ZOOM WORKSHOP RECORDING
Date: April 9, 2025
Instructor: Christine Miller
Workshop Description: Whether you have been weaving, spinning, or dyeing for a long time or are just entering the exciting world of the fiber arts, your practice with process, technique, and concept can grow and deepen. Christine leads this interactive Zoom workshop illustrating ways to power up your individual practice through inquiry to unlock new ideas and pathways to explore using the 8 Studio Habits of Mind.
Attendees of the workshop will participate in both a large group Zoom environment led by Christine, and in break out rooms for smaller group discussion. We will all share our thoughts and insights about how we already use the Habits of Mind, or how we can deepen our practice with them.
Before the workshop begins, attendees will choose a person or idea that will be their central inspiration - this could be an artist, a material, a process, technique, weave structure, or an idea such as color. This inspiration will be the jumping off point for the attendee to use as we examine the 8 Studio Habits of Mind. Attendees will download Christine’s free resource ‘Fiber Art…Become the Artist You Want to Be’ before the workshop from her online studio https://christinekmillercourses.com. The Habits and concepts behind them come from Studio Thinking 3: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education, Sheridan, Kimberly M., et al. 2023. The research comes from Project Zero in the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
The in depth examination of these concepts along with an inspirational focal point will model for the attendee how they can work with the Studio Habits of Mind to deepen their creative practice of creating cloth, fiber artistic expressions, or build on their knowledge and practice of utilizing the Elements of Art and the Principles of Design.
Supplies: Please bring to class the free Handout
https://christinekmillercourses.com/p/become-the-artist
Attendee Limit: Unlimited
Note: This workshop is offered as a VIDEO ONLY workshop for one week (Friday to Thursday) following the live Zoom presentation.
Instructor Bio: Christine has 50 years of weaving experience and is a retired art educator that is nationally recognized for her innovative thinking and ability to lead groups of people, helping them grow and strengthen their creative skills. She is a lifelong fiber artist with experience in weaving, sewing, basketry, embroidery, felting, dyeing, knitting, crocheting, and fiber sculpture. Christine continues bringing fiber arts into the educational world through Visiting Artist programs and workshops and by conducting professional development sessions for school districts across the state. She teaches online classes about weaving with wire, and just published a book with Schiffer Publishing, Weaving with Wire: Creating Woven Metal Fabric.
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This workshop is offered as a recorded VIDEO ONLY. The video will be available for viewing for one week on Friday through Thursday of the week following the Zoom workshop.
Only members of the Weavers' Guild of Boston may attend.
You will receive an e-mailed link and reminder just prior to the session.