FIBER EXHIBIT IN FEBRUARY. This is an open call to Maine fiber artists for a fiber exhibit at Hutchinson Center/University of Maine in Belfast which will take place in early to mid February (exact dates not set as yet). Sandi Crillo is looking for interested fiber artists who would like to be a part of this exhibit. She is gathering a list of interested artists right now. FMI or to let her know of your interest: Sandi Cirillo, Searsport, Maine, 207-548-1027, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

GUILFORD ART CENTER in Guilford CT is looking for artists for the Guilford Craft Expo 2018. In celebration of its 61st year, the Guilford Art Center’s annual Craft Expo 2018 will return once again to the scenic and historic Guilford Green, celebrating the arts. Expo date-July 13-15, 2018. A juried show seeking unique, high quality craft work. FMI: Guilford Art Center, 203-453-5947, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., http://guilfordartcenter.org/expo/craft-expo-interested-in-applying/#applyvisit, Application: zapplication.org

ART WALK LA seeks “artists of all kinds to fill our venues. We are shaking things up and expanding Art Walk LA, which will now take place on the third Friday of the months from May-December…..We’re adding three more art walks to the season and will be rolling out new venues, new maps, and new experiences. Join us!” Use this link to sign up: https://jl28.typeform.com/to/RSUejf

THE ART LOFT, a nonprofit arts center in Rockland seeks artists interested in teaching classes. Competitive hourly rates, display space in the gallery, and free drop-in art classes. FMI: www.artloftrockland.org

This listing is for art, craft, farm and/or fiber-related items, equipment, supplies, tools, etc. Ads will run for three months after which they will disappear. They are free for Members of Maine Fiberarts at the Professional Level ($60.00/year). Members may enter up to a 25-word description and contact information. For more information, for listing items you wish to give away for free, or to have Maine Fiberarts enter your ad for you, please contact us.

FOR SALE. Ashford Traveler spinning wheel, double drive, double treadle, new, unassembled and in the box. Asking $400.00. Brunswick area. Please contact with questions. Ingrid Mayer /207.837.0206, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

To enter your own ad, look for the heading in this list called "Submit Your Own" and fill out the form.

FREE: Unassembled large floor loom FREE to experienced weaver willing to assemble it! Handmade resembles Glimakra. Will send pix. FMI: Linda, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

September 21
Lecture at 7 p.m.: Bookmakers JILL OSGOOD AND FRANK TUREK will each give a presentation about their work. Free and open to the public. University Events Room, 7th Floor, Glickman Family Library, USM, Portland Campus.

September 28
AHEAD OF HER TIME: THE LIFE AND WORK OF NANCY HEMENWAY BARTON, opening reception, 5-7 p.m. University of New England, FMI: www.nancyhemenwaybarton.com

September 28
Opening Reception for a show of work by NORTHEAST FELTMAKERS GUILD, 5:30-7:30 p.m.; artist talk at 6 p.m. Krikorian Gallery, Worcester Center for Crafts, MA. See “Exhibitions in this Bulletin.”

October 7-8
Brunswick Fine Craft Show, Fort Andross Mill Complex, 14 Main Street, Brunswick. sponsored by Maine Crafts Guild. Admission: $4; under 18 free. FMI: www.mainecraftsguild.com

November 14
INVEST IN MAINE SUMMIT, sponsored by Maine Community Foundation. Cross Insurance Center, 515 Main Street, Bangor. “Building the Foundation for our Future,” will be an examination of “how early childhood experiences lay the foundation for future success… and the health of Maine’s economy.” FMI: www.mainecf.org

“AHEAD OF HER TIME: THE LIFE AND WORK OF NANCY HEMENWAY BARTON,” September 28-December 20, 2017. Key exhibition at University of New England Art Gallery, 716 Stevens Avenue, Portland with an art trail at several institutions: Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Joanne Waxman Library at MECA, Portland Museum of Art, Bates Olin Arts Center, Central Maine Community College, Farnsworth Art Museum, Maine Fiberarts, and Wheaton College. The show at Maine Fiberarts will open October 10-December 23, 2017. FMI: www.nancyhemenwaybarton.com

