Contrary to what I’ve posted here, I’ve actually been quite busy at work at Ardnamurchan highschool. Over the past three weeks, I’ve taught tweleve day long workshops at the highschool and at some of the elementary schools in the area. The idea was to expose the students to traditional and contemporary craft and to integrate the use of Gaidhlig language into the workshops.

We’ve been working on natural dyeing and an intro to sewing. After a review of basic skills and concepts, students were encouraged to experiment in their application using recycled materials. The overall focus of the workshops was to give the students a sense of both freedom to create, basic skills to achieve their visions, and a sense of history and context within traditional and contemporary craft.

Here are some examples of the kind of work the students have been producing (a hand-sewn, felt hat; felt skull patch, felt tie, and felt mits with applique and embroidery; and a mit gone awry and turned into a whale puppet).

More on the workshops coming up next…

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