Arts on Main

Community Arts Center in Gloucester, Virginia

Cardboard Loom Weaving Class with Janet Griffin

Cardboard Loom Weaving Class
September 17
12pm-4pm

Do you like beautiful colors? Perhaps you are a pattern person? Maybe you love textures? You can have all three elements in this artwork!

Learn to weave a hand-woven pouch!

This class is perfect for any skill level and even great for teens!

Students will manipulate wool or cotton yarn using several weaving techniques including Tabby, Soumac and Rya Knots, and two-needle technique. Your finished work can be felted, if you wish. Janet Griffin, weaving instructor, will also demonstrate a small table loom. The class will meet from noon to 4pm. The instructor will bring all materials needed.

Cost is $60 per student. 

Registration deadline: Thursday, September 15 @ 5pm


 

2-Day Weaving on a Loom Workshop: Tapestry Wall-Hanging with Janet Griffin

2-Day Weaving on a Loom Workshop: Tapestry Wall-Hanging with Janet Griffin
November 5 & November 19
10 am-5pm

Learn to weave on a four harness loom! Design your own unique cloth!

The student will study the process of constructing a wrap, dressing the loom and throwing a shuttle.  Students will study the Theo Moorman Tapestry Technique involves the inlay of yarn to create shapes on the cloth. All materials will be provided by instructor, (four-harness loom, warping board, lease sticks, sleying tool, shuttle, and wool and cotton yarns). A second meeting will be held to finish the tapestry on November 19.

Registration Deadline: Thursday, November 3 @ 5pm

 

CLASS FULL

 

2-Day Weaving on a Loom Workshop: Tapestry Wall-Hanging with Janet Griffin

2-Day Weaving on a Loom Workshop: Tapestry Wall-Hanging with Janet Griffin
November 5 & November 19
10 am-5pm

Learn to weave on a four harness loom! Design your own unique cloth!

The student will study the process of constructing a wrap, dressing the loom and throwing a shuttle.  Students will study the Theo Moorman Tapestry Technique involves the inlay of yarn to create shapes on the cloth. All materials will be provided by instructor, (four-harness loom, warping board, lease sticks, sleying tool, shuttle, and wool and cotton yarns). A second meeting will be held to finish the tapestry on November 19.

Registration Deadline: Thursday, November 3 @ 5pm

 

CLASS FULL

 

Four Harness Table Top Loom Weaving with Janet Griffin FULL

Join weaver, Janet Griffin, for a foray into the fiber arts through Four Harness Tabletop Loom Weaving. Over the course of two days, Janet will show you everything you need to know in order to create a beautiful scarf, which would be a one-of-a-kind, wearable art piece, or a beautiful landscape that can be framed and hung on the wall. Students can take the loom home to continue working on their projects outside of classroom hours. Upon registration, students will need to indicate whether they prefer to work with wool or cotton yarn. 

$150 includes all materials and the use of the loom

The second date of class will be determined by students.

This class is suitable for students aged 16+

Maximum of 2 students

Saturday, February 20th from 12:30pm – 4:30pm

 

About the Instructor

Janet is a retired Art Specialist from Gloucester County Public Schools. She taught in Hampton City Schools and, locally, at Petworth Elementary for 25 years prior to retiring from teaching, in 2016. She certainly enjoyed teaching art to young children and has always been amazed at how children can teach her!  Janet graduated Magna cum laude from Old Dominion University.
Janet’s own artistic work is tapestry weaving, balanced between the 60” Macomber and 30” Leclerc looms. Her favorite weaving is Theo Moorman’s tapestry technique. Janet lives in Gloucester Courthouse with her husband, Jim, and two crazy cats.

Quilts of River Country

Quilts of River Country

The art of quilting has expanded through the years. From the days of scissors, cotton fabric and hand needles to today’s rotary cutters, acrylic rulers, sewing machines, fusible batting and embellishments, quilting is an exciting art form.

The quilters of the Middle Peninsula are at the forefront of a new style of quilting fusing the old and the new. In this show you’ll see the beauty and precision of of traditional quilting artfully blended with the new techniques and patterns that keep the craft of quilting relevant to today.

 

First Friday Opening on September 6th from 6-8pm

First Friday sponsored by Catherine Peterson

Live music provided by Saint Julien’s Creek Revival

Free and open to the public with a beer & wine cash bar and paninis for purchase

 

 

Saint Julien’s Creek Revival

Formed in 2016 out of “NorFOLK, VA”, the musicians of Saint Juliens Creek Revival were brought together through the local bluegrass picking circles.  Recognizing a mutual love of roots music and three-part harmony, they soon branched off to explore their own sound, and Saint Juliens Creek Revival was born.  The band’s mission is to engage the community in roots music by bringing an eclectic a mixture of folk, Americana, bluegrass, gospel, and original tunes to its audiences.  The varied backgrounds of its members provide a unique combination of musical styles that is both contemporary and steeped in tradition, with influences ranging from 19th Century parlor tunes to Western Swing to Rock & Roll.  Saint Juliens Creek Revival is making plans to record their first demo soon.