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2001 Class List |
Pizazz Richard Barnes Coupeville, Washington Dick shares a keen sense of detail in everything from sewing to frame construction to bridle tying and adjustment, as you construct an 8' Pizazz sport kite. |
Tyvek and Paint Rhonda Brewer Lincoln City, Oregon Using everyday objects as tools in the art process, find easy, fun ways to be creative with shape and texture with paint on Tyvek for kitemaking. |
Totem Kite Roy Broadley Basingstoke, England Sew and construct a 1.5 meter variation of an award-winning, low aspect ratio totem kite designed by this ever-creative craftsperson. |
Serti Paint Scarves Diane Butler Tigard, Oregon Diane teaches the process of using vivid "Serti" paints on a piece of silk for use as a scarf or kite. |
Pillow Tube Line Art Sue Clark Naches, Washington Turn a series of inflated polyhedra into a flowing or rotating version of Frank Schweiman’s original "pillow tube" line art. |
Distinctive Dragon Sock Deb Cooley Lincoln City, Oregon For 2001, Deb tops her previous projects with an extra-long (10') version of her distinctive dragon sock! |
Mylar Cellular Georgean Curran Edgewood, Washington With an easy-to-build, 4-unit mylar and wood cellular kite, you take an impressive step toward a variety of configurations using the same modular units. |
Bargello John Freeman Parksville, British Columbia, Canada John has developed a unique, "tall-skinny" kite as a vehicle for a spectacular "bargello" patterned sail. |
Paper Fighters Gary Goodenough Vancouver, Washington See a variety of handmade paper and painted kites and build an Indian-style fighter kite of exotic papers, bamboo and carbon fiber rod. |
Kinetic Kites Constanze & Wolfgang Grimsel Oldenburg, Germany Known for their kinetic kites and wind ornaments, Wolfgang and Constanze will teach a "kite in motion" with rotating part(s). |
Japanese Edo Dan Kurahashi Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Dan leads a comprehensive class on using bamboo and Washi paper to make a traditional Japanese Edo-style, Shirone kite! He will also do a presentation on his computer drawing technique. |
Bird Kites Martin Lester Bristol, England Famous for his representational soft kites, Martin will teach the <i>framed</i> bird-shape kite he’s been making! |
Western-style Fighter Jeff MacInnis Portland, Oregon Build Jeff's competitive, guaranteed and fun-to-fly, Western-style, short line fighter kite of modern materials, then learn fine points of construction, tuning and flying. |
Form and Function Don Mock Ruston, Washington Don leads an exploration of shape and structural design, applying various approaches to inventing and creating your own unconventional kites. |
Appliquéd Della Porta Kite Sharon Musto Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Experience Sharon's process, from the initial drawing to completion of a small, elegantly appliquéd della Porta kite, with original or available artwork. |
Sewing Basics Gerry Pennell Olympia, Washington Gerry offers the inexperienced sewer an opportunity to practice sewing basics with an emphasis on kitemaking materials and techniques. |
Brew and Beans George A. Peters Seattle, Washington Explore a kiteflier's Grenada. In one class, prepare and brew the beans and make and fly kites of the leaves of the native cacao plant. In another, learn to build an unusual, colorful Grenadian kite. |
Design Enlightenment Barry Poulter Tacoma, Washington Attain kite design enlightenment, with discussion of concepts and techniques in surface design and shape enhancement, and mind-expanding experiments in composition, perspective, distortion, enlargement and more. |
Appliquéd the José Way José Sainz San Diego, California José returns to teach his classic techniques for sewing and cutting appliqué in one of his striking designs on a simple hata-style kite. |
Fixtures Terry Sansom Wimberly City, Texas Try out the new and novel sewing system Terry has engineered for enabling even the beginner to sew perfect shapes... even blindfolded! |
Line Climber Kevin Shannon Carlisle, Pennsylvania Make a variation of the ancient Chinese kiteline climber using Kevin's precise methods with modern materials. |
Paper and Patterns Scott Skinner Monument, Colorado Discover ways to combine paper pieces in patterns or images to form the skin for a kite you'll make like Scott's newer, exquisitely subtle paper kites. |
Self Portrait Robert Trepaniér Montréal, Quebec, Canada Robert offers two classes: One, his signature class in making a life-size "self portrait" kite. In the other, compose a unique kite by arranging various verticals with 3 horizontals and covering certain areas in the grid with paper. |
Double Parasled Bob & Charmayne Umbowers Gig Harbor, Washington If you need a lifting kite (line art,etc.), you can make an efficient, small-but-powerful 1 x 1.6 meter double parasled with the experts! |
Yaripa The Yaripa Group Medellin, Colombia Ines Elvira Uribe and Jairo Montoya bring South American kite culture to the U.S.A. with a talk on preserving the use of "yaripa" (a native bamboo-like reed), and fostering play in Columbian kids, who face enormous hardships in everyday life. Take a class |
Practical Polyethylene Mary Yoshimi Long Beach, Washington Beginners can gather lots of practical kite sense from Mary by constructing her simple, sophisticated kite out of inexpensive, readily available materials. |