funky to the Sublime.
Cash awards. Juried show. Digital Submission (on CD). Entry Fee. Deadline for entries July 1, 2009. Exhibition is in conjunction with Innovations in Textiles 8, taking place in the St. Louis area August through October 2009. Entries should range from the Funky to the Sublime, Head to Toe (excluding jewelry) and challenge the notion of functionality. For details, send an SASE to St. Louis Artists' Guild, Two Oak Knoll Park, St. Louis, MO 63105, 314-727-6266 or email Gallery Director Gina Alvarez. You may also download a prospectus here.

February 24-May 3, 2009 :: Small Expressions
Mississippi Craft Center, Ridgeland, MS.  An annual international juried exhibit sponsored by the Handweavers’ Guild of America, Inc.

May 23-September 27, 2009 :: Quilt National
Dairy Barn Art Center, Athens, OH

June 12-September 6, 2009 :: Small Expressions 2009
Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA

The Columbia Weavers and Spinners Guild is holding its annual Youth Fiber Art Competition and Exhibition from March 8-May 10, 2009. The student work nominated by Mid-Missouri art educators will be on display at the Walters Boone County Heritage Museum in Columbia, Missouri. As a guild member and MOFA member, I find this opportunity for my students to be very motivating. Finding new ways to share my love of fiber art with my junior high students is fun and challenging.  Students and their families enjoy the reception and awards ceremony; this year it will be held on March 8 from 2-4pm at the Museum.

Student work is judged by guest judges who are looking for craftsmanship, creativity and originality. MoFA members who participate include Bonnie Ahrens (who is the main organizer of the event) Jamie Dack and, myself, Jennifer Wax.

Ten art exhibitions will take place simultaneously for the 2nd biennial series of fiber art exhibitions in downtown Columbia this summer to coincide with the International Surface Design Association (SDA) conference being held in Kansas City from May 28-31.

The Fiber Art Tour and Exhibitions (FATE) will run from May 15-June 30 and feature both established and emerging fiber artists in a combination of one-person and group shows. Featured internationally known artists will include Lanny Bergner, who works with textile techniques using industrial materials, Jo Stealey, a designer of sculptural handmade paper and Luanne Rimel, who combines photography and stitched cloth.

Besides several one-person shows, a series of group shows are being curated at other venues around Columbia and will showcase University of Missouri textile graduate students and alumni, as well as local and regional artists. Additional highlights this year include the Pre-Columbian Peruvian Textile Collection at the Museum of Art and Archaeology and Missouri Fiber Artists (MoFA) at the Boone County Historical Museum.
 
SDA conference delegates will be able to tour the Columbia exhibits thanks to a post-conference tour on Monday, June 1. Delegates will be brought by bus to Columbia for a full-day tour and includes lunch and a tour of the Peruvian Textile Collection at the Museum of Art and Archeology. Click here for information about the tour. Tour costs are $65. Participants wishing to provide their own transpotation are able to join the tour at no cost (lunch excluded).

For more information and list of venues and artists, contact Hannah Reeves, 573-864-6720; Jo Stealey, 573-882-4439; or Jennifer Perlow, 573-442-4831; or view the website www.fatecolumbia.com. High resolution images available on request.

From September 1-October 31, 2009, twenty-one galleries will feature textiles/fiber art during this biennial fiber art event in the greater St. Louis area with solo, invitational group and juried competition exhibitions, special lectures, workshops and family activities.

On “Innovations Weekend” September 25-27, there will be a free gallery walk and talk, a panel discussion and a fiber performance. On October 3, a bus tour of outlying galleries (fee TBD) is offered.

For information, contact Deann Rubin 314-454-6976; Anne Murphy 314 367-4527; or Saskya Bryon.

Spring 2009 Book Arts Classes at Paper Birds Studio
4175 Loughborough Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63116
If you are interested, please call Joanne at (314) 616-2257 to reserve a spot.

