2010 Maiwa Textile Workshops
Natalie Grambow
$175 (Includes $50 Lab Fee) Two full days

September 25, 26 (Sat, Sun) 10am - 4pm
Maiwa Loft – Net Loft Granville Island
Class Limit 14
Registration Opens June 21, 2010

“If I knew the place where good songs come from, I’d go there more often.” – Leonard Cohen

What is creativity? How can it be tapped, mined, or made to flow when we need it most? In this new and original workshop, students will travel on an exploratory adventure, discovering techniques of creativity and letting go of assumptions that stop their work or hold it back.

The class will provide a wealth of images, sounds, and sensory inspirations. These will be combined with a variety of studies exploring the elements and principles of creative design. Such ideas as balance, symmetry, harmony, contrast, unity will provide a toolbox that may be opened to understand both what we like about an artwork and what we want to work toward in our own work.

Using collage, image deconstruction, mono-printing, writing, and drawing, students will learn to narrate their stories incorporating personal references and applying design principles. Students will leave the workshop with a creative journal, the beginning of their ongoing artistic journey, as well as a series of small textile art pieces.

“When the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.” – Leonardo Da Vinci

Natalie Grambow will also teach
The Creative Studio
Phototransfer for Textiles
Between the Colours: Creative Resist
Works on Canvas

NATALIE GRAMBOW

Natalie Grambow has an extensive background in design, teaching, and textile arts. An accredited Interior Designer, she spent many years in Ottawa working within the architectural design field and teaching Design Theory. Natalie’s first deep exploration of textiles began during her Visual Arts/Photography studies at the University of Ottawa when she experimented with non-silver techniques of transferring photographic imagery onto cloth. She subsequently studied at the École d’Impression Textile à Montréal and later travelled to Asia and Latin America where she spent six months learning to weave with local Mayan weavers in Guatemala. Shortly after completing the Textile Arts program at Capilano College in 2001, she was awarded the BC Craft Association’s Award of Excellence. Natalie has developed a line of naturally dyed and printed fabrics and has been commissioned by such clients as the city of North Vancouver (to present an artist’s vision of North Vancouver on fabric).

Student Supply List
There will be wide variety of journaling equipment available for use in this class. It is also recommended that students bring their favorite tools from home. Please label all your supplies. Some suggestions:
- drawing pencils
- charcoal
- watercolour pencils
- watercolour paints
- coloured markers
- inspirations, photocopies, clippings for collage.

All other materials supplied.

Look for the full course calendar on the web in early May. A print version will be available in June. Registration opens June 21, 2010.