Upcoming Fiber Arts Events

Exhibition of Laurie Waters Collection
Laurie Waters has been collecting and making handmade lace for nearly 40 years, and this is the first comprehensive exhibition of her collection. Nearly 100 examples of bobbin and needle lace from the 16th century to the present day will be shown December 2nd thru 29th at the Los Alamos Mesa Public Library Upstairs Gallery. Also included are lacemaking pillows from 8 countries; bobbins and other lacemaking equipment, coins, medals, dolls and samples from her collection of over 2000 books on handmade lace. The exhibit is especially interested in tracing how very fine commercial products evolved into a folk art form that continues to be practiced today. The Albuquerque Enchanted Lacemakers will also demonstrate bobbin lace on December 8th.

Textile Arts Alliance Lecture
Sunday. 2 Dec 07: 3pm, at the Wheelwright Museum Library, Lace, A Collector’s Experience, by Los Alamos collector and resident, Laurie Waters, in conjunction with an exhibition of her collection in Los Alamos. Leonore Tawney, 100, Innovator in Weaving Lenore Tawney, an artist whose monumental sculptural weavings redefined the possibilities of both sculpture and weaving in the second half of the 20th century and helped create the genre of fiber art, died in September. She was 100. In the late 1950s and early 1960 when art and crafts where viewed in America as mutually exclusive disciplines, Ms. Tawney united them decisively and controversially. Trained as a sculptor and as a weaver, she combined several different techniques - plain weave, gauze weave, slit tapestry and open warp weaving - to invent large, abstract and free-standing, or rather free hanging, sculptural forms. She considered much of her repetitive and labor-intensive work a form of meditation.
"I’m not just patiently doing it," she said of such work. "It’s done with devotion."

The 2007 Holiday Showcase
November 24th to December 31st, 2007 in the Enchanted Fiber Gallery
An exhibition and sale of fabulous fiber art by the members of the Española Valley Fiber Arts Center Reception Saturday, November 24th, 2pm to 4pm
Refreshments - Everyone is invited.

EVFAC NEWS

SUNDAYS AT EVFAC!
We are now open Sundays from 12 noon to 5pm.

Attention Ghost Ranch Participants:
Take-down date for the Ghost Ranch show has been changed to November 9th, beginning at 9:30am. As of October 30, the show has sold 96 pieces for a total of
$7,925.00 retail sales.

Holiday Showcase 2007 -
Members, if you would like to bring your items for the holiday showcase, please bring
them by November 17th. The show will run from November 24th to December 31st.

First Place in Fiber - In September, member Anna Mae Patterson was awarded first place in fiber at the Taos Open Fall Arts Show. Her winning entry was a rayon chenille shawl in shadow weave.

Best Practice Award
On October 24th the Center received an award for Best Practices for outstanding achievement in the field of economic development. The award was presented at the Infrastructure Finance Conference at Sandia Resort.

Renovation Assistance
On October 17th the Consortium of Major Los AlamosNational Laboratory Subcontractors granted $20,000 to
EVFAC to assist with the renovation of our building. We are grateful for the continuing support of the Consortium, who also made a substantial contribution towards the
building purchase.