SPECIAL DAYTIME MEETING

Free and Open to Members and Guests
 
This international, not-for-profit membership organization, invites its members and other fiber-art enthusiasts to learn about techniques that can relate to future Judaic inspired needlework projects for one’s home or as unique heirloom legacy items.  Women of all ages who enjoy sewing or the use of fiber are invited and encouraged to attend this free program.

Pierotti will demonstrate how to give expression to one’s own creations using a multi-layering technique of colorfast inkodyes, acrylic paints and color pencils on untreated cotton.  The process easily adapts in creating hand colored fabrics that serve as ground for needlework items for one’s home.  No previous experience is needed to attend the demonstration workshop.  With graduate degrees in music composition and languages, Pierotti began his professional painting career in the early ’60s while living and working in New York for the American Craft Council.  He directed the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, TN, the Sawtooth School of Art in Winston-Salem, NC and re-opened  the Hambidge Center in Rabun Gap, GA  He currently resides and has his studio in Shellman, GA.  His painting and designs are included in over 300 corporate, private and public collections throughout the world.  Featured in over 22 articles in American Art and Who’s Who in American Art, Pierotti is represented in galleries in the USA, Scotland, Armenia and Switzerland.  

THE POMEGRANATE GUILD OF JUDAIC NEEDLEWORK
PEACH STATE STITCHERS

WHAT TYPES OF NEEDLEWORK DO MEMBERS CREATE? Beading, Crochet, Cross Stitch, Embroidery, Knitting, Needlepoint, Quilting and Weaving…to name a few. Novices up to expert needleworkers are all welcome to be part of the Atlanta Chapter of The Pomegranate Guild of Judaic Needlework.

HOW OFTEN DO YOU MEET? The Atlanta Chapter meets once a month, the second Monday of every month, usually at The Spruill Arts Center (next to the Dunwoody Library located at 5339 Chamblee-Dunwoody Road in Dunwoody, GA). We meet in Room #2 on the second floor. Meetings start at 7:00 PM and end at 9:30 PM. Some meetings are also held in private homes. Information about upcoming meetings and events is usually listed in The Atlanta Jewish Times as well as our chapter newsletter.

HOW CAN I LEARN MORE OR HOW TO JOIN THE ATLANTA CHAPTER?
email: peachstatestitch@aol.com

HOW DO I JOIN NOW??
Annual dues are $36.00.  Fiscal year begins each September. Members receive several issues of the National Pomegranate Guild newsletter, THE PAPER POMEGRANATE.  Please email us for more information.

Please note that you are welcome to attend a meeting as our guest before you decide whether or not to become a member of the Atlanta Chapter. Also note that there is sometimes a supply fee for non-members if the program involves a hands-on workshop project.

Mission Statement of the Peach State Stitchers:
Our mission is to heighten the concept of Hiddur Mitzvah in our community and create a visual legacy to hand to the next generation.  Members share a common interest in Jewish tradition and the desire to create Judaic needle and fiber projects for family, home, synagogue and other communal institutions.  Approved by Peach State Stitchers
 Board at the 10.22.09 meeting.

Peach State Stitchers is a chapter of The International Pomegranate Guild of Judaic Needlework. Please see the national web site at: http://www.pomegranateguild.org/

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www.fiberartsalliance.org/home

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