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<TABLE><TBODY><TR vAlign=top><TD>New Mexico Fiber Arts Trails Guide Seeks Artists
By Steppin' Out Staff
© 2006 SoNewMex.com - Reprint Permission Granted
Please let your readers know about the upcoming deadline to be listed in the 2007 rural New Mexico Fiber Arts Trails Guide. The eligibility guidelines and application are at www.nmfiberarts.org (http://www.nmfiberarts.org/) The online submission deadline is September 1.
New Mexico Arts, your State arts agency, is partnering with fiber artisans statewide to create a guide with maps featuring rural fiber arts destinations across the state. The guide will increase awareness of and bring the market to New Mexico’s rich and exciting variety of fiber artists, growers, processors, learning centers, suppliers, galleries, cooperatives and nonprofit organizations. We hope to invite visitors to the places where rural fiber artists create, nurture and display hand crafted work, thereby increasing income opportunities for all New Mexicans who work with fiber and bringing economic activity to artists’ communities.
"Fiber art" is any work made of fibrous material (plant or animal), and derived using fiber techniques (e.g. knitting, braiding, felting, weaving, etc.) This includes basketry, beadwork, collage, crochet, embroidery, felting, handmade books, knitting, lacework, mixed media, needlework, paper, quilting, rug braiding, rug hooking, fiber sculpture, sewing, spinning, surface design, textile design and weaving.
We seek rural artists and craftspeople working in fiber to include on the maps. We also seek producers and suppliers of fiber animals, plants and products (fleeces, roving, yarn, finished items, fabrics and dyed fibers) as well as dye plants. In addition, we want to include those who make tools used by fiber artists (looms, spinning wheels, shuttles, etc.). We want to add places where fiber arts traditions and techniques are taught and demonstrated. Galleries and cooperatives with a focus on fiber are also welcome.
The guide will delineate a number of rural fiber arts loop trails which will direct the traveler to studios, farms, mills, schools, galleries and shops along each route. It will be distributed at state visitors’ centers and chambers of commerce in all regions of the state; through New Mexico Arts, the New Mexico Tourism Department and the New Mexico Economic Development Department; on websites; at participating businesses; and by regional volunteers. Out of state marketing will depend upon the available budget.
For more information about the guide, please visit: www.nmfiberarts.org (http://www.nmfiberarts.org)
Attention Fiber Artists: If you are a registered member of Steppin' Out (registration is free and it only takes a minute. Click here to register (http://steppinoutnewmexico.com/forums/register.php?).), please take the time to share this important notice with your Fiber Artist friends around the state. Just click "Email a friend (http://www.steppinoutnewmexico.com/forums/sendmessage.php?do=sendtofriend&t=682)" once for each friend and send it along to everyone you know. We promise they'll thank you for it!
Thanks so much, for the work you do to support the arts in NM. Carol Cooper, New Mexico Arts (our State arts agency).
(Fiber Art Photo Credits: Cat Brysch, Magdalena; Deb & Greg Schwirtz, Los Lunas; Holly Modine-Krabbe, Magdalena; Margaret Middleton, Socorro; Nancy Smith, Abbe Springs; New Mexico Arts)
</TD><TD width=146>http://sonewmex.com/images/Fiber_Arts_Cat_tn.jpg (http://www.steppinoutnewmexico.com/pp-514/showgallery.php?mcats=all&si=brysch&what=title&condition=and)
http://sonewmex.com/images/Fiber_Arts_Greg_tn.jpg (http://www.steppinoutnewmexico.com/pp-514/showgallery.php?mcats=all&si=schwirtz&what=title&condition=and)
http://sonewmex.com/images/Fiber_Arts_Holly_tn.jpg (http://www.steppinoutnewmexico.com/pp-514/showgallery.php?mcats=all&si=modine&what=title&condition=and)
http://sonewmex.com/images/Fiber_Arts_Margaret_tn.jpg (http://www.steppinoutnewmexico.com/pp-514/showgallery.php?mcats=all&si=middleton&what=title&condition=and)
http://sonewmex.com/images/Fiber_Arts_Nancy_tn.jpg (http://nancysfiberart.com/)
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By Steppin' Out Staff
© 2006 SoNewMex.com - Reprint Permission Granted
Please let your readers know about the upcoming deadline to be listed in the 2007 rural New Mexico Fiber Arts Trails Guide. The eligibility guidelines and application are at www.nmfiberarts.org (http://www.nmfiberarts.org/) The online submission deadline is September 1.
