Colorplay
With Celeste Nossiter
Feel intimidated by choosing colors? Do your projects look better in your inner vision than in real life? Throw out the rule book and everything you’ve learned in the past!
In this experiential class we’ll explore color theory with a minimum of words and maximum of hands-on play.
- Skill level All
- Age appropriate 14+ (minors must have a parent on site)
- Materials fee None
- Students should bring
note-taking materials, a drink and a snack.
Instructor
Celeste NossiterAll my life the joy and mystery of color has been my motivating principle, first in painting and now in knitwear design. I have a BA from Brandeis University and an MFA from Pratt Institute but after being a starving artist and unable to get a full time college teaching job, I gave up that dream. Twenty years later I discovered Fair Isle knitting. In 2003 a knitting tour of Shetland, Scotland rekindled my creative juices and I began making my own knitted designs. That sparked an intensive learning period when I experienced that color in knitting doesn’t work the same way as color on canvas.
Since I love travel I started analyzing traditional textile motifs from different cultures and the trade routes by which they are shared across cultures. Several trips to Turkey inspired me to translate traditional tribal Anatolian and classical Ottoman motifs into knitted designs.
My greatest joy is sharing my passion with students: helping them translate their personal inspirations into knitted designs. That includes an experiential, hands-on approach to learning more about color so they can get their desired results. I teach beginning and intermediate classes in stranded knitting and a playful approach to color theory. My heart’s desire is to bring out the inner artist that exists in everyone through stranded knitting and color study.
I teach at yarn stores including Fiber Arts on 4th; The Yarn Store at Nob Hill and Village Wools in Albuquerque;Looking Glass Yarns in Santa Fe; Purl in the Pines in Flagstaff, AZ; Vortex Yarns, Taos NM; private studios and festivals including the Taos Wool Festival, Mt & Valley Fiber Festival in Santa Fe; On Higher Ground Retreat in Taos and Fiber Art Fiesta in Albuquerque.
