![]() ![]() Simple mark making, staining, and relief printing will be used to customize our work. We will also learn to stabilize textiles with interfacing, mull, and wax. We will explore how traditional fiber techniques-including stitching, patchwork, and weaving-can be used to create unique and tactile book components. This fabric-inspired book arts class will focus on structures and techniques especially suitable for textile inclusions, such as Japanese stab bindings, medieval limp bindings, and scrolls. Studio artist teaching: Haystack (ME), The Crucible (CA), K-12 public schools (CA), Penland residencies: The Arctic Circle (Svalbard), MASS MoCA (MA), SÍM (Iceland), Penland Winter Residency (NC), ReCreative Denver (CO), Arrowmont Pentaculum (TN), Hambidge Center (GA), Icelandic Textiles Center exhibitions: Wolpert Gallery (TN), ReCreative Denver (CO), 808 Projects (CO), SÍM Gallery (Iceland). Note: this workshop takes place in a second-floor walk-up studio that has partial access by a stair lift. Everyone will leave with a collection of samples and small woven pieces as well as the skills and confidence to weave independently. Then each student will choose one of the looms and use it to weave more samples or a self-directed piece of their own design. We’ll set up a variety of looms with options ranging in complexity, and everyone will use them to experiment with woven structures using four- and eight-shaft patterns. The monitoring duties for the mangrove-marsh ecotone monitoring protocol will be completed by South Florida/Caribbean Network staff and the information collected used to support the management of natural resources in Everglades National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve.From winding warps to throwing shuttles, we’ll explore all the exciting aspects of weaving on floor looms. Monitoring will be repeated approximately once every ten years as new imagery becomes available. Collect vegetation data, e.g., composition, percent cover and canopy height of dominant species within herbaceous, shrub, and forest strata, in order to document composition of vegetation communities on both the “mangrove” and “marsh” sides of the ecotone. Document the composition of vegetation communities at field verification locations.Determine the spatial and temporal movement of the mangrove-marsh ecotone at systematically selected segments.The specific objectives of the Mangrove-Marsh Ecotone Monitoring Protocol are to: Four ground-truth field point locations (marker points) are established approximately 1 kilometer (0.62 miles ) apart along the ecotone of each segment to provide field-based measurements and ground-truthing of the digitized line. Aerial imagery is used to digitize the mangrove-marsh ecotone in each segment and must be 1 meter (3.3 feet ) or better resolution and have positional accuracy of ± 3 meters (9.8 feet ) or better. Fourteen 3 kilometer (1.9 mile ) segments are systematically placed along the ecotone within the two parks. Remote sensing approaches are used to delineate the physical location of the ecotone (boundaries) between mangroves and freshwater marsh. The transition from freshwater graminoid marshes and cypress to mangrove communities can be effectively monitored using a combination of aerial photography (remote sensing) and on-the-ground data collection. Given the potential for future sea-level rise and changes in freshwater flows, there is significant concern about the upslope movement of mangrove communities in South Florida. The South Florida/Caribbean Network has developed a protocol that describes the process used to monitor ecotonal movement of mangroves and upslope freshwater marshes in Everglades National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve. Tracking the position of the regional mangrove-marsh ecotone can indicate the long-term trajectory of this wetland ecosystem in the combined context of regional water management changes and sea-level rise. These ecotones as transitional zones can be large, expansive areas or sharp, distinct boundaries, such as the one that exist between mangrove communities and freshwater marshes in Everglades National Park (EVER) and Big Cypress National Preserve (BICY). NPS Photo/South Florida & Caribbean NetworkĮcotones are transitional zones between habitat types and can be dynamic in their spatial location. ![]() ![]() Mangrove-marsh ecotone viewed from above at Everglades National Park.
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