“FIBER OF OUR BEING,” exhibition of work by members of the Northeast Feltmakers Guild. Krikorian Gallery, Worcester Center for Crafts, 25 Sagamore Road, Worcester, MA. Opening Reception: September 28, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Artist Talk at 6 p.m. FMI: www.northeastfeltmakersguild.org

BOOK ARTS EXHIBITION, September 7-October 8, Glickman Family Library. FMI: www.usm.maine.edu/summer/book-arts; 207-780-5646

MAKING PAPER, MAKING MAINE, an exhibition at Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress Street, Portland, through October 28.

“THREADS IN OUR LIVES,” a four-panel display highlighting the diversity of fiber folk art in Maine. At Maine State Library, 230 State Street, Augusta through September. FMI: 207-287-5600

“CIRCULAR ABSTRACTIONS: BULL'S EYE QUILTS," May 13-October 22, 2017 at Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA. Curated by famed quilter Nancy Crow, this is a touring exhibition that originated at the Muskegon Museum of Art. The show features 25 quilts “that improvise around the Bull’s Eye pattern: a four quadrant design with a bull’s eye at the center of each quarter.” May 21, 11-4 is “Circular Abstractions Discovery Day.” FMI: www.fullercraft.org

SPINDLEWORKS FIBER CIRCLE. Spindleworks artists invite community members to join them while they work on fiber projects. Thursdays, 10 a.m. to noon. 7 Lincoln Street, Brunswick, ME 04011. All welcome! FMI: www.spindleworks.org, Julianne Carle, 207-725-8820.

BEE ON THE FARM—a gathering of knitters, quilters, hookers, and other hand-workers of all sorts and skill levels—meets once per month in Newcastle in the bucolic setting of Dandelion Spring and Straw Farm, 30 Brick Hill Road, Newcastle. Upcoming dates: Wednesdays from 4-6 p.m.; email Jess for 2017 dates. FMI: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

CRAFT MEETUP at CURTIS MEMORIAL LIBRARY, Mondays, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Seminar Room, 23 Pleasant Street, Brunswick, free. FMI: www.curtislibrary.com

EMBROIDERY GROUP, SKIDOMPHA LIBRARY, Barbicon Room, 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, free. FMI: www.skidompha.org

FIBER FRIDAY meets at Maine Fiberarts, 13 Main Street, Topsham on the first Friday of each month, 10-noon. Bring handwork and show-and-tell. All welcome! FMI: 207-721-0678

FREEPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY hosts a group of rug hookers meet every Tuesday, 1-4 p.m.

KNITCHAT! South Portland Public Library, 482 Broadway, South Portland, Fridays at 10 a.m. Free. FMI: www.southpoprtlandlibrary.com

KNIT NITE every Thursday night, 6 p.m., at the Bangor Public Library, 145 Harlow Street in Bangor. Area knitters are invited to share the joys of knitting and their favorite patterns, while informally passing on knitting advice and skills. Newcomers welcome. Stop at the front desk and ask where the knitters are gathering. FMI: 207-947-8336

MAINELY WEAVERS STUDY GROUP meets the first Wednesday of each month at Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Route 88 in Falmouth, 10-2. All levels of weavers are welcome. FMI: Jane Flanagan, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/mainelyweavers/info

MIDCOAST RUG HOOKERS meets the second Friday of each month, 10-1 or -2 at the Wiscasset Community Center. Bring lunch and friends. FMI: 207-633-7518; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

PORTFIBER hosts PortWeavers every Tuesday, from noon-5 p.m. (bring your loom and project) and PortSpinners, Thursday afternoons from noon to 5 p.m. 50 Cove Street, Portland 04101, (207) 780-1345. FMI: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or www.portfiber.com

PORTLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY, Riverton Branch, 1600 Forest Avenue, Portland hosts a free Adult Knitting Groups on Thursdays starting at 6:30 p.m. Bring your knitting project and chat!

