Marjolein Dallinga– September 3-6
Marjolein Dallinga was born in the Netherlands where she studied Fine Arts. She moved to Montréal, Canada, in 1989 to pursue her art career through making art books and jewelry. While raising a family, her creativity led her to toy making and teaching art classes. This led her to discover felting, and she now works in this medium. The world-renowned CIRQUE DU SOLEIL became interested in Marjolein’s work, and for many years she has experimented with felt for their costume design while also creating final products for their shows. Marjolein has her own company, Bloomfelt.com, and works from her studio with sewing and dyeing rooms. She has taught felting for fifteen years in North and South America, Europe, and Australia. Last year she won three awards for her costumes made for the WOW (World of Wearableart) in New Zealand.
In-person and Virtual Lecture: Sept 3, 9:30 am (CT): Felt in Form
Marjolein Dallinga will tell us about her journey as an artist with the medium of felt and about felt art in general.
In-Person Workshop: Discovery through Felt – Sculptural Felting
Tues, Sept 3 – 1:00pm – 4pm (CT)
Wed, Sept 4 – 9:30am – 4pm (CT)
Thurs, Sept 5 – 9:30am – 4pm (CT)
Fri, Sept 6 – 9:30am -12:30pm (CT)
This wet felting workshop is a discovery journey filled with many experiences of modeling different wools and other fibers. We will explore different techniques for sculptural form ideas, with themes like; folding and unfolding, building relief, clamping and binding; all to become more aware of how, and why, we want to use this medium. This workshop is inspired by the idea that we have to allow ourselves to discover new ways of creating with wool.
We will play with the processes of shortening, thickening, tightening, shrinking and other transformations of felted surfaces. Focus will be on how color changes in the felting process and how different layouts and felting methods changes form and shapes.
This wet felting workshop is experimental and playful. We will do several different sculpting techniques and projects.
Some wet felting experience required.