Fiber Classes at Crossroads Art Studios

INTRODUCTION TO FELTING by Nino Hecht
1 session, 4.5 Hours
Tuition $50 plus material fee of $25 due at Registration
Class includes a 1/2 hour lunch break, students may bring their own lunch

Make your own 12X15 decorative hand-felted piece of WALL ART using wet and needle felting techniques and YOUR IMAGINATION!!!! NO prior experience necessary. Workshop will introduce you to an ancient craft of felt making. You will use various wool fibers and other embellishments (for surface design), observe interaction of organic fibers when water and agitation shape and transform them into flat piece of art.
Students will need to bring two old towels. To register, please call Nino directly at (314) 223 6528, email: ninuka.art@gmail.com , or call Crossroads Art Studios at 314-581-3748.

Dates:
Saturday, December 13, 10am-2:30pm
Saturday, January 10, 10am-2:30pm


HAND FELTED SCARVES by Nino Hecht
1 session, 6 Hours
Tuition: $60 plus material fee of $30 due at Registration
Class includes a 1/2 hour lunch break, students may bring their own lunch

Make your own hand-felted scarf using NUNO or Laminate felting techniques (size 10X50). NO prior experience necessary. You will use sheer silk and colorful wool fibers to create one of a kind, gorgeous, lightweight and a beautifully organic textile. Learn how wool and silk come together with addition of water and agitation to create felted scarves. Students will need to bring two old towels.
To register please call Nino directly at (314) 223 6528, email: ninuka.art@gmail.com , or call Crossroads Art Studios at 314-581-3748.

Dates:
Saturday, December 20 9am-3pm
Saturday, January 17 9am-3pm

Send Us Your News/Images/Ideas...

Dear WCA Members,

I have created a new Members' Blogs section on the WCA-STL blog. (Check it out on the right, below the archive.) If you are blogging, please send me a link to your blog and I will link it from the WCA-STL one. This way we can all be more interconnected.

And please don't forget to let me know what you're up to for the member announcements on the blog. We would love to post what you are doing. Just email me a brief description of your project, along with a photo if you want a photo posted, and I will copy it verbatim to the blog.

Also, the blog is a great place to post some in progress works so you can get feedback on them. Are you having difficulties getting the materials to do what you want or don't know what materials to use? Do you want feedback to discern whether or not your work is conveying what you have to say? Post a picture of it and see what people think or can suggest.

Please email your blogs, announcements and works in progress to the exhibitions address.
wcastlexhibit@charter.net

- Jennifer Weigel
Exhibitions Chair

Annual Business Meeting

St. Louis Chapter of the
Women's Caucus for Art
BUSINESS MEETING

Tuesday November 25
7pm
Olivette Community Center
9723 Grandview Dr., #6, 63132

Agenda:
-Election of 2009-10 Board
-End of the year financial reports
-December Holiday Party
-Upcoming exhibitions
-Committee reports
-National/Regional updates

-Members SHOW and TELL
Everyone is invited to bring a piece of recent work to share with the other members, Talk about your techniques and motivation. Gain valuable insight from other members.

Erica Popp at Spirits

I'm sorry I didn't post this in time for you to join us at
WCA' Night Out'
Thursday November 20
6:30 pm
Spirits restaurant
300 State Street in Alton, Ilinois

Featuring the work of WCA member Erica Popp.
Please stop by Spirits and check out Erica's work.

Come out to see the exhibition and have drinks or dinner. Support the business that is supporting us. Be sure to come out and show your support!

Dail Chambers' Studio Sale

Dail Chambers has invited everyone to a studio art and craft sale.

When: Sunday, Nov. 16th from 1-4pm
Where: 4115A Botanical Ave. 63110
What: drawings, collage, jewelry, misc.

Raising Our Voices Preview

Here are some photos of the Raising Our Voices show hung, to tantalize you to come to the reception.

Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts
3151 Cherokee Street
Nov. 14 - Nov. 29
reception Nov. 14, 6 - 9 PM
The gallery will be open the last three Saturdays in November from 1 - 4 PM or by appointment.

Raising Our Voices

Exhibition Opening
RAISING OUR VOICES

Raising Our Voices is a traveling, all-inclusive Mail Art Show sponsored by the St. Louis Chapter of the Women's Caucus for Art (www.wca-stl.org). The artworks have been created by members of the WCA-STL as well as the CWCA, the Chicago Chapter of the Women's Caucus for Art. The exhibition's opening reception will take place at Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts on Cherokee Street in St. Louis on Friday, November 14th, 6-9pm. The exhibition will run until Saturday, November 29, and then will travel to Liz Long Gallery in Chicago, Illinois.

Raising Our Voices will benefit the Differently Minded Art Studio at the Urban Art Retreat in Chicago. The Differently Minded Art Studio is founded on the principal of being an all-inclusive studio, where any person, regardless of ability can make art. One focus of the Differently Minded Art Studio is to decrease the stigma of having a mental illness. By working alongside someone with a mental illness, a person becomes more comfortable with the "other", and starts seeing him/her as just another unique person making art. For a person with a mental illness, it helps to be seen as an artist, not a "crazy person".

Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts is located at 3151 Cherokee Street in St. Louis. The gallery will be open the last three Saturdays in November from 1-4pm. or by appointment. Raising Our Voices will open at Liz Long Gallery, the Urban Art Retreat in Chicago on December 13th, with an opening reception on Saturday, January 10th, 2009 from 1-4pm. The exhibition will run until January 31, 2009. Gallery hours are Saturdays, 11am-4pm or by appointment. For more information about either venue, visit www.fortgondo.com and www.urbanartretreat.com.

Carol paints and sculpts from the heart.

Check out some of Carol Horstman's work at:
Provisions Gourmet Market
11615 Olive Blvd.
M - F, 7 - 8
Sat, 8 - 7
November 2008