SALT BAY TREADLERS meets the first Wednesday evening of each month starting around 5:30 p.m. at the Damariscotta River Association's sanctuary. Bring a potluck dish to share and your handwork—not necessarily spinning. 

TOPSHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY hosts Sip & Stitch for knitting and crochet, Saturdays, 10 a.m.-noon. 25 Foreside Road, Topsham; 207-725-1727

MEMBERS, your regular Meet-Up could be posted here.

STEPHANIE CROSSMAN is currently in an exhibition called "Wet" at the Strathmore Museum in Bethesda, Maryland running September 1- November 5. www.strathmore.org/visual-arts/exhibitions/wet

BARBARA BURNS was interviewed by TextileCurator.com. See it here: http://www.textilecurator.com/home-default/home-2-2/barbara-burns

Maine Fiberarts’ member BARBARA BURNS has won her second international art award for "Pas de Deux,” a woven tapestry which has been awarded the Heallreaf Prize. Along with a cash prize and the gift of a hand-crafted bog oak bobbin, her tapestry will be included in Heallreaf 2, a biennial exhibition for small-format tapestries in England. The exhibit will be at West Dean College in Sussex, England, April 10-22, 2017 and moves to the Brick Lane Gallery, London, England from June 28-July 2, 2017. “Pas de Deux" speaks to the duality of a dancer’s persona and to the woman within. This work also expresses the fellowship and respect that develops between dancers. See more of Burns’s work at www.burns-studio.com. See more of the tapestries in the Heallreaf 2 exhibit on the Heallreaf Facebook page. If you would like to vote for your favorite work in the show, vote online at www.weaversbazzaar.com

CAROL JONES is learning how to spin after all these years, and came across a company that makes colorful jazzy bobbins for all brands of spinning wheels. Of course I had to get a couple of them! This is how they come packaged. The company is Akerworks, www.akerworks.com and the bobbins are just one of many other products they make. (Just in case you haven't heard of them. We don't have any connection with them.)

BARBARA BURNS, Maine Fiberarts' member and tapestry weaver/teacher, has begun a new blog to offer tools you need to promote your work in a professional manner. "I don’t presume to know all the answers, but I would like to share with you the information and resources I have been compiling along with occasional insights from my personal experiences." http://americantapestryalliance.org/blog/

Maine Fiberarts’ member JESS WROBEL writes, “The fiber group that I still host in MA is hosting a collection drive of handcraft and sewing materials and supplies to donate to the communities of two REFUGEE CAMPS IN SYRIA. If anyone in Maine would like to contribute anything, I’ll do my best to pick up donations and take them with me to MA. Thanks so much and hope all is well!” Donations are welcome any time. Items sought include: fabrics, sewing supplies, notions, yarns, knitting needles, sewing machines and more. FMI: https://www.facebook.com/events/422854148053474/

SUSAN MILLS has a new website: www.susanmillsstudio.com with lots of photos of her work, studio and surroundings. Check out “Gatherings” and “Schedule” to see the latest in her felting workshops and spirit gatherings.

JILL VENDITUOLI has had two sales AND both her pieces "Branching Out" & "Taking Flight" have been shortlisted for the fall edition of a nature art/writing publication called Nature Inspired.

Member JANET CONNER, Hiram Maine, announces the release of her book, “Rug Hooking Traditions with The Hutchinsons," co-authored with Kathy Wright. Over a decade of research has revealed hundreds of hooked rug designs from a talented and prolific couple who worked during the first third of the 20th century in Brooklyn. Their rug designs feature sailors, firemen, loving couples, animals and characters of all kinds, with ironic inscriptions and innovative design. With sections on auction records, provenance, and making your own, this is an addition to any hooker or rug collector’s bookshelf. For signed copies, contact Janet Conner, www.jconnerhookedrugs.com

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”FIBER ART MASTERS: A Visual Tour to Maine Artists’ Studios and Work,” is a new booklet published by Maine Fiberarts profiling the work of twenty Maine master fiber artists ($23 plus tax and shipping through Maine Fiberarts). Meanwhile, you can take a look at the preview here. Printing is disabled, but you may download it to view it later. It is about 7 MB. You will need Adobe Reader (or Acrobat), and if you right click on this lin and download it to your computer, you will be able to view it full screen if you choose. When you are done, you can get things back to normal by pressing the ESCape key. Copies also for sale at Gulf of Maine books in Brunswick, Markings Gallery in Bath, and the Center for Maine Craft in West Gardiner.

