Fostering a Range of Fiber Art Educational Opportunities
Saturday, February 8, 2025
Mixed-media workshops at CC Young Retirement Community, The Point
- 10:00 a.m.:
Mixed-Media Madness
- $10 fee per person to participate in all three workshops
- There will be three rotating workshops, and you will participate in each one
- Presenters and topics TBA
- All are welcome!
Feel free to brings friends and family members!
Mixed-Media Madness: Three Workshops for $10 per person
In this incredibly popular annual event, you'll participate in three (3) rotating workshops presented by three (3) different artists, and for a $10 per-person fee you will get the chance to experiment with new techniques and materials in a fun, informal environment. Don't forget to bring your To-Go Kit.
Bring your friends and family members to join in this delightful celebration of the richness of modern fiber arts!
Fancy Ribbon Crafts with Lucy Miron
Lucy Miron will teach “Fancy Ribbon Crafts” with two patterns, a chick in an egg and fish, both with moveable parts. Lucy is a past Best of Show winner for her felted work “Herding Cats” and her skeleton doll mini workshop in October.
Embroidered Bears with Carol Regan
Carol Regan shows us how to make a simple embroidered bear face for our Community Service project, Children in Crisis. She will also have patterns of the bears to share. See our Community Service page for more information about making these bears. We have over 60 finished bear to donate to this worthy cause!
Momigami Paper with Carol Kovacs
Carol Kovacs will instruct participants how to create Momigami paper, a Japanese technique that uses kneading with a starch or oil product to alter the surface and create textured paper. This paper can be used in bookmaking or in creating collages and other fiber arts.
Please bring your To-go Kit for mini-workshops!
We suggest you put together a to-go kit to bring to the mini-workshops.
The kit should include the following items:
- Scissors for fabric or paper crafts
- 6-12 straight pins and several hand needles
- Small spools of both black and white thread
- Ruler or other measuring device
- Notepad with pen or pencil
- Name badge
- Bag or carrier to put this all in
Don't forget to wear your name tags
Please wear a name tag to DAFA events to help our new members put names to faces!
Saturday, March 8, 2025
In-person meeting at CC Young Retirement Community, The Point
- 10:00 a.m.:
The Evolution of a Fiber Artist
with
Marilyn Henrion
- IMPORTANT: There will be no mini-workshop this month.
- 11:00 a.m.:
Member show-and-tell
The Evolution of a Fiber Artist with artist Marilyn Henrion
Marilyn Henrion, who is represented in the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art, creates works of fine art that are included in museum, corporate and private collections worldwide. As a lifelong New Yorker, her aesthetic vision has always been deeply rooted in the urban geometry of her surroundings, from the earlier textile-based geometric abstractions to the more recent mixed media works. Her gaze is wide and other subjects, such as music, poetry, and the natural world, also inform the content of her work.
In our March program, Ms. Henrion will
trace her evolution as a fiber artist and mother of four through the wild ’50s and ’60s--in the very heart of a historic period in the New York art and literary scene--up to her continuing creative explorations in Texas as she approaches the age of 93.
Marilyn Henrion
Marilyn Henrion was born in Brooklyn New York in 1932. She spent all of her adult life as a resident of Greenwich Village until 2022, when she relocated to Plano Texas at the age of 90.
A graduate of Cooper Union, she is an internationally recognized artist whose works are included in museum, corporate and private collections worldwide and who is represented in the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art.
At home with both abstract and more representational imagery, her works reflect on the intricate interplay of color, form, and texture. Hand quilting coupled with digitally manipulated photography utilizes modern technology while at the same time honoring traditional fine craftsmanship.
2025 Program Archives
Saturday, January 11, 2025
PROGRAM CANCELED: Will be rescheduled to a later date
- 10:00 a.m.:
Past, Present, and Where to Next?
with artist
Janie Stidham
- To follow: Mini-workshop with the program presenter. Bring $5 fee for materials.
- Member Show and Tell
Past, Present, and Where to Next? with artist Janie Stidham
Join Janie Stidham, emeritus professor in the UNT College of Visual Arts + Design, on a look back (and look ahead!) at her inspiring journey as a fashion designer, educator, and artist.
Janie Stidham
Janie Stidham is a designer and artist who uses re-purposed textiles, found objects, hand-dyed materials, as well as a variety of other mixed media along with intuitively stitched lines.
She is a Professor Emeritus in the College of Visual Arts + Design at the University of North Texas, where she taught Fashion Design for more than 25 years. Since 2020 she has been a visiting professor at Baylor University while continuing to work in her studio. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, she earned her PhD from Texas Woman’s University.
This acclaimed artist has exhibited work at the Wichita Center for the Arts, Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Texas Tech University Art Museum, and Keep Contemporary Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, along with many other galleries in the southwest region of the US. Her work is featured in the Fort Worth Kimpton Harper hotel and in the corporate offices of Kancan Jeans in Los Angeles.
Happily married for 30 years, Janie Stidham has two adult daughters, one son-in-law, and two lovable felines. She is grateful to have wonderful, active parents who are 89 years young!
