Chad Alice Hagen has been exploring hand-felted wool since 1980. She received her BA in Art and Master's in Textile Design from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her work has been featured on the covers of Fiberarts Magazine, Surface Design Journal and Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot. Articles and photos on her work have also appeared in American Craft Magazine, Echoes, and Fiberarts Design Books, among others.
Hagen's hand-felted wool has been exhibited throughout the United States as well as in Mexico City, Japan, India, England and Denmark. Her work is included in the collections of the Mint Museum of Art+Design (Charlotte NC), The Minneapolis Institute of Art, the University of Wisconsin - Madison, in the corporate collections of B.F. Goodrich and Westinghouse, and in private collections.
She is the author of The Weekend Crafter: Feltmaking 2002, and Fabulous Felt Hats, 2004 and Fabulous Felted Scarves (with co-author Jorie Johnson). she has written numerous articles on the textile arts for Fiberarts, Echoes, Surface Design Journal, and Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot, among others.
She has taught feltmaking extensively since 1984 to adults and children throughout the United States. Since 2000 she has taught spring classes in England, Holland, Ireland and Germany.
Hagen's feltmaking specialty and passion is resist dyeing of hand-felted wool.
Chad Alice Hagen can be reached at chad@chadalicehagen.com.
| October 31, 2009
Finally some of the 2010 classes are being listed on the workshop page. It will be a slow process, but hopefully by the end of this week I'll have at least half the new workshop locations listed. Other notable notes include an end to the horrible rumor (that I started) about not teaching any more. I WILL still be teaching as I love doing and sharing with as many people as I can. I am also still fascinated by bookbinding and some of the new classes will include resist dyeing and then binding books from that wonderful resist dyed felt. Fine wool needle felt batts, shape resist scarves, Airey Fairy Scarves, resist dyeing, bookmaking, beading and stitching artwork, brooches and omelet bags: These topics will form the workshops of 2010. I hope to see you at a few. Also check out my FACEBOOK pages. I have one for photos of my artfelts, one for classes and my own, well, I'm not sure what it is called. facebook.com/chad.alice.hagen. Thank you for visiting. Hope to see you all soon. |
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