Science, Art, and Music in the Mountains:
SAM Fest Traditional Arts Displays and Workshops
Saturday, 26 April 2014
10 AM - 5 PM
During the SAM Fest, there will be a series of workshops, activities, and displays, provided by TAUNY (Traditional Arts in Upstate New York). TAUNY is a nonprofit organization dedicated to showcasing the folk culture and living traditions of New York's North Country. Based in Canton, New York, the organization collects, preserves, interprets, and presents the customs and traditions of the North Country -- the 14-county region north of the Mohawk River, from Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River to Lake Champlain, including the Adirondack Mountains.
| SAM Fest 2014 - Traditional Arts Displays & Activities | |
| 9:00 AM - Noon | |
| Quilt Workshop: Design and Drawing, “Lite” Workshop Leader: Mary Knapp, author of Star Quilts Cost: $40 (includes all materials) To register, contact TAUNY at 315-386-4289. In this design class, you will learn how to plan patterns, draw them for templates, and enlarge or reduce them for a completely new design that is your own. The tiles you develop can be used in a variety of mediums, in the fiber arts or as designs in clay, wood, or paint. |
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| 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM | |
| Quilt Workshop: Create a Cabin: Place it in the woods or on the water! Workshop Leader: Mary Knapp, author of Star Quilts Cost: $40 (includes pattern and precut fabric for cabin) To register, contact TAUNY at 315-386-4289. Pattern and instruction will be provided for a cabin that can be further developed into a landscape setting. Learn how to prepare and use a foundation that is not torn from your block. Learn to piece with precision by using freezer paper as a guide that you do not sew through. Supplies for students to bring: sewing machine, thread (neutrals), pins, seam ripper, scissors, rotary cutting supplies (e.g., small 12” mat and short 1” x 6” ruler). |
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| Ongoing display and sale of art work | |
| Display of quilts by mathematician Mary Knapp, whose stunningly detailed quilts feature complex geometric patterns and nature prints and patterns | |
| Flora and fauna in wood by award-winning wildlife artist Gene Newman | |
| Watercolors by talented botanical illustrator Judith Utter, who has recently begun making scientifically correct paintings of our region’s native fish | |
| Wood pieces by arborist and woodworker Ken Jonner, who mixes varieties of wood in his well-crafted and sometimes whimsical pieces | |
| Other Activities | |
| Quilt-maker Hallie Bond will demonstrate making leaf prints on fabric. | |
| Display of TAUNY exhibit “Anatomy of a Pack basket” | |
| Screening of Utility Baskets by Henry Arquette, a short film about a master Mohawk basket maker, produced by Akwesasne Cultural Center | |
| Demonstration and display by rustic furniture class from Paul Smith’s College | |
| Displays and activities by Nature Up North |
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