Welcome to the class where we will explore the “artists” who illustrated family documents and taught the schoolchildren in the early 1800’s in Southeastern, and Western Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ontario, Canada and the Alsace Region of France.

Your interest in enrolling in this class is important to the direction I can concentrate our time together.  Look over the ideas below and supplies list.

Consider  a design concept in advance. Coming with a blank slate is great too.  Let me suggest ideas:  wedding, birth, house blessing (simple messages); monogram; biblical story; floral overall design; geometric and organic shapes.

Anne-Marie Littenberg
Workshop

'Hooked Rug Landscapes'
Nov. 5-7,  2010  or
Nov. 9-11, 2010 
$195.00 includes lunch
 

Anne-Marie Littenberg
I am a self-taught rug hooker.  I use traditional and punch needle rug hooking techniques.. The main focus of my work has been hooked rug landscapes.

Recent Curated and Juried Exhibits: “Stripes,” January 5-March 9, 2009, Ginza Mikimoto Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.  September 4 – October 24, 2009, The Carnegie Center of Art and History, New Albany, Indiana.

“The Art of Playing Cards,” September 19 – November 1, 2008, The Carnegie Center of Art and History, New Albany, Indiana.

“Hooked by Inspiration,” The Library Arts Center, Newport, New Hampshire, August 1-September 16, 2008.
 

I have participated in exhibits at the following venues: Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, Connecticut, The Remsenburg Academy, Remsenburg, New York, Sauder Village, Archbold, Ohio, (2007); Hunterdon Museum of Art, Hunterdon, New Jersey, The Vermont Arts Exchange, North Bennington, Vermont,  (2006); The Warren Kimble Gallery, Brandon, Vermont, Chestnut Ridge Farm, York, Pennsylvania, Handweaving Museum and Art Center, Clayton, New York, the Cahoon Museum, Cotuit, Massachusetts, (2005); the Barron Art Center, Woodbridge, New Jersey; the Atlantic Center City At Center, Atlantic City, New Jersey; The Cahoon Museum, Cotuit, Massachusetts (2004); The Vermont Folklife Center, Middlebury, Vermont (2001). I also participate in the annual "Hooked in the Mountains" exhibit sponsored by the Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild at Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont, where I am  my work is regularly chosen a "Viewer's Choice" selections.  I have also been a "Viewer's Choice" winner at Sauder Village, and recipient of the  Sauder Village Award.
 

I am a frequent contributor to “Rug Hooking Magazine” which is also published my book, “Hooked Rug Landscapes,” in April 2009. In addition, I filmed three episodes of “Uncommon Threads” for the DIY/House and Garden network demonstrating my techniques (2006). I have juried floor coverings for “A Celebration of Hand Hooked Rugs XVIII” (2008) and for "Early American Life’s" 2006 edition of its “Directory of Traditional American Crafts.”  I am a past member of the Boards of Frog Hollow Vermont State Craft Center and The Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild (where I served terms first as Treasurer, and later as President.
 

I was a featured speaker at the September 2009  meeting of TIGHR (The International Group of Hooked Rug Artists) and will guest speaker for an Atlanta-based rug guild in December 2009 (invited by Eric Sandberg.) Past speaking and teaching engagements have taken me to California, Wisconsin, Ohio, and through out the state of Vermont.