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  • Introduction to Net Loft Watercolor Journaling Sessions: Getting Started Live Zoom

    Dotty Widmann will be conducting an orientation zoom session that will introduce the different aspects and procedures for attending the Net Loft Watercolor Journaling Sessions. 

    Orientation will meet Saturday, October 19, 8:00 am-9:45 am AKST

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  • Sketching Iconic Cordova Together

    Join us over the next year, as we artistically explore the places in Cordova that hold meaning for us, historically and currently. Work in any medium, and together we’ll create a collective body of artwork to document iconic Cordova structures for a group show at the Cordova Historical Museum.

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  • Net Loft Gansey Zoom Sessions

    Join us each week at noon for a knitting zoom session focused on gansey knitting. All welcome to join. Register for our gansey project and receive link and information on the Cordova Gansey Project and how to get started creating a gansey for yourself or loved one.

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The Net Loft Current Events

  • what listening looks like

    Dotty Widmann

    A year ago, The Net Loft Watercolor Journaling Sessions Book Club decided to read the book, “Braiding Sweetgrass”, by Robin Kimmerer. Our previous Book Club selection had been Hannah Hinchman’s...

    what listening looks like

    Dotty Widmann

    A year ago, The Net Loft Watercolor Journaling Sessions Book Club decided to read the book, “Braiding Sweetgrass”, by Robin Kimmerer. Our previous Book Club selection had been Hannah Hinchman’s...

  • across an endless sea

    Dotty Widmann

     I have a friend who told me the story of how her grandfather had come many years ago from Japan, and landed on one of the islands in our regional...

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    across an endless sea

    Dotty Widmann

     I have a friend who told me the story of how her grandfather had come many years ago from Japan, and landed on one of the islands in our regional...

    6 comments
  • Happy Gansey Day

    Happy Gansey Day

    Dotty Widmann

    Thursday, November 25, is the first ever International Gansey Day. I have been thinking on this, reflecting on our Cordova Gansey Project that started only 7 years ago, following a...

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    Happy Gansey Day

    Dotty Widmann

    Thursday, November 25, is the first ever International Gansey Day. I have been thinking on this, reflecting on our Cordova Gansey Project that started only 7 years ago, following a...

    2 comments
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