BY HAND: Making Communities is a new magazine out of Seattle by author and creative director Andrea Hungerford, with photography by Karen DeWitz. Their Lookbook No. 2 is devoted to covering Portland and Midcoast Maine. The two women visited Maine Fiberarts during December 2016 to profile our organization for inclusion in the journal, and had been busily visiting folks from Portland to Belfast. Included in this issue are: Swan Island Co., Hannah Fettig, Clara Parkes, KnitWit Yarns, Saco River Dyehouse, Beau Chemin Preservation Farm, A Gathering of Stitches, Bristol Ivy, Twig and Horn, Madder Root, Second Change Pillow Series, and Quince & Co. The Lookbook also contains knitting projects, tipless gloves, and a recipe for Cinnamon Swirled Orange Bread. The publication is very nicely done! Order your copy through www.byhandserial.com; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

REPAIR TECHNICIANS for looms, spinning wheels and fiber equipment are needed. Carol Fritz needs someone to repair a 36-inch Nilus LeClerk loom and Maine Fiberarts needs to know who the repairmen are that we can refer. Add your free listing to our online Tour Map/Resource Guide at www.mainefiberarts.org

MARSHFIELD SCHOOL OF WEAVING in Vermont is the recipient of a large portion of the wooden tool collection of the former American Textile History Museum in Lowell, MA. Writes Marshfield, “This incredible museum has sadly been forced to close their doors and is in the process of de-accessioning their vast collection….. [Marshfield has] been offered barn looms, spinning wheels, flax processing equipment, and more.” The Marshfield School teaches classes in spinning, weaving and dyeing. FMI: www.marshfieldschoolofweaving.com

“BLUE: It’s More Than a Color,” presented by the Cambridge Art Association, for an exhibition that takes place November 8-December 20 in Cambridge, MA. Open to artists age 18 and older living and working in the Northeastern US working in all media. Best in Show Award: $500. Deadline September 21, 2017. For entry info and fees, see: www.cambridgeartassociation.slideroom.com or call 617-786-0246

BOOK ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 2017, October 1-28 at Maine Media Workshops and College in Rockport. “The residency is open to emerging and practicing book artists, letterpress printers, and photographers combining word and image.” Deadline to apply is May 15, 2017. FMI: www.mainemedia.edu

MSAD 52 ADULT & COMMUNITY EDUCATION, 486 Turner Center Road, Turner, Maine 04282 is looking for new classes and instructors for their adult education program to offer a course. Instructors are paid $20 per hour. FMI: 207-225-1010 (ext. 2120) with questions, www.msad52.maineadulted.org

HARLOW GALERY seeks Workshop Proposals for its Second Sunday program. Visual artists, craftspeople and writers are encouraged to propose a workshop.  FMI: www.harlowgallery.org 

JOSEPH A. FIORE ART CENTER located in Jefferson, Maine offers art residencies, open studio days, exhibitions and retreats for artists on a rolling farm setting. The Center is "available for rent, in its entirety or by the room, to groups or individuals whose reason for wanting to stay at the Center aligns with our mission." The Center is part of Maine Farmland Trust. FMI: 207-338-6575; www.mainefarmlandtrust.org

LOOKING FOR ARTISTS TO PRESENT WORKSHOPS, demonstrations or lectures to small groups of "Gifted and Talented" students. The Gifted and Talented Coordinator/Teacher RSU#12 Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit in Somerville, Maine, announces that they have a fully functioning Visual and Performing Arts element as part of the gifted and talented program via the Maine Department of Education's state mandate. Right now they are looking for local Maine artists and craftspeople to give a short workshop (demonstration and lecture) about their work to very small groups of GIFTED YOUNG VISUAL ARTISTS (age 9-14) at the Chelsea and/or Windsor Elementary Schools. FMI: https://sites.google.com/a/svrsu.org/gifted-and-talented/, 207-549-3261, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Argy Nestor of the MAINE ARTS COMMISSION seeks art making materials and supplies that are no longer needed since she works with many art teachers in Maine and in other countries. Email her and she’ll be glad to make arrangements for pick up. FMI: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

