GUILD MEETINGS
Columbia Fiber Arts holds guild meetings in December, March, June, and September.
These meetings area a great way to get involved with CFG — a place to network with other fiber artists to share ideas and discuss common interests. (Lunches after these meetings usually offer even more opportunity to expand your network.)
Each guild meeting features a guest speaker — someone known nationally in the world of fiber art. The speaker also holds a workshop in connection with the guild meeting in March, June and September. Workshops are for CFG members only.
SEPTEMBER
JUNE
Artwork by Sara Shayne Miller
DECEMBER 2024
December 11, 2024
10:00-11:00 AM
Nicole Flood
"Reimagining Secondhand Clothing"
Location:
Congregation Neveh Shalom
2900 SW Peaceful Lane,
Portland, OR 97239
There is a world of the most incredible, affordable fabric at your fingertips – if you can look at secondhand clothing from a different perspective. This session will be exploring how to start looking at secondhand clothing through a different lens and creating new beauty using your sewing skills in a whole new way. I will share with you my 20 years of experience of creating one-of-a-kind wearable art and how you can begin (or continue!) to explore the wonderful world of upcycling!
Nicole Flood
"Reimagining Secondhand Clothing"
Lisa
Binkley
"Working in a Series to Spark Creativity"
MARCH 2025
Wednesday - March 12, 2025
10 AM - 12:00PM
Lisa Binkley
"Working in a Series to Spark Creativity"
Location:
Congregation Neveh Shalom
2900 SW Peaceful Lane,
Portland, OR 97239
"Working in a Series to Spark Creativity"
In this lecture and slide show I discuss some of the many processes and benefits of working in series while sharing many images of my embellished quilts and fiber and beadwork sculptures that I have created as parts of different series. I discuss ways to get started creating a series and the challenges and creative benefits that can come from working in this way. In addition to showing dozens of images of my work, I bring some of my quilts and sculptural fiber work for audiences to see and discuss in person.
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JUNE 2025
June 11, 2025
10:00 am - 12:00 Noon
Location:
Congregation Neveh Shalom
2900 SW Peaceful Lane,
Portland, OR 97239
"At Play in the Garden of Stitch"
Stitching is my second language. I tell my story through the medium of quilted textiles. The contrast—a strong line against a giving surface—captures what I know and must say. I’m interested in how we communicate with each other—leaders to followers, poets to people, the loud and the silent. From electronic signals to sidelong glances, they all intrigue me. I look for the uncanny in life. It’s as if there is a secret code I want to decipher. A book, a headline, my garden, a muttered oath all bring inspiration to the cloth.
Paula Kovarik creates art with stitch and fabric. Her intuitive line work travels the surface of her work as if a meditation has become solid. Inward thoughts become outwardly apparent through slow and studied attention to detail.
Paula
Kovarik
"I make art with thread and fabric"
Kevin Womack
Playful Patterning
SEPTEMBER 2025
September 10, 2025
10:00 am – 12:00 Noon
Location:
Congregation Neveh Shalom
2900 SW Peaceful Lane,
Portland, OR 97239
"Playful Patterning"
Tools from kitchen and hardware stores plus other “junk” you may have around your house can make incredibly interesting marks on fabric. Wire whisks, spatulas, string, wine bottles, and bubble wrap are just a few of the items you can use to pattern fabric that is uniquely yours. Join me to see fabric examples using these tools and others.Observe my process as I print fabrics using gelatin plate monoprinting with “junk.” Empty out that junk drawer and discover the wonders of printing your own patterns on fabric!
Artwork by Sara Shayne Miller