10/9/09-10/10/09-2009 Fiber Festival
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The Leelanau Community Cultural Center is sponsoring the ninth annual Fiber Festival on Friday, October 9 from 5 to 8 pm and Saturday, October 10 from 10 am to 5 pm at the Old Art Building in Leland. Artists with original fiber art will exhibit and sell their work in mediums of paper, wearable art (clothing), textile bags, weaving, art quilts, fiber sculpture, knits and yarns. Admission is free.
The featured artist this year is Krys Lieffers of Turtle Island Fibers in Traverse City with fine handwoven, hand dyed rugs made of 100% cotton from post industrial waste and milled in Tennessee. Krys will demonstrate and invite participation on how the raw yarn gets wound into skeins and the warp winding to prepare for the dye process along with the finishing work of sprout clipping, seaming and hemming after the rug is woven. She will also include a retrospective exhibit of wool rugs, pillows and bear rugs. Krys exhibits regularly at the Suttons Bay Art Festival, the Alden Depot Art Festival and at American Craft Council shows in Baltimore, St. Paul and San Francisco with many awards and ribbons including a best of show award. Her work has been shown at the San Jose Textile Museum, the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art and at the Kentucky Museum of Arts and Crafts.
Fiber Festival exhibitors are Cynthia Hilliard, recycled wool items and gourd art; Jan Hinds, paper vessels; Melissa Kelenske, yarns and spinning fiber; Linda Kustra, hand knit wearables; Marie Lamothe, art quilts; Ann Loveless, landscape art quilts; Pat McKean, felted bags and jewelry; Krystal Ann Miller, tapestry bags; Elizabeth Neddo, natural dyed handspun yarns; Chris Roosien, hand-painted yarns; Becky Ross and Julie Funk, boiled wool items; Carol Salerno, hand woven scarves; Christie Trout, coiled pine needle baskets; Amy Tyler, handspun yarns and knits; Desiree Vaughn, hand dyed or painted fabric and tees; Barbara Waddell, mixed media fiber and Kristen Underhill Welch, felted vessels.
In collaboration with quilters of the Suttons Bay Congregational Church, a display of handmade quilts will be hung during the Fiber Festival. The Suttons Bay quilt exhibit is on Saturday, October 10 from 10 am to 4 pm and features a quilt raffle to benefit local projects. Call 271-6036 about the “Season of Sharing” exhibit.
Opening: Friday, October 9
5:00-8:00 pm
Exhibition: Saturday, October 10
11:00 am-5:00 pm
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