Arrowmont: after 25 years, I am returning to the place where it all started for me as a fiber artist. That embarrassing picture is me, Amber O’Harrow (then Amber Wood), with my first weaving, turned into a bag. Let’s see where my journey has led me since then, as I follow my guide, Pat Hickman on an exploration of fiber sculpture at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts.
Day 4 was an exciting day of gut experimentation. We started by looking at and handling some of Pat Hickman’s work:
Then the class got started on all sorts of gut-related projects. Here are just a few:
Once done, everything goes into the drying closet, where you can see the gut netting, shown above, has dried.
I spent the day finishing up a few gut pieces and working on my quilt barn, that I plan to cover in gut.
Dinner was an indoor picnic, since we had some rain. Excellent hamburgers:
The studio was still busy after dinner. While we worked, Pat began a collaboration with one of the other teachers, who is a metal artist. He made a form in barbed wire, which Pat covered in gut.
Retracing my steps: Explorations in Fiber Sculpture at Arrowmont
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Arrowmont: after 25 years, I am returning to the place where it all started for me as a fiber artist. That embarrassing picture is me, Amber O’Harrow (then Amber Wood), with my first weaving, turned into a bag. Let’s see where my journey has led me since then, as I follow my guide, Pat Hickman on an exploration of fiber sculpture at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts.
Day 4 at Arrowmont
by Amber O'Harrow
Jul 23, 2014
Day 4 was an exciting day of gut experimentation. We started by looking at and handling some of Pat Hickman’s work:
Then the class got started on all sorts of gut-related projects. Here are just a few:
Once done, everything goes into the drying closet, where you can see the gut netting, shown above, has dried.
I spent the day finishing up a few gut pieces and working on my quilt barn, that I plan to cover in gut.
Dinner was an indoor picnic, since we had some rain. Excellent hamburgers:
The studio was still busy after dinner. While we worked, Pat began a collaboration with one of the other teachers, who is a metal artist. He made a form in barbed wire, which Pat covered in gut.
Busy day! Good night!