IRONWOOD - Recently, Bob Jacquart played host to a group of Finlandia University Art Students.  Fabric Art Majors from Finlandia’s School of Art and Design received a tour of the JFP offices and factory.

Bob Jacquart, greeted the young college students and Phyllis Fredendall, Associate Professor at Finlandia University’s School of Art and Design, and then he delivered an introduction and overview of his company, Jaquart Fabric Products.  Bob is Chairman of the Gogebic Community College Board of Trustees. He is also on a board of business advisors at NMU.

After getting the students settled in, Bob took the Fabric Art majors on an all encompassing tour. They began with the canvas room, where obviously canvas products are manufactured. The artists were very interested in the facility’s new photo imagery equipment that places potentially huge photographs on even more huge canvas product. It was an enormous inkjet printer so to speak, too big to fit in the average living room. Wouldn’t we all like to have one! While in the canvas room, the students also viewed the equipment used to sew or fuse canvas material. They would again see similar equipment in other JFP departments. Fusing plastic and vinyl materials is an important function in Fabric Art.