IN PERSON WORKSHOP
Date: September 10, 2025
Instructor: Sondra Bogdonoff
Workshop Description:The loom has specific strengths that limit and define what you can and cannot make. Yet those constraints can also be places to explore more deeply, to push boundaries, to make new discoveries.
The workshop will challenge our assumptions about weaving and uncover points of decision making that push the limits of what can be constructed. We’ll experiment with the possibilities through paper weaving, an easy, quick way to express a wide range of ideas. We’ll consider color, texture, tension, three dimensions, structure, pattern, transparency, and more.
Participants will leave with new ideas and possibilities to pursue as well as several finished paper samples.
Supplies: Please bring: exacto knife, metal ruler, cutting board, paper scissors (I will have some of all of these to share as well), a collection of papers, yarn, ribbons, and other interesting materials you might weave into your work. (I will also have plenty of materials to share).
Attendee Limit: 15
Instructor Bio: My education began in architecture, I ended up a weaver in Maine. After several years of commission work, I started a line of vests and coats that I marketed at American Craft Association shows, as well as in galleries nationwide. After ten years I phased out fairs (three kids will do that) and worked as a university administrator for the next 20 years - weaving evenings and weekends. In 2015 I returned to my studio, where I spend most every day.
Weaving’s combination of structure and opportunity inspires me. There is no going back in weaving, and no jumping ahead. I love the transition from unwoven threads to woven - line to dot - which is always in front of me on the loom, changing and growing, row by row. There is a rhythm, and a physicality that demands my complete attention. I find great joy in this ancient process of creation.
The Loom: Constraints and Opportunities
In-person workshop at the September meeting.
10am - 12 noon