2020 Midwest Fiber Festivals and Farm Tours Double check for closures or postponed events. Midwest Happenings!--the full events calendar January 2020 January 23 – 26, 2020 January Thaw Retreat, Middleton, WI January 25, 2020 Winter Wool Fest, Wamego, KS February...
by Emily Schlemowitz, Exhibit Curator, Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts August 15 – November, 2019 Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts Public Gallery Night, Saturday, August 24, 2019 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. “Celebrating Our Waters”, a...
Hello everyone!Ever been to a seminar and when you come back to the office or home, you’re ready to change everything? Yep! That’s your brain tingling with inspiration. When you’re inspired from inside and actually do something with it, you’re experiencing intrinsic...
Dear Friends, Native Fiber will be a fabulous exhibit because the art and stories are authentic, have integrity and are beautiful. For me, the exhibit brings together people from far flung places that I traverse. Karen Goulet is a participating artist whom I know from...
LITTLE FALLS – RANDALL – BRAINERD – STAPLES – WADENA – NEW YORK MILLS, MN (SEPT. 17, 2018) – Weaving Waters Fiber Arts Trail Fall Tour is an annual arts and cultural tour with stops in Little Falls, Randall, Brainerd, Staples, Wadena and...
Dear Friends, Finally–the weather is decent outside again! I don’t know about your household, but we spent last weekend cleaning the garage and opening the back porch for the season. Maybe a little early for flower planting in my neck of the woods since...
Dear Friends, Another Trail has begun! I almost said ‘another Trail was hatched’ because I always feel like they’re walking around on stick legs until they get a little more organized. We’re very lucky to have this group of fiber artists and shops. Madison is a city...
Midwest Fiber Arts Trails Textile Traveler: 15+ Regional textile exhibits and events you’ll want on your radar! Listed below are some of the many fiber arts exhibits, events and classes that are happening in the next few weeks. Hit the road for a couple of days...
Dear Friends, Coming up in Spring 2018, Midwest Fiber Arts Trails is hosting three weekend events. And they are loaded with fabulous opportunities to take your business and fiber arts skills repertoire to the next level! Taught by Midwest Fiber Arts Trails members,...
“Woodland Realms” by Susan Bagwajikwe Hallet-Hurd. Quilted Cotton Fabric – 90″ (H) x 90″ (W) “My Family” by Thomas Stillday. Applique Beading. 20″ (H) x 14″ (W) “God’s Eye” by Karl Rangikawhiti Leonard. Colored Wax Cottons – 9″(H) x 6″ (W) “Bandolier Bag” by...
Dear Friends, Our theme for the annual weekend event on the Threaded Streams Fiber Arts Trail is ‘experience your own creativity’. Trail members are offering numerous workshops and additional events throughout the weekend that encourage fiber enthusiasts to slow down,...
Dear Friends, Meanwhile, back here at Midwest Fiber Arts Trails HQ, things have been hopping this fall! Of course, we’re thinking way ahead to 2018 Trail events. Which is not so way ahead now if you’re measuring things in marketing-dog years. Before I launch into 2018...
Karla will tell us the story in her talk, “A Challenging Study in Color” at 7:00 p.m. at Landmark Inn in Staples, Minnesota. Karla Overland, owner of Cherrywood Hand Dyed Fabrics in Brainerd, will give a presentation about the little contest idea that has...
Minnesota’s Newest Fiber Arts Trail Grand Opening Weekend September 22 – 23, 2017 Dear Friends, The newest Fiber Arts Trail in Minnesota is an art and cultural destination located in Central Minnesota. The fourteen members of the Weaving Waters Fiber Arts Trail...
Announcing the formation of the Threaded Streams Fiber Arts Trail! Hello Fiber Enthusiasts, Our Fiber Arts Trail is just starting up! It’s an excellent opportunity to create awareness of your fiber and textile work. We’re collaborative, fun, it’s a great networking...
The Pine to Prairie Fiber Arts Trail welcomes Kate Anderson to northern Minnesota on Grand Opening Weekend! Nationally known textile artist Kate Anderson kicks off the Pine to Prairie Fiber Arts Trail with her talk entitled, “How Knotting Rewove My Life”...
Welcome to the Pine to Prairie Fiber Arts Trail! I was introduced to this area through knotting artists Dawn Standera and Karen-lisa Forbes. Two years ago, I sought outstanding fiber artists from the Midwest to include in the 2014 Fiber Art Almanac. By a stroke of...
(This post is sponsored by the Cedarburg Spur Fiber Arts Trail members.) Humans have creative souls. All of the artists’ creative energy is inspiring, for sure. But it also can be a little frustrating because while you’re going from fiber art studio to fiber art...
(This post is sponsored by the Cedarburg Spur Fiber Arts Trail members.) Let’s talk hand-dyes & leather work. This week’s Cedarburg Spur featured artists are Gina Studelska and Ilze Heider. Both artists have been working in their medium for many years...
(This post is sponsored by the Cedarburg Spur Fiber Arts Trail members.) The Cedarburg Spur Grand Opening weekend is coming right up on March 21 – 22, 2015. It feels right around the corner even though I know we have quite a lot of winter to experience! For the...
Welcome to the Cedarburg Spur Fiber Arts Trail in the Cedarburg-Grafton, Wisconsin area. Just north of Milwaukee, this area is home to the Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts. Go the Cedarburg Spur web page to learn more about each Trail member and all of the...
This afternoon I made a quick trip to the Minnetonka Center for the Arts in Orono, MN. If you take Cty Rd 15 along the north shore of Lake Minnetonka you will be treated to a very pretty drive. The Art Center underwent a dramatic overhaul about 14 years ago. The...
Currently, in the world of fiber arts, felting has captured the imagination of fiber and fabric people alike. It’s immense popularity or as I used to say in my corporate retail days, its pre-peak position on the trend curve means that it is still gathering...
Submission Deadline Extended to February 28, 2015! Dassel History Center Exhibit Opening on March 28th, 2015! DEEP ROOTS 1 – CALL FOR FIBER / TEXTILE ARTISTS The purpose of Deep Roots 1 is to provide an opportunity for fiber/textile artists of Nordic American descent...
2014 is an awesome year to be Finnish-American! Having Finnish ancestry or being any related Scandinavian cousin is always wonderful, but this year is very special as it marks the 150th year of the start of Modern Finnish Migration to North America. So what’s...
