December 2024 Announcements

During our meetings, we hold space for everyone to share announcements - whether people have a show, workshop, or sale, or whatever support, materials, space, resources one might need or have to share. This December, we skipped our monthly in-person meeting, but still had a lot of gatherings and news to share:

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Fiber Club*

Common Thread, curated by Riley Klein, with the Gifts of Art Gallery at UM Health, begins December 16 through February 28. You can visit it during opening hours (essentially 24/7) at the Taubman Gallery at Michigan Medicine (the main UM Hospital in Ann Arbor). The show is located directly across from the Pharmacy. Thank you to everyone who is participating or supporting the show - 30 artists!
(Stay tuned - we will follow up about possible gathering dates/times to view and enjoy the show together - probably January/February!)

Go See + Support

The Fiber Flux exhibit curated by Heather Macali, Jeremy Noonan and Joey Quiñones is still up at CCS through December 14. There is an artist talk on Friday, December 13 at 5:30! Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 12pm-6pm.

Saturday, December 14 from 12-6PM, Core City is where it’s at. Spool and Dye Works (Kit Parks) will have wares available at Grand on River Studios, and Materia Edition will be open as well. (Plus stop by Periodicals, Vesper Books & Wine.)

Jane Sasso, Kira Keck, and Linda Kentoffio will be participating in 40 West Howard open studios in Pontiac on December 14-15. (You may also catch Lynn Bennett-Carpenter (?), who was recently Instafamous on Artists on Couches!) Stop by!

You better believe Sarah Rose Sharp has writing in the 2024 Art Issue of Believer Magazine.

Irene Perez wants you to know the Cranbrook Fiber crew is hosting a holiday sale to include naturally dyed and printed totebags, t-shirts (and maybe more) December 6-7 from 12-5PM. The cohort is fundraising for a group show.

Diane Nunez has work up at the Congregation! Go get some coffee and check it out.

Materia Edition has an “All Materials” holiday preview show up now through December 21, including a handful of fiber folks - see work from Meg Heeres, Rosie Sharp, Maggie Wiebe, Kira Keck, and Meg Morley.

Rachel Brunhild recommends visiting the Lawrence Street Gallery in Ferndale. In December, Rachel, along with Linda Talbot and Emily Hamilton, will have work in the Think Small exhibit. In January, Rachel will have work in the BEST OF show. (Congrats all!)

Levon Kafafian has a solo show, Portal Fire: Shrine of the Torchbearer, at MOCAD.

Workshops!

Leana Becker and Robin Wilson are TEAMING UP for a workshop series that will take place from January to May of 2025 at Robin’s Vesey Lane Goods on Kercheval in Detroit. We are so thrilled about this collaboration! Here’s Leana’s workshop line-up:

• 1/16- Learning Basic Embroidery Stitches

• 2/20- Creating an Embroidered Bookmark

• 3/20- Make an Embroidered Monogram Ornament or Sachet

• 4/17- Embroidered Set of Cocktail Napkins

• 5/15- Create an Embroidered Pillow Face

Get more information about the workshops here.

Rachel Brunhild is going to be teaching 3 workshops coming up — two at the BBAC in January and one at the J in February. Sarah Sparkman is also teaching a weaving workshop at the BBAC. Rachel and Sarah’s workshops at the BBAC are already full!

Melissa Dettloff is teaching all over town. Find Melissa’s workshops at the Hawk in Farmington Hills (screen printing, plus screen printing on fabric to make cool zippered pouches), and at the BBAC and screen printing at CCS!

Andrew Wilson also has two workshops coming up at CCS. Join him for Log Cabin Quilting Techniques in February, and Design and Make Textile Crowns in March.

Mary Hafeli shared information about free NYFA professional development workshops coming up in January, February and March 2025.

Art Calls + Opportunities

D’Artillery’s Global Holiday Market is on Sunday, December 15. Still time to apply to participate as a vendor! Submit your application by Monday, December 9.
(Also - just check out D’Artillery if you’re not already familiar with it. Thank you for sharing, Gracie!)

Also, still time to apply to be a vendor at the Ann Arbor Fiber Arts Expo taking place Sunday, February 9 from 10am to 5pm at the Ann Arbor Downtown Library. Due December 9. Hop on it!

Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, invites artists and collaboratives to submit their work for consideration for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative. Open to emerging and mid-career artists and collaboratives living and working in Michigan. Due December 22, 2024.

The Sculpture Center (Cleveland, Ohio) is seeking applicants for its 2026 Revealed Emerging Artist Series with an open call for artists. 6 artists are chosen annually for one-person exhibitions. The 8 week-long exhibitions will be held January 2026 – January 2027. Due Monday, January 27, 2025.

It’s Kresge Artist Fellowships time, and visual artists season rolls around every two years. Artists residing in Wayne, Oakland, or Macomb county can apply for the newly increased $50,000 fellowships, with applications due January 16, 2025. The latest application guidelines for the no strings attached awards are available now. Join a whole bunch of interested folks in a Zoom info session on Wednesday, December 11 at 5:30PM - register in advance.

→ You can also join an in-person Kresge Artist Fellowship workshop at Buffalo Prescott on Saturday, December 14 at 12PM. Workshop is free - bring questions! Kresge Artists Tylonn Sawyer and Miranda Kyle will be joined by Katie McGowan and Jordan Duckens of Kresge Arts in Detroit. Free to join - register in advance here.

Surface Design has a call for entry highlighting work made with a fibers sensibility, including traditional and cross-disciplinary materials, techniques, and practices, as well as experimental processes and material innovation, this exhibition invites artists to reflect creatively on the spaces between. Show will be in Florida. Apply by January 10, 2025.

Needlebound is an annual publication where fiber artists can share stories and perspectives in a space that isn’t governed by platform algorithms. Seeking contributors. Submissions for v. 2 due January 24, 2024.

Jen Barker is curating a show at Hatch Gallery in June, thematically related to reconnecting with ideas of home. Jen’s interested in hearing from those who have work that might fit the theme and would like to participate.

MISC

Andrew Wilson recently launched a fundraiser for his new interim residency initiative, the VOID, “a liminal space of resistance that prioritizes rest and community for creatives needing respite, space to convene and an atelier to bolster creative practice both in technical skill and professionalization.” Check it out.

Dot Jackson was featured on Friends of Friends, a new series about artists talking about their work and their friends’ work, by Molly Bernstein.

Unstable Design Lab features an experimental weaving talk series, which features a pretty incredible line-up of artists. The talks are available live over Zoom, for free. If you aren’t able to make those, they’re all recorded and available on YouTube!

OK! What did we miss? Please do share any of your announcements in the comments, plus any suggestions of what not to miss this month! What calls or opportunities - or good reads - have you seen that people should know about?

Of course, feel free to send any updates to us over Instagram so we can get the word out! Especially without an in-person meeting in December, we love finding other ways to gather and support this season.