MASTER COMPOSITION: FINDING YOUR VOICE
• Length: 2 weeks (10 days)
• Level: Advanced / Post Graduate
• Prerequisite: Artists/students who have previously studied with Nancy Crow a minimum of 5 times and who will have prepared a brand new body of work before class begins.
• Sewing machine used
DESCRIPTION
This workshop is intended for students who:
• are disciplined about their work and are practicing or will start practicing on some sort of regular basis throughout the year
• have ideas and who INTENTIONALLY GATHER IDEAS for their work
• are wanting to be more rigorous in their approach to their work
• are looking for honest critiques
• are either self-directed...OR...who are still desirous of some structure in the form of COMPOSITIONAL DESIGN EXERCISES
• will not be producing any work derivative of my own work...I will not encourage nor support nor tolerate work derivative of my own body of work because it means that you are not working hard enough to find your own voice.
During the two weeks of classes, each student will either proceed in one of two ways in MASTER COMPOSITION: FINDING YOUR VOICE:
1. As an INDEPENDENT STUDY student totally responsible for IDEAS TO EXPLORE and for setting up a course of study for the week or the two weeks that will meet the CRITIQUE SCHEDULE.
2. As a WORKING-IN-A-SERIES student who will use a set of procedures/design exercises that I will give out and which will have a CRITIQUE SCHEDULE.
Before coming to class, the prerequisite will be the following:
Each participant must come with a new body of work that has been created during the previous year and which was not created within a previous workshop. In other words, even though one might have taken SETS & VARIABLES I, II, III or IMPROVISATIONAL COMPOSITION or a workshop somewhere else with someone else, etc., one must have built a group of brand-new compositions, (maybe based on a wonderful composition or idea done in or that resulted from a workshop), but now preferably worked-in-a-series as a FORM OF EXPLORATION.
The minimum number of new compositions will be 3 or more if medium to large compositions...or 8 or more smaller compositions. These numbers will guarantee that you are indeed practicing in some sort of disciplined manner. (These can be only the quilt tops-or- finished quilted pieces. And the resulting new work should be stimulating to everyone else participating in the workshop, including me!!!
Additional approaches and practices I encourage before coming to class include:
• very small sewn studies
• paper collages
• sewn collages
• well-kept notebook/sketchbook
• sketches/drawings in ink, pencil, color
• scrapbook of ideas taken from other sources, i.e. magazines, books, etc.
Presentations:
Each week a student will be responsible for a timed 30 minute professional presentation on their own work. If you are attending both weeks, you will be giving this presentation only once during the 2 weeks.
THINK CLEARLY....AND.....BE thoughtful AND ARTICULATE about what you want to say. You can address any issues that you feel are important to you and your work.
SUPPLIES
Bring or ship all supplies that you want to use for the one or two weeks you are in class. Or... follow my suggested supply list below:
• Sewing Machine
• Iron/Iron Cleaner
• Heavy Duty Extension Cords
• Digital Camera and Printer/Polaroid Camera and Film/Regular Camera and Film
• Multiple Outlet Power Strip/Adaptors
• Glue to Adhere Polaroid Snapshots into Sketch Book
• 4’ x 8’ Batting or Flannel (White) or Muslin on which to pin work
• Swing-Arm Lamp
• Scissors, Machine Needles, Thread, Ball-Head Pins
• 24” x 36” Cutting Mat, Extra Large Rotary Cutter and Blades
• Sketchbook, Pens, Other Supplies You Want
Fabrics:
3 yards or more each of:
• SOLID BLACK and SOLID WHITE (Pimatex by Robert Kaufman is wonderful quality)
1 yard or more each of:
• GRAYS wide range in light, medium, dark (at least 1 yard of each color)
• TANS wide range in light, medium, dark (at least 1 yard of each color)
• SOLID COLORS wide range - so you can be free to work (at least 1 yard of each color)
• OFF-WHITES warm white, cold white, cream (at least 1 yard of each color)
1/2 to 1 yard or more each of:
• A GROUP OF PRINTS THAT LOOK LIKE VISUAL TEXTURES plus BOLD PRINTS, STRIPES, PLAIDS, CHECKS, BATIKS, PAINTED FABRICS
Whatever suits you!
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