Archive for February, 2010

What If You Were a WPA Artist Today?

Published Date: February 27th, 2010
Category: MWG Posts

Last Sunday my husband needed to go down to the library at Wayne State to check out a book he wanted for his class.  I decided to go with him and he ended up not checking out the book he wanted and I ended up checking out two books to use to research weaving from [...]

Inpiration

Published Date: February 19th, 2010
Category: MWG Posts

Great presentation today by member Lois Bryant on inspiration and what you do with it.  Very interesting to see pictures of color studies and magazine cut-outs she had done in grade school or college and how you could see the tie in to current work.  She had us do an exercise where we cut out [...]

Not What You Expect at the Optical Store

Published Date: February 12th, 2010
Category: MWG Posts

Tonight I was on my way to the Roots store to buy my traditional Winter Olympic hat and I saw a loom in the window of Optiks on Maple in downtown Birmingham.  I go in and they have two different fund raisers for different weaving project.
The Namtegna Project is sponsored by Cranbrook Kingswood Weaving Studio. [...]