All inclusive creative retreats, painting vacations & art getaways
Melissa Sobotka
October 13 - 17, 2024
Photo Real Fiber Art
Medium: Art Quilts
Level: All Levels
Location: Studio
Status: Open for Enrollment
Rates & Enrollment
Deposit is $450, balance due 30 days before arrival
Day Student Tuition: $975 + Materials fee & Ct Sales Tax
5-Day Package*: $1,950 - $2,650* + Materials fee & Ct Accommodations Tax
* Your 5-Day Workshop Package includes:
Workshop Tuition, 4 nights of dinner, lodging, breakfast, daily snack breaks, unlimited coffee, tea & seltzer plus welcoming reception with light appetizers.
You can choose a room to yourself (single occupancy) or double your fun, bring a friend and split a room (double occupancy).
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About This Workshop
Photo Real FiberArt
Photorealism is a genre of art that encompasses painting and drawing in which an artist studies a photograph and attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium. In this workshop, you will be reproducing an image of your choosing using Melissa’s award winning techniques for transforming a photograph into a masterpiece of Fiber Art.
You will learn to see as an artist does, select appropriate fabrics, build a pictorial quilt from an image using a raw edge applique method. You will then learn to enhance your work by adding depth, dimension and detail with inks.
This is a technique class where we will be working only on the quilt top. No sewing involved.
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About Melissa Sobotka
Melissa began her unique style of quilting in 2007 and quickly gained recognition and accolades. Her work has been juried into several national and international shows. Awards include the Houston International Quilt Festival Best of Show, IQA Master of Contepmorary Artistry, IQA Master of Innovative Artistry, Mancuso’s World Quilt Best of Show and American Quilters Society Best of Show in Charlotte and Lancaster. She has also been featured in many magazines and on The Quilt Show.
Melissa’s photo realistic style of quilting is created by appliquéing numerous pieces of raw edge batiks, and then enhancing them with inks to give them greater depth. Her vision is to be a catalyst for viewers to see the beauty and depth in and around us. Much of her work is influenced by photographs from her travels.
With students anxious to learn her techniques, she began teaching in 2015 and by 2017 was teaching internationally. Quilting has become Melissa’s passion, but occasionally you can find her doing professional costuming, interior decorating, floral design or traveling the world in search of her next quilt.
Melissa’s artwork can now be found in many private collections and in the National Quilt Museum. She is a member of the Dallas Quilt Guild, the American Quilting Society and the International Quilting Association.
Sample Agenda
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Here is the payment schedule:
$450 deposit is due at the time of registration.
Remaining balance is due 30 days before your retreat start date
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