it's an opportunity for you to find a
one-of-a-kind piece for your home and
joining me today in a moment Vicki Elmer
but first we have Judy sledge a Detroit
fiber artist yes what does that mean -
that means I work in not fibers natural
fibers or I'm a textile artist that
works and felting felting well show us
how it's done
well felting is done with natural fibers
it's I call it from sheet to shawl
okay because it's the wool of the Sheep
and you hold that up that tray a little
bit and like tilted upward there we go
okay and that's the wool from the Sheep
of sheer then it's cleaned in this
process through machines and then it
comes out nice and clean so this is how
you get wool okay this this goes to
thread to yarn to wool and so what I do
I take the natural fiber of the wool and
I turn it into something special so if
you're interested in something like this
well actually these are different types
of wool these sheep come from all over
the world so this is merino from South
Africa this is a packer from the United
States this is blue face lie sister from
the United Kingdom so it comes from all
of the world and it depends on the sheet
okay well we know merino wool from all
those v-neck sweaters that grandma gets
us at Christmas yes yes yes the soft
ones right the soft ones they're really
soft so I'm demonstrating what you do
and how it gets to be that so I just
take the fiber this is from the sheep
it's been cleaned okay when there's a
process that I go through so if you like
chemistry if you like beauty if you like
alright you would be interested in this
because what it does it changes from
this to a fabric to a fabric so there
are things that are needed for that to
happen in order for that to happen you
need friction you need alkaline which is
soap and water learn something new every
day yeah yeah if you were going to be at
the Palmer Park arctor I'm going to be
at Palmer Park it's gonna be June 2nd
and 3rd Saturday and Sunday all right
let's go talk to Vicki Elmer
Vicki you have some
somewheres here to show some examples of
what we will find at the Palmer Park Art
Fair
well I brought a sampler portion because
we have 75 artists at the Art Fair some
are local regional national but we have
Judy Bowman is a local artist she works
in collage this is very cool I was
noticing this from across the room it is
a gorgeous piece and she will debut I
think at least one new piece there this
is called I think looking for the honeys
and then her grandson that describes
mine of my 20s and then her grandson is
also going to be in the Art Fair we
don't have one of his pieces but he will
be in our mint artist tent we do have a
table left and work away okay sure so we
have some glass pieces by Colette Fortin
and Barry Davis and their work is so
gorgeous
I am wearing another fiber artist
Lynette Holloway her pieces right here
and then we have a few artists coming in
from the Detroit Fine Arts Breakfast
Club this is an artist and collectors
group that meets on Livernois and we
invited them the artists who've never
been in an Art Fair before to come in in
a group tent and share their work so
these two are two of the eight artists
will be in that tent this is this is
actually a metal purse sample that study
so the camera can get a shot that's a
metal purse that somebody crafts yes
Steve furniture he lives very close to
Palmer Park and this is a clay piece by
Deborah Pratt she is one of about four
artists who've been in all five of the
Palmer Park art fairs these are our
pieces by our mint artists they are all
young artists emerging artists ages 14
to inner yes this piece right here is
made out of duct tape this is a felted
piece we have some jewelry as well and
then we have this really cool table this
really cool table is by one of my
favorite artists Charlene RC it's called
talking drums
it tells the story of the drums in
Africa and she told me that they used
the drums the King uses the drums to
summons his subjects or to announce a
celebration or death and she will be
there with her beautiful hand-painted
furniture okay real quick where and when
Palmer Park Art Fair
the Palmer Park Art Fair Palmer Park is
off Woodward Avenue between 7 mile and
McNichols
people probably pass it all the time
it's this Saturday from 10:00 to 7:00
Sunday from 11:00 to 5:00 thank you very
much both for being here thank you thank
you