Studio Galli Productions produces a wide range of arts and crafts titles, adding new titles each year. Have a look below at some of our film projects currently available in distribution, in public libraries in the USA and Canada, or from the artist:
FILMS AVAILABLE FROM STUDIO GALLI PRODUCTIONS
CLOTH DOLL MAKING
Patti Medaris Culea
DVD + BONUS PATTERN
Patti Medaris Culea explores and shares the world of Cloth Doll Making in this exciting new 2-Disc DVD from Studio Galli Productions.
Follow along as Patti shows how to aply her most requested techniques in making cloth dolls that are as unique and individual as you are.
Bonus Doll Pattern "Ilmaria" included!
Suggested List Price: $45.00 (USD)
Linda Jones is the author of a wonderful series of books on wire and beaded jewelry, and our featured artist for a DVD on making wire and beaded jewelry at home, work -- anywhere your heart takes you! A hit since it was first produced, a great companion to the learning materials of any library or home study.
Suggested List Price: $29.95 (USD)
Alison Holt
"I am an artist who uses thread as paint', remarks Alison Holt, a world-class free hand machine embroiderer, and our instructor for this wonderful 3+ hour journey around her native English countryside in this one of a kind DVD for the machine embroidery enthsiast. Working from the basic essentials of how to set up your studio thru her most requested techniques, Alison demonstrates how anyone can, using any thread and any sewing machine (as long as it does straight stitch and zigzag stich) can achieve the wonderful effects she achieves in her work.
Suggested List Price: $45.00 (USD)
Jill Kennedy is a leading textile artist living and teaching in the U.K. The author of 3 best-selling books on Silk Painting, we caught up with Jill for a wonderful workshop on Silk Painting in her studio in Great Missenden, England. In this 2+ hour film presentation, Jill demonstrates her most requested techniques for silk painting, and provides loads of examples and samples of her finished work for added inspiration.
Suggested List Price: $29.95 (USD)
COMMEMORATIVE DVD • IMAGE CATALOG
The Festival of Quilts 2007 Commemorative DVD provides a wonderful opportunity to have a peek inside this remarkable textile fair. Put the DVD in your DVD player and watch a wonderful slideshow set to classical music. Then, pop the DVD in your computer, and open up folders and have a close-up look into why the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham, England, is considered the premiere International Quilting Event in Europe today!
Suggested List Price: $19.95 (USD)
The Festival of Quilts 2008 • Birmingham NEC, England
COMMEMORATIVE DVD • IMAGE CATALOG
The Festival of Quilts 2008 Commemorative DVD goes beyond our efforts in 2007 with more than 90 minutes of wonderful documentary footage of some of the leading textile and quilting artists in the world today, and includes expanded sponsorship and bonus extras such as sample magazine pages, textile articles, and video snippets of some of the finest sewing machines now available. Including a wonderful trip to the Quilters' Guild Hall in York and quilting demonstrations by Lilian Hedley and Philippa Naylor.
Suggested List Price: $19.95 (USD)
The following films are available from the Artist or Association:
CELEBRATING 400 YEARS OF
JAPANESE ARTISAN DESIGN
Narrated by Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada
Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada takes us on a wonderful escorted journey as we visit the villages of Arimatsu and Narumi along the Japanese Tokaido in this celebrated film detailing the Shibori textile traditions of the Guilds and Artisans of Aichi Prefecture. More than 20 artists with 1000 years of collective experience demonstrate stencil design, stitching, clamping, folding, spot dyeing and submersion dyeing, drying, folding, steaming and presentation in this colorful and historical celebration of Japanese Textile Arts.
Available from the World Shibori Network.
Breakdown Printing
Claire Benn & Leslie Morgan
BOOK + BONUS DVD
Breakdown Printing is screen printing without the stress -- no cutting of designs, stencils, no registration, no worries! Print beautiful cloth with disintegrating organic effects and loads of colour and texture in this wonderful book written by Claire Benn and Leslie Morgan with Bonus DVD from Studio Galli Productions.
Available from the Artist
Encaustic Monotypes:
Painterly Prints with Heat and Wax
Paula Roland
Paula Roland embraces the fluidity of encaustic to reveal deeper meaning and potential. Roland’s Zen approach, both stimulating and meditative, has led hundreds to develop new freedom, creativity, and a unique voice in their work.
Freeing and fun, encaustic prints may be primary works or a secondary body of work on paper. They combine with mixed media and are ready material for collage or book arts. Beginning and advanced artists will find a wealth of information about the basics of encaustic and printing with wax.
Available from the Artist
Encaustic + Paper
Wendy Aikins, Judy Stabile & Daniella Woolf
The ladies of Wax Works West have put together one of the most comprehensive and creative demonstrations of working with encaustic paints, pigments and wax on paper. Using a variety of techniques, they explore stenciling, etching, inking, painting, collage and much, much more!
Available from the Artists
Encaustic With A Textile Sensibility
Daniella Woolf
Daniella Woolf opened the door to encaustic from her perspective as a textile sculptor, and was forever changed. Beginners as well as advanced students will learn from her engaging and informative style, and may be inspired to expand their choice of materials and step into uncharted territory. This video covers numerous encaustic techniques in a way that is understandable, digestible and fun!
Available from the Artist
The Art of Collage Portraiture • DVD-ROM
Jeremy Sutton
Enjoy an empowering and refreshing approach to creative process that goes beyond tools and techniques, one in which you learn to improvise in the moment. Join celebrated digital and mixed media portrait and collage artist Jeremy Sutton on a real life collage portrait project, meeting the client, working with their historical material and experimenting with different techniques, both digital and analog. Acquire skills and strategies you can apply to your own imagery.
