nexus selects

NEXUS is again presenting NEXUSselects, our annual juried exhibition
of graduating seniors from the Philadelphia region's art schools and
universities. The exhibition will take place in June 2009 with a
deadline for submission of May 10. This is a terrific opportunity
for aspiring young artists and carries a cash award for most promising
graduating senior.

Entry Deadline: May 10
NO ENTRY FEE
e-mail submission to: nexus.selects@nexusphiladelphia.org

provide in the body of the e-mail:

1. your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, university, major and date of graduation.
2. artist's statement of no more than 250 words.
3. 10 digital images, jpeg format at approximately 1024x768 pixels by 150 pixels per inch. attach these to the e-mail
4. web links for other formats, such as video or interactive media.
5. a corresponding list of submitted works including title, medium and size.

incomplete submissions will not be processed.


questions...215-684-1946 info@nexusphiladelphia.org
www.nexusphiladelphia.org

philadelphia university fashion show

Artwork by Rachel Wending ’10 Fashion Design

Philadelphia University presents “Fashion Fantasy,” the 2009 Annual Fashion Show on Thursday, April 30 at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia.

Thursday, April 30
preshow 7:00 pm
show 7:30 pm

academy of music
broad & locust streets
philadelphia, pa

ticket information
parquet circle and balcony seats $45
balcony and family circle seats $40
amphitheater and student seats $10
(proceeds benefit the fashion design scholarship fund)

click here to purchase tickets.

click here to view videos and slide shows of previous Fashion Shows at Philadelphia University.

ribbon making fun!

1. before dyeing, the 50 yards of silk habotai was tied in patterns and tightly held with rubber bands, string and clips so that the dye would not penetrate the tied areas. 2. the dye was then poured on the tied fabric and left to set for one week. 3. the ties and rubber bands were carefully cut off to reveal the dye resisted areas of the fabric and the fabric was rinsed of excess dye. 4-5. the yardage was then ironed dry and cut in half and the gauze was cut into thirds. 6. to make the flags, another 30 yards of fabric was tied, dyed, marked and pinned to a padded table. 7. students and visitors to the fibers studio were invited to draw on the flags with silver and gold paint pens. the portable padded tables were also taken to the lobby of the tyler building where other tyler students could also draw on the flags. the flags were then cut and attached to the ribbon and the ribbon wound on a roll. 8-9. casey and tom of facilities assisted in the installation of the ribbon in the lobby of the new tyler building.

the fibers studio was abuzz this past month with the making of the ribbon for the official tyler school of art ribbon cutting ceremony held on march 25th. the ribbon was made up of 100 yards of dyed silk habotai and white silk gauze with attached hand drawn flags. tyler students, fiber faculty and assistants, fiber students, majors and alumi all participated in this monumental endeavor.

call for entries

Fiberarts Student Sampling, 2009
Deadline June 15

Our annual sampling of student work will be featured in our November/December 2009 issue and is open to current students in a collegiate-level fiber program.

Please submit: A one-hundred-word artist statement, five images of your best work (three full view and two details; images can be transparencies, slides, or high-resolution digital images [300 dpi]), full caption information (including title, year complete, materials, techniques, dimensions, and photo credit), information about what degree you are perusing and at what school, and permanent address (items will be returned in October) to: Fiberarts Student Showcase, 201 E. Fourth St., Loveland, CO 80537-5655; or submit online.

For more information, contact (970) 669-7672; info@fiberarts.com.

interesting online lectures

rebecca medel sent these links to two great online lectures posted.

the first is an inspiring 20 minute talk on nurturing creativity by elizabeth gilbert, the author of eat, drink, pray.

the second is a podcast of a lecture given by garth clark entitled How Envy Killed the Crafts Movement: An Autopsy in Two Parts. (scroll down for the podcast)

english embroidery exhibition

The Bible and The Book of Common Prayer, English, unknown designer and maker, After 1636. Cover: Silk and metal thread on canvas and satin, Panel with musical party in a garden, English, unknown designer and maker mid-17th century, Silk on canvas, Cushion, English, Mid-17th century; Silk and metal thread on silk, Beadwork Basket, English, unknown designer and maker, 1662-7. Glass beads, wire, silk thread.

fibers major caroline gardner tipped me off to this interesting exhibition english embroidery from the metropolitan museum of art, 1580-1700: twixt art and nature on view at the bard graduate center for studies in the decorative arts, design and culture.

the show runs until april 12th and it looks like there are some exquisite pieces on view, see images and more information about the show here.