SKIDOMPHA LIBRARY in Damariscotta has a small gallery, The Carey Gallery, and artists are welcome to hang work there for one month. FMI: Pam Gormley, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service is conducting research for a 2017 CENSUS OF AGRICULTURE to provide a a detailed picture of U.S. farms and ranches and the people who operate them. It is the only source of uniform, comprehensive agricultural data for every U.S. state and county. Contact https://www.agcounts.usda.gov/cgi-bin/counts/ to have your information included. The Census defines a “farm” to be an operation that sold or normally would have sold $1,000 or more of agricultural products in a year.

MAINE FIBER RESOURCE GUIDE has become Maine Fiberarts Tour. This online version takes the place of our printed Tour Maps, and is THE place we direct visitors to. Listings are FREE so please fill out the online form, or call Maine Fiberarts and we will assist you: 207-721-0678.

FIBER FOLIO folio.mainefiberarts.org is our photo-illustrated tour to fiber, art, craft and farms across Maine and beyond. Always new profiles and changing content, profusely-illustrated with colorful photography. A living tour. Check it out!

If you have a Bulletin item to contribute to this Fiber Bulletin here, you can enter it yourself using this form.

Maine Fiberarts has a CLASSIFIED ADS section. Ads are FREE for Members ($60/year or higher) and run for three months. Enter your fiber-related item or help-wanted request in the form at the bottom of every page. It is the same form you would use to add an event or bulletin listing.

Fill in the form below to simplify sending us your news, event, announcement or ad for our Statewide Fiber Bulletin. Please check our bulletin for other items that have been published so you will have an idea of the length and the format. Keep it brief, 25 words. Make sure emails and websites are correct and functioning before you put them in. We will delete items once they have happened, we do not keep an archive of events. Ads will run for 3 months and are free for members.

Our Fiber Bulletin is not the same thing as our Fiber Resource Guide/Tour Map. If what you are announcing is a consistent or recurring event, an organization, a service or a studio that has an address that you would like to add to our digital tour, there is a link to enter your information on our map, here.

To the BELVEDERE FUND FOR EXCELLENCE IN HANDCRAFTS, a program of the Maine Community Foundation for a grant that will update Maine Fiberarts’ technology systems and our ability to present works of art and craft.To the many supporters who have generously given Maine Fiberarts support during 2017, along with our renewing members, who are helping us meet our special donor’s pledge of $12,500 this year if we can match it. We are just about there! Thank you so much.

DAVIS FAMILY FOUNDATION for support of our exhibition of “Threads of History: Exploring Maine's Textile Past,” taking place May-August 2017.

MAINE HUMANITIES COUNCIL for an award of a Major Grant in support of our "Threads of History" show this Spring-Summer 2017. The grant supports programming at Maine Fiberarts, three scholars, one tour, and two lectures. Candace Kanes will offer a guided tour along Maine Street, Brunswick pointing out the former fiber businesses of yore: haberdasheries, dressmakers, milliners, and corsetiere shops. Historian Scott Hansen will provide a tour through Cabot Mill and a talk about Brunswick mill history. And Jacqueline Field is offering a talk on Maine's silk industry. See "Current Exhibition" for dates and locations.

MAINE OFFICE OF TOURISM and MAINE ARTS COMMISSION for support of our Fiber Arts Mini Tour: Midcoast Maine which is now in use during Summer of 2017 and into 2018 for self-guided tours.

ALFRED M. SENTER FUND for support to include greater Brunswick area libraries, galleries and nonprofits in our “Threads of History: A Contemporary Take” exhibition at Maine Fiberarts through September 1, 2017. 

