Her info is time sensitive as they are accepting jpg images of small fiber art and handmade gift projects from Wyoming women but photos must be received by June 6th ! The photos will be juried, and if it is what they are looking for the actual item will be needed in August. It sounds like this month's focus is on fiber art, therefore the short deadline.
Get out those past challenges and 12 x 12's and send in your photos if you are interested in selling any of them. Send to: artconnect@wyo.edu
There were about 20 members and guests present for the June meeting.
Lili will be unable to present the TAGY program in July and has signed up for October instead.
Marie Shirley-Jones brought her completed "Doors and Gateways Challenge" art quilt as she will be unable to make the summer meetings. While it is amazing, I will not show the photo here so it will be a surprise when hung with the other Challenge quilts at the Yellowstone Quilt Fest on September 12-14th. We hope all TAGY members are working on their Challenge pieces as well! They are due at the August TAGY meeting, along with a statement about your piece.
Near the end of the meeting there was a side discussion with members who have taken Marie's class on Painting on Fabric with Thickened Dye. Since several TAGY members indicated they want to take her class, Marie agreed to offer the class at her home in Red Lodge on August 30. Details and a sign-up sheet will be passed around at the July and August TAGY meetings. Her email is mshirleyjones@gmail.com.
PROGRAM
The June program was given by Linda MacDonald on Blueprints on Fabric, a sun-printing process using the cyanotype process to "photograph" items onto fabric. For this experiment, 8.5 inch pre-treated colored cotton squares of fabric were purchased from dharmatradting.com. If you plan to do a larger project, they also sell the two chemicals that create the cyanotype, and this is a much more cost effective way to do this process on your own fabrics. Barbara Harrison purchased the chemicals and painted them onto her own cotton fabric squares. She included one of her hand-dyed fabrics, and that came out beautiful!
Basically this process is a chemical reaction to the treated fabric and sunlight to produce Prussian blue monochromatic prints.
Linda followed the package directions and did dry cyanotype experiments with leaves. After reading an article in Quilting Arts April/May 2019 issue about doing wet cyanotype printing, Barbara experimented with this process. Dry or wet, the results were fast, fabulous and lots of fun. On a sunny day it takes only 5 minutes to get your results. A cloudy day may take 15 to 30 minutes.
The pink fabric was exposed in the parking lot for 5 minutes during the meeting, then rinsed off. The parts of the fabric protected from the sun by the leaves shows the true color of the fabric square. The Prussian blue background is caused by the reaction of the sun to the chemicals used to treat the fabric.
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