New Mexico Arts, your State arts agency, is partnering with fiber artisans statewide to create a guide with maps featuring rural fiber arts destinations across the state. The guide will increase awareness of and bring the market to New Mexico’s rich and exciting variety of fiber artists, growers, processors, learning centers, suppliers, galleries, cooperatives and nonprofit organizations. We hope to invite visitors to the places where rural fiber artists create, nurture and display hand crafted work, thereby increasing income opportunities for all New Mexicans who work with fiber and bringing economic activity to artists’ communities.
"Fiber art" is any work made of fibrous material (plant or animal), and derived using fiber techniques (e.g. knitting, braiding, felting, weaving, etc.) This includes basketry, beadwork, collage, crochet, embroidery, felting, handmade books, knitting, lacework, mixed media, needlework, paper, quilting, rug braiding, rug hooking, fiber sculpture, sewing, spinning, surface design, textile design and weaving.
We seek rural artists and craftspeople working in fiber to include on the maps. We also seek producers and suppliers of fiber animals, plants and products (fleeces, roving, yarn, finished items, fabrics and dyed fibers) as well as dye plants. In addition, we want to include those who make tools used by fiber artists (looms, spinning wheels, shuttles, etc.). We want to add places where fiber arts traditions and techniques are taught and demonstrated. Galleries and cooperatives with a focus on fiber are also welcome.
The guide will delineate a number of rural fiber arts loop trails which will direct the traveler to studios, farms, mills, schools, galleries and shops along each route. It will be distributed at state visitors’ centers and chambers of commerce in all regions of the state; through New Mexico Arts, the New Mexico Tourism Department and the New Mexico Economic Development Department; on websites; at participating businesses; and by regional volunteers. Out of state marketing will depend upon the available budget.
For more information about the guide, please visit: www.nmfiberarts.org (http://www.nmfiberarts.org)
Attention Fiber Artists: If you are a registered member of Steppin' Out (registration is free and it only takes a minute. Click here to register (http://steppinoutnewmexico.com/forums/register.php?).), please take the time to share this important notice with your Fiber Artist friends around the state. Just click "Email a friend (http://www.steppinoutnewmexico.com/forums/sendmessage.php?do=sendtofriend&t=682)" once for each friend and send it along to everyone you know. We promise they'll thank you for it!
Thanks so much, for the work you do to support the arts in NM. Carol Cooper, New Mexico Arts (our State arts agency).
(Fiber Art Photo Credits: Cat Brysch, Magdalena; Deb & Greg Schwirtz, Los Lunas; Holly Modine-Krabbe, Magdalena; Margaret Middleton, Socorro; Nancy Smith, Abbe Springs; New Mexico Arts)
</TD><TD width=146>http://sonewmex.com/images/Fiber_Arts_Cat_tn.jpg (http://www.steppinoutnewmexico.com/pp-514/showgallery.php?mcats=all&si=brysch&what=title&condition=and)
http://sonewmex.com/images/Fiber_Arts_Greg_tn.jpg (http://www.steppinoutnewmexico.com/pp-514/showgallery.php?mcats=all&si=schwirtz&what=title&condition=and)
http://sonewmex.com/images/Fiber_Arts_Holly_tn.jpg (http://www.steppinoutnewmexico.com/pp-514/showgallery.php?mcats=all&si=modine&what=title&condition=and)
http://sonewmex.com/images/Fiber_Arts_Margaret_tn.jpg (http://www.steppinoutnewmexico.com/pp-514/showgallery.php?mcats=all&si=middleton&what=title&condition=and)
http://sonewmex.com/images/Fiber_Arts_Nancy_tn.jpg (http://nancysfiberart.com/)
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