Jumpers and Jazz - Workshops

Workshops

Become a part of the energy and creativity of Jumpers and Jazz and join an art workshop. Download Colour Workshop Brochure HERE

Details of our exciting 2011 workshop program.

Art Appetisers

These are short 1 to 2 hour classes introducing a new technique or learning the basics of knitting and crochet.

Sat 23rd July at Warwick Art Gallery
Introduction to Amigurumi with Jessica Thompson 10am and 1pm
Tealight Lantern Workshop with Liz Stuart 10am and 1pm
$10 materials fee - bookings Warwick Art Gallery 07 46610434

Techniques for Freeform Knitting & Crochet (CLASS FULL)
a 2 day workshop with Prudence Mapstone
Sat 23rd & Sun 24th July, 10am - 4pm $140

We are delighted to bring Prudence to the festival this year. Participants in this workshop will learn various principles for successfully combining knitting and crochet together in a freeform, multi-directional manner. A number of different techniques and many stitches and motifs that work well for this style of designing will be studied and tried. Prior skills in both knitting and crochet is necessary (just the basics is OK).

Prudence Mapstone is a Brisbane textile artist whose medium is freeform knitting and crochet. Her unique way of blending the two traditional crafts enables her to produce richly textured wearable art pieces that still retain all of the flexibility, drape and fit of traditional knitwear. Prudence shares her freeform techniques internationally through workshops, lectures and shows. In 2002 she published her first book, and her work has been featured in many other books and magazines worldwide. www.knotjustknitting.com

Wild Knitting (CLASS FULL)
a 2 day workshop with Loani Prior Grand Purl Baa, Queen of the Tea Cosies
Thu 28th & Fri 29th July, 10am - 4pm $140

Loani's tea cosies are the haute couture of the gentle arts. She will share with you her voracious lust for colour, good design and beautiful wool. Tea cosies are funny even when they are not meant to be funny. AND a tea cosy is the perfect little project to learn a great number of knitting (and crocheting) skills. If you can knit a stitch and purl a stitch and cast on and off, you can join this class.

Loani Prior lives on QLD's Sunshine Coast where her woolly obsessions border on becoming a disorder. Loani has been knitting since the age of six. She published her first book, Wild Tea Cosies in 2008, which has been a roaring success in Australia going to reprint within just four months of first release. REALLY Wild Tea Cosies was released in April 2010 and graced the Top 10 National Bestseller Independent Bookstores list two weeks in a row. http://www.grandpurlbaa.com/

Chalk Pavement Art with Rudy Kistler

Sat July 23rd 1pm to 4 pm $10
Children's Chalk Art Challenge (FULL)

Mon 25th July, 10am - 4pm $40
Youth & Adult Chalk Art Workshop (4 places available)

Rudy's art has been well received in Sydney and has had the honour of being included in the Mossman & Paddington Art Prizes and several group shows. He also has annual solo shows and is represented by the Charles Hewitt Gallery. In addition to being a practising artist, Rudy is a trusted and well respected teacher of painting and drawing at the Bondi Road Art School, and at his alma mater, the National Art School in Darlinghurst. Rudy brings his life experiences to his artwork; his pavement art is wonderfully interactive and his live art /speed art is engaging.

This project is supported by the Regional Arts Development Fund. The Regional Arts Development Fund is a Queensland government and Southern Downs Regional Council partnership to support local arts and culture.

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