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Asma Mohseni, Summer Larson, and Ama Wertz! SEPTEMBER 2014 NEWSLETTER PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE WHAT’S INSIDE? elcome to our members who joined us recently: Asma Mohseni, WSummer Larson, and Ama Wertz! Please find details to our next th meeting on September 20 in Berkeley in the pages of this newsletter! Our PAGE meeting will be at the home of Master Weaver Jean Pierre Larochette and 1 President’s Message Tapestry Designer and Weaver Yael Larochette’s home for a presentation 2 Next Meeting 3 Reminders on the release of their new book, “The Tree of Lives: Adventures Between 4 Water Water! Warp and Weft.” Thank you to our gracious hosts, Jean Pierre and Yael. 6 Unbroken Web 8 What Happened at THAT Meeting? Hopefully many of you in the area were able to make it to our EBMUD 10 Tapestry Redux Water, Water exhibition this summer. Many thanks to our hard working 12 Member News show committee Alex Friedman, Tricia Goldberg, and Sara Ruddy for 14 Business Info Your TWW Board Members handling all the moving parts, and putting on a wonderful and well attended Membership Dues opening reception! And also a great big thank you to our juror and co- Newsletter Submission Info founding TWW member Joyce Hulbert for curating our work into a lovely exhibition and writing a touching and tasteful text to accompany it. Please Tapestry Weavers West is an organization find Joyce’s words on our show in the pages of this newsletter. with a goal to act as a supporting educational and networking group for tapestry artists. For further details of membership information We will have some business to attend to after Jean Pierre and Yael’s please contact: presentation. We are welcoming new member Ama Wertz onto our website team (Thank you, Ama!), and we have open Board Member President, Laura Kamian McDermott [email protected] 510-593-4381 positions. We are currently in need of a VP/Programming Chair to organize our quarterly meetings. We are also in need of a Secretary. Thank you to Membership Chair, Marcia Ellis Tricia Goldberg for acting as our “Recording Secretary” for our meetings in [email protected] 707-539-0115 the interim. I have had a challenging summer in regards to my day job employment (can’t I just weave?!?), so I may need to move out of the President’s position, but it is possible I could just move into one of the other open positions. Please let’s all be thinking about the needs of our organization, and how we are able to contribute to get those needs filled. We are on a roll this summer, thriving with new members and a great th exhibition, so let’s continue the momentum into our 35 anniversary year! The crowd in front of Janet Moore’s award winning piece at the TWW Water Laura Water reception at EBMUD. • SEPTEMBER 2014 NEWSLETTER • PAGE 1 MEETING INFORMATION WHAT? TWW SEPTEMBER MEETING WHEN? Saturday Setpember 20, 2014 WHERE? Larochette Studio 2216 Grant St. Berkeley CA Lost? 510-548-5744 Walk through gate down driveway to your left; studio is in back! Agenda 10:30 am Coffee/tea and visiting 11:00 am Larochette presentation 12:00 pm Potluck Lunch-please bring something to share 1:00 pm Business Meeting DIRECTIONS TO LAROCHETTE STUDIO DRIVING: From I-580 E/I-80 W in Berkeley, exit at Jean Pierre and Yael Lurie Larochette present University Avenue and drive east. Turn right on Grant The Tree of Lives: Adventures Between Warp and Weft Street. The studio is two blocks down, Between Allston Way and Bancroft Street. Street parking can be “The idea of writing a memoir surfaced in a conversation with my cramped, especially on weekends, and you may have wife and partner Yael Lurie - as many other of our joint projects - to search adjacent streets for a spot. while on a road trip. It was during our annual drive to Mexico, in the fall of 2008. To plunge into the task, I naively thought, could not BART: The studio is within easy walking distance from be that much different than piecing a tapestry. I had a picture in the Downtown Berkeley station. Walk south one my mind: I imagined a tree with branches symbolizing the lives that block, turn right at Allston Way, walk four blocks, turn have touched us…” left at Grant Street. PAGE 2 • SEPTEMBER 2014 NEWSLETTER • REMINDERS Water Water at EBMUD by Alex Friedman The ‘Water Water’ show which was exhibited at the East Bay Municipal Utility District Headquarters (EBMUD) was a great success and an timely reminder of the impor- tance of water in this third year of California’s drought. It opened on the 17th of July and closed 29th of August 2014. This was one of the first themed show that TWW proposed and there was quite a