Plan to spend Saturday, May 15th with fellow fiber enthusiasts expanding your textile knowledge about textiles, textile techniques, and ideas. Make new fiber friends; enjoy your familiar ones. Be inspired!
The theme for this year’s conference is Connections, and it is the hope that everyone who attends will connect with fiber, other weavers, and spinners from across the state, as well as those who have gone before us and those who will carry on.
The Handweavers Guild of Boulder is honored to have the sponsorship of the CU Museum of Natural History, which makes our location on campus possible. The CU Museum extended the year-long exhibit Navajo Weaving: Diamonds, Dreams, Landscapes so conference attendees can view the exhibit. A special reception will be held Friday evening, May 14th, 4:00 to 6:00 pm. See you in May!
----- Sally Kuhn and Jane Patrick, Co-chairs
Registration fee: $45.00 (after May 1, 2010: $50) Online brochures and registration forms are available.
The Handweavers Guild of Boulder juried show Fiber Reconnections will be on display in the University Memorial Center (UMC) during the conference. We hope you'll stop by to see the talents and versatility of our HGB members.
We've planned some opportunities around the official day for our far-flung friends and those close to home, also.
Visit: Navajo Weaving: Diamonds, Dreams, Landscapes at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History
Shop: Shuttles, Spindles & Skeins and Gypsy Wools in Boulder, and Recycled Lamb in Lakewood
Tour: Schacht Spindle Company, tours at 10:00 am and 2:00 pm
Attend: Reception hosted by the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, 4:00 -- 6:00 pm. Come and view the special textile exhibit, Navajo Weaving: Diamonds, Dreams, and Landscapes. This remarkable exhibit of textiles from the museum’s Joe Ben Wheat Collection features pieces which have never previously been displayed. The Museum is located in the Henderson Building on the University of Colorado-Boulder Campus. 303-492-6892.
Eat: Join others for dinner out in Boulder, hosted by an HGB member.
| 8:00-9:00 | Registration and Guild Table Set-Up
Glenn Miller Ballroom, University Memorial Center, CU Boulder |
| 9:00 | Opening and Welcome:
We’ve invited Patrick Kociolek, director of the CU Museum of Natural History, to say a few words. |
| 9:30-10:30 | Keynote Speaker: Ann Lane Hedlund
A Turning Point: When Modern Navajo Weaving Became Art Currently the Director of the Gloria F. Ross Center for Tapestry Studies at the Arizona State Museum on the campus of the University of Arizona in Tucson, Anne Lane Hedlund is the editor of the important work, Blanket Weaving of the Southwest by Joe Ben Wheat. Her remarks, inspired by the collection as well as the current exhibit of Navajo textiles at the CU Museum of Natural History, will cover mid-20th century history of trading and sales through galleries and museum exhibitions, including side stories and personalities. |
| 10:45-11:45 | Keynote Speaker: Suzanne MacAulay
From One End ot the Other: Weaving Across Time and Space Suzanne MacAulay is an associate professor of art history at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. She has researched and written about many aspects of textile arts with special emphasis on the culture of creation. She is the author of Stitching Rites: Colcha Embroidery among the Northern Rio Grande. This presentation looks at weaving practices and design elements cross-culturally. The initial focus is to visually probe the different ways the aesthetic of place and the profound meaning of locale influence Navajo artistic and cultural heritage. The concept of weaving as a gathering place of mythological impluse, environmental factors, and artistic ingenuity is then globally extended to such cultures as Guatemalan Maya and South Pacific Maori. |
| 11:45-12:15 | Question and Answer
Both speakers will address questions from the audience and engage in dialog about their textile research. |
| 12:15-1:15 | Lunch
CU catering will provide a delicious lunch. Participants will have an opportunity to meet and converse with others with similar interests at our lunch topic tables. |
| 1:15-1:30 | Guild Introductions
A representative from each guild will talk about how they connect with each other and their communities, particularly special outreach initiatives. |
| 1:30-1:55 | Mini Demonstrations
Members and friends of the Handweavers Guild of Boulder will present short demonstrations in their areas of specialty. The list of topics is wide and varied. This informal learning time will provide an opportunity to sample new ideas and techniques. There is no pre-sign up for these presentations.
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| 3:05-3:30 | Wrap Up and Door Prizes |
| 4:00-5:00 | Navajo Weaving: Diamons, Dreams, Landscapes
Another opportunity to visit the exhibit at the CU Museum, a short walk from our meeting hall. |
We have invitied area shops and teachers to plan classes for this day so that participants can take advantage of their weekend fiber extravaganza. Workshops to be announced. Sign up for these workshops at the shops.
The following is a list of the topics and presentators available:
There are several choices for lunch. Specify your choice on your registration form. Lunches include fresh fruit, salad, brownie, and chocolate mints, gluten-free cookie, or vegan cookie. Drinks include Coke products, iced tea, coffee (high test and decaf), herbal and black tea, and water.
Boulder has a wide range of hotels and inns. Visit Visiting Boulder website to peruse a list of Boulder accommodations. Some hotels fairly close are Boulder University Inn, Best Western Boulder Inn, Best Western Golden Buff Lodge, and The Mellenium Harvest House.
To promote our Connections theme, several members of HGB are opening their homes to conference attendees. The cost is $20 per night payable with your registration. You will be contacted by our hospitality committee for additional details should you choose this option.
Parking is close by in the Euclid AutoPark, east of the University Memorial Center. On Friday parking is $1.75 per hour. Weekend parking is $3.00 per day.
Guild tables are worth the price of admission! See what other textile enthusiasts are doing as well as learn about what makes each guild unique and special. This is an opportunity for guilds to strut their stuff with a table displaying member’s best fiber creations. Table rental is $10 and each guild may rent up to two tables. Reservations must be made by May 1st. The tables are 8 feet long and will be set up in the Glenn Miller Ballroom perimeter. Set up begins at 8:00 am on May 15th.
The goal is to have every guild in the state participate in the guild displays. Prizes will be awarded for the best display, as well as individual prizes for pieces of note chosen by our judges. The Colorado Basketmakers Guild will sponsor the Junko Kawada Brackin Award for Basketry to honor their late friend.
Each conference participant will receive a fun bag of treats at registration.
What is Colorado Weavers Day? The first Colorado Weavers Day was organized by the Pike’s Peak Weavers Guild in Colorado Springs in 2004 as a way to bring weavers from across the state together. It was the goal of the organizers to bring weaving guilds and their members together to learn more about each other, as well as to provide mutual education. Since then Colorado guilds have hosted Colorado Weavers Day on even-numbered years.
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