Fibre Resume
Qualifications:
OHS Spinning Certificate
Additional Qualifications, Honour Specialist, Visual Arts
Workshops & Classes (Teaching)
Synthetic and Regenerated Fibres, OHS Level 5 Spinning Certificate Course
Demonstrations & Presentations
November, 2014 - Colour Blending: Using singles to create bold barber pole to elegant heathered and marled yarns.
Autumn, 2014 - The Colour Toolbox @ the Fall Spinning Gathering: Let’s Play with Colour!
January, 2015 - Extending your Precious Fibres: What can you do to make a special purchase go further?
February, 2015 - Space-Dyed Rovings: You have a beautiful space-dyed roving, now what do you do with it?
March, 2015 - Hand Carders: A versatile tool to create different fibre preparations and colour effects.
April, 2015 - Chain Plying: Deliberately spin to create colour pools and examine some textile structures that showcase these yarns.
May, 2015 - Bring Your Colourful Skeins and/or Garments that Play with Colour Effects: Let’s inspire each other with the work that we have created!
Leadership Roles
Awards
Toronto: Ontario Handspinning Seminar, 2015
Burlington: Ontario Handspinning Seminar, 2012
Publications
Arts Organization Memberships
Art Exhibition
Artists Among Us, Exhibited Personal Works, November 2005, 6, and 7
OHS Spinning Certificate
- Ontario Handweaver’s and Spinners: Haliburton School of the Arts, 2008 – 2014
Additional Qualifications, Honour Specialist, Visual Arts
- University of Western Ontario, 2002
- University of Western Ontario, 2000
- University of Western Ontario, 1999
Workshops & Classes (Teaching)
- Five Counties, Spinning Paper Threads, September 2016
- Ontario Handspinning Seminar, Space-Dyed Rovings & Break Free From your Colour Rut, June 2016
- Kingston Handloom Weavers and Spinners, Spinning Paper Threads Workshop, April 2016
- Haliburton School of the Arts/Fleming College, August 2015
Synthetic and Regenerated Fibres, OHS Level 5 Spinning Certificate Course
- Ontario Handspinning Seminar, World of Washi: Spinning Paper, June 2015
- Guelph Guild, Spinning Paper Workshop, May 2010
- Georgetown Guild, Introductory to Spinning Series of Classes, Winter 2010
- Alliston: OHS Conference, Spinning Paper Workshop, May 2009
- Barrie: Ontario Handspinning Seminar, Spinning Paper Workshop, June 2008
Demonstrations & Presentations
- Guelph Guild, Spinning Paper Program, April 2016
- Guelph Guild, Spinning Program Chair, 2014 - 15
November, 2014 - Colour Blending: Using singles to create bold barber pole to elegant heathered and marled yarns.
Autumn, 2014 - The Colour Toolbox @ the Fall Spinning Gathering: Let’s Play with Colour!
January, 2015 - Extending your Precious Fibres: What can you do to make a special purchase go further?
February, 2015 - Space-Dyed Rovings: You have a beautiful space-dyed roving, now what do you do with it?
March, 2015 - Hand Carders: A versatile tool to create different fibre preparations and colour effects.
April, 2015 - Chain Plying: Deliberately spin to create colour pools and examine some textile structures that showcase these yarns.
May, 2015 - Bring Your Colourful Skeins and/or Garments that Play with Colour Effects: Let’s inspire each other with the work that we have created!
- Cambridge Guild, I-Cord Necklace, October 2012
- Georgetown Guild, Mosaic Knitting, March 2011
- Toronto: The Paper Place, Spinning Paper, April 2011
- Georgetown Guild, Woolen, Worsted and Semi-Something: Why Bother?, March 2010
- Toronto: The Paper Place, Spinning Paper, Spring 2010
- Etobicoke Guild, Spinning Paper, May 2010
- Mississauga Guild, Spinning Paper, Fall 2009
- Georgetown Guild, Entralac Knitting, Spring 2008
Leadership Roles
- FMSS, Head of Arts, 2011 to Present
- Guelph Guild of Handweavers and Spinners, Spinning Program Chair, 2014 - 15
- Burlington: Ontario Handspinning Seminar, Chair, 2011 - 13
- Guelph: Ontario Handspinning Seminar, Workshop Assistant &Technical Organizer, 2010 - 11
- Credit Valley Artisans, President, 2004 – 6 and Secretary, 2003 - 4
Awards
Toronto: Ontario Handspinning Seminar, 2015
- Handweaver's Guild of America Award, 3 Colour Cable Yarn Study: Scarf
Burlington: Ontario Handspinning Seminar, 2012
- Handweaver’s Guild of America Award, Hollyhocks: A Traditional Hooked Wall Hanging.
- Special Project, Non-Wearable, Advanced, First Place
- Special Project, Wearable, 100% Silk, Advanced, Third Place
- Skein Competition, 3 or More Plies, Advanced, First Place
- Skein Competition, Novelty, Advanced, First Place
- Special Project, Non-Wearable, Advanced, First Place
Publications
- Article: Fibre Focus, Spinning Tales, Fall 2013
- Artist Feature (Inclusion of Work): A Song of Praise for Shifu by Susan J. Byrd, 2013
- Shuttle, Spindle and Dyepot, HGA Award, Spring 2013
Arts Organization Memberships
- Ontario Handweavers and Spinners, 2008 to Present
- Guelph Handweavers and Spinners, 2001 – 3 and 2011 to Present
- Georgetown: Halton Hands in Motion Guild, 2004 to 2011 and 2013 to Present
- Georgetown: Heritage Handweavers and Spinner’s Guild, 2003 – 2011
Art Exhibition
Artists Among Us, Exhibited Personal Works, November 2005, 6, and 7