variety of interpretations from quite lit- eral versions of rivers, lakes and oceans, to the poetic, to the quite abstract notions of the fluidity, the power and the roil- ing motions of water. The show was announced over a year before to give members time to create a piece for the show. We had 22 members of Tapestry Weavers West enter 48 tap- estries from which our juror, Joyce Hulbert, selected 21 tapes- Juror Joyce Hulbert (left) with our exhibit committee- tries from 16 artists. On July 24 we had an opening which Tricia Alex, Sara and Tricia standing by Alex’s tapestry at the recep- Goldberg organized. We had music provided by a duet, Danny tion of Water Water. Bittker, saxophone and Dennis Fortin, guitar. Water and juice were provided by EBMUD and many members brought nibbles. TWW ONLINE The highlight of the opening was the announcement of awards by Joyce Hulbert. Jan Moore won first place with Join us in sharing your news, pics, and happenings on her ‘River, Take me Along,’ Myla Collier won second place facebook and watching them go viral! www.facebook. with ‘Port San Luis Lighthouse,’ and Bobbi Chamberlain com/tapestryweaverswest If you are a staunch non- won third for her excellence in technique. Deborah Cor- facebook user, but wouldn’t mind having your news sini received the ATA Award of Excellence for her ‘Rip Tide.’ and pics posted to the page, feel free to send them to: [email protected] and I will post them for you. Joyce Hulbert is a well established artist and professional textile conservationist. Joyce maintains a studio in Berkeley, CA, where Take a moment and check out TWW’s website. she works in drawing, assemblage/collage, and tapestry. She has For the website, members are encouraged to send exhibited her work nationally and internationally since 1985. photos of their work and set up an artist’s gallery page; if you already have done so, you may submit Alex Friedman and Sara Ruddy were the co-Chairs of the show more, up to five photos per member. Post your but it takes many volunteers to make it all happen. The show came submissions to Jackie Wollenberg, [email protected]. down on September 2 and the tapestries are all homeward bound. Here’s what we need: 1. 3-5 photos of your work with titles, 2. Photo of yourself MARK THAT 3RD SATURDAY ON YOUR 3. A short phrase describing your work CALENDAR FOR FUTURE TWW MEETINGS! 4. A short artist statement/bio SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 2014 All TWW communications should now include SATURDAY JANUARY 17, 2015 our web address (www.tapestryweaverswest SATURDAY MARCH 21, 2015 .org) and Facebook link (www .facebook .com/ SATURDAY MAY 16, 2015 TapestryWeaversWest), and members are encouraged to link their personal websites to TWW’s site. • SEPTEMBER 2014 NEWSLETTER • PAGE 3 TWW’S WATER WATER EXHBIT 2ND PLACE WINNER Myla Collier Port San Luis Lighthouse 1ST PLACE WINNER The recently renovated Janet Moore with her piece River, Take Me Along Port San Luis Obispo Lighthouse is one of three I would like to thank TWW for their generous support of tapestry lighthouses built in Cali- weaving and the encouragement that an actual cash award brings! fornia in 1890 with this Tapestry is a great art form and the making of it should be acknowl- particular floor plan. It is deged and rewarded. Many thanks to Joyce Hulbert for selecting me the only one remaining. to receive this generaaous award for first place.... JUROR: JOYCE ERTEL HULBERT JUROR’S STATEMENT – As a former and founding member in 1985 of Tapestry Weavers West, I am pleased to be invited to jury a new exhibition from this artist organization. From Suzanne Shebby’s glass of water in “Reflections”, to the fully abstracted play of light on water of “Autumn Reflected in the Eel River”, by Stephanie Hoppe, the real and imaginary worlds of water shimmer through this exhibition. Water’s essential part of our lives—as vista or refuge, as 3RD PLACE WINNER Bobbi Chamberlain for excellence in technique symbol and inspiration—is portrayed through both bold pattern and pictorial space. Winning an award was such a complete surprise and honor. My thanks Immerse your vision in the rich blues of silk and to everyone who put in so much effort on this show. My tapestry, wool, look closely to catch the larger effect of Meandering, started out as a design based on the pattern on a piece of a fine miniature, while you consider the artist’s plywood - I guess you can find ideas anywhere! I chose my color palette message and mastery of the medium, reflect on from my existing stock using anything that would combine well with Pa- this vital ingredient in our lives—water.
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