Weaving: The Art of 3-Dimensional Weaving on a 4-Harness Loom with Rae Gold

4-Part Series

Date: Saturdays, January 10, 17, 24, 31, 2025

Time: 10am-4pm

Description: Spend your Saturdays in January in the Flesichner Family Fibers Loft weaving and playing on looms with the luminous fiber artist, Rae Gold!

This 4-part series is designed to introduce you to the world of three-dimensional weaving on a four-harness loom. Rae will guide you through the process as you explore the myriad possibilities and variations for creativity. You can expect to play with and expand techniques of double weave, as well as off loom strategies and maniputlations to create 3-dimensional pieces. This course is meant for weavers who have taken the weave one series, or its equivalent, and have some experience with a 4-harness loom.

There will be plenty of time to play at the looms, creating samples, over the course of the 4 weeks. Then, Rae will guide you through the completion of a finished work of art from one of your samples, working through strategies for integrating mechanisms for display, hanging and mounting into your piece too!

This is a special event in the fibers studio! We hope that you can join, and along with Rae, we hope that through the course, you will find your creative world opening up with many new ideas!

Oh, and the looms will be dressed for you!!!! You get to come in on day one and start throwing a shuttle!

Fun note: when we were first talking about this course offering, Rae described it as, ""Mess around, screw up and see what happens with 4 harnesses!"

Tuition: $295 + $20 materials fee

Note: We really want you to join us in the studio! Full and partial tuition scholarships are available to offset some of the financial burden of attending a class.

Please fill out the application here! You can expect to hear from someone on the CC staff within 2 weeks.

If you have any questions, email Jamie Boyle, Fibers Program Manager, at jboyle@contemporarycraft.org, or leave a voice message for them at 412-465-1639.

Materials: Some materials provided: warp, and various weft options; participants are encouraged to bring materials they might like to work with as well!

Location: Contemporary Craft, Timmons Studios (5688 Butler St., Pittsburgh, PA 15201). Note, this workshop will take place in the Fleischner Family Fibers Loft, which is on the second floor of the building.

There are 2 entrances to the Timmons Studios.

• One entrance is facing Butler Street. To access the Fibers Loft from the Butler Street facing entrance, there are a total of 32 stairs to ascend.

• One entrance is facing 57th Street. This entrance is accessible by ramp, with no stairs to ascend. There is a lift inside the building to access the second floor.

If there are accessibility accommodations we can provide, or if there is anything you would like us to know before you arrive, please feel free to call Jamie Boyle at 412-465-1628 or email jboyle@contemporarycraft.org.

Cancellations and Refunds: Workshop cancellations are decided three business days before the start date. If workshops must be cancelled due to insufficient enrollment, the entire class fee will be refunded through Eventbrite, or you may leave your workshop fee in your Contemporary Craft account for future workshops.

Refund Policy: Student refund requests must be made at least three business days before a class begins. There will be a $25 cancellation fee. No refunds will be given without three-business days notice. Processing of refunds takes approximately three weeks.

About the Artist

Rae Gold has a BFA from Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University). She created one of a kind wearables for 30 years, showing and selling at ACC Baltimore Craft Show, Philadelphia Museuem of Art Craft Show, Smithsonian Craft Show, and Washington Craft Show, among others.

For the last ten years she has been creating three dimensional wet felted sculptures, two and three dimensional Joomchi work, and now playing with natural basketry forms.