Tamsen Wojtanowski Photo Exhibition

fibers alumi mentioned on artblog

shelby donnelly, document, silk, ink, thread

fibers bfa '08, gretchen slentz and fibers mfa '08, shelby donnelly were both mentioned in a post on artblog about the show on the fringe of fiber going on now at city hall. 

read the artblog post here. read my post about the show here.

fibers student show

installation view 1 (left to right) hanging sweater, kari scott, silkscreen backdrop and dress, amanda bowers, weaving, anneliese martinez, books by patrick burgoyne, stephanie landes, head piece, katie grove, 4 embroideries, laura bernardo, dress and book, amanda bowers, silkscreen wallhanging, samantha kennedy, weaving (detail), anneliese martinez, wearable (detail), patrick burgoyne, installation view 2, dyed wallhanging (detail), meredith gowell, head piece (detail), kati grove, paper collar (detail), nicole campanale, silksreen backdrop and dress (detail), amanda bowers, books, stephanie landes, patrick burgoyne, book (detail), stephanie landes, dress (detail), tara delutis, embroideries, (detail), laura bernardo, installation view 3 (left to right) dyed wallhanging, meredith gowell, gloves, brynn miller, sweater, kari scott, book, kristine sim, embroidery, marissa lare, silkscreen backdrop, amanda bowers, gloves, (detail), brynn miller, book (detail), kristine sim, embroidery (detail), marissa lare

again, many thanks to those who contributed to the installation/de-installation of the fibers student show. a very special thanks to katie grove and patrick burgoyne for volunteering their time for both installation and de-installation of the show.

An Evening With Zoe Strauss

Mattress Flip, Philadelphia, PA
Studio 34
Thursday, March 26
4522 Baltimore Ave.
Take the #34 Green Line trolley to 45th & Baltimore.
For more information:
bindlestiff@gmail.com
The event is free, books will be available for purchase.

Philadelphia native Zoe Strauss has brought us searing images of our city's marginalized people and places on the fringe of society. Her new book, America, has taken her no-holds-barred, up close and personal style of photography on the road across our country.

At times witty, touching, poetic, and downright shocking, Zoe Strauss's photographs of the beauty and struggle of everyday life resonate as a social document of our time, and as sheer and powerful art. Her images underscore an America that, more often than not, goes unseen.

interesting show

Seonna Hong, “Lazy Susan of Rage No. 4,” 2009, mixed media, 8 x 10 in., Caroline Hwang, “Stop Instantly,” 2008, mixed media, 30 x 30 in., Saelee Oh, “Wolf Mountain,” 2008, watercolor & acrylic on paper, 15 x 11 in.

Seonna Hong, Caroline Hwang & Saelee Oh
“I Know What You're Thinking...”

Exhibition: March 18 through April 11, 2009
Reception: Wednesday, March 18th, 7 to 9 pm

Brought together by years of friendship, an appreciation for alternate materials such as fabric, wallpaper, cut outs and yarn, and an intense interest in human communication (and miscommunication), Seonna Hong, Caroline Hwang and Saelee Oh will take over Sloan Fine Art for their three-person exhibition "I Know What You’re Thinking…"

While Seonna Hong’s paintings exude nostalgia and whimsy, they are equally sophisticated, soulful and elegantly rendered. Having mounted several successful solo exhibitions – at Kaikai Kiki Gallery in Tokyo, Oliver Kamm/5BE in New York, the Knoxville Museum of Art in TN and sixpsace in Los Angeles – Hong takes this opportunity to further explore her love of collaboration and mixed media in several large and small scale two-dimensional pieces and site-specific installation. Hong, also an Emmy Award winning animation art director and the author of the children’s book “Animus,” lives and works in Los Angeles.

