APRIL 25 | PRAIRIE LANDING GOLF CLUB | 6:30 - 10:30 PM

Join us for a wonderful event at Prairie Landing Golf Club, 2325 Longest Drive, West Chicago, IL. There will be great food, live music and an incredible silent auction. Your ticket price of $55 includes a light meal, your first drink and a raffle ticket for one of our 30th Anniversary “Pearl” Raffle Prizes. Come enjoy an evening with Fine Line friends old and new. Buy your tickets online or call The Fine Line 630.584.9443 Monday thru Saturday 10 AM - 5 PM.

When buying tickets online, please list the full names of attendees included in the payment of the reservation. Thank you

JUNE 12 | RAKU PREVIEW NIGHT | 5 - 8:30 PM | $40

Join us Friday, June 12, for Preview Night and get first pick of bisque ware (fired once and unglazed) pottery.

Purchase a $40 ticket and receive a $15 coupon toward the purchase of unglazed pottery. Glaze your piece with the help of our potters. While you wait for your piece to be fired enjoy a picnic dinner, stroll our grounds, view our Emerging Artists Exhibit in the Kavanagh Gallery, browse our Dempsey Gallery, shop in our Fine Line Yarn shop and visit with friends.

 

Buy your tickets online or call The Fine Line 630.584.9443 Monday thru Saturday, 10 AM - 5 PM. Deadline for ticket purchase is June 5 so order early.

JUNE 13 | RAKU DAY | 9 AM - 3 PM | Free

Can’t make the Preview Night? Join us on Saturday for Raku Day out at The Fine Line.

Experience the ancient art of Japanese Raku (pronounced rah-koo), a unique firing process.

The Fine Line Creative Arts Center in St. Charles, Illinois invites the public to explore Raku and all they have to offer on Saturday, June 13, 2009 from 9 AM 3 PM. Your day begins by purchasing a bisque (fired once) piece of pottery, experiencing the magic of glazing it and watching it being fired. The firing process takes from one to two hours.

In the meantime you may watch the process, or stroll the campus and discover demonstrations by Fine Line artisans and hands-on activities which include lampworked bead making, frame knitting, indigo dyeing, weaving, oil pastel painting, papermaking and more; view and shop at the current art exhibits in the Kavanagh and Dempsey Galleries.

For more information about Raku Day click here or call 630-584-9443, Monday - Saturday 10 AM - 5 PM.

 

THE DREAM IS ALIVE . . . CELEBRATE WITH A CLASS!

Have you ever taken a class at The Fine Line? Have you taken classes, but want to try something new? Check out some of the classes that will give you a TASTE OF THE FINE LINE. Take two classes and receive $5 off each class! Or, sign up with a friend and receive $5 off each registration. Limited to ONLY the classes listed below. These are 1/2 day or 1 day classes in different media. No online registration for discount.

DYEING

• Socks to Dye For | June 20 | 11 AM - 2 PM
• Dyeing Basics | June 26 | 2 - 3:30 PM
• Discharge Dyeing | July 24 | 2 - 5 PM
• Stunning Silk Scarves | August 1 | 10 AM - 1 PM

FELTING

• Lacy Lattice Felt Scarves | June 27 | 10 AM - 4 PM

KNITTING

• Designing Fair Isle Mittens | July 23 | 6 - 9 PM
• Introduction to Frame Knitting | July 10 | 9 AM - 3 PM

PAPERMAKING

• Paper Melange | July 25 | 10 AM - 4 PM

POTTERY

• Extrude Me! | July 10 | 10 AM - 4 PM

JEWELRY (Precious Metal Clay)

• A Taste of PMC | July 11 | 9 AM - 4 PM
• PMC Rings | June 20 | 9 AM - 4 PM
• PMC Beads | July 25 | 9 AM - 4 PM

 

SEPTEMBER 19 | MARK DVORAK CONCERT | 7 - 8:45 PM | $25

Join us for Mark Dvorak, who is a folk singer’s folk singer following unerringly in the footsteps of Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Big Bill Broonsy and Art Thieme.

His natural style of performing can make an old song sound new and a new song sound familiar. Entertaining warmth, sincerity, distinctive talent and variety in presentation have distinguished Mark Dvorak as one of today’s important folk artists.

Our doors will open at 6:30 PM. Light refreshments will be available until the concert begins promptly at 7 PM. We’ll break at 7:45 to return at 8 PM for more of Mark Dvorak’s renditions.

This is a small, intimate concert. Only 50 seats are available. Make reservations early.

Register online or call 630.584.9443 Monday - Saturday 10 AM - 5 PM. Find out more about Mark Dvorak at www.markdvorak.com

OCTOBER 18 |UNCOMMON THREADS | 10:30 AM - 4 PM

Join us for our UNCOMMON THREADS FASHION SHOW AND LUNCHEON! This is our 23rd annual One-of-a-kind wearable art runway fashion show. Fiber artists from around the country show their newest and finest creations. Go to the Events page and click on Uncommon Threads or all the information you will need and want to know about this amazing and spectacular production. Click here for more information.

 

DECEMBER 4 | CHRISTMASTIME AT THE FINE LINE

This is a member’s show and sale. It opens Friday evening at 7 PM. Let our luminaria light your way to some utterly fantastic gift buying. All articles for sale are handcrafted by our member artists. Continuing Saturday from 10 AM - 5 PM, it reopens Monday, the 7th and runs Monday - Thursday 10 AM - 8 PM. Friday the 11th and Saturday, the 12th from 10 AM - 5 PM. Don’t miss this gala event.