Tuesdays | 7-9 pm | Instructor: Nancy Peterson FULL
Thursdays | 10 am - Noon | Instructor: Nancy Peterson
Beginner - Session II: $120 Intermediate - Session II: $110
Our weaving class provides instruction for beginning weavers as well as for intermediate and advanced students. Beginners will learn the fundamentals by weaving a sampler on a 4-harness table loom. Intermediate weavers can choose from traditional or contemporary designs to weave on a 4 or 8-harness floor loom.
Nancy Peterson has been weaving at City Arts Center for more than eight years beginning as a student in the weaving program. She has taught both beginning and intermediate weaving workshops.
About City Arts Center's Weaving Program
City Arts Center offers a vibrant and extensive weaving program, with two weaving studios and thirty floor looms. Weekly classes for both beginning and intermediate students are offered year round, as well as frequent workshops on specific techniques and projects.
Weaving classes are held in our beautiful and newly expanded studio space. During the eight week session, beginning students weave a sample project, learning how to warp a loom, create different weave structures, and finish edges. Intermediate students choose their own project and yarn with the help of the instructor. Popular projects include scarves, shawls, table linens, kitchen towels, rugs, tote bags and baby blankets. Our weaving studio houses a broad collection of hand weaving magazines and books to help students in project selection.
We have a broad variety of floor looms, offering students the choice of weaving on 4 or 8 harness, jack, countermarche or counterbalance looms, in 22" to 54" widths. In addition, we offer interested students the opportunity to pursue projects on table looms, inkle, tapestry or rigid heddle looms.
Our students enjoy opportunities to exhibit their work at both the Midwest City and Norman libraries, and at an annual studio open house.
We also offer a week-long fiber arts camp each summer as part of our children's summer programming. During this camp, 8-12 year olds learn about spinning and natural dyeing, and weave their own inkle loom shoelaces, pocketbags on cardboard looms, and small, colorful rugs on floor looms.
Make sure to check out the weaving workshops this spring!
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Instructor Bio’s
Nancy Peterson has been weaving at City Arts Center for over eight years, beginning as a student in the weaving program. She has taught both beginning and intermediate weaving workshops. She received the Technical Excellence in Weaving Award in Fiberworks 2008.
Heather Clark Hilliard is an artist living and working in Norman. Studying natural color, pattern, and light she has over 15 years of professional experience with contemporary knitting, quilting, shibori, natural materials, and botanical dyeing techniques.
Elia Woods began her weaving career in the early ‘80s with a homemade cardboard box and dowel loom. It was love at first touch. She specializes in combining hand dyeing with weaving, and her work has won numerous awards. She has taught at City Arts Center for the past seven years.
