Art isn't just visual! Revitalize your sense of touch and build a deeper appreciation for materials as an artistic inspiration.

About this event

Anni Albers said "our tactile experiences are elemental" and that playful exploration of materials is essential to "regain a faculty that was once so naturally ours." Working with a wide variety of materials—paper, cardboard, foil, sticks, buttons, pebbles, seeds, wire, fibers, and more—we will, in Albers words, "group them, cut them, curl them, mix them, finally perhaps paste them, to fix in a certain order." To emphasize the tactile, we'll work with neutrally colored materials, discovering the pleasures of contrasting textures.

The resulting exploratory collage will revitalize our sense of touch and lead to a deeper appreciation for the elemental importance of materials as a starting point in any artistic medium.

ABOUT THE TEACHER: Cameron Taylor-Brown studied fiber arts at the University of California, Berkeley with Ed Rossbach and textile design at the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science. Since 1985, she has lived in Los Angeles where she is active in arts and education. Her work is widely exhibited and has been featured in Fiber Art Now, American Craft, Handwoven, Shuttle, Spindle and Dyepot, and Common Thread.  She teaches workshops at schools, guilds, museums, and conferences throughout the United States and Canada. She is the founder of ARTSgarage, a textile resource center in Los Angeles where she teaches Art of the Loom. Cameron is a past president of California Fibers and serves on the advisory boards of the Fowler Textile Council and Textile Arts | Los Angeles.

$50 FEE INCLUDES ALL MATERIALS AND FREE WEFF ADMISSION.

Maximum number of students: 15