This class explores the range of local fibers found within San Francisco, the processing of them into proposals and artifacts, and the documentation and presentation of these resources. Students will have the opportunity to connect with ranchers and farmers, hand spinners and fabricators and will have instructional making time in a studio environment. Projects are arranged around guest speakers, research and information, and studio time to develop material form studies and prototypes, guided by a series of cumulative projects throughout the semester, which build upon each other to bring the students from small scale material studies to developed, marketable and functioning prototypes, exhibited publicly at the end of the semester. The course will develop primary research skills, documentation in hard copy, photographic and video form, as well as hands-on workshops, including felting, dying as well as working in the soft lab and wood and rapid prototyping shops on the CCA SF campus.

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