This week’s roundup features articles that comment on the fashion industry, alternative solutions, and innovative materials. Penne Mobley Never Forget 2016, fabric, paint, marker. 1) “The Ultimate Fashion Fail: One……
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This is a 4-day workshop where students have the opportunity to experience papermaking and sculpture building capturing light and shadow. We will use natural materials to create an armature then……
Read More »…glimpse of the varied ways artists are working in fiber-based materials, as well as a starting point for deeper conversations. Mary Fran Brandenberger, Silk Creations: Organization that teaches silk dyeing……
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…enter the room, it’s both tiny and spacious–with not that much floor space, but very high walls and ceiling, and completely filled with vibrant works. The small changes of adding……
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…creating layered pieces using a heat press, building texture and mass, and assembling the components into a variety of structures. For those who crochet and/or knit, bring your needles and……
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Learn how to build your very own wooden frame loom and weave on it using recycled and repurposed materials. We will explore several basic tapestry techniques that can be used……
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…Council). 2) Alasdair Thomson created a series of stunning white garments carved completely out of marble, capturing the lightness of textiles with the heaviness of stone (via The Jealous Curator)….…
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…complicated relationship between the mind and body (via Colossal). 6) “Sheila Hicks Takes the Pompidou” by Lauren Collins highlights how the legendary 83-year-old textile artist filled the Parisian museum with……
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Come explore basic embroidery techniques and how to apply them to “drawings” using direct drawing, transfer and projection. This will be both a technical skills class and an idea development……
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…use of scraps, piecing, recycling/upcycling, or accumulation of layers. While the challenge brought forth an encyclopedic variety of techniques, materials, and styles, the imposed consistencies allowed an artful distribution of……
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