Becka Rahn

Becka is both an artist and a teacher who hails from Minneapolis Minnesota. Her primary work is designing fabric with engineered and manipulated photographic prints. She uses these prints to make one-of-a-kind wearable art garments, accessories and the occasional home dec or wall art piece. One of the traditions of fiber art that inspired her was the idea of making practical and everyday things be beautiful as well as functional.

In 2015, her first book was published, The Spoonflower Handbook. Becka worked with co-authors Stephen Fraser and Judi Ketteler to create the ultimate handbook to all things fabric design, Spoonflower-style. She was the tech guru for the book, putting together all the step-by-step instructions, screenshots and so on. It was a huge project and one of which she is really proud. You can find her at Spoonflower under the username beckarahn.

Becka will be teaching the Spoonflower design method at Symposium! This is a first and a great opportunity for you.

Website: Becka’s Project Journal

Class: Design a Fabric! – (both cancelled)
(2 sessions 6 hours each – all day Friday or Saturday)

In this class, Becka will instruct on the Spoonflower method, assist students in designing their own fabric on their laptops, and provide pointers on what works best in fabric design. At the end of class, students may submit their design to Spoonflower for printing (at additional, but discounted cost). The design product from the class with be a computer file with format type TIF, JPG, PNG or GIF and file size less than 40 MB. The order will be sent directly to the student following printing. Each session is limited to 15 students, so sign up early.