by StaceyW | Mar 13, 2011 | Art, Education, Life, Nature, Teaching, Weaving
This week was the first time I had to give a presentation to the MA students and staff. The preparation took a surprisingly long time because I kept having sudden realisations. Like – my goodness, I’ll have been weaving for 20 years in June!! Yikes!!...
by StaceyW | Mar 6, 2011 | Art, Education, Life, Travel, Weaving
This week I have to do my first masters presentation. OK, no big deal….! So far this semester, I’ve been attending a geology module, and the contextual art lectures. But I haven’t been doing anything specifically for the MA… But now I have a...
by StaceyW | Feb 28, 2011 | Art, Education, Nature, Teaching, Travel, Weaving
This past weekend, I had the privilege to be part of a 4-day workshop with Ann Richards. Ann has been creating the most wonderful pleated scarves, dresses and now jewellery for a number of years, inspired largely by nature and in particular by bats and dragonfly...
by StaceyW | Feb 13, 2011 | Art, Education, Life, Nature, Psychology
Homework…. Normally a word to make you shudder – the dread anticipation of hours lost doing things you don’t want to do, have no wish to learn, or things you know you ought to know but don’t really want to; or maybe wishing you’d spent...
by StaceyW | Jan 30, 2011 | Art, Education, Life, Philosophy, Weaving
Birmingham’s Museum & Art Gallery is thriving! Each time I visit, I am amazed at the sheer amount and diversity of people who are strolling through its galleries, stopping at this painting, or that piece of glass, reading the info boards and generally...
by StaceyW | Jan 23, 2011 | Art, Education, Life, Philosophy, Psychology
Did that get your attention? I thought it might. What I’m talking about this week is something that raises temperatures, emotions and voices. Why is it that the small proportion of men in textiles seem to get lots of attention and publicly lauded? This question...
