“Favorite Places”
Mixed Media Fiber Art Map Collage
with Valerie Goodwin, Artist, Author, Architect, College Professor
Date: Sunday, January 29, 2023
Time: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Cost: $100.00 (Includes BAC fee and supplies provided by the instructor)
Bring Lunch and something to Drink
Valerie S. Goodwin is a mixed media fiber artist and architect whose works of fine art are included in museum and private collections. Most of her work is inspired by a love of aerial views of landscapes and cities. Many of her quilts are based on maps.
Goodwin’s art has moved through various stages from traditional quilting to an interest in abstract expressionism and, currently it is inspired by real and imaginary landscapes and cities. In some cases, her work shows an architectural sense of space with an archaeological perspective. In others, the network of the city and its built form is more prominent. These compositions work on several levels, from close up and far away as if one was looking at it from above.
She received degrees in architecture from Washington University and Yale University. Her award winning work has been widely published and exhibited. She also lectures and gives workshops nationally and internationally. For over 26 years, she taught architectural design at Florida A & M University. She is a member of SAQA.
Her book, Art Quilt Maps: Capture a Sense of Place with Fiber Collage-A Visual Guide is widely available.
Valerie’s work, “Mapping: The Work of A Textile Artist” is currently being shown in the Anderson Brickler Gallery in Tallahassee, FL through the end of December 2022 (https://www.instagram.com/p/Cjf7teePHit/) Wednesdays 11-3 and Saturdays 2-5. You can see more of her creativity at https://www.instagram.com/valeriegoodwinart/
What is a Map?
map (map), mapped, mapping, n. 1. a drawing representing selected features of the earth's surface or part of it. 2. a map like drawing of anything: a highway way, a weather map.
Maps are intriguing as an art form and as a vehicle for artistic expression. They are personal explorations of map language and imagined landscapes. Through satellite imagery sites like Google maps -- almost any place can be translated into an exquisite mixed media Cartographic Quilt. Name a favorite place. Is it in your city, your state, the USA or somewhere far away? In this class, you can design a cartographic map of a favorite location such as your residence or birth place. Discover the possibilities of creating a map from fabric, paint and thread! Using a fun and simple series of painted and collaged, mixed- media techniques, you will create a mixed media fiber art map. The instructor will guide you through a series of steps that will provide opportunities to learn about design while giving you the freedom to experiment within a structured framework.
Important Note: Because this class will require students bring a map of their chosen favorite place, some pre-planning and communication with each student will be required so that each person brings a map that can be used in this workshop.
Pre-Workshop Requirements:
1. Students are asked to bring hard copy maps of a place that has meaning for them. Take your file (or hard copy map) to a copy shop such as Target Copy or Kinko's. They should be able to make black and white copies inexpensively on bond paper. You may want to get a few copies, of slightly different sizes to give you more options.
2. The size of your completed map will be about : - 8.5” x 11
3. **It will be important to email the instructor your prospective maps about 2 weeks before the workshop so that she can help you make choices. Her email address is valeriegoodwin@comcast.net
Workshop Materials:
Book: Art Quilt Maps: Capture a Sense of Place with Fiber Collage-A Visual Guide by Valerie S. Goodwin
Inexpensive Flat artist Brushes: ranging in size from ¼” to 1”flat art brush
Inexpensive 2” (+/-) house painter’s brush
Foam Stencil Brush
1 yd of Misty- Fuse WHITE (www.mistyfuse.com)
1/2 yard of Misty- Fuse BLACK (www.mistyfuse.com)
Teflon or Parchment Paper Sheet
Two choices for Paint:
Fabric Paints (Primary colors + Black +white paint or a set of muted colors that
you like) OR
Acrylic Paints (Primary colors + Black +white paint) and a bottle of GAC 900
Fabric medium
Medium sized Rotary Cutter
Small sharp fabric scissors
Black, white and gray thread for machine sewing (in addition bring any other thread
colors that you favor from your stash)
Gridded rotary cutter ruler
Painter’s tape
Needles for hand sewing & Pins
Plastic cups or plates for mixing.
A few Garbage bags
Sewing Machine with free motion foot
Any decorative threads that you like for hand sewing.
Fabric: Bring small eighths (+/- 9" x 21") or larger of light, medium and dark values. Please bring plenty of light colors!!!! I find that students do not have enough contrast in the finished maps because they use many medium valued fabrics. The goal is to have the elements on the map (Streets, buildings, etc...) stand out from the background (earth’s surface) So, you will need more light and dark fabrics than medium. FABRIC OPTIONS INCLUDE: • Varied commercial or hand dyed solid fabrics. • Marbled fabric • Fabric w/ subtle prints. • 1/2 yard each of black, white and gray silk organza
Lunch and something to drink.
OPTIONAL
Kimono Scraps
Black Micron Pens (or equivalent), Minimum, 3 Point Sizes — 01 (0.25 mm), 03 (0.35 mm),
and 05 (0.45 mm)
Sharpies: Black, red, blue, green
PLACES TO FIND MAPS ONLINE:
https://snazzymaps.com/ http://mappery.com/tags.php?tag=tourism&nearestto=23718 http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl https://cadmapper.com/ http://www.google.com/earth/index.html http://maps.stamen.com/#terrain/12/37.7706/-122.3782
