Confluence Keynote Pat Hickman and Nancy Mckenzie were the award judges for “Currents” – the exhibition of work in textile media by stu- dent members of SDA. They felt that overall it was a good student show that demon- strated mastery of technique and a wide range of exploration. …
Read More »Get an overview of a small symposium that took on the big issues. See who showed up for this North Carolina State University/Raleigh meeting of makers at the Gregg Museum in March 2011. View some long shots of the exhibitions and sample Keynote Speaker Glen Adamson’s take on the art vs. craft debate. …
Read More »Sample the latest delicacies from the world-wide-web-roaming Mickie. This trip she links us to San Jose for some really big quilts by A Bee; too close for comfort to Golden Orb spiders that spin gold; to the UK for access to great shows and videos; to Aussie fibre Down Under; then finally to a sweet site for needlearts. Cloth intarsia, anyone?…
Read More »Find out about SDA member Daniella Woolf’s book-turned-catalogue “Encaustic With a Textile Sensibility”. She “wanted to publish something different; not a how-to book, but a gallery between pages. [She] envisioned something that would inspire artists while exploring the breadth and depth that encaustic can provide.” Also check out the stunning book design by Carol Charney….
Read More »Let Mickie be your guide to 3 excellent online resources: the Berg Fashion Library, the Textile Museum of Canada and the blog of Temple University/Tyler School of Art’s Fibers & Material Studies program. All are excellent sources of fiber! Also included is a link to Rutger’s Legacy Planning archive of videos from a recent conference on that topic. …
Read More »Nancy Koenigsberg of New York City shares some tales and images from her visit to the 13th International Triennial of Tapestry in Lodz, Poland in May. Ann Nyberg of Gnesta, Sweden, follows with some impressions from the 4th Riga International Triennial of Textile and Fiber Art that opened in July in Latvia….
Read More »This MEMBER HOT SPOT features the work of 3 SDA members–Ann Nyberg of Sweden, Linda Colsh of Belgium and Joan Schulze of California–whose work was exhibited this summer at the 4th Riga Triennial in Latvia. Also included is some catch up buzz about Kiyomi Iwata and Yoshiko Wada. Shown at left is Ann Nyberg’s “State of Universal Chaos” from Riga….
Read More »SDA, Studio Art Quilt Associates and the Textile Department at San Francisco State University combined energies to create REINVENTION, a regional conference that took place in mid-March. Revisit or–if you could not attend–sample some selected high points from this multi-faceted event that was packed with ideas and inspiration….
Read More »The NewsBlog Spotlight will focus on SDA members’ accomplishments both nationally and internationally. Check out this month’s feature on 2 international exhibitions–in Korea and Poland–in which members have recently participated. Shown at left is Lanny Bergner’s “Multiplicity” (detail) from the Triennial in Poland. …
Read More »You’ve sampled tidbits from Mickie McCormic’s web-roaming click list by typing or searching the URLs from the printed SDA newsletter…now experience the instant gratification (and dopamine rush) as you click directly to them from the SDA NewsBlog….
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