Topic: Taking Our Fiber Art Beyond Where We’ve Been
Description: In this presentation, I’ll offer an inspiring, mind-opening talk about our own personal creative process and share many ideas for approaching new ways of working.
Making art is metaphorical for life, with so many decisions to make and so many directions things can go, with ups and downs, being in the flow and falling out of it, pushing past challenges, trying new ideas and approaches, taking risks, repeating patterns, breaking out of patterns and an overall super exciting journey. So much within art is within life. And the world around us is filled with ideas and inspiration when we open ourselves to seeing in this way.
Speaker: Vicki Assegued, M.A.
Vicki, is an innovative fiber artist, continually experimenting with, and discovering new techniques to bring out a wide range of effects and structures for both 2D and 3D art pieces. Vicki greatly enjoys working with the vast variety and possibilities that fabrics and fibers offer. She loves to share her techniques with her students and support them to create their own unique and stunning fiber art. She teaches privately and through various art schools, and exhibits/sells her art at various galleries and shows.
Website: https://www.vickiart.com
During my creative process, I continually encourage myself to go beyond where I’ve gone before, to allow my mind to expand into new ways of working that I haven’t thought of or even considered before.
In this way:
- Mistakes can turn into new ideas and approaches.
- Creative blocks can turn into not only pushing past the block but venturing into new territory.
- Resistance can turn into not only accepting our piece as it is, but staying with the process until our work becomes what we want it to become.
- We can see a structural building question as a way to not only build strength into the piece but to also add more elements.
- We can see our art materials in a new way, with expanded possibilities, and go beyond where we’ve been with our art.
