All Levels (Beginners welcome)
Rebecca Ringquist

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FA1011 Dec 3-4, 2011 (10a - 5p) Saturday/Sunday (LTB Studio)

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In this drawing and embroidery workshop, participants will begin by making a series of fast paced drawings with
pencils and markers.  We'll then explore various ways of translating these marks into slower, hand-embroidered drawings and fast, thick machine stitched lines. A short introduction to a handful of embroidery stitches will take place the first day, with an emphasis on students developing their own vocabulary of mark making with needle
and thread and sewing machine. An emphasis on "more is more" will be encouraged! No drawing or embroidery experience required. BYOB sewing machine. Don't have a machine to bring? Contact us and we'll help you find one. A studio/materials fee of $10 is due at time of registration.

• Rebecca Ringquist
  
  Rebecca is a Brooklyn-based visual artist, and will begin a residency at the
  Museum of Art and Design in New York later this month. Her drawings on paper
  and stitched drawings on fabric explore issues of identitythrough thinly veiled
  metaphors utilizing old fashioned imagery anddouble entendres.
  
  Rebecca takes the notion of prim and proper embroidery samplers of a bygone era
  and ignites them with a sort of innocent rebellion. “I tell love stories and create
  veiled fractured narratives full of double entendre,” states Ringquist. “My work
  has been inspired of late by the fictional relocation story of the Swiss Family Robinson
  and my own cross-country move to Brooklyn. I alternate between hand embroidery
  and machine stitching. The harsh difference between the rates of speed with which I work
  conveys a complicated message.”
  
  In 2005, Rebecca was awarded an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship. Her
  work has been exhibited at the Hyde Park Art Center, The California
  Polytechnic University, ARC Gallery, Fraction Workspace, Northern
  Illinois University, The Textile Art Center in Brooklyn, and is
  currently represented by the Packer Schopf Gallery in Chicago.
  
  Rebecca earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of
  Chicago in the Fiber and Material Studies department where she
  subsequently taught for seven years. She teaches, lectures and
  exhibits nationally.

This is a bring your own sewing machine workshop. If you do not have a sewing machine or do not know someone who can lend you a sewing machine, please call us at 203-775-4526 and we will help you find one.

The $10 studio/materials fee due at time of registration covers use of the studio and transfer materials.

The following list of materials can be purchased at time of registration as a kit for $45. More experienced students who already own supplies may bring their own materials and decline the kit.

Quilting Hoop (12 Inches)
Small Embroidery Hoop (6 Inches)
Embroidery threads and sewing machine threads
Yarn, Trims
1-2 yards total of fabric (no stretch)
Fine Point Sharpie Marker
Pencil