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.
| From the studio:
August 7th, 2008 - Changes (Still) on the Way MOVING ON WITH MY CHANGE OVER TO LIFE WITH BOOKS! I have been wanting to learn more about book making for some time now and along with my on-line book stores, living room packed with two major book collections, writing plans, and other book-related activities, I find that the next logical steps are to learn more about the structure of the book AND how to combine bookmaking and felt. I as currently training to be a book restorer. This means that I will be limiting my future teaching to 5 workshops a year, maybe less as the book restoration work increases. I will continue to teach one day classes on selected Saturdays at my studio. I am not leaving the wonderful world of hand felted wool but will be continuing my current small, intensively beaded and stitched felt work. These pieces I have started to post on this web site and will be showing at upcoming art shows. SATURDAY WORKSHOP dates for the fall and winter months are coming. I am getting a new furnance so those who have taken classes before will be thrilled to know that they don't have to wear wool hats and socks any more. Please check the workshop page for classes. The remaining 2008 workshops are listed on the "workshop" page. The NEW 2009 WORKSHOP information is coming in! The updating of this website is continuing. Actually all the behind the scenes stuff, plugging in wires and making lots of dust is done, but I will now start the updated information, so keep checking back. New things will include a revised "resource page" on this home page - take a look, and soon, as I figure out how to use my camera, the new work I've been doing will be in the "portfolio" section. And despite all my threats to retire and raise possums in my garage, I will keep teaching this fabulous felt stuff. I love the medium and I love the color and surfaces created with the resist processes. I am developing several new classes - sort of a SLOW FELT MOVEMENT - in which we will concentrate on the embellishment of that beautiful felt surface with stitching and beading. A few new instruction booklets for this are in the works. Thanks so much. Chad |
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