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Winter 2021 Newsletter

Check out our Fiber Lover’s sale THIS WEEKEND, info below!
Store hours: Fridays & Saturdays: 10AM-5PM

 

Thank you all for a wonderful 2020 Annual Member Meeting!

Thank you to all those who attended our annual member meeting. It was exciting to see all of your bright faces through zoom! We had a wonderful time discussing our current successes, including an amazing Fall Fiber Fiesta, The Colcha Exhibit, our great sales reporting, increased membership, and more!

We hope that everyone stays just as positive and active throughout these next few winter months. Thank you for your attendance and we hope for your continued support and interest our super unique, close knit community at The Española Valley Fiber Arts Center.

 

Fiber Lovers Day Sale, February 12-13, 2021
10am-5pm

Fiber Lovers Day is around the corner and we're celebrating with a sale! For the second year in a row we are discounting all yarns,retail and bulk, and extending the sale to everything else in the center!

All $6/lb yarn will be on sale for $4.50/lb, and $15/lb yarn will be on sale for $12.75/lb. Save 25% on all yarn, fibers, weaving accessories, looms, and more! Consignment items are NOT included in this sale.

The sale will be held this weekend, Friday 2/12 and Saturday 2/13, from 10am-5pm EST. On-street parking is available and masks are required. We will be limiting any curbside pickup to between 1-3pm for this weekend.

If you have any questions please email info@nmfiberartscenter.org
We'll see you this weekend!

 

EVFAC’S OWN WOOLPACA
NEW HAND DYED EVFAC YARN AVAILABLE!

With the generous help of many volunteers, we have a new EVFAC only item! Kathy Konecki & Glenna Dean, some of our wonderful fiber artists, took raw wool fleeces from EVFAC and had it spun into over 50 lbs of yarn at Mora Valley Spinning Mill! The wool was then skeined and dyed, in house, by Amanda Speer, Dain Daller, and Leigh Alexander. Just days later we began selling the yarn, before we were even able to label it!

It is now named, labeled, and ready for sale both online and in-store!

EVFAC's Own Woolpaca is a luscious 50% wool/50% alpaca blend that was all hand-dyed in our center! This wool is sourced from a local mill and local sheep, perfect for your next project! Each skein is approximately 190 yards/4 oz and is worsted weight. The natural skeins are undyed and unbleached.

Shop away fiber lovers!
$15/4-5 oz skein.

 

Raise your hand if you want to help with Fiber Crawl, 2021!

We are beginning to plan a new kind of Fiber Crawl. We want to re-tool this year’s event, but we need your help, volunteers. If you want to get involved with this event planning, please join us!

Formerly, Fiber Crawl had been a multi-site sale and education event that extended throughout Northern New Mexico, held over a weekend in May. This year’s fiber crawl will have to be different, and maybe even the birth of an entirely new annual EVFAC event.

We need the your help! Please bring any ideas and thoughts about this upcoming event to the zoom table. We want it to include education, sales, and possibly zoom events. Any ideas or level of interest is more than welcome. Help us redesign this event.

Please join us on zoom, we’d love to have you involved:

First Fiber Crawl Planning Committee Meeting
Sunday, February 21st
3:00 pm

To sign up to help with the planning of this event, fill out this quick form: https://form.jotform.com/210395905548159

This form will get the Zoom meeting invite delivered to your email inbox on Sunday, February 21st just before 3pm!

 

Warping the Future: How craft led to the digital world as we know it

Register for this exciting free online event, hosted by Francesca and Renata at the Weaving X Coding Studio

“Join us for the opening of “Warping the Future: How craft led to the digital world as we know it”, a virtual exhibition commissioned by the Gottesman Libraries at Columbia University with the support from the Eugene E. Myers Trust.

"Warping the Future" explores the connection between the history of crafting and computing, by accentuating the tools and characters that continuously weave this story. This exhibition is part of our ongoing explorations on demystifying the complexity of weaving and programming, as well as honoring the contribution of women in innovation.

Join the free, virtual reception on February 11th at 6:30 pm EST! They will be “sharing thoughts and processes behind the project as well as introduce the team that made this possible. “

RSVP here

Following the opening, Renata and Francesca will also be hosting a series of conversations with artists featured in this exhibit. “In conversation with” we will explore the artist’s projects, their take on the relationship between craft and technology, and how their practice relates to this intersection.

In conversation with Pam Liou
https://pamelaliou.com/
Date: February 18th
Time: 6:30 PM - 7:15 PM
RSVP here 

In conversation with Alex McLean

https://slab.org/

Date: February 25th

Time: 6:30 PM - 7:15 PM

RSVP here

 

In conversation with Indira Allegra

https://www.indiraallegra.com/

Date: March 4th

Time: 6:30 PM - 7:15 PM

RSVP here

Hope to see you there!

Francesca and Renata
Weaving X Coding Studio”

A big thank you toFrancesca and Renata for offering this exciting event to the EVFAC community.

 

Feeling Crafty? Rent some equipment!

We are currently offering socially distanced equipment rentals! Come in to use a loom, the thumper, the dye kitchen, or the carder & picker. Appointments can be made in person during regular hours, or call and leave a message to make your reservations! 505-747-3577 or Email Debbie!

 

A BIG BIG BIG THANK YOU TO ALL VOLUNTEERS & DONORS!
Please log your volunteer hours and donations online at: https://www.nmfiberartscenter.org/donate-or-volunteer so we can give you the thanks you deserve. We appreciate your hard work and we need you. You are what makes our organization go round and we are forever grateful!

VOLUNTEERS
Endless praise and thanks to all who volunteered:

Caroline Dechert • Karen Rose • Amanda Speer • Dain Daller • Carol Neukirk • Debbie Harris • Leigh Alexander • Kathy Konecki • Sandy Liggett • Mark Bond • Maria Jonsson • Lyndsay Remerowski • Loretta Atencio

DONORS
Our most sincere thanks goes out to all who donated:

Alexander McDonough • Barbara Roybal •Barbara Smigel •Blackbaud Giving Fund • Carol Seeds • Connie Taylor • Deborah Harris • Glenna Dean • Gloria Padilla •Gurumeher Khalsa • Hinde Street Properties • Jacque Ricci • James and Joann Gillula • Janet Reffert • Jennifer Una • Jill cohen • Joann Gillula • Karen McGrath •Kathy Konecki • Kristin Rowley • Mariluz Villa • Marke Talley •Martha Whitt •Marti Edmondson • Mitch Foudray • Molly M Rodke • Sandy Liggett • Shari Hirst •Susan and Conrad De Jong Fund • Windeagle Kinney-Linton

• Please note again: we apologize if your name is missing from our list. This is because your information was not input into our jotforms document! Please log your volunteer hours and donations here.

 Donate to EVFAC! 

EVFAC+NMFAC
325 PASEO DE ONATE
ESPANOLA, NM 87532
505-747-3577

325 Paseo de Oñate, Espanola, New Mexico, United States

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