The Silver Studio is the private studio of multi-disciplinary fiber artist Mandy Greer. Come join in her light-filled, custom built, private art studio in the trees, in the vibrant neighborhood of
Columbia City, Seattle.
Learn a variety of Fiber Arts, taught in her own expressive, play-centered style, whether you are a total beginner or have fiber experience.
Workshops in Weaving, Circle Weaving, Beading, Pom-Poms, Garlands, Basket Making and more. Private Parties available too, for friends night out, work team building, holiday parties, birthdays.
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In-person at my studio, this two part workshop we make clay beads and then come back to string them, along with using my huge collection of vintage beads, glass, wood, crystal, metal and acrylic.
BOOK and learn more HERE
In-Person Clay Workshops! Aug 20th/Aug 27th
In-person Tapestry Workshops in my Garden Studio are OPEN for Summer 2023!
Learn more and book HERE
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Come make wildly colorful, textural Pom Pom Garlands and Wall Hangings from a HUGE stash of reclaimed fibers and yarn. I clean up the mess!
This two-hour self-paced class is now available. Hand-dyed starter kits drop in January 2023
On-demand workshop! Do at your own pace with a loom you build or buy from me!
On-demand workshop! Do at your own pace!
Learn more and book here!
Learn about and book HERE
Kits, custom made, are available
You are welcome to take the class with your own materials, too.
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Get your own Bespoke Circle Weaving Kit and learn to do this cosmic process in the 3.5 hour live online workshop.
More info and register HERE
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My teaching style focuses on breaking down complex techniques into specific easily learnable steps, while encouraging intuitive exploration and risk taking by providing an abundance of wild and luscious materials - a huge stash of luxurious boutique, hand-spun and hand-dyed yarns, wool roving and up-cycled fabrics and vintage beads.
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Weaving brings many people peace, and teaches patience — to let go of preconceived ideas and observe what’s happening in front of you in the loom without judgement. Come join us!
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“I've been a studio artist for 20 years, with teaching experience from university level to pre-school children, focusing on making art process accessible to anyone through a lens of freedom and rebellion rather than rigid technique. For the past 7 years, I have been teaching my experimental approach to fiber workshops in my own Columbia City, Seattle-based studio, The Silver Studio.
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“I am a multidisciplinary artist working in a symbiotic way with fiber-based installation, photography/film, performance, social and environmental interactivity, and knowledge-sharing. I’m inspired to challenge and blend the boundaries between these ways of making, particularly the boundaries between performer/artist and audience, and between process and final product.
And yet my work is grounded in traditions — I am continually connecting myself to older ways of making, an investigation of craft on a haptic level — through a visceral passionate engagement with materials, ideas and the hands rather than virtuoso technique – to stitching, tinkering, inventive jury-rigging and the long tradition of using little means to create an expansive vision, turning the mundane into the transcendent. ”
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Mandy has an MFA from the University of Washington, and has taught clay, fiber and art in a broad spectrum of settings. She has taught as an adjunct professor at The University of Washington and The University of South Florida. She has taught school-aged and adult programs at The Frye Art Museum, Bellevue Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, The Hudson River Museum and through Seattle Public Schools and Mercer Island School district. She has lectured and taught workshops at UW, Evergreen State University, Western Washington.
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Mandy Greer has been exhibited nationally and internationally at Centro di Cultura Contemporanea at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy; Cathedral St. John the Divine in NYC; Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR; Bellevue Arts Museum, Seattle Art Museum, Henry Art Gallery, and Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA. Mandy has received numerous awards including the Arts Innovator Award from Artists Trust/The Dale and Leslie Chihuly Foundation and the prestigious Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. She has been featured and reviewed in many publications including the New York Times, Hi-Fructose Magazine, Seattle Magazine and Art Ltd.
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