Three Dimensional Weaving with Martina Celerin

Northern Colorado Weavers Guild hosts Martina Celerin and this fun and inspiring workshop. In this 3-day workshop, you'll learn to incorporate and attach felted and found objects into woven backgrounds on the loom. Martina is a highly successful instructor and artist who exhibits in several prestigious art shows each year (including the Cherry Creek Arts Festival). Register here: Northern Colorado Weavers Guild - Three Dimensional Weaving with Martina Celerin (nocoweaversguild.org)

• Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024 1-5 p.m. First Baptist Church, Loveland
• Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024 9-4 p.m. Fort Collins Senior Center
• Monday, Sept. 16 2024 9-1 p.m. Fort Collins Senior Center
• Registration fee: $225
• Registration deadline: July 31, 2024

Emerging Artist Grant

Fiber Art Now is excited to announce our Emerging Artist Grant. Designed to support and elevate new artists in the fiber art community, this grant is open to artists who have either completed a degree program within the last two years or have begun their journey in fiber arts within the last five years.

Preference will be given to applicants who include their website or Instagram links so images related to their application can be viewed. Both Fiber Art Now subscribers and nonsubscribers are invited to apply. Apply before August 15, 2024 for a chance to receive a $300 award. Don't miss this opportunity! Apply here.

Navajo Weaving Class in Taos, New Mexico

Pearl Sunrise is an esteemed Tribal Elder offering her culturally authentic experience this summer in cool northern New Mexico. Visit Taos Art School for more information.

Thousand Islands Arts Center ~ Home of the Handweaving Museum is now accepting proposals for the 29th Annual Virtual Weaving History Conference (WHC).

The WHC will be held on Zoom, October 21–23. They welcome proposals on any topics related to the history of weaving and related fiber crafts. Need help coming up with a topic? In the survey last year, attendees responded that they’d be interested in learning about:

• The history of rag rug weaving from around the world
• Cross-cultural techniques and tools
• Everything to do with weaving instructor Osma Gallinger Tod, who ran the Weaving Teachers Association
• Well-known weavers who have recently passed such as Ingrid Boesel, Nell Znamierowski, Ruth Holroyd, or Ute Bargmann.
• Fiber prep for weaving - sources and spinning
• Barn looms through history
• History of linen or a look at regional flax/linen projects that are creating local resources for flax to spin
• Florence Feldman-Wood and The Spinning Wheel Sleuth
• Weaving in America
• Guild histories
• Tablet weaving

Both individual and group proposals are welcome! For more information and to submit a proposal, please visit their website.

IWC is seeking proposals for the 2025 Conference

IWC is seeking proposals for the 2025 Conference at the Albuquerque Convention Center in Albuquerque June 17-21, 2025, for 3-hour seminars, 1-day workshops & 3-day workshops.

View 2025 IWC Call for Proposals here: intermountainweavers.org/resources/Documents/IWC2025CallForProposals.pdf

The Handweavers Guild of America (HGA) - Textiles & Tea - Each week HGA hosts a conversation with some of the most respected fiber artists in the field today. Textiles & Tea takes place every Tuesday at 4 PM (EST) and is broadcast via Zoom. These broadcasts are free to view and open to all. Click on the link for additional information.

Website Announcements - Submission Guidelines
Contact president@handweaversofboulder.org if you have an item for this website announcements section pertaining to fiber events of interest to Guild members. 

The Beat - HGB Newsletter - Submission Guidelines
Click here for information on announcements/advertising in the HGB newsletter. 
Click here to access announcement request form.
Please note, HGB members may place a free personal 30 word or less advertisement in the newsletter.

Colorado Gives Day
The Handweavers Guild of Boulder has been participating in ColoradoGives.org since 2019, providing a safe and secure platform to non-profits in the State of Colorado to receive charitable donations. Please join us on December 10, 2024 for Colorado Gives Day. Link here for the Handweavers Guild of Boulder profile page and thank you for your ongoing support!

HGB Non-discrimination Clause

Update to the HGB Bylaws, Article IV, Section 1 Approved 10/10/22 by HGB Membership

Membership of the Guild shall be open to persons in sympathy with, interested in, or actively engaged in the art of handweaving and related arts/crafts. There shall be no discrimination on the basis of sex, age, ability, race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, genetic information, national origin, native language, religion, creed, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, transgender status, marital status, veteran status, military status, political service, affiliation or disability.