Have some spare time on your hands this summer? Here is a list of opportunities browngrotta arts artists are offering to help you channel your creativity:

Calculus, Sue Lawty, natural stones on gesso, 78.75″ x 118″, 2010. Photo by Tom Grotta
Sue Lawty
June 16, 11-5pm
The Artworkers Guild, 6 Queen Square, Bloomsbury, London
Woven Tapestry with Sue Lawty”
Website: https://bit.ly/2t3ZZ2J
Susie Gillespie
June 17-21
Yalberton Farm House, Yalberton Road, Paignton, Devon, UK
“Field to Fabric with Susie Gillespie”
Website: selvedge.org

Susie Gillespie Detail
July 30-August 2
South Devon, UK
“Textile Art Techniques: Weaving, Stitching and Dying with Alice Fox and Susie Gillespie”
Website: https://bit.ly/2HJIKc3

New Nebula, Eduardo Portillo & Mariá Eugenia Dávila, silk,alpaca, moriche palm fiber dyed with Indigo, rumex spp., onion,eucalyptus, acid dyes, copper and metallic yarns, 74” x 49.25”, 2017. Photo by Tom Grotta
Maria and Eduardo Portillo
June 24-July 6
Penland School of Crafts – Textiles Summer Session Three, Bakersville, NC
“Weaving Ideas”
Website: https://bit.ly/2LGP1rB
Carolina Yrarrázaval
July 2
Tama Art Museum, 11th International Shibori Symposium, Tokyo
Talk: “Modern Art Museum Exhibition, Chile”
Website: https://www.11iss.org

Tim Johnson’s Keeping Time Baskets. Photo by Tim Johnson
Tim Johnson
July 3-4
Järvsö, Sweden
“Finding Fibres – basketmaking with soft materials”
July 16-17, 10-5pm
FlechtSommer – Basketmaking Summer School, Korbmacher-Museum, Dalhausen, Germany
“Looping Techniques with Soft Materials”
Website: https://bit.ly/2JxdOln
July 22 – 27
West Dean College, near Chichester, England
Flexible basketry structures – looping, netting and knotting
Website: https://bit.ly/2y3bblG
Gizella Warburton
July 6 – 8
Hawkwood College, UK
“Presence and Absense”
Website: https://bit.ly
Caroline Bartlett
July 16-18, 10:30-4:30pm
City Lit, London, UK
“Textiles: manipulation, folding and fabric origami”
Website: https://bit.ly/2l3iRv3

An example of what you can learn at Caroline Bartlett’s “Surfacing: Fold, Pleat, Form”
August 11-17
West Dean College near Chichester, UK
“Reshaping cloth — print and manipulation”
Website: https://bit.ly/2JR0w2w
July 31-August 2
Hawar Textile Institute, Oldeberkoop, Netherlands
“Surfacing: Fold, Pleat, Form”
Website: https://bit.ly/2LFM9Lm
August 27-31
Big Cat Textiles, Newburgh, Scotland
“Between the Folds — Concealing and Revealing with Caroline Bartlett”
Website: https://bit.ly/2JNd4b2

Shady Lane,Polly Adams Sutton,
western red cedar bark, dyed ash, wire, cane
16” x 12” x 9”, 2006. Photo by Tom Grotta
Polly Sutton
August 2-5
Missouri Basketweavers Convention
Talk: August 4, 7pm, “Basketry in Sardinia”
Workshop: August 4-5, “Cedar Knothole Cathead”
August 4, 8am-5pm, August 5, 8am-10am
Website: https://bit.ly/2l6HjvG
Ferne Jacobs
Offering private classes throughout the summer on the fiber techniques of coiling, knotting and twining.
For more information on Jacobs’ offered classes contact her at fernejacobs@gmail.com