Garden Palettes: Exuberant Design from Glorious Gardens

Tuesday, January 7, 2025, 7:30pm

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Taught by Cameron Taylor-Brown

Program Overview

Color, texture, pattern, balance, proportion – the vocabulary for a well-designed garden is the same as for a composition in fiber. Get excited by photographs of glorious gardens and the design ideas they inspire. Begin by looking at one garden in particular – the Robert Irwin garden at the Getty Center in Los Angeles – “a stunning variety of colors and textures…a sculpture in the form of a garden aspiring to be art.” At the end, we will do some hands-on experimenting using your stash yarn, cardboard and a large-eye needle.

If you would like to participate in the hands-on experimenting, have the following at hand:

  • 2 pieces of cardboard, each cut into 4” by 8”
  • masking or clear tape
  • scissors
  • 1 piece of stiff white paper (such as a 5×7 index card) that will be cut into two L shapes to make a framing device
  • some garden photos at least 8” by 10” in size – either their photographs or pulled off the internet.
  • 1 large-eye needle
  • variety of stash yarns, including thrums

About the Artist

Cameron Taylor-Brown was introduced to textiles by artist Ed Rossbach at the University of California, Berkeley, and studied textile design at the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, where she later taught woven design. Since 1985, she has lived in Los Angeles where she is active in arts and education. Her work is widely exhibited and has been featured in Fiber Art Now, American Craft, Handwoven and Shuttle, Spindle and Dyepot. In 2019, she curated the critically acclaimed exhibit Material Meaning: A Living Legacy of Anni Albers at the Craft in America Center. She is the founder of ARTSgarage, a textile resource center in Los Angeles. and teaches workshops at ARTSgarage, schools, guilds, museums and conferences throughout the United States and Canada. She is a past president of California Fibers and serves on the advisory boards of the Fowler Textile Council and Textile Arts Los Angeles.

Artist’s website:  Cameron Taylor-Brown

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