Sundancers, Wild Women and DreamWeavers

Colorado area Events, Summer '04

If you're passing through Colorado or New Mexico area this summer, there are some exciting things happening in 2004. This is a textiles "jackpot year!" Information/registration for the events can be found with the links

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Govenor's Art Show Invitational - Loveland Museum/Gallery, featuring 33 Colorado artists. Loveland, Colorado. April 25-May 23.

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Denver Art Museum - Changing Seasons: Coverlets from their Collection. Denver, Colorado. Opens May 22.

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Mesa Verde Country Indian Arts & Western Culture Festival - Indian Art Market, rug auction, concerts, outdoor drama. Cortez, Colorado, May 28-June 6.

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3rd Annual San Luis Valley Quilt Adventure, June 19 - July 6, works created by local quilters featured in downtown Alamosa stores. Presented by Gray Goose Fabrics, 614 Main Alamosa, (719) 589-6982.

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Santa Fe International Figurative Art Festival - art dolls - Santa Fe, New Mexico - May 21-23.

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Estes Park Wool Market - Sheep, llama, alpaca, Cashmere & Angora goat, and yak fibers, animals for sale, competitions, demonstraions, fiber related: classes, vendor booths. A major Colorado fiber "spendfest" - Estes Park, Colorado - June 10-13.

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Enchanted Doll Artists Conference - Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 24-27.

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Handweaver's Guild of America, Convergence 2004 - Denver, Colorado, June 27-July 3.

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Denver Doll Artisans Club - guest teachers and information can be found at this link. Guest teachers in 2004 are Patti Culea, Christine Shively, and Anne Hesse.

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"Just Stuffed", a cloth doll club, meets at 12:30 on 1st Tuesday of each month at Ruth's Stitchery, 4440 Austin Bluffs Parkway, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Guest teacher June 21-22 is Mimi Winer on needlesculpting. Contact me for information. There is also an evening meeting.

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I'll be adding to this list, so check back from time to time.

The Colorado Network Project - art travel guide

I have "Great Expectations" and goals for this weblog

1. to focus on building a travel guide of contemporary fiber-related arts, artisans, and subjects of possible interest to any of us.
2. to begin my Colorado Network Project

Our state doesn't begin at Colorado Springs and end at north Denver! Many of very best events, exquisite embellishment finds, sources of indiginous dyestuffs - i.e. the really good stuff lies off the beaten paths of I-25 and Hwy. 50

I have long wanted to develop a complete travel guide / reference list / library / calendar of the when, where, who to contact, and what lies off the beaten path: events, resources, call for entries, "shopfests", "where to find", and locally known happenings (including monthly meeting schedules) in Colorado to include the small towns of of our neighboring states that are within day trip range. I'm especially interested in the Eastern and Southeastern areas and relatively isolated communites.

I believe will serve 2 valuable functions:
1.) to make sure I and other regional designer/artisans don't pass thru your wonderful "No Where", Colorado or "No Where" Kansas and miss a great opportunity to buy strings of rattlesnake bones to use as embellishments, or a top notch quality but small quilt show that isn't touted in the Denver Post, and especially a chance to visit a textiles group meeting and connect with kindred spirits. I live in Pueblo, Colorado It qualifies as a "NoWhere".
2. To make sure that other kindred spirts passing thru "No Where", Colorado or "NoWhere", Kansas don't zip right by the best stuff because there's no listing / reference in existance.

Obviously, I will need your input!

1. Please spread the word via grapevine and your newsletters. 2. Contribute what you know of your local shops, events, dyestuffs and items with embellishment possibilities indigenous to your area and/or off the beaten paths of I-25 or Hwy 50, kindly leave it in comments so it is immediately available. I will eventually get it compiled and cross-referenced.