Spring 2010 Classes with Peg Gignoux
at Mulberry Silks
Carr Mill Mall, Carrboro
To register: 919 942 7455

Previous Adult Workshops:

Mulberry Silks
Carr Mill Mall, Carrboro
To register: 919 942 7455

Tuesday evenings: 6-9pm Oct 13, 20, 27, Nov. 3,10,17
Workshop fee: $210 for the 6 weeks series
Or $40 for individual classes.
Limit: 8 students, all levels welcome

Memory Cloth
!!release, renew, reconsider and reinvent.!!

Under the direction of award winning textile artist, Peg Gignoux students will uncover the creative potential of combining, antique’s lace, old buttons, vintage clothing with radiant silks creating new dynamic textile designs. Beginning with a quiet palette of white on white, students will play with tone and texture: layering, collaging and stitching old and new cloth together in fun, innovative ways. Workshop series will include opportunities to print and collage with lace, layer with translucent silks and sew papers into fabrics. We will explore the infinite possibilities of stitching pojagi (Korean patchwork), play with machine and hand embroidery and embellish with repurposed pleasure! Each session will begin with a quick look at different textile traditions (contemporary and ancient) from around the world with a particular focus on finding strong rhythmic patterns. Using these world textiles as inspiration, students will be invited to create their own narrative works. This a great opportunity to create a wall piece for home or office, commemorate a special anniversary or wedding plus make glorious fabric covered books. Scale your ideas large or small! Join the Keep-It-Green conversation and discover the beauty and magic of up-cycling discarded materials into something new, vital and personal.

Peg Gignoux is an innovative textile artist, designer and educator based in Carrboro, NC. Gignoux creates vibrant mixed media works, art quilts and hand made books for a variety schools, museums and health care centers through out North Carolina. She enjoys facilitating community collaborations with diverse populations Clients include: Duke Medical Center, Greensboro Hospice, UNC Hospitals, Hickory Museum of Art and Green Hill Center for NC Art and Chapel Hill/ Carrboro Schools. Exhibiting actively in the triangle since 1990, Ms Gignoux ‘s textile collages are included in numerous corporate and private collections as well as with exhibitions produced by the NC Museum of Art and the Mint Museum. She enjoys teaching textile collage to all ages and has led collaborative projects with Elon University, Artspace, NC Girl Scouts, Meredith College, Arrowmont School and at Penland School of Craft. She received a BA in English from Kenyon College and a Masters of Industrial Design in fibers from NCSU, College of Design. Gignoux leads yearly art retreat to Loire Valley, France each summer.

    

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
556 Parkway, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, 37738

March 15-21, 2009

Memory Cloth

This class will investigate the descriptive potential of cloth activated with dye, ink, print and thread inspired by personal memory. Students will convert maps –of places real or imagined, into simple thermo fax screens- generating abstracted printed surfaces on which to layer other marks, memories and materials. Students will create textile collages rich with narrative- making meaningful connections with their own lives and histories. Students will explore a variety of machine and hand sewing techniques-investigating innovative ways to add surface tension and depth to their compositions.

Meredith College, Raleigh, NC

October 24, 2008(4:30-8:30)
October 25, 2008(9:00-3:00)

Imagery and Language II:
Connecting Reading Methods with Illustration

In our visual world, the illustrated page serves as an essential and creative link toward achieving excellent reading comprehension for all students. In this workshop, textile artist Peg Gignoux models the natural connections between the visual arts and language arts by guiding participants through the creation of an accordion pop-up book. After analyzing the work of today's finest illustrators and considering how style and graphic intention evokes meaning in children's stories, participants will explore the expressive role of story illustrator. Using the visual tools of collage, each participant will create a multi page accordion book –each participant interpreting an original story created previously in one of Wilde's Collaborative story writing workshops. This workshop is designed to promote meaningful connections for reading, skills in observation, visual literacy and reflection via an integrated arts project. Maximum class size is 20 and a $15 materials fee is required.

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts,
Gatlinburg, TN

FIBERS/TEXTILE: August 5-11, SUMMER 2007

This class will explore the poetic possibilites of fabric using the enormous descriptive potential of cloth activated with dye, paint, print and thread. discover innovative ways to generate sumtuous colors and astonshing textures in layers of cotton, silk and linen. Bring along some poetry for inspiration and dive into new ways to compose, deconstruct and artfully integrate text into textile. words and symbols will emerge from dye bath, print table sewing machine and embroidery needle. all levels.

Tuition: $395

To register go to: www.arrowmont.org

White Oak Artworks

3915 Rivermont Rd.
Durham, NC 27712
Presents
Artful Albums with Peg Gignoux
April 28-29, 2007
Saturday and Sunday
9am –5pm

Paint a picture, stamp, glue, wrap and collage some more! Here is you chance to create an artful album to hold your treasured pictures. Join textile artist, Peg Gignoux for a weekend of book making fun. Participants will each design a large hardcover album style book complete with secret envelopes and fanciful mixed media covers.

$160 per person (plus $15 studio fee)
includes continental breakfast and lunch. Limit 10

To register contact Julie Olson at 919-309-4747 or jo@whiteoakartworks.com