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Holding Water Vessels

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Unseen Felt Knot

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FELTING WORKSHOPS

NEXT ONLINE & ONPOINT! COURSES
Course 1 Foundational Structure
May 11- July 20, 2025 ENROLL NOW!
Course 2 Applications of Partial Felt
July 13- September 28, 2025

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📢 In about three weeks, on Saturday April 26 fr

📢 In about three weeks, on Saturday April 26 from 11-5, I’ll be opening up the STRONGFELT STUDIO just a couple blocks north of downtown Asheville, to the public. Come on by and learn about one of the oldest fiber techniques and see a collection of contemporary felt from jewelry and accessories to vessels and sculpture. Learn about my workshops, both in person and online, that provide depth of knowing material & process to assist you in exploring the amazing properties of wool fiber. Reach out with a private message or email info@strongfelt.com to register your interest and for the location details.

It’s the morning after a good rain and I’m sitting atop my pavers, sand, gravel and pipe that I must say drained beautifully and a rain that I can only hope squelched any last embers of fires that have recently raged through our downed trees and stacked mulch yards. The last week out and about in downtown Asheville there was a palpable pulse as new spring growth rises around us and folks are returning to be part of WNC’s hurricane recovery. Make a plan to visit sometime soon and stay at a locally owned establishment, support our fabulous restaurants and buy some art! You can make an appointment to visit the STRONGFELT STUDIO too!

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😅 So ready for the rain this weekend like I was

😅 So ready for the rain this weekend like I was not last April! Just another reason to stay around these parts this year…to finish rocking over my newly dug drainage. This land that I signed up to steward is the biggest sculpture project I have taken on and I love it.

Looking forward to my Open Studio April 26 to share some new work including this walkway with beautiful mica filled pavers from up Burnsville, NC way!

#strongfelt #strongfeltstudio #sculpture #landsculpture #porosity #strata #rocking #iloverocks #mica #pavers #tricountyrocks #wncmountains #ashevilleartist #sandandrocks #woolandfelt

Spent the past week hauling and puzzling rocks int

Spent the past week hauling and puzzling rocks into a walkway around my studio and working on filming and handouts for my upcoming online workshop, Wrangling Wool Fibers in Wet Felting, hosted by the Surface Design Association. Complimentary activities from the dirt to soapy clean and from the intensely physical to a gradation of touch sensation, I am in my happy place considering mass, porosity, impact and movement.

Good to be teaching for SDA again…first time was back in 2009 at the last international conference held at Kansas City Art Institute and then again at the regional conference, Made/Aware at Arrowmont School of Crafts in 2015. Now online in 2025, excited to share about possible shrinkage for a spectrum of weights of wool in relation to area, the concept of partial felt for use in a variety of applications and extreme differential shrinkage as a means for sculpting 2D planes into the third dimension. AND, of course, to meet a bunch of new folks interested in the amazing properties of hair, wool in particular, as an artistic medium. See you next Saturday, April 5!

#strongfelt #lisaklakulakteachesfelting #wranglingwool #felt #wetfelting #wetfeltingtechnique #shrinkage #necessityofspace #gradiatedtouch #sensation #hair #whatisfelt @surface_design

What are you doing May 11 - June 20, 2025? 📢

What are you doing May 11 - June 20, 2025? 📢

ENROLLMENT IS OPEN for edition #10 of STRONGFELT’s Foundational Structure Course, 10 weeks of focused learning of wet felting techniques through small scale studies in solid form, 2d plane, hollow forms and connections. It’s learning that keeps on giving as you develop depth of knowing through methodologies that allow you to strategically modify size, proportion and composition. Using learned techniques, design and bring into fruition two projects with one-on-one instructor supported zoom meetings. BONUS: continued inspiration through seeing imaginative projects/variations of the same techniques you’ve learned made by those in future editions!

🔗 in my insta bio for enrollment, more info and detailed images of studies and participants’ unique projects!

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It’s all about airspace. #whatisfelt I am not p

It’s all about airspace. #whatisfelt

I am not posting as much on this platform, but now isn’t the time to lose community either. Created a Bluesky account last month, @strongfeltbsky.social, but not active there yet. Navigating it all. Focusing on my newsletters and my website with always a lean toward more blogging there and less on the socials.
With that said…

Spring 2025 STRONGFELT quarterly newsletter will be out end of next week, March 21. Announcements of new work, workshops/courses and an Open Studio event in April! Make a plan to visit Asheville this spring! We need you.

Sign up for newsletters in my instagram bio linktree 🔝

#strongfelt #lisaklakulak #felt #wool #airspace #absorbancy #holding #full #fulled #still #castaluminum #solidformfelting #contemporaryfelt #fiberarts #sculpture #ashevilleartist #ashevillenc

Reposting as I misspelled a name and I take that v

Reposting as I misspelled a name and I take that very seriously being a Klakulak!

And a bit more color and unique formations to end your week…With offering my 10 week Online & Onpoint! Course 1 on Foundational Structure in the beginning of the year, Spring weather (for those of us in the N. Hemisphere) correlates with participants realizing their project designs. It is always a joy, but particularly this year, to exchange and encourage across borders through this online format.

The first half of my course focuses on studying solid forming of wool and connection techniques to allow for the building of original visions in high quality felt and Janet Clarke @felt_jay, Caroline Noach @lavodine_cn, Jantine de Kuijper and Ann Land @saraannland have most definitely hit the mark!👏 👏 👏

The current cohort moves into another design week on Monday after studying additional techniques for developing small 2D planes of felt, connecting solid forms to 2D surfaces and encasing objects in a form fitting skin of high shrinkage felt in the second half of the course.

Pictures of their works including details and alternate perspectives have been uploaded to the Online & Onpoint! TEACHING page at STRONGFELT.com and can be viewed alongside pieces by makers in the past 8 editions. You can also view pictures of the demonstration studies and read more about this course, which will be offered again May 11-June 20, 2025. Link to the website in my bio 🔝

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#finecraft #finefelt #contemporaryfelt #contemporaryjewellery

Well now, woke up to a layer of white covering up

Well now, woke up to a layer of white covering up all the color that had popped recently! Damn, that’s quite the metaphor for the times. Sharing pics of beauty that brought me joy yesterday as I scavenged the yard for signs of spring!

When I opened my car door after arriving home in the dark last Friday from Greenville, the first sense of home came in the powerful fragrance emitted by my Paper Bush, Edgeworthia chrysantha, that drenches the adjacent neighborhood. On the way to capture its flower yesterday, bright green sedums were bubbling out of cracks in my stone walls. Did you know sedums are also called Stonecrop? Then I came to my patch of Hellebore or Winter Rose and subsequently read a few entertaining versions of Greek Myth about Melampus curing women’s insanity with tea of these flowers (not recommending, but do search out the story.) Lastly, I spent time with the opposing lobed red leaf buds on my Hydrangea that always remind me of a heart.

#strongfelt #stepout #color #form #plantgifts #cycles

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