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Specialty Beading Classes
sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Bead Society and held at TACtile
Mixed-Media Textile Artist - Bead Classes
with Larkin Van Hor n
Beaded Cuffs
Make an elaborately beaded bracelet that wraps around your wrist like the cuff of a well tailored shirt. This project will expand your design, color and beading skills, allowing you to create a wearable work of art. The cuff is sized to fit your wrist, and the pattern provided can be adjusted to allow you to make a beaded cuff as a gift. The class will focus on design, color, finishing, and altering the basic shape, as well as stitch techniques.
Friday 5/18/12 9 am to 4 pm
Class Fee: $70.00 - Includes kit fee
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Talisman/Hues and Clues
This class will focus on understanding and using the meanings of color, shape, and symbols, both personal and universal, to create artwork with meaning, spirit, emotion, and personal resonance. Applying this information to whatever your art form may be, will allow you to create personally meaningful art, while using symbols that can be universally recognizable.
Saturday 5/19/12 9 am to noon
Class Fee: $40.00 - Includes kit fee
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Beaded Buttons
A great way to use up leftovers from larger projects, and small enough to carry when you travel. Beaded buttons can embellish a garment, wall hanging or home decor project. All it takes is a few beads, a button form, a scrap of fabric and your imagination. A very easy introduction to the world of bead embroidery.
Saturday 5/19/12 1 pm to 4 pm
Class Fee: $40.00 - Includes kit fee
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Tiny Beaded Vessels
Using bead embroidery stitches, students will create a small, encrusted treasure. The three or four sided vessel will be in their own chosen color scheme. Charms, buttons, or small cabochons may be used as the focal point on one or all sides of the vessel. The class will focus on beading stitches, color, and design as well as the construction of the vessel.
Sunday 5/20/12 9 am to 4 pm
Class Fee: $70.00 - Includes kit fee
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Marketing with Pizzazz for Artists
with Carol Naff
How to Find Your Place in the Market: Get Paid for your Creative Achievements
You know that you’re a great artist, so why not let others know it as well? TACtile presents a workshop for artists who want to learn the fundamentals of marketing their businesses and getting results. This workshop will teach you how to identify the best low-cost or no-cost marketing solutions for your business, avoiding dead ends and pitfalls that waste your time and energy, and the basics of creating and implementing a successful marketing plan that gets results!
From class participants:
“Thank you, Carol! Your class was invaluable to me. It really helped me understand how much is involved in, successfully, turning a hobby into a business and it gave me some great tools for making it happen. I also really enjoyed all of the interaction by the participants. What a great group! Hope I see you at TACtile ” Tish Gallagher
"I really enjoyed the marketing class for artists. Your information on press releases in particular was very valuable. It never would have occurred to me to write a release about myself. You have given me lots to think about. Thanks again, Carol, for the wonderful class." Carmen Kwolkoski, Montana Girl
Instructor’s Web Site: www.marinerco.com, http://solobizmarketing.wordpress.com/
Saturday, 6/2/12, 1- 4 pm
Saturday, 8/25/12, 1- 4 pm
Saturday,10/13/12, 1- 4 pm
Member $35.00 Non-members $45.00
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Classes We Are Scheduling
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Beginning Weaving: weave a scarf
With Peg MacMorris ** Sold Out! Check Back for Additional Dates**
If you are a fiber enthusiast who has always wanted to learn how to weave, or someone who is intrigued with what weaving is all about, this is a class for you. Elementary weaving concepts and terms like warp and weft will be introduced. Each student will learn to use a rigid heddle loom (supplied) to weave a scarf. You will learn to dress the loom with your yarn, to weave and to do some finishing techniques for your scarf. Other kinds of looms will be discussed or demonstrated.
Saturday, 2/4/12 & 2/11/12 12-4pm
Member $80 Non-member $95
Kit Fee: $25 payable to the instructor (includes loom rental)
The following classes will be offered again in 2012.
Watch for new dates to be announced.
ReDesigning Sweaters
with Donna Christopher
Create a new look for an old sweater by changing the design!
Come see a collection of redesigned sweaters and explore style and new design ideas. Learn some quick and easy tips on how to visualize your design options.
Cut up your old sweaters or ones from a thrift store and go home wearing a new favorite sweater! As an example, you can turn a pullover or turtleneck sweater into a versatile cardigan, add panels, cut off cowls, lengthen or shorten sweaters or sleeves, or add some interesting fabric, trim, or buttons to update your sweater.
(This is not a class on how to felt sweaters – however, you can bring felted sweaters to work with.)
Instructor’s Web Site: http://s1111.photobucket.com/albums/h466/DonnaChristopher/ReDesigning%20Sweaters
Member $35.00 Non-member $45.00
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Japanese Temari Balls
with Patricia Martinek
Temari is Japanese for decorative balls filled with rice hulls and a rattle, then embroidered with thread, yarn and beads into precise geometric designs in colorful collages. Come learn an addictive use of simple stitching techniques to make ornaments, home decorations, handmade gifts, and toys. No experience needed.
Instructor’s Web Site: www.TheFyberCafe.com
Member $45.00 Non-members $55.00
Kit Fee $6.00 plus Supply List
Felt Wallet w/ Needle Felted Design
with Lalania Carrillo
Learn the art of needle felting into felt fabric. In this class we will needle felt a simple design into a piece of felt fabric. When the design is complete, we will hand-stitch the felt fabric into a lovely, lined wallet, with a button hole closure. The wallet is the perfect size to hold a checkbook cash, or can be a small clutch.
Instructor’s Web Site: www.stitchfetish.etsy.com
Member $35.00 Non-members $45.00
Kit Fee: $10.00 PLUS Supply List