The Carousel Book
Saturday, March 21, 2009, 9am-3:30pm
The Carousel book is a set of panoramic views bound on an accordion structure that causes the views to recede in space. Bring a collection of 5 large (12 x 9) photos to create your pages. Other collage elements you want to use are encouraged. Cost: $90.00, includes paper and cover stock needed to make your book. 

Coptic Books
Saturday, April 4, 2009, 9am-3pm   
Coptic sewings are some of the earliest forms of sewing signatures. Have fun learning some open stitching and learn to embellish the spines of your book.
Cost: $90.00, plus $10.00 for materials.

Lidded Box with Partitions
Saturday, April 11, 2009, 9am-2pm
Learn to make a lidded box with sections for storing different items. Previous box making recommended. Bring ephemera to decorate and personalize the lid of your box.            
Cost: $60.00, plus $10.00 for materials.

Pamphlet Book
Saturday, May 9, 2009, 9am-2pm
Learn to sew one and two signature books together and bind with a hardbound cover. Perfect for long poems, short stories. Participants will bind a blank book, or can bring text blocks pre-printed to bind in the workshop.
Cost: $60.00, plus $10.00 for materials.

Spring Classes at Bear Creek Paperworks in Columbia, MO
Leandra Spangler, (573) 442-3360, Columbia, MO, www.bearcreekpaperworks.com

Celtic Cards
Saturday, March 7, 2009, 10am-4pm
Learn techniques to design and create your own Celtic style interlaced “knot” design; carve the design into a flexible mold material; learn to cast handmade paper to make dimensional greeting cards. No design, carving or papermaking experience is necessary. Class size: 4-12 participants. Click here to register.
Cost: $49.00, includes all materials.

Makuk Inspired Jewelry
Saturday, April 4, 2009, 10am-4 pm
Create contemporary jewelry inspired by the makuk. A makuk is a traditional Ojibwa basket form for gathering sap made by folding and stitching bark. Using this design as a starting place, we will use patterned paste paper to fold, lace and embellish with bead embroidery or bead fringe. Create second makuk (pendant or pin) of copper sheeting. Learn to texture and oxidize copper to fold and lace with waxed linen. Each piece will be your individualized, one of a kind personal adornment. No design experience is necessary. Class size: 4-12 participants. Click here to register.
Cost: $49.00, includes all materials.

Basket Birdhouse
Monday & Tuesday, May 4 & 5, 2009, 6-9 pm
Use random weaving techniques to create a basket designed for the birds. Your one of a kind basket using reed, vines and other natural materials, can be placed in your yard to attract nesting birds or use it as a beautiful addition to your home's interior. Yarn, fabric strips and other materials can be included for embellishments. You can be as natural or wild and crazy as you would like. No basket making experience is necessary. Class size: 4-12 participants. Click here to register.
Cost: $49.00, includes all materials.

The following classes have been scheduled through Central Methodist University. Participants can earn two hours graduate credit or undergraduate credit from Central Methodist University or may audit for no college credit.

Paper Pulp from Plants
Monday-Friday, May 18-22, 2009, 9am-4pm
Bear Creek Paperworks in Columbia, MO
Learn the process of making paper from local plants from harvesting, preparations, cooking, beating to forming sheets. If you’ve never made paper from beater processed plant pulps, this is an opportunity to explore a variety of plant fibers (day lily leaves, pampas grass, cat tails, and more). Techniques will include: flat sheet forming, wet collage, watermarks, pulp inclusions, pulp preparation and drying methods will be discussed. Students will construct a mould and deckle. Great for beginning or experienced papermakers. Class size: 4-12 participants. Click here to register.
$430.00 Graduate course fee plus $35 materials fee to instructor
$350.00 Undergraduate course fee plus $35 materials fee to instructor
$350.00 Audit course fee plus $35 materials fee to instructor

