Day 2 – more studio work

By the end of the second day, these young artists had SO much work done and plans for the next day to begin the installations in earnest.  There is such a wild array of textures, and adventurous choices going on in the studio…shredded sweaters getting woven into large mats.  Nasty plastic mats that keep a rung from slipping get shredded and crocheted into what looks like natural vines.

The piles of clothes are beginning to dwindle and it’s forcing people to find the possibilities in the piles of scraps left over from Centrum workshops from the past.

I share with the artists how I take apart old Afgans from the thriftstore that cost $3.00 but yield me about 20 skeins of yarn.  Once the colors they want start to dwindle, the idea makes sense.  These two from The Moonblobs just get a little too zen with it.  I actually could do it all day.

Because it is still Summer Camp...

Day 1 – The Studio

Studio 205

Well, this is the beginning.  First post on the blog, first day and just before the young artists arrive at Studio 205 at Centrum.  The room has incredible light, and is the entire top floor of a 1920′s (I believe it’s the 1920′s) old military building.  Centrum is housed in several building on the campus of Fort W0rden, in Port Townsend, Washington, putting good use to a military base from the past.  (and yes, an ‘Officer and a Gentleman’ was filmed here.)

The Studio is filled with materials, giant bags and bags of old clothes I culled from the Goodwill outlet in Seattle, as well as many many bags of scraps from previous classes, and donated yarn.  Yarn is un-knotted from the massive knots that happen when yarn seems to mingle. And I can’t help but put the fabric into monochromatic piles.  I think it makes the clothes look less like a thriftstore and helps reveal the luscious possibilities of the abundance of fabric.