Available from the Artist
Jan Beaney • Jean Littlejohn
IN ACTION
In this 2-hour DVD, Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn share their thoughts and experiences in creating sketches through to beautiful textiles. Known around the world for their textile art and creative workshops, Jan and Jean demonstrate a variety of techniques including: fabric paints, dyes, embellishing, knitting, foiling, soluble film, hand and machine stitching. Educational and Inspiring, IN ACTION is suitable for the beginner and professional textile artist interested in embroidery, quilting arts, surface design,
and fabric art.
Available from the Artists
Making Your Mark
Claire Benn & Leslie Morgan
BOOK + BONUS DVD
Making Your Mark explores the magic of using 'everyday' tools such as scrapers, rollers, squeeze bottles to create individual and personal marks on cloth and paper. Perfect for backgrounds to stitch and embroidery, or ready to use for collage or piecing, or for garment and interiors yardage.
Available from the Artists
COLORS OF PROVENCE USING SUSTAINABLE METHODS
DIVE INTO A WORLD OF NATURAL DYE as Michel Garcia takes us on a wonderful journey in this film, sharing his knowledge as one of the leading natural dye experts in the world. Learn how he has revised traditional European methods – once laborious and polluting – into simpler, safer modern recipes sensitive to issues of sustainability.
Whatever your level of interest, “Natural Dye Workshop with Michel Garcia: Colors of Provence Using Sustainable Methods DVD” is sure to appeal to all varieties of dyers, textile enthusiasts and anyone interested in how things work in the natural world. English narration and subtitles.
Available from the World Shibori Network / Slow Fiber Studios
Paper & Metal Leaf Lamination • Claire Benn & Leslie Morgan
BOOK + BONUS DVD
Laminating paper or metal leafing to fabric is easy to do and offers a host of creative possibilities to anyone interested in building a complex, layered surface on cloth. The process provides the opportunity to combine graphics, photographic images, art papers and metal leaf with cloth, resulting in pieces that are highly individual. Follow along as Claire Benn and Leslie Morgan offer this Book + DVD combination on Paper & Metal Leaf Lamination.
Available from the Artists
Screen Printing • Claire Benn & Leslie Morgan
BOOK + BONUS DVD
Just one silk screen can take you anywhere you want to go. The screen is a remarkably versatile tool in the hands of an enquiring mind. Endless possibilities exist to generate specific imagery in the form of line, shape and texture, along with marvellously organic, fun and spontaneous results. The accompanying 45 minute DVD produced by Studio Galli Productions includes demonstrations from Claire & Leslie and is aimed at helping you build expert technique.
Available from the Artists
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missiouri
Filmed at the Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City, Missiouri, The 2009 International Surface Design Association Conference DVD, with video, powerpoint presentations, audio recordings of major and keynote speakers, video interviews of Alice Kettle, Ray Materson, and much more! Conference Overview, Keynote & Featured Speakers, Video Interviews, Audio Presentations, Presentation PDFs, Fashion Show and Exhibit Highlights an loads of Extras.
Available from the Surface Design Association
Teach + Learn: Volume 1 • SURFACE DESIGN ASSOCIATION
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missiouri
The Surface Design Association is a 4,000+ member International organization celebrating surface design - canvas, paper, floor, ceiling, cloth. The Association offers a Bi-Annual Conference for its members and features world-class artists teaching a wide range of surface design processes. In 2009 Studio Galli Productions was invited to film the Association's proceedings, including 5 hours of workshops from Jane Dunnewold, Kerr Grabowski, Lisa Klakulak, Kathyanne White and Daniella Woolf.
Available from the Surface Design Association
Teach + Learn: Volume 2 • SURFACE DESIGN ASSOCIATION
The Textile Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
5 Artists • 5 Workshops!
The 2011 Teach + Learn DVD brings together a wealth of information on surface design, featuring Jiyoung Chung, Wendy Huhn, Giovanna Imperia, Chunghie Lee and Sharron Parker. Korean Joomchi paper making, Korean Bojagi, Acrylics for Textiles, Japanese Kumihimo Wire Making and Felted Transformations.
2-DISC SET. ALL REGIONDS/WORLDWIDE.
Available from the Surface Design Association
BOOK + BONUS DVD
A Thermofax is an imaged silkscreen that’s light-weight, takes up little storage space, is easy to use and easy to make, or have made for you. Its power lies in its ability to print fine detail or delicate marks such as handwriting, feathers, skeletal shapes, old documents, photographic images and loads of other personal imagery. It’s the only real alternative to photo-emulsion screens, at a fraction of the cost. The accompanying 110 minute DVD produced by Studio Galli Productions is packed with demonstrations from Claire & Leslie and is aimed at helping you build expert technique.
Available from the Artists
BOOK + BONUS DVD
Tray-Dyeing involves packing cloth into a tray of any size, pouring over single or multiple colours of dye and leaving it to work its magic. The resulting cloth is glorious in texture and colour. The book has clear, step-by-step instructions, dye recipes (including tips on mixing specific AocomplexAo colours)and photographs that both illustrate and inspire. The accompanying 40 minute DVD produced by Studio Galli Productions includes demonstrations from Claire & Leslie and is aimed at helping you build expert technique.
Available from the Artists
Voicing the Guitar:
The 2009 Healdsburg Guitar Show Lecture
Ervin Somogyi
Ervin Somogyi's guitars are known for having extraordinarily satisfying voices; they have been described as lustrous, deep, and astonishing. Having reached the age where he is ready to share his knowledge, he has also become the premier teacher of that final level of lutherie work: Tone.
This DVD condenses in 90 minutes the most important points that Somogyi makes in his recently published 2-volume book about the guitar and its sound. This material pertains equally to the classic guitar and the steel string guitar; it will be of interest to musicians, acousticians, and aficionados.
Available from the Artist