Handmade Books: Simple Structures
Monday-Friday, June 8-12, 2009, 9am-4pm
Bear Creek Paperworks in Columbia, MO
Learn folding without measuring, invisible joining, removable covers, hard covers and closures, as you create a sampling of books using simple structures. This workshop is action packed. Participants will learn several one-page book options; flag, photo, envelope books based on the accordion fold; use the clam/lotus fold to create star, inchworm and ornament books and stitched structures using pamphlet binding and stab binding. Class size: 4-12 participants. Click here to register.
$430.00 Graduate course fee plus $35 materials fee to instructor
$350.00 Undergraduate course fee plus $35 materials fee to instructor
$350.00 Audit course fee plus $35 materials fee to instructor

Hand Papermaking:  Experimentation and Exploration
Monday-Friday, July 20-24, 2009, 9am-4pm
Bear Creek Paperworks in Columbia, MO
Emphasizing experimentation with papermaking techniques, participants will use cotton linter pulp to make many samples of handmade paper. Techniques will include: flat sheet forming, layering color blocks, layering shapes of color (stencil/shaped deckles), shaping pulps by hand, creating textures (impressing, appliqué, hand manipulation), pulp painting and wet collage. Use of watermarks, pulp inclusions, pulp coloration, paper chemistry (sizing, formation aid), pulp preparation from linters and drying methods will be discussed. Students will construct a mould and deckle. Class size: 4-12 participants. Click here to register.
$430.00 Graduate course fee plus $35 materials fee to instructor
$350.00 Undergraduate course fee plus $35 materials fee to instructor
$350.00 Audit course fee plus $35 materials fee to instructor 

Flat to Form: Using Paper as a Sculptural Medium
Monday-Friday, July 27-31, 2009, 9am-4pm
Bear Creek Paperworks in Columbia, MO
Learn to turn flat sheets of beautiful papers into three dimensional forms by casting (using found objects and constructed molds) and creating reed, stick or wire sculptural forms as armatures. This workshop will introduce you to the versatility of paper as a sculptural medium.Participants will create three dimensional forms from paper using both wet and dry techniques. Finishing techniques, embellishment and archival qualities of paper will be discussed. Class size: 4-12 participants. Click here to register.
$430.00 Graduate course fee plus $35 materials fee to instructor
$350.00 Undergraduate course fee plus $35 materials fee to instructor
$350.00 Audit course fee plus $35 materials fee to instructor

Spring workshops at Sharon Kilfoyle’s Dye Studio
1151 E Nashville Church Rd, Ashland MO 65010, 573-999-9247, sharon@sharonkilfoyle.com

Design a Garment with Shibori Dyeing and Nuno Felt
Saturday & Sunday, April 25-26, 2009, 9am-5pm
This two-day workshop will take you through the steps of designing a couture (one-of-a-kind) garment. We’ll choose color and pattern for your fabric, using shibori dyeing techniques in this process; then produce a nuno felted fabric worthy of your design. Samples and patterns will be available to jump-start your design process, and I will work individually with participants to use materials and colors creatively but appropriately. Silks and wool will be available at inexpensive prices, and you may also bring your own fabrics, yarns and embellishments, as well as patterns and garment ideas. Participants should go home with fabric pieces ready to use in garment construction. Limit 10 participants.
Cost: $150 for the 2-day workshop.

Dye Day in the Studio
Saturday, May 16, 2009, 9am-5pm
Here’s your opportunity to do all the dyeing and discharging you don’t want to do at home. Start or finish dyeing projects, experiment with some shibori techniques you haven’t tried yet, such as itajime (fold and clamp), tesuji (rope wrapping),  kumo (spiderweb), and stitching patterns such as ori-nui and maki-nui, as well as the ever-popular arashi bottle wrapping for pleated scarves or flat arashi patterns. I’ll be ready to give individual attention to your needs and questions, and give instruction in shibori techniques, discharging, overdyeing, and color mixing. Dyes, discharge, bottles for arashi, ropes, boards and clamps, needles, etc. will be available in the studio, as well as silks of differing weights and textures at inexpensive prices. Bring your own fabrics too, as well as rubber gloves and unbreakable binding thread. Limit 10 participants.
Cost: $75.

