Community Arts Learning Grant
Community Arts Learning Grant
Scandinavian Style Community Weaving Center Development
Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor of Music at University of Minnesota-Duluth, pianist; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, former Children's Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Quentin Stille: student liaison, College Music Director at KUMD.
Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Quentin Stille: student liaison, College Music Director at KUMD.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
The Weaving Center will provide community members use of historic large old looms to learn to weave on. The Center will allow local weavers to come in when desired to weave on large or small looms that they would not otherwise fit in their homes. Friendships with other weavers and learning experiences will encourage and inspire community interaction. A group of weavers (or soon-to-become weavers) who attend meetings, weavers who take classes, weavers make weaving samples, and one or more weavers who can be apprentices that would know how to keep the looms in working order so others can weave on them. It will reach out to weavers regionally/statewide to do an Artist in Residence." 1) By teaching how the looms work, providing loom preparation, and keeping looms in working order, weaving is taught to community members and others who attend. 2) Ensure that Old School Lives has additional skills needed to provide Weaving Center management and loom care for ongoing use. 3) Community members have learned the value of the looms and their own personal special value and importance for working with the looms. 4) Several community members become Weaver Apprentices to continue weaving and keeping looms in working order under supervision of Weaving Center Manager. 5) Provide schedule for weavers to come in and work with looms when weaving mentor will be available or to work independently."
The Weaving Center provided 4 historic old looms on which potential apprentices learned to warp (put on threads for weaving) so they could learn to weave (by 4 local residents.) The Weaving Center has one dedicated woman who learned to use and care for the looms. She demonstrated this by coming in once weekly from Apr. - Nov. 2017. I feel confident that she can use and set up the looms, has the skills to keep the looms in working order. Several other women wove on the big looms. We had a special day in Oct. when 4 of us could get together and take what they wove off the looms. (See photos). I prepared and taught 6 classes. There were 25 students total. The quality of the weaving and the amount of weaving each student did indicated very successful results from each student. They learned to warp (thread looms with patterns) and weave different typical Scandinavian designs with traditional Rosepath patterns. (See photos attached.) Students requested more classes!
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