Brooklyn-based Caroline Hwang is known for elaborate stitched and quilted work made from fabric, thread and paint. For her current series, she appropriates and reinterprets the nautical flag system, humanizing their imagery and messages with the ideas, issues and predicaments that challenge us all in our daily lives. She will be exhibiting a collection of new “flags” alongside smaller flag-inspired works and at least one site-specific installation. Hwang has exhibited at galleries including New Image Art in Los Angeles, Beaver Projects in Copenhagen, Cinders in Brooklyn, Clementine in New York and Giant Robot in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

With her delicate painted and cut paper pieces and intricate constructions, Saelee Oh embraces a feminine aesthetic and fanciful palette without sacrificing serious ideas. Often incorporating found objects (including one exhibition in which she utilized tampon disposal bags stolen from a ladies room) and elements found in nature such as live plants, sticks and rocks, Oh tells stories of connectedness, alienation, identity and female empowerment. Her work has been exhibited at the Riverside Art Museum, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, New Image Art and Tinlark in Los Angeles and Giant Robot in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, among others. For this exhibition she will exhibit new two- and three-dimensional works.

erin m riley's thesis show!

fabric discount

fibers major caroline gardner sent this in:

contemporary cloth is offering a 20% discount on fabrics for decor8 blog readers. (this is a blog i require 2nd level silkscreen students to read, it's an excellent blog.) click here to read the entire post and get the discount code.

student art competition

Student Art Contest: $100 Prize

The Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe is looking for imagery to represent The A.W.A.R.D. Show! 2009: Philadelphia in the 2009 Festival guide, website, as well as potentially on show postcards. Images can be created in any medium, and should be original, bold and eye-catching. Electronic output file must be at least 300dpi at 8”x 8”. Imagery should be non-literal – does not need to represent dance, but the essence of the spirit behind The A.W.A.R.D. Show! Think along the lines of fun, competition, voting, etc. The imagery can be more formal or cheeky. We’re open to all interpretations.

Links:
http://www.livearts-fringe.org/
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=57406932483

Qualifications:
Any student (undergraduate or graduate) or 18-25 year-old in the Philadelphia region may apply.

Important Dates:
ASAP: Email Alice Hershey (alice@livearts-fringe.org) expressing interest. Include school, class year, and preferred email address. We will send you additional information on the show and further direction on what the Festival’s Artistic Director is seeking to achieve with the imagery.
Friday, March 27th at 4pm: Deadline to submit artwork. Images must be emailed to alice@livearts-fringe.org.

The winner will be chosen in early April by a panel of Philadelphia Live Arts Festival employees and reviewed by the Joyce Theater. Further design work is a possibility.

philadelphia flower show

fun fashion and accessories made from flowers and plant material at the philadelphia flower show.

video artist seeks performers

THE WALNUT LANE BRIDGE PROJECT

Participants will collaborate with Fibers MFA candidate Sarah Muehlbauer to develop individual projects combining Creative Movement, Concept and Costume for Performance. Contact sarah.muehlbauer@temple.edu, 215-847-6422

HISTORY

Upon completion in 1908, the Walnut Lane Bridge demonstrated an amazing architectural feat, and became the largest poured-concrete structure in the world. It united the disparate communities on either side of the Wissahickon, whose steep trenches prevented easy passage. It serves as a symbol of progress and man’s determination to re-shape the natural landscape for his own purposes, while embodying the contradictory tension between allowing for and dictating ways of movement.

With the help of Cliveden Historical Society, who has generously provided me access to documents, architectural drawings, and photographs from its building (1906-1908), we will develop site-specific work using the bridge as both a background, stage, and character within the project.

SCOPE

The project is designed to be a series of collaborations between individual performers (or groups if they wish) and myself. This allows us to demonstrate a large range of approaches and meanings connected by a common theme. Each performer will develop his/her own relationship to the space and choose a site within the vicinity of the bridge to perform in/on. From that initial idea, we will narrow down a conceptual message and consider costuming as a way to contribute to the piece, to imprint and extend the body, exaggerating and changing its relationship to its surroundings. The contrast between the organic human form and the structured architecture of the bridge will become a major component in this series.

thank you!!!

image from 123 stitch!

many thanks to all of the fibers majors (jovana sarver, tara delutis, katie grove, nicole campanale, sarah bristol, patrick burgoyne, amanda bowers, kari scott) and faculty (c pazia manella, lorraine glessner), who participated in installing one of fibers' best student shows to date! and a special thanks to the fibers tech, heather veneziano for being so awesome in her support of the fibers area!
the opening of the student show is tomorrow--wednesday, march 4, 11:30-1:00--and the show runs from march 4-march 23. stay tuned to this blog for images of the show...