2024-2025 schedule for weaving guilds

My remote lecture schedule is full for 2024 for guild requests. Please contact me from the Let’s Talk page of this website if you have questions.

I do not teach workshops via Zoom but I have some great online courses and your members are welcome to take them as a group (everyone needs to purchase the class individually of course).

I do not teach in person at guilds currently. Thanks for your interest though!

Group presentations

Is your guild or tapestry group interested in learning more about my work and process?

Lecturing to guilds:

I do a few guild lectures a year. Current cost is $375 for a lecture of about 45 minutes and a Q&A following. These are the lectures I’m currently offering.

1. Sand in my Shoes. This is an autobiographical lecture about my work in tapestry. I can present it as a live lecture with Q&A or you can rent the video below for $7 on Vimeo, show that to the guild and then we can have a live Q&A. The fully live version is $375. If you will show the video and just want the live Q&A, the cost is $200.

2. Woven Color: James Koehler and Tapestry Weaving in the American Southwest (see below)

3. Spinning and weaving Iceland. This lecture is about my Icelandic artist residency in April of 2022 where I spun Icelandic fleece and wove small tapestries with it.

Please note that I expect your guild is familiar with using Zoom for presentations and that we do not have to have a practice session to make sure everything works. I am happy to get on the call 15 minutes early to make sure we’re connecting, but please test your technology for your venue using another person as a test case if at all possible. If you need to test your technology with me specifically, there will be an additional charge based on time for this service.

Sand in My Shoes

I can deliver this lecture with slides in a live format or you can rent the video and show it to the guild in which case a live Q&A following is optional. Q&A alone is $200.

Details about renting this film for $7 USD can be found on this page of my website: https://rebeccamezoff.com/sand-in-my-shoes-video

Woven Color: James Koehler and tapestry weaving in the American Southwest

James Koehler was an influential tapestry weaver in the American Southwest in the 90's and 00's. He passed away unexpectedly at 58 years of age in 2011. I was his student and apprentice for 6 years. This lecture talks about his life, his work, and how he influenced many of the tapestry artists working in the Southwestern USA today.

Spinning and Weaving Iceland

This lecture is about my artist residency in Blönduós, Iceland where I spun Icelandic fleece for tapestry. I spent the month of April 2022 in the far north of the country experimenting with Icelandic fleece, spinning many samples, and weaving a few tapestries. I wove about the landscape, the architecture, and the culture of Iceland.

The lecture delves into my experiments with Icelandic fleece, what it is like to spin, and how I felt about using it for tapestry weaving. I also show images of Iceland and talk some about my experience as an artist-in-residence at the Icelandic Textile Center in Blönduós.

Leave an hour for this lecture and a Q&A following!

INSTRUCTOR BIo

When she wasn’t digging in the sand in her backyard in New Mexico, Rebecca Mezoff grew up making dolls out of her dad’s old socks. Now she makes large-format tapestries and is often found weaving in her pajamas which she affectionately calls her “home pants.” She also creates courses she teaches online and occasionally she leaves the studio to teach weavers in the real world about color and technique in tapestry. You can find out more about her on her website and blog at http://www.rebeccamezoff.com.

Rebecca’s work can be found in numerous public and private collections. She started her tapestry career as the apprentice of the late master tapestry artist, James Koehler. She has taught at Penland School of Crafts, Handweaver’s Guild of America’s Convergence, Red Alder Fiber Arts Retreat, Interweave’s Yarn Fest, Longthread Media’s Spin Off Autumn Retreat (SOAR), and for many regional conferences and guilds. She also runs her own tapestry masterclass retreats several times a year. She has written articles for Fiber Art Now, Tapestry Weaver, Spin Off, Handwoven, Tapestry Weaver, Little Looms, and Tapestry Topics and every New Years she considers writing a book proposal. In 2018 she did it and her book, The Art of Tapestry Weaving was released by Storey Publishing in November of 2020. It is available HERE or anywhere books are sold.