Nuno Felt Recycling
Sunday, May 17, 2009, 9am-5pm
Beyond the fact that it’s politically correct to recycle, most fiber artists are “dyeing” to use up all their fabric collections in a creative way. This workshop will show you how to use nuno felting to turn those samples and remnants into art and couture. Using dyeing, overdyeing, and felting techniques, we’ll design from these collectables to create incredible fabrics with unique pattern and texture. Bring your fabrics (including cottons, polyesters, etc., sheer to medium weight is best, but heavy fabrics can also be incorporated), knits, yarns, etc. to use in your work. I will also have silks and merino wool (in many colors for the felting process) available at inexpensive prices to pull all these pieces together. You’ll walk away with art fabric and more storage space at home. Feel free to call and consult about what to bring to the felting table. Limit 10 participants.
Cost: $75.

Please call Sharon for more information about what to bring, how to get to her studio, where to stay overnight, etc. And if you can’t make these dates and want personal one-on-one instruction or studio time, call for arrangements 573-999-9247 or email sharon@sharonkilfoyle.com.

Hello from True Blue Fiber Friends (TBFF) Fiber Arts Network, Columbia, MO 
TBFF is proud to be a merchant member of Missouri Fiber Artists and to extend a 5% discount to MOFA members. We offer space to Missouri artists to sell finished fiber arts pieces at a very reasonable consignment. Of course, we sell all of the quality yarn and tools you've come to know us for. We would also like to invite you to give us a proposal to teach your fiber related craft at TBFF. Our motto is "if we don't know how to do it, we'll find someone to teach us all."  You could design a 3-hour, 6-hour or 2-day workshop. Check out our website at www.truebluefiberfriends.com. We offer a variety of fiber arts related (felting, dyeing, spinning, weaving, tatting, crochet) and knitting classes. Stop by in person next time you're in Columbia!  We'd love to see what you've been working on!
Bex, Shella, Rose & Charlie, too!

Silvia Haralambova is a contemporary Bulgarian artist working in the field of fine and textile art, particularly in weaving. She lives and works in the town Pazardzhik, Bulgaria. Some of her pieces can be seen on her webpage. Silvia Haralambova and her husband have opened an Artist Retreat in the village Patalenitza in the Rhodopa Mountains, Bulgaria. They invite textile artists, fine art artists, actors, writers, poets and translators from abroad to come and create in quiet countryside surroundings and find inspiration for their work. A house, atelier and 650 sq. m. yard are available. Click here for more details and information about the location, the conditions, the rates etc. Being near the village of Vetrendol — well-known for its interesting biological species — makes it especially suitable for artists working in the field of bird art.

The Red Thread Project
The Red Thread Project is a community endeavor involving hundreds of youth and adults in creating art and performing community service Created by fiber artist Lindsay Obermeyer. Its philosophy is based on the Chinese proverb, “An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet regardless of time, place or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but it will never break.” The project involves individuals who create a hat, knitted or crocheted, which is attached to a red cord, then worn in a community performance. After the performance, the hats are detached and given to local not-for- profit organizations for distribution to children and adults with cancer. Currently, Lindsay is working on a Red Thread Project in St. Louis, MO with Springboard to Learning and Young Audiences. A performance of the Red Thread Project will be held on Sunday, September 27 at the St. Louis Artists’ Guild and will be part of the Innovations weekend in September. Details about how you can work with this project will be given in our summer newsletter.

MoFA needs volunteers for Aberration our Membership Show opening on May 12 in Columbia, MO. Help is needed in receiving, installation, publicity, and the reception. Contact Leandra Spangler to volunteer.

Donations needed! Clean out your yarn stash and donate it to the St. Louis Artists’ Guild for the Ted Thread Project. All yarns welcomed, natural and synthetic, but they should be no thinner than sock yarn or fingering yarn. Donations are being accepted March-August.

Donations are also needed for the Spring Clean Your Studio Rummage Sale. Bring your tax-deductible items to the Artists’ Guild on May 1 from 3-7pm.