Workshops 2008

We recommend that you sign up for workshops sooner than later. All instructors have set a minimum enrollment and have the option to cancel if enrollment is not met. Besides... You know you want to learn it all!

2008 Workshops:

Thursday, July 10:

Papermaking for Artists

Handbuilding In Clay

Friday, July 11:

Basic Knitting Classes

Basic Sculptural Knitting

Children's Knitting Classes (free!)

Coptic Bookbinding with Recycled Materials

Create a Drop Spindle & Learn to Spin

Double Wall Basketry

Inspired Spinning and Plying Techniques

Sculpting A Cloth Doll Head

Make Your Own Suncatcher

Simply Southwest Brazilian Embroidery

Tubes on Two Circulars

Yoga for Knitters

Yay for our vendors!

We have wonderful vendors lined up and I am expecting more applications in the mail any day now!
Take a look…

• Bea Manzanares, Art Quilter, Monte Vista, CO
• Bellaqua Copper, copper sculpture, Tuscon, Az
  
• Castoria Wood, Painting and carved, painted wood animals, Alamosa, CO
• Chile Colorado, Chilean Folk Art, Alamosa, CO
• Crazy Monkey Creations, fiber, quilts, furniture and more! Colorado Springs, CO
  
• Denny Wallace , potter, Monte Vista, CO
  
• ECB Creations - Lizz Baldwin , Pagosa Springs, CO
  
• Ellen's Wooly Wonders , knitting and patterns, Durango, CO
  
• The Kookaburra Company, Wool wash, Florence, CO1
  
• Knit Happens charity knitting, Alamosa, CO
• La Plata Farms, Hesperus, CO
  
• Laura Lunsford , Doll Artist, Monte Vista, CO
  
• Leathers by Les, Leather goods, Tucumcari, NM
  
• Linda Pacheco-Demski , ceramicist, Alamosa, CO
  
• Loose Ends, yarn & knitting notions, Winslow, AZ
  
• Lotus.Designs , fiber arts, Alamosa, CO
• Margaret Briggs paper arts, knitting, Sandia Park, NM
• Monte Arts Council, Monte Vista, CO
• Neva Ross, China Painter, Monte Vista, CO
• Oklahoma Basket Supply, Weston, OK
  
• Polyartgirl Designs mixed media, fibers, Monte Vista, CO
• Valley Fiber Arts Guild, Monte Vista, CO
• Wildethyme Art, Mixed media, fibers, paper, Monte Vista, CO
  

Exhibit Jurors

I am thrilled to announce that the following professionals have agreed to jury our exhibit. We are thrilled and honored to have them!

Dr. Joyce Centofanti, Assistant Professor of Art, Ceramics and Education, Adams State College

Nancy Anderson, Assistant Professor of Art, Foundations and Fibers, Adams State College

Dr. Mario Montano, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Folk Culture, Colorado College