Anchorage Weavers and Spinners Guild



Home About Coming Events Workshops Gallery of Events Join Members Only Classified Ads Links	The Anchorage Weavers and Spinners Guild is a non-profit organization dedicated to the encouragement of the fiber arts in Alaska. The guild seeks to promote the exhibition of fiber arts and to inform its members and the public through lectures, workshops and craft demonstrations. We hold monthly meetings from September through May, often featuring a guest speaker. at 10:00 a.m. the second Saturday of the month. Other Guild activities include beginning weaving and spinning classes, workshops led by professional instructors, demonstration of weaving and spinning at local events, participation in the Alaska State Fair, and a spring and fall fiber retreat in cooperation with the Valley Fiber Arts Guild. We will resume our monthly Membership meetings this fall, on the second Saturday of September, and each month following. Contact us for more information, or watch for our late summer newsletter coming out the beginning of August. Calendar Photoshoot 6/22/10: Affinityfilms- a local nonprofit media production company is looking for 12 Alaskan artists for a women's health calendar for 2011. They are particularly seeking women of ethnically diverse backgrounds. They will be able to pay for their time as well as provide a portrait for their own use after we've shot the images. Ideally she would be between 40 and 60 years of age. Anyone interested in being inclused in this widely distributed calendar? MaryKatzke can be reached at 907-250-6897, or Affinityfilms, Inc. "Meaningful Media" www.affinityfilms.org It Almost Fair Time The clock is ticking. You now have a little less than 30 days in order to produce on or more items for entry in the 2010 Alaska State Fair. Turn in days in Anchorage are 9 and 10 August. So get off your backside and get busy. We want to over welm the judges this year. Make em work for their money. So....make it happen. Rumor has it that Myler is in need of additional judging helpers. Judging will take place on Sunday, 15 August, at the Fair Grounds. So, if you can spare the time, and want to get involved in the whole judging thing, please contact Myler Almandinger @ 907-746-7532. We can use all the help we can get. The AWSG will be performing spinning and weaving demonstrations at the State Fair on Friday, Saturday, and Suday, 27, 28 and 29 August. We will be demonstrating from 10AM to 8PM daily. These are our primary days and I would hope that we can field a large number of demonstrators for the three days. If you have never done this before, come on down. It is a lot of fun. You will get free entry into the fair, and parking passes to get you up close to Irvin Hall. You will have a blast, guaranteed. We are also soliciting demonstrators for the following week and weekend through the end of the fair. If you have the time, spend some of it at the fair during this time as well. I will be coordinating demonstrator reservations. I will need to know what days you want to demonstrate. I will also need to know your age. (Over 60 gets in at half price). As you plan your demo times, please get with other Guild members so that you can car pool if possible. This will save gas and limit the number of parking passes we will have to request. Finally, I will need your reservations no later than July 30th. I will forward a consolidated list to Myler on Saturday 31 July. This will give her time to obtain parking passes and tickets and get them to me. I will let you know when and where to pick up your tickets. This is one of the premire times when the Guild gets to strut our stuff in front of a lot of people. Please support the effort if you can. A good time will be had by all. See you at the fair! Tom Hobbs Below Tom Hobbs, Past President of AWSG demonstrating spinning with a drop spindle. Photo by Marjorie McLaren Click for more photos of spinning at the 2009 Grass Roots Fair Trade Show. Click for 2009 Alaska State Fair Fiber Winners! Guild Library: The guild has a library of spinning and weaving books, videos and equipment available for rent to members. See members only page. Scarf by Nancy Perry Photo by Chris Arend Wrap by Nancy Perry Photo by Chris Arend © copyright 2009 AWSG \| PO Box 244055, Anchorage, AK 99524 \| Email Website by Conover Designs

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The Anchorage Weavers and Spinners Guild is a non-profit organization dedicated to the encouragement of the fiber arts in Alaska. The guild seeks to promote the exhibition of fiber arts and to inform its members and the public through lectures, workshops and craft demonstrations.

We hold monthly meetings from September through May, often featuring a guest speaker. at 10:00 a.m. the second Saturday of the month. Other Guild activities include beginning weaving and spinning classes, workshops led by professional instructors, demonstration of weaving and spinning at local events, participation in the Alaska State Fair, and a spring and fall fiber retreat in cooperation with the Valley Fiber Arts Guild.

We will resume our monthly Membership meetings this fall, on the second Saturday of September, and each month following. Contact us for more information, or watch for our late summer newsletter coming out the beginning of August.

Calendar Photoshoot
6/22/10: Affinityfilms- a local nonprofit media production company is looking for 12 Alaskan artists for a women's health calendar for 2011. They are particularly seeking women of ethnically diverse backgrounds. They will be able to pay for their time as well as provide a portrait for their own use after we've shot the images. Ideally she would be between 40 and 60 years of age.

Anyone interested in being inclused in this widely distributed calendar?

MaryKatzke can be reached at 907-250-6897, or
Affinityfilms, Inc.
"Meaningful Media"
www.affinityfilms.org

It Almost Fair Time

The clock is ticking. You now have a little less than 30 days in order to produce on or more items for entry in the 2010 Alaska State Fair. Turn in days in Anchorage are 9 and 10 August. So get off your backside and get busy. We want to over welm the judges this year. Make em work for their money. So....make it happen.
Rumor has it that Myler is in need of additional judging helpers. Judging will take place on Sunday, 15 August, at the Fair Grounds. So, if you can spare the time, and want to get involved in the whole judging thing, please contact Myler Almandinger @ 907-746-7532. We can use all the help we can get.
The AWSG will be performing spinning and weaving demonstrations at the State Fair on Friday, Saturday, and Suday, 27, 28 and 29 August. We will be demonstrating from 10AM to 8PM daily. These are our primary days and I would hope that we can field a large number of demonstrators for the three days. If you have never done this before, come on down. It is a lot of fun. You will get free entry into the fair, and parking passes to get you up close to Irvin Hall. You will have a blast, guaranteed.

We are also soliciting demonstrators for the following week and weekend through the end of the fair. If you have the time, spend some of it at the fair during this time as well.

I will be coordinating demonstrator reservations. I will need to know what days you want to demonstrate. I will also need to know your age. (Over 60 gets in at half price). As you plan your demo times, please get with other Guild members so that you can car pool if possible. This will save gas and limit the number of parking passes we will have to request.

Finally, I will need your reservations no later than July 30th. I will forward a consolidated list to Myler on Saturday 31 July. This will give her time to obtain parking passes and tickets and get them to me. I will let you know when and where to pick up your tickets.

This is one of the premire times when the Guild gets to strut our stuff in front of a lot of people. Please support the effort if you can. A good time will be had by all.

See you at the fair!
Tom Hobbs

Below Tom Hobbs, Past President of AWSG demonstrating spinning with a drop spindle. Photo by Marjorie McLaren
Click for more photos of spinning at the 2009 Grass Roots Fair Trade Show.

Click for 2009 Alaska State Fair Fiber Winners!

Guild Library: The guild has a library of spinning and weaving books, videos and equipment available for rent to members. See members only page.

Scarf by Nancy Perry
Photo by Chris Arend

Wrap by Nancy Perry
Photo by Chris Arend

© copyright 2009 AWSG | PO Box 244055, Anchorage, AK 99524 | Email
Website by Conover Designs