All Things Wool
June 16-20, 9am-noon each day
Age requirements: 8-12
Teaching artists: Jennifer Angelo, Rain Foster, Elizabeth Shaw Neviaser, and Catherine Urban
Camp fee: $220.00
In this week-long camp, participants will explore the wonderful and diverse world of wool. Using colorful wool roving, participants will make different fun projects each day. From creating a 2D picture and 3D bowl with wet felting techniques, to round weaving colorful flowers, campers will learn a variety of wool crafting techniques and will develop skills in designing and creating compelling patterns and compositions, wet felting, weaving, hand sewing, embellishment, and more.
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Bios:
Jennifer Angelo (she/her), with a PhD in occupational therapy, spent five years living in New Zealand, where she uncovered the wonderfully versatile world of felting. Her observational skills, refined through education and shaped by diverse environments—ranging from rolling landscapes and jutting rock formations to urban architecture—have added depth to her artistic perspective. During her time in New Zealand, Angelo discovered felting, an ancient craft that opened up an entirely new realm of art for her. In addition to her more than 20 years of teaching at the university level, Jennifer has shared her expertise by instructing various wet felting classes catering to students of all skill levels. Notably, Jennifer consistently earns high praise for her effective step-by-step teaching approach.
Rain Foster (she/her)received her BFA from The Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI. She majored in Ceramics, with a minor in Weaving and Watercolor. She is inspired by the gifts of Nature: bits of trees and plants, fabric remnants, and various natural fibers.
She began as a spirit doll maker and has graduated to experiment with fiber forms as well as embroidery and other types of stitching. She is currently making soft forms, embellished with ribbon, buttons, beads, vintage & found items. She feels that stitching is not only a form of creativity but also meditation. She enjoys the companionship of working in a group setting, sharing inspiration, skills and accomplishments..
Elizabeth Shaw Neviaser (she/her) spent most of her life as a prolific painter, and completed her Bachelor of Fine Art degree at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2020. Dyed felted wool is now her primary medium, and her works tend to be mainly two dimensional. Though self-taught in this field, she has led numerous workshops on felting, and is an ongoing guest instructor of felting at UW-Madison. She is particularly inspired by how directly fiber art can communicate emotion, and seeks to continue to elevate felted wool as a legitimate fine art medium. Elizabeth also works in oil, cold wax media, acrylics, watercolors, artisan paper-making, and Japanese Shibori textiles. Elizabeth now lives and has her studio in Verona Wisconsin.
Formerly an elementary art teacher, Catherine Urban (she/her) has been a full time artist and running her traveling art studio since 2020. She loves all aspects of art- appreciating, creating, and teaching it. She strongly believes that creating brings out the best in us; it's what we were made to do. Creating has always been a way of life for her. Originally a drawer and acrylic painter, she stumbled upon macramé in 2020. After one Saturday night of not giving up on the square knot to make her first plant hanger, she fell in love with knotting. Macramé opened the door to fibers for her, and now she is weaving too. There is a long running connection to fiber art in her family, and for her working with fibers just feels so natural. It's like home.