“Nothing beats good old-fashioned face-to-face (F2F) to really engage in a conversation or experience a work of art. With this craving for human interaction & creative inspiration, I eagerly attended SDA Confluence last June in Minneapolis.” Get an overview of featured exhibitions seen through Marci McDade’s informed eyes here….
Read More »SDA Member Melodie Flook (at left) was among 4 student/ designers who won SURTEX 2011 designext competition – and a booth of her own at the NYC trade show. Find out what it’s like to be there + get good backstory on 4 textile design schools in the US, CA & UK….
Read More »This eye-opening narrative describes how long-time SDA member/Rozome master Kiranada Sterling Benjamin negotiated expectations across cultures to pull off a well-received exhibition of her work last spring in green and distant Bali, Indonesia – where batik reigns….
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 »SDA Member Bhakti Ziek’s greatest accomplishment of 2010 was a re-energized focus that led to a new series of weavings and an exhibition. Hear her speak on “Digital Jacquard Design Using Photoshop®” at the upcoming SDA Confluence conference in June in Minneapolis, MN….
Read More »Vicki Jensen & the Ambassadors sounds like a rock band but these SDA rock stars have radically transformed the formerly lonely struggle of building community around the textile arts. Find out how they have energized SDA on the local level by creating blogs, holding effective quarterly meetings & brainstorming future projects through inspired teamwork. …
Read More »Check out the awards, commissions and collaborations SDA Members Patricia Greaves (UK), Dawn Edwards (Michigan) and Kathie Kerler (Oregon) created and won in 2010. Dawn Edward’s “Triton’s Horn” (Felt & Mixed Media) is shown at left….
Read More »Meet SDA Member Melanie Siegel of Ontario, Canada, who recently sent in news of this public works commission she completed in 2010. She wrote a winning proposal to teach felting to 8th and 9th graders in the public schools and her students did the rest. “UNITY” now hangs in the Richmond Green Library. …
Read More »“I am floating 30 feet above the concrete floor in the dark. I can hear the murmuring of the audience as I strap the paintbrush onto a 3 foot long piece of bamboo. The lights switch on, illuminating a tower of white silk. As as the luscious notes of a solo cello begin to resonate through the auditorium, I begin to paint.”…
Read More »Read about the ideas and surface design techniques Michelle Sirois-Silver and Andrea Donnelly (whose work appears at left) plan to explore using SDA Personal Development Grants. Check out the guidelines for applying to win a grant yourself on the SDA website….
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