BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//www.somersethistoricalcenter.org//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreat or 2.30.10// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH UID:b36c0de4-fb96-4b75-a44b-4bcdc9ce1d1d X-WR-CALDESC:Common Threads\n\nLaurel Arts and the S omerset Historical Center are pround to present the 5th Annual Common Thre ads Fiber Arts Symposium. This one-day event will take place on Saturday\, April 22nd from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. inside the unique museum space at the Somerset Historical Center (10649 Somerset Pike\, Somerset\, PA 15501) . \n\nAdmission: $5\nFood available for purchase from The Fat Squirrel\n\nCommon Threads is a celebration of all things Fib er Art including basketry\, weaving\, tapestry\, coiling\, knitting\, croc het\, embroidery\, lacemaking\, rug braiding\, rug hooking\, macramé\, tex tile arts\, silk painting\, sewing\, quilting\, spinning\, felting\, paper making\, bookbinding\, and many creative combinations of those skills. Thi s event offers an opportunity for regional fiber artists to make meaningfu l connections and share their skills and knowledge with each other as well as the public. Throughout the day\, roughly 15 fiber artists will be set up throughout the museum\, demonstrating specific techniques\, providing h ands-on activities to participants\, and the artists will be educating vis itors when selling or talking about their hand-made products. \n\nFor a $5 admission\, visitors who attend Common Threads get to meander through the winding museum space to visit each fiber artist’s table/booth. Every year \, two guest presenters are featured as keynote speakers the day of the ev ent. In the past\, presentations have been given on a variety of very inte resting fiber arts topics\, techniques\, fiber artists’ careers\, publishe d work\, and displays including fashion shows.\n\n*ATTENTION TEACHERS! The Pennsylvania Art Education Association offers Act 48 credits for attendin g the event. Sign up at the following link!\n\nACT 48 CREDITS\n\n Art
istic basket made by Lindsay Ketter Gates titled Lily of the Valley. Image
of a cylindrical basket with embroidered flowers.

Art
istic basket made by Lindsay Ketter Gates titled Lily of the Valley. Image
of a cylindrical basket with embroidered flowers.

\n\nAbout the Presenter\n\nTh is year's guest presenter is Lindsay Ketter Gates\, who has been a studio artist for over 25 years. She holds an undergraduate degree in Fine Arts\, a graduate certificate in Non-Profit Management/Arts Administration\, and a Master of Business Administration. She was employed as the Director of Development at Peters Valley School of Craft for many years before taking on the role of Executive Director at Touchstone Center for Crafts in May o f 2018. Her work is in the permanent collection of the American Embassy in the Republic of Djibouti\, The Museum of Art and Design in NYC\, Yale Uni versity Art Gallery as well as other international collections. Her work w as included in the traveling exhibition ‘Rooted\, Revived\, Reinvented: Ba sketry in the 21st Century’\, ‘Innovators and Legends\; Generations in Tex tiles and Fibers”\, and recently on loan to the American Embassy in Bandar Seri Begawan. Lindsay is sought to teach and lecture nationally and has s poken and taught at the Smithsonian's American Craft Museum – Renwick Gall ery\, St. Louis Art Museum\, Textile Study Group of NY\, Haystack Mt. Scho ol of Craft\, Penland School of Crafts\, Arrowmont School of Craft\, Peter s Valley School of Craft\, SOFA Chicago\, and the Fiber Arts Guild of Pitt sburgh. Lindsay’s work has been featured on the cover of Metalsmith Magazi ne and on the pages of American Craft Magazine\, FiberArts\, Fiber Art Now \, Surface Design Journal\, Shuttle\, Spindle and Dyepot Magazine\, FIBERA RTS Design Book VII\, 500 Baskets\, Making Good: An Inspirational Guide to being an Artist/Craftsmen\, to name a few. In 2005 she was awarded an Ind ividual Creative Artists Fellowship by the Pennsylvania Council on the Art s\, administered by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.\n\nBoth histori cal and contemporary fiber arts are represented at Common Threads\, provid ing a link from past to present\, making this event a relevant and success ful collaboration between Laurel Arts and the Somerset Historical Center. One unique quality about fiber arts is that many of the techniques and mat erials have remained the same for hundreds of years\, and most fiber artis ts have an understanding of traditional methods of creating their artwork. Many fiber artists often choose to branch out creatively\, experimenting with ways to move the art form forward\, pushing the boundaries by combini ng techniques\, media\, and implementing non-traditional materials within their work. \n X-WR-RELCALID:c40195fbdded9ac3b65cb48fee761080 X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20231105T020000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20240310T020000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:76d1eb8d-6aeb-4492-8c37-2a96e1c666e5 DTSTAMP:20260429T135306Z DESCRIPTION:Common Threads\n\nLaurel Arts and the So merset Historical Center are pround to present the 5th Annual Common Threa ds Fiber Arts Symposium. This one-day event will take place on Saturday\, April 22nd from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. inside the unique museum space at t he Somerset Historical Center (10649 Somerset Pike\, Somerset\, PA 15501). \n\nAdmission: $5\nFood available for purchase from The Fat Squirrel\n\nCommon Threads is a celebration of all things Fibe r Art including basketry\, weaving\, tapestry\, coiling\, knitting\, croch et\, embroidery\, lacemaking\, rug braiding\, rug hooking\, macramé\, text ile arts\, silk painting\, sewing\, quilting\, spinning\, felting\, paperm aking\, bookbinding\, and many creative combinations of those skills. This event offers an opportunity for regional fiber artists to make meaningful connections and share their skills and knowledge with each other as well as the public. Throughout the day\, roughly 15 fiber artists will be set u p throughout the museum\, demonstrating specific techniques\, providing ha nds-on activities to participants\, and the artists will be educating visi tors when selling or talking about their hand-made products. \n\nFor a $5 admission\, visitors who attend Common Threads get to meander through the winding museum space to visit each fiber artist’s table/booth. Every year\ , two guest presenters are featured as keynote speakers the day of the eve nt. In the past\, presentations have been given on a variety of very inter esting fiber arts topics\, techniques\, fiber artists’ careers\, published work\, and displays including fashion shows.\n\n*ATTENTION TEACHERS! The Pennsylvania Art Education Association offers Act 48 credits for attending the event. Sign up at the following link!\n\nACT 48 CREDITS\n\n Arti
stic basket made by Lindsay Ketter Gates titled Lily of the Valley. Image
of a cylindrical basket with embroidered flowers.