UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
June 11-13 "Hands-On Shibori," John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC
SOLD OUT
June 13-19 "Low-Tech Screen Printing" John C. Campbell Folk School, Btrasstown, NC
SOLD OUT
June 26 “Pop-Up Paper Delights,” Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
Students wearing their silk shibori scarves, Cloth Fiber Workshop, Asheville, NC circa 2010.
Jen Swearington is available to teach, lecture, consult, and work as a visiting artist or art resident in an educational setting. Her workshop topics include fashion design and sewing, surface design including shibori and screen printing, and related art-making processes such as drawing, paper cutting, book arts, sketchbook practices, and mixed media. Contact us for more information.
Jen Swearington is an enthusiastic, high-energy, knowledgeable educator with twenty years’ experience in surface design and a lifetime devoted to working as an artist. She has operated Jennythreads, an independent handmade fashion studio and crafted a creative living since 2003. She is the author of Printing on Fabric: Techniques with Screens, Stencils, Inks, and Dyes published by Lark Crafts, has exhibited in Quilt National three times, is a former Arrowmont Resident Artist, and current member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild. She has taught at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Penland School of Crafts, University of North Carolina-Asheville, Haywood Community College, and John C. Campbell Folk School.
Students’ shibori samples, Arrowmont School of Craft
Photos from Jen's 2014 2-week screen printing workshop at Penland School of Crafts.