All speaker presentations, lunch and beverages are included with CWD registration. Be Green at CWD and bring your own reusable beverage container and handmade napkin.

Guild Table Displays

People’s Choice Award!

Shop from Weave A Real Peace International Marketplace www.weavearealpeace.org

Follow us on RMWG Facebook and Twitter. .Questions? Email CWD@rmwg.org

KEYNOTE ADDRESS -Making and Contributing to Transformative Community

Bethany Chaney

The very nature of making something – for weavers, the looms, dyes, yarns, or finished woven product – is a transformative process, combining raw materials and our energy into something useful and beautiful. As makers, we each experience various kinds of personal transformation while practicing our crafts – making helps us learn, grow, love, grieve and navigate change throughout our whole lives. But what does it mean to contribute to transformative community through making? Bethany will explore making, craft and community-building both within and outside the folk school model, a style of non-competitive, contextual education practiced by the John C. Campbell Folk School.

How to register:

$65 registration February 2, 2024 - May 1, 2024.

1. Credit card registration, Go to this secure link. Wild Apricot , and select events.

2. Check or cash, download this Registration form, and mail it with to the registrar along with your $65 check. It must be received by May 1, 2024. May 1 is the end of registrations.

Note: No walk ins will be accepted.

SCHEDULE (TENTATIVE) For CWD May 18,2024

9:00-9:45am: Registration, View guild tables, find seating, visit/shop WARP International Marketplace.

10:00-10:15: Welcome, Housekeeping and Introduce Keynote Speaker

10:15-11:15am: Keynote Presentation by Bethany Chaney; John C. Campbell Folk School

11:15-11:45am: Networking, View guild tables, WARP Marketplace

11:45 am-12:15pm: Presentation by Jane Levine; Jefferson Farm

12:15-2:00pm: Lunch, Networking, View guild tables, WARP Marketplace. Collection of People’s Choice Ballots

2:00-2:30pm: Presentation by Mountain & Plains Fibershed

2:35-3:05pm: Presentation by Cei Lambert and CSU student

3:05-3:35pm: Networking, View guild tables, WARP Marketplace. Tally People’s Choice Ballots.

3:35-4:00pm: Closing remarks, Announce People’s Choice

Bethany Chaney, Executive Director of the John C. Campbell Folk School - Keynote Speaker

 Bethany Chaney is Executive Director of the John C. Campbell Folk School, a nearly 100 year-old anchor institution in southern Appalachia that offers weeklong and weekend classes for adults in a variety of traditional craft, music, dance, cooking, nature studies, and other disciplines. Founded in 1925 on the Danish non-competitive folk school model, the Folk School hosts nearly 6,000 students annually across 800 classes in addition to a variety of community events, all of which attracting students and visitors from all over the world. Prior to joining the Folk School, Bethany served more than 25 years in a variety of non-profit and public service roles, specializing in resource development, strategic planning, and community and economic development programming. She is an award-winning writer, a former NC Arts Council Fellow, and an avid maker of pine needle baskets, a craft she first nurtured as a Folk School student. Bethany holds a BA from the University of North Carolina and an MBA from Northeastern University. She makes her home in Brasstown, NC.

The Handweavers Guild of Boulder was the organizer of the 2022 Colorado Weavers Day conference. Due to Covid, this was a virtual event. During discussions, a theme emerged: how to get younger people involved in guilds and how to encourage attendance of young adults to Colorado Weavers Day. The 2022 CWD committee is responding to this need by using leftover funds from the 2022 conference to underwrite attendance for young adults to the 2024 conference. There are sufficient funds to sponsor partial scholarships for 30 individuals 26 and younger. Scholarship will reduce the cost of a full-price ticket to $25. Please let qualifying young adults know about this scholarship. They will just register as usual and check the box that says “young adult”. Additionally, Rocky Mountain Weavers Guild is sponsoring reduced student tickets for the same $25 cost. So, if you know a student who would like to attend CWD 2024, please encourage them to apply for this scholarship as well.

Registration for minors (those under 18 yrs) ends April 26.

For questions or more information: CWD@rmwg.org

International Marketplace: The International Marketplace is inspiring, and filled with textiles from around the world! This is a WONDERFUL place to purchase unique textiles directly from the artisans who made them, or from Weave A Real Peace (WARP) members working to promote the work of artisans they work with. The vendor marketplace will be open during Colorado Weaver’s Day.

The 2024 WARP Annual Meeting will be held in Golden May 15-17, 2024. The meeting is open to WARP members only. WARP welcomes new members to join and register. If you are interested in attending this year’s meeting, please join WARP today!

WARP website: www.weavearealpeace.org

Fibershed Mountains & Plains fosters a collaboration among textile artists, designers, fiber farmers, processing mills, suppliers, and retail businesses in and around Colorado. The Fibershed Affiliate Program supports an international grassroots network that promotes the development of regional fiber systems communities, including economic and non-economic growth, in the form of building relationships and new global networks.

Website: www.mountainsandplainsfibershed.org

… after 19 years of experience with both alpacas, and paco-vicuñas, 250 plus crias (baby alpacas) delivered, and managing a large scale farm and fiber production, it is safe to say “If it hasn’t happened here, it probably hasn’t happened yet!”

Did you know? From their softly padded hooves that cause less damage to the environment to their ability to produce more fleece, alpacas are incredibly green. 

Description of Jane’s presentation:

"Jefferson Farm Products" formerly Jefferson Farms Natural Fibers is the home of the largest herd of Paco-Vicunas in the USA. Paco-Vicunas, or PVs are a more primitive alpaca, bred to exhibit much more vicuna-like fiber traits than the modern alpaca. These traits are evidenced in the low micron and increased density and basic structure of the fiber, having no organized crimp but showing a crinkle, which interlocks the individual fibers. PV fiber also shows a high degree of elasticity, as evidenced by its' high degree of curvature measured at micron analysis. The short talk will feature the history of the original importation of the PVs, and breeding practice as well as fiber goals."

Website: www.jeffersonfarmsnaturalfibers.com

In Cei’s presentation he will share what he has learned as a teacher working with and engaging students in fiber arts. A CSU student will join him and share images of what the next generation of fiber artists are creating. We hope this will help guilds with marketing to the next generation of fiber enthusiasts.

Cei Lambert is an artist, entrepreneur, and educator living in Fort Collins, Colorado. Cei works in multiple media including weaving, screen printing, cut paper, illustration, and installation. Cei holds a BFA and MFA in fiber art and teaches undergraduate fiber art classes at Colorado State University, his alma mater. Cei also consults and educates in the diversity, equity, and inclusion space, focusing on social determinants of health and LGBTQIA+ inclusion. Cei owns and is the artist at Meadowlark Tattoo, a tattoo studio specializing in illustrative and nature themed tattoos and serving communities historically excluded from the tattoo space. When not working, Cei enjoys hiking, skiing, cycling, birding, and going on adventures with his wife, Jordan and their dog, Scotty.

! NEW LOCATION ALERT !

This year's CWD will be held at the Green Center on the Colorado School of Mines campus (924 16th Street Golden, Colorado). Park for free in any lot or along the street. We can't wait to welcome you to the in-person event, say hello to old friends and meet new friends as we grow our community of fiber and textile enthusiasts!