Sue Johnson/custom lamps & shades
light notes october 2009
Art Attack Friday
October 4, 6-9 pm
Sue has found these Art Attack Friday events to be a wonderful opportunity to invite local artists, from varying disciplines, to share their creative passion with her and with the Friday evening visitors.
This month Sue welcomes Nan Rohan whose art is wheat weaving. As you might have guessed, Nan was drawn to Sue's use of grasses in her lampshades.
According to Nan, straw weaving was done in practically all cultures where grain was grown, and was intimately entwined with the belief that the grain contained a living spirit. A talisman was woven from the last bundle of the harvest to provide a winter home for Spirit of the Grain. In the spring this weaving was crumbled, and the seeds sewn with the new crop to renew the Spirit.
Nan lives in Berkeley and has been weaving since 1992. She has traveled extensively to learn her art from traditional straw weavers around the world. She edited the book Wheat Weaving: Plaits &
Projects, A Beginner's Book, published by the California Straw Arts Guild. She
is a member of both that Guild and the National Association of Wheat Weavers,
organizations whose objective is to promote the cultural history, the folk art,
and the methods of wheat weaving and straw art.
Stop by to visit, share a cup of tea, a light snack and be inspired.
Thanks for taking the time to read this, and for supporting the arts, artists, and small independent business.
Mary Shilman, for Sue and the entire staff
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Consider
spending the first Friday evenings of each month on Solano Avenue. Participants
vary month to month, with updated programs listed at the Art Attack Fridays website.
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