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One Lord...One Faith
Lutheran Fine Arts Council of Topeka
Saturday, February 15, 2025
8:30am - noon
Faith Lutheran Church
1716 SW Gage Blvd, Topeka
The theme this year is "Memories, Creating and Preserving."
Many of us are a part of a "sandwich" generation where some of our relatives who were older than us are now deceased, and we've inherited furniture, dishes, clothing, household items...etc. Some are treasures. We are also parents to a generation that DOES NOT WANT our "stuff", and they have told us so.
Some are special fabric items that we don't want to let go. There are ways they can be preserved, or ways that memories can be kept alive.
We also want to make some special meaningful pieces that can become a part of our children's, grandchildren's or great-grandchildren's celebrations.
We hope that you will come away from our workshop with some interesting ideas of how to preserve and create memories. Several of these sessions will give you an opportunity to try your hand with the projects.
Schedule 8:30 - noon
8:30 - Registration in the church lobby.
8:45 - Overview of the morning in the Fellowship Hall
9:00 - 9:45 - Presentation by Nikaela Zimmerman in the Fellowship Hall.
10:00 - 10:45 - Session 1 of the small group presentations in various rooms.
10:45 - 11:15 - Cake Break, and Show & Tell in the Fellowship Hall.
11:15 - noon - Session 2 of the small group presentations. This will be a repeat of the first session in the same rooms.
Presenters
Nikaela Zimmerman is the collections manager for the Kansas Museum of History. Her responsibilities include cleaning and preparing artifacts for storage or exhibition, managing the museum collections database, cataloging new donations, monitoring storage and exhibit environmental conditions, and answering questions from patrons. Nikaela has experience in working with collections in other museums before working in this capacity. She enjoys working closely with artifacts that have witnessed history and learning new facts about Kansas history. Currently, Nikaela is determining how to exhibit artifacts in the new gallery while keeping the preservation of these items in mind.
Nikaela will be talking about the collections at the museum, the different types of fiber materials that they have and how they go about preserving, storing and displaying them. In the small group presentations, she will share how you can adapt the museum's preservation practices for your own materials. She will also answer questions you have about materials that you have.
She will be bringing examples of projects she done so you can get your creative juices flowing.
Shown here is a jigsaw puzzle t-shirt quilt that she made that is full of memories.
Courtney's full time jobs are that of a library media specialist at Cheney High School, where she is also involved with many of the school activities, and also as the co-owner of CJAst Farms with her husband.
Courtney Ast says to not throw any of those clothes from your loved one away. "Let's talk," she says. She will be sharing many ideas of how items can be made into memories.
Linda Johnson will be sharing how to repair woolen clothing items that have had holes created in them by the small pests that like to eat on these fibers when we have them stored away.
Linda has come to our previous workshops, and offered to share her skill during a small group session this year.
Susan Thowe made a "birthday banner" as a fluke about 50 years ago. Then made more when her children were born, followed by some for the neighborhood children and also some for the adult neighbors. Now banners are being made by the adults for another generation of children, and the idea keeps spreading. Just a simple idea for creating lasting memories. This idea doesn't just have to be for birthdays.
Kathy Pflaum has been a small group presenter at each of the workshops since we began having them in 2017. She always shares an interesting topic. This year she is going to share techniques for cleaning antique linens, and also share some ideas of how to use them.
Kathy has been very involved in the Topeka and NOTO art community as a member of the Topeka Art Guild. Now that she has retired, she is teaching classes on color and design at the TAG center and gallery. https://www.topekaartguild.org
Jan Eitel is another creative individual who is involved with different fiber arts, and has been a small group presenter several different years. This year she is going to share how to make a basket, and let you take a turn at some of the weaving.
If you can weave paper strips like you did in elementary school, you can make a basket for memories in an afternoon or evening.
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