Stripe Lab

$134.00
sold out

Saturday May 17
10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Instructor: Amanda Rataj

Materials Fee: $15 (paid directly to Instructor)
Students: 8

Stripe Lab is a creative workshop focused on developing stripes in your visual art or textile practice. Based on the idea of a lab, where experimentation leads to new discoveries, during this workshop you will explore stripe design through drawing, yarn wraps, and weaving to investigate how colour, proportion, texture, yarn, and repetition work together to create beautiful and compelling stripe sequences.

To put these new skills into practice, we’ll use small frame looms to weave our stripe sequences, but the course will benefit knitters, screen printers, crocheters, and other textile/visual artists, too! You will need to bring a sketchbook to this workshop, but all other materials will be provided. If you wish, please bring a small selection of markers or pencil crayons for drawing (some will be provided, but if you have preferred tools, it’s nice to have them!). A small list of nice-to-have items will be sent out prior to the workshop.

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Saturday May 17
10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Instructor: Amanda Rataj

Materials Fee: $15 (paid directly to Instructor)
Students: 8

Stripe Lab is a creative workshop focused on developing stripes in your visual art or textile practice. Based on the idea of a lab, where experimentation leads to new discoveries, during this workshop you will explore stripe design through drawing, yarn wraps, and weaving to investigate how colour, proportion, texture, yarn, and repetition work together to create beautiful and compelling stripe sequences.

To put these new skills into practice, we’ll use small frame looms to weave our stripe sequences, but the course will benefit knitters, screen printers, crocheters, and other textile/visual artists, too! You will need to bring a sketchbook to this workshop, but all other materials will be provided. If you wish, please bring a small selection of markers or pencil crayons for drawing (some will be provided, but if you have preferred tools, it’s nice to have them!). A small list of nice-to-have items will be sent out prior to the workshop.

Amanda Rataj is an artist and weaver living and working in Hamilton, Ontario. She studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design University and has developed her contemporary craft practice through research-based projects, artist residencies, and exhibitions. Amanda is a contract lecturer in Toronto Metropolitan University’s Fashion program and has been an educator at the Art Gallery of Ontario for over a decade. Recent exhibitions include Generation at Craft Ontario as part of the Design TO festival (2023), Crosscurrents: Canada In the Making at the Textile Museum of Canada (2018), and Nothing is Newer Than Tradition (Art Gallery of Burlington, 2017).