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Painting With Fabric Creating Art With Fabric Collage and Landscape Quilting

Workshops

A respected educator, Benner lectures and teaches workshops internationally in the areas of surface design, fabric collage, fused quilt construction, and artistic inspiration.
To learn more about dates and times for workshops, a downloadable Workshops Schedule is available.
If you are interested in scheduling a workshop or lecture, please contact Benner using Connect.

Monoprint the Quilt: Surface Alteration with Fabric Pigment

©Sue Benner

Cellular Structure VI, detail, collection of National Quilt Museum, Paducah KY

Cellular Structure VI, detail, collection of National Quilt Museum, Paducah KY

5 days, all levels

Monoprinting with cloth paints tin can dramatically alter the surface of your work, pushing your ideas into new artistic territory.  Using her fusible collage methods, Benner volition demonstrate how to paint and impress at dissimilar levels of structure, from manipulating a single piece of cloth to the unabridged surface of the quilt.  Through experimentation with opaque and metal paints, each participant will have the opportunity to create two works: one abstruse and open up-ended, the other more than realistic and image-based.
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DRIVEN TO Abstraction: developing abstract imagery

©Sue Benner

Display II, private collection

Display II, private drove

5 days, intermediate to advanced

The exploration of abstraction, both objective and non-objective, in the art quilt medium is the theme of this workshop. Benner presents several methods for developing abstract imagery and encourages students to more deeply explore their own personal interests, mode and process. Through exercises, slide shows and individual discussions, each student creates a series of works based on source materials brought to class for inspiration.  Instruction on using fusible collage as the structure technique is presented, but these concepts arrange to other techniques as well. This is a corking grade for pushing your personal work.
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CONSTRUCTION/ABSTRACTION

©Sue Benner

5 days, intermediate to advanced

Experiment with the fusion of structure and abstraction with procedure and technique in the creation of art quilts. First with Benner's fusible collage methods developed in her series Walking Through Time, she presents a progression of exercises that builds design and technique skills. Participants accept this data in their own direction. This is a nifty workshop for developing new ideas in composition, color, brainchild and sensitivity to proportion.
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Walking Through Time VII,

Walking Through Time VII,

Walking Through Time X

Walking Through Time Ten

Walking Through Time XII - Detail

Walking Through Fourth dimension XII - Detail

COMPOSITION QUARTET: 4 techniques for fused quilts

©Sue Benner

five days, all levels

Each solar day of this workshop is devoted to a different composition challenge. 24-hour interval one explores squares and rectangles, solar day two experiments with curvilinear shapes, day 3 works with collage-and-cut procedure, and day four deals with landscape. Using step-by-footstep directions with lots of artistic options, each student makes four quilts (each about 16" x 20") using Benner's fusible collage techniques. She also covers fusible basics, working with not-traditional fabrics and briefly quilting, blocking and binding.  By the end of this workshop experience, construction ideas will abound!
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Concert Hall(s) II after Sam Francis (detail)

Concert Hall(southward) Ii after Sam Francis (detail)

Famous and Not So Famous Flowers #8: Mondrian's Rhododendrons (detail)

Famous and Not So Famous Flowers #viii: Mondrian'southward Rhododendrons (particular)

Marsh #17: River Bend (detail)

Marsh #17: River Bend (detail)

Marsh #17: River Bend (detail)

Marsh #17: River Bend (detail)

SEWING THE Land: fused, collaged and quilted landscapes

©Sue Benner

5 days, intermediate to avant-garde

Benner began making landscape images from raw edges, selvedges, and other odds and ends from flake numberless. From there she went on to add other techniques and develop a body of work inspired by wetlands in her childhood-habitation country, Wisconsin.

In this workshop each participant creates 1 or 2 landscape quilts along with several pocket-sized studies. The form studies dissimilar approaches to representing landscape, including those of other artists in a variety of media. Benner and then shows students how to look at a landscape, clarify it and translate it to fabric using a diverseness of fused construction methods. She too covers fusible basics, working with non-traditional fabrics, quilting and binding the fused quilt. Previous students report that this workshop transforms the manner they see the land.
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Palo Duro Canyon: Fortress Cliff, BNSF Railway, Fort Worth TX

Palo Duro Canyon: Fortress Cliff, BNSF Railway, Fort Worth TX

FLORAL Organization: creating fused bloom quilts

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Flowers Cut Diagonally, detail

Flowers Cutting Diagonally, item

5 days, all levels

Cute flowers, concentric patterns, symmetry, block pattern, utilize of exotic fabrics and lots of fun are all included in this grade. Larn Benner'due south layered technique for cutting, assembling and arranging flowers as done in her all-encompassing Flower Series art quilts. This class gives the opportunity to use gorgeous fabrics and expansive color. This exciting construction method is applicable to other designs every bit well. Create a study quilt, so movement on to a larger, more involved work with surprising complexity.
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STUDIO Practise: art quilt master class

© Sue Benner

Exchange

Commutation

v-7 days, advanced:

This course is for artists who have established both their artistic direction and working methods.

Make your art and enjoy the customs of other artists. Benner's proposal is to begin a new direction in your work—something you lot have always wanted to approach.  At the same time, works in progress will be welcome.  The class engages in give-and-take and critique to further the evolution of participants along their artistic paths.  Woven into the studio piece of work are discussions on cocky-expression, developing constructive work habits, managing the artistic life and piece of work and the nature of contemporary quilts in a larger art context.
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EXPRESSIVE DYE-PAINTING AND Press WITH PROCION MX DYES

© Sue Benner

5-7 days, intermediate to advanced

Please note: This class can only be taught in a fully equipped dye studio.

Make your marks, brush your strokes, and record it all on fabric. Bold and expressive use of Procion MX dyes is the goal of this workshop. Benner teaches her layered painterly approach using direct application, monoprinting and other techniques. Emphasis is too placed on developing sophisticated colour combinations, exploring unusual tools and adding touches of fabric paints. Benner shares helpful hints, technical information and her unique variations in an extensive color handout.
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