Thank you to the following special donors who continue to support our exhibitions and programming: Verrill Dana, Ann Kaplan, Maine Humanities Council, Maine Arts Commission, Katharine Watson, Judith Connorton, Carolyn Murray, Bangor Savings Bank, Mary Lou Steptoe, Arlene Morris, Dr. Steven Stern, Mr. and Mrs. John Schaperkotter, William and Judith Winship, David and Margo Knight, Katharine Watson, Peggy Whitney Hobbs, Sue Perless, and Carolyn Wollen. Many people working together to bring beautiful shows of fiber work to our gallery!

Thank you to The Betterment Fund, Maine Arts Commission, Margaret Burnham Charitable Trust, Morton-Kelly Charitable Fund, Maine Office of Tourism, and the National Endowment for the Arts for support during 2016-17 to continue our programs, and especially our online Maine Fiberarts Tour. Artists and fiber producers: get yourself listed on our map at www.mainefiberartstour.com

MERRYMEETING ADULT EDUCATION has Fall 2017 classes in drawing, botanical drawing, figure notation, comic book illustration, pressed cotton paper ornaments, pierced lampshades, crocheting a basket, needle felted animals, canvas floor cloths and more. FMI: www.merrymeeting.org; 207-729-7323

CATHERINE WORTHINGTON is currently running classes according to students’ interest and availability. Choose from “Textile Paint Workshops,” “Print and Sew Zippy Bags,” and “Paint and Collage.” See her website for more info. FMI: www.catherineworthingtonart.com

FIBER AND VINE offers "Nuno Felting Dymstified." Folk Art & Craft Center at Fiber & Vine. Nuno is the Japanese word for cloth. By felting a thin layer of wool into a loosely woven fabric an entirely new material can be created. The result is a wonderful lightweight fabric that drapes the body beautifully. In this beginner-friendly class you will learn how to transform silk cloth and merino wool roving into a beautiful lightweight scarf. Take the mystery out of Nuno felting and create your own art-to-wear! $90 class fee = ($70 tuition + $20 materials) Teacher: Kristin Roy. FMI: 402 Main St., Norway, Maine 04268, 207-739-2664, www.fiberandvine.com 

FIBER COLLEGE OF MAINE. 50+ carefully chosen classes to push your fiber skills forward. An event for fiber enthusiasts, great vendors giving demos, nightly gatherings of music, dance, bring your own yarn dye tent, campfires, sharing, working, food and drink. Always the week after Labor Day on the Coast of Maine. Accommodations from on-site camping to local lodging. Evening events, free demonstrations, community art projects and more. Classes on knitting, crocheting, weaving, spinning, fiber preparation, rug hooking, quilting, lace making, wood working and more. FMI: 207-548-6059, www.fibercollege.org

HAYSTACK OPEN DOOR 2017, October 6-9, 2017. Fiber workshop is: “Mindful Stitching,”  offered by artist Christine Mauersberger of Ohio, a kickstart session for building a meditative style of hand-stitching. Create small handstitched studies by taking inspirations from natural surroundings, then do free-form doodling, walking, listening to music and using basic sewing techniques. Open Door also holds classes in blacksmithing, ceramics, enameling, graphics, wood and writing, and applications are by lottery system starting August 18. FMI: www.haystack.mtn.org; 207-348-2306.  

HAYSTACK MOUNTAIN SCHOOL OF CRAFTS offers 2017 Summer Programs in blacksmithing, ceramics, fiber, graphics, metal, wood, book arts, drawing and more. Fiber classes include: “Piecework as Paradigm,” Aaron McIntosh; “Letters: Type and Image,” David Wolfe; “Quiltmaking: A West-African Appliquéd Experience,” William Adjete Wilson; “Fiber: Tied, Twisted, and Knotted,” Tanya Aguiniga; “Papermaking: Raising Paper,” Jocelyn Chateauvert; “Radical Bookwork: Re-purposing Found Books from Meaning to Structure,” Doug Beube; “Weaving: Composition and Materiality; Weft Faced Rug Weaving and Design,” Dee Clements; and “Indigo and its Metaphors,” Jovencio de la Paz. Summer Conference: July 9-13, “The Thing that Makes the Thing, Conversations on Craft and Community.” Application form at www.haystack-mtn.org

