Morning (11AM): “Preparing for a weekend of weaving pancakes and waffles, or circles and squares, through the structures of both summer & winter and waffle weave”
Afternoon (1PM): “The Stuff the World is Made Of": the Bauhaus Textiles Movement in North Carolina & Its Influence Today”
Morning Program: “Preparing for a weekend of weaving pancakes and waffles, or circles and squares, through the structures of both summer & winter and waffle weave”.
Hannah Watson will share a presentation, both digital and felt/seen, of her woven samples to the group and talk about her personal experiences with weaving as an art form. She will share how drawing with yarn through combining tapestry techniques with these weave structures has, in the past, offered an immensely therapeutic path through sticky emotional depths, aka weaving her way through her "dark knight of the soul." The weekend's playful workshop where we drazzle our looms is just one of many expressions of joy that craft can bring in times of grief and sorrow. Touching cloth is highly encouraged!
Afternoon Program: “The Stuff the World is Made Of": the Bauhaus Textiles Movement in North Carolina & Its Influence Today”.
The creative freedom offered and encouraged through the Bauhaus movement has inspired generations of weavers and designers. Beginning at the loom in Germany with Gunta Stölzl and progressing to Anni Albers at the Black Mountain College in western North Carolina, the Bauhaus movement sparked and carried joy and innovation across decades that left a profound impact on western North Carolina and its craftspeople. Hannah will present on the profoundly creative and dedicated women who led the textiles movement, how the school evolved from Germany to North Carolina, and how the weaving school Hannah attended in North Carolina remains heavily influenced today.
About Hannah:
Hannah Watson is a weaver, dyer, & mixed media artist whose work is driven by deep diving into the psychology of human development and connection to place, rhythm, color, and pattern. As her grandmothers were both textile artists and her parents jointly ran an architectural firm, her childhood was heavily influenced by cloth, architecture, and drawing. After earning her B.S. in cultural anthropology and costume design from the College of Charleston, she worked with a women’s weaving cooperative in the Sacred Valley, Peru in 2014 and then returned to South Carolina to work with an indigo grower & dyer. Hannah pursued natural dyeing, weaving, and collage education at Penland School of Craft and John C. Campbell Folk School in western North Carolina and completed a Professional Craft degree in Textiles at Haywood Community College in 2019. In 2018, she won a design award through the Handweavers Guild of America and has shown her work at galleries across the Carolinas, including Cloth Fiber Gallery, the Fine Arts Center, the Folk Art Center, and the Asheville Area Arts Council. She currently lives and works in Portland, OR as a textile artist and instructor at WildCraft Studio School. h