Reis to conduct workshop in Winchester
Morehead State University’s teaching artist and assistant professor Jennifer A. Reis will host an embellished textile workshop at the Winchester Opera House, 10 East Lexington Avenue, on Saturday, Nov. 7, from 12:30 - 5 p.m. in Winchester.
The cost of the workshop is $30, and includes all supplies to make a small embellished textile collage using sewing, quilting, embroidery and embellishing techniques.
Participants in the workshop will explore this medium of embellished through learning a variety of hand-worked art quilting techniques including embellishing with traditional beads and unusual materials, nontraditional quilting and appliqué, and embroidery to make their own embellished textile collage.
Students will learn the basics of art quilting and embellishing, including embroidered text, shi-sha mirror application, and utilizing found objects on fabric. All work is hand-done, no machine, and open to all skill levels.
A signed copy of “Creative Quilting with Beads” featuring the art of Reis is available for an additional charge of $25.
Reis, an arts professional, is a practicing artist with a B.F.A. degree from Columbus College of Art, an M.A. degree in museum studies from Syracuse University, and an M.A. degree in studio art with an art education emphasis from Morehead State University.
As an actively exhibiting and award winning artist, she has shown her work at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, WomanMade Gallery in Chicago, Turchin Center for the Arts in Boone, N.C., American Quilter’s Society Museum in Paducah, the Dairy Barn Arts Center in Athens, Ohio, Miami of Ohio University Galleries, Southern Ohio Museum, among others.
In 2007, Reis received the prestigious Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council, an award designed to honor high artistic achievement, as well as grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and Americans for the Arts. She has taught textile embellishment at the Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, Craft Alliance in St. Louis, and Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in Louisville, and Craftsummer at Miami of Ohio University.
Additional information about her work is available at www.jenniferareis.com. Workshop registration is on a first-come, first-serve basis and is limited to 15 people. The deadline to register is Wednesday, Nov. 4.
To register or for additional information, you may call (859) 745-6622 or e-mail angelique@winchesteroperahouse.com
Posted: 10-28-09