JILL VENDITUOLI of Sunnyfield Studio Needlework Design in West Newfield, Maine is offering design classes, throughout 2017-18. Class 1: “Abstract Design,” September 9, requires no art training. You will use the Continental stitch and your own palette in an instructional setting.  Class 2: “Color,” October 14, focuses on the selection and use of color in a Vortex design.  Class 3: “Advanced Design,” April 2018, (date TBD), will focus on developing stitching skills and learning to incorporate form and mixed media techniques. Class 4: “Advanced Stitches,” in May 2018 (TBD), will allow students to expand their knowledge of stitches and create a design using 4-8 stitch patterns of the student’s own choosing. Class is limited to eight students. FMI: Jill Vendituoli; jillavendituoli.com; 207-793-2504.

MAINE COLLEGE OF ART Continuing Studies, Fall Term starts September 12 with offerings for adults and youth in Portland. Paper+Book Arts classes include: “Paper Wildflower Sculpture,” “Sampler: Paper, Fiber, Print and Stitch,” “Risograph Printing,” and “Arabic Calligraphy and Cubism.” Fashion + Textile Design classes include: “Learn to Sew: Basic Skirt,” 10/21 at 9 a.m., “Felted Vessels”, 10/8 at 9 a.m., “Fashion Sewing,” 10/9; “Drawing with Stitch,” 10/3, and “Sewing Machine as Drawing Tool,” 9/30 at 9 a.m. Also classes in graphic design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, jewelry and more. FMI: www.meca.edu/cs; 207-699-5061.

MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION offers Summer Workshops 2017 in: book arts, bookbinding, printmaking, letterpress, papermaking and mixed media. Also, classes in encaustic, natural dyeing, Suminagashi marbling, Celtic weave binding, upscaling for papermaking, embedding in handmade papers, printed books, woodblocks, miniature bookbinding, cake box books, concertinas with slipcase, paste papers and many more. Send for their extensive catalog: 1754 East 47th Street, Cleveland, OH  44103; 216-361-9255; www.morganconservatory.org

NEW VENTURES free entrepreneurship training in: Building Confidence, Career Planning, My Money Works, Pursuing Your Passion; Work for Yourself at 50+, Your Next Career Move, Business Basics, Tax Prep for the Self-Employed. FMI: www.newventuresmaine.org 

PENLAND SCHOOL OF CRAFTS offers textile classes in their Fall 2017/Spring 2018 session: in Textiles: "Untangled: Weaving on Floor Looms," Kim Mirus; Printmaking: "Draw, Expose, Print, Fold," Sarah McDermott; Textiles: "From Shoes to Boots: Footwear 101," Amara Hark-Weber; "Books in a Box," Radha Pandey; "Indigi Shibori," Jane Callender. Also, classes in wood, photography, letterpress, metals, glass, iron, clay, drawing, painting, and book arts. FMI: www.penland.org

SUSAN MILLS offers felt making workshops at her studio in Bowdoin in felting and mixed media. FMI: www.susanmillsstudio.com. To see photos of a visit to her studio, see: www.mainefiberfolio.com

TINKUY 2017, A GATHERING OF THE TEXTILE ARTS, Cusco, Peru, November 8-11, 2017. An international gathering of indigenous textile artists, enthusiasts, historians, anthropologists and others to celebrate Peruvian textiles. Hands-on workshops, demonstrations, keynote speakers, lecturers, a "festive parade of weavers," cultural performances, spinning competitions, a movie night, and a fashion show. "Cusco, Peru, is the capital of the ancient Inca Empire, the historic capital of Peru, and a World Heritage site... A blending of ancient Inca stonework and Colonial architecture, important cultural museums, and a vibrant artisan culture make this a compelling destination for visitors. Tinkuy events will be held in the Cusco Convention Center in the heart of the old city." FMI: www.andeantextilearts.org/tinkuy2017