LINKS

Workshops:

Mendocino Art Center has a wonderful variety of art classes in a beautiful setting

San Francisco Center for the Book -- Many great classes and workshops.

Art Supplies:

Dharma Trading Company has reasonably priced fabric, as well as dyes

Solarplates are an amazing way to create relief printing plates from photo images,
without caustic chemicals. There’s also a book and DVD by Dan Welden.

www.lazertran.com.  You can order Lazertran products directly, and it also has an interesting gallery of work by various artists using Lazertran.  Unfortunately, you cannot see the texture of the works very well, but there are a variety of uses and kinds of imagery on display.
 
www.beldecal.com. Bel Inc. carries many kinds of water-slide decal materials. 

www.papilio.com.  This Web site has lots of ink jet supplies – papers, water-slide decal material, and other interesting things.

www.wilhelm-research.com.  The Web site for Wilhelm Imaging Research, it has a lot of information about ink jet technology and the permanence of various inks.

Quilting:

April Sproule does creative longarm machine quilting of traditional or contemporary designs using an APQS Ultimate I machine with a 14-foot table.

Studio Art Quilt Association is a great membership organization.

Fiber Arts:

Surface Design Association covers all methods of surface design techniques, and has a wonderful convention every two years with workshops, exhibitions, and networking opportunities. There are many advantages to membership, including newsletters and a beautiful magazine.

FiberArts Magazine is the key U.S. journal of all kinds of fiber techniques and art work.

Discussion groups online:

Yahoo Groups 1
Yahoo Groups 2