Above; Leaving Behind, 2010. Fabric construction, 10 X 8.5 inches.
Coming off the success of the shibori scarf sale, I am excited about the upcoming Tote and T-shirt Sale, and I hope you are as well! The blanks we have purchased are excellent, and we anticipate a high level of interest from students, faculty and staff.
We would like to begin work on this project as soon as possible. I will begin doling out the unprocessed garments this coming Thursday, February 25th between 10:00AM-12:00PM. Please make every effort to come during this time.
Every Thursday, at around this time I will be preparing larger dye baths and other processes to be completed for the sale. We are trying to conserve dyes, silkscreen materials, chemicals, and studio space devoted to this project. We expect you to also work on this project during a portion on your monitoring hours, but if you can dye multiple garments at a time, work in collaboration with your peers, or share the bath with your class work. Additional weekend dates may be added depending on need. I anticipate spending one day to complete the screen-printing process.
If you are interested in designing the silkscreened imagery for the totes and t-shirts, you must submit your design by, Friday, March 5th.
-The maximum design size is 12”x12”.
-The design must be able to printed using a single color.
-The design must be ready to be printed on transparency film and be created in a grayscale color profile.
-Consider a single image design may be repeated to create a more complex design.
Please email your submission to me, pazia@temple.edu.
This is an easy and fun way to expose people to your work!
We would like to hold a Tyler Pre Sale in the lobby during the first week of spring, March 22nd – 26th. I think Friday, March 26th would be an excellent date because the studio is closed because of a Philagrafika demonstration.
We will also be selling at the Spring Fling, Wednesday, April 13, 2010.
All Proceeds from this sale will go directing to maintaining and purchasing new equipment for the studio, funding visiting artists, and field trips! In other words, increasing the awesomeness of the Fibers Area!
Please contact me, pazia@temple.edu with any questions and/or concerns.
For non-Fibers Area blog followers, mark your calenders for an amazing opportunity to purchase one of a kind works of wearable art!
neto’s art is an experience which creates
associations with the body and with something
organic. he describes his works as an
exploration and a representation of the body’s
landscape from within. it is important to neto
that the viewer should actively interact with
and physically experience his work by feeling,
smelling, and touching it."
Quote taken from and additional images can be seen here
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Fleisher/Ollman Gallery | 1616 Walnut Street | Suite 100 | Philadelphia | PA | 19103 |
I am attracted to the rough edges of fabric remnants and how tactile material responds to liquid creating movement and gesture. The aspect of piecing reclaimed materials together reminds me of Depression era quilts where it was a necessary act, and had an element of survival. I feel that need now in our society’s standards of excess. Reclaimed fabrics also contain traces of life that has been lived, so their history feels warmly familiar, like discovering an anonymous person or lost occasion.see more here.
The City of Philadelphia is seeking to disperse the remaining unclaimed items from the Philadelphia Commercial Museum collection. Items are of no monetary value, but may be of interest to you for educational or production purposes and include textiles, raw material samples, vases, statues, baskets, clothing/costumes, toys, housewares, etc. in various conditions.
The Commercial Museum was built in 1899 and founded by William Wilson, a botany professor at the University of Pennsylvania. The Museum was inspired by the monumental Columbian World's Fair in Chicago and was the official repository for artifacts from world's fair of the era. Displaying objects from around the world, it functioned both as a tourist destination as well as an educational resource for business persons. The Museum stood on the site now occupied by the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine at 34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard.
When the Museum was closed, the collection was dispersed among local universities and cultural organizations, as legally required by Philadelphia Orphan's Court. Since then, the remainder of the collection, over a thousand objects, has been held in a City storage facility and the City intends to disperse these remaining objects.
We are coordinating the dispersal of these materials and invite you and your colleagues to take any items of interest. This is being facilitated on a first-come-first-serve basis; please call or email and we will arrange a time for you at the storage site.
Please call BY WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 17th to arrange an appointment.
Thank you.
Margot Berg, Public Art Director
Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy
701 City Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19107
v 215.686.4596
c 267.303.0507
www.phila.gov/publicart
Free
Allison Smith is known for creating large-scale installations that critically engage popular forms of historical reenactment, along with crafts and other traditional cultural conventions, to redo, restage, and refigure historical memories. Her work often draws on “living history” museums, battlegrounds, and most recently the Internet to explore gendered conventions of craft, constructions of national identity, and experiences of violence.
Allison Smith: Needle Work centers on Smith's recreation of European and American gas masks from World War I and World War II. Appearing crudely fashioned, from textiles such as canvas and twill tape as opposed to the more familiar industrial black rubber, these early masks — which Smith first encountered while visiting the Musée de l’Armée in Paris — struck her as meticulously, even lovingly, crafted, yet also functionally inadequate to their task. The exhibition also includes staged photographs in which masks are worn, held or otherwise positioned as props, variously evoking survival, cruelty, modesty, camouflage and disguise. Representing another tradition of wartime needlework are four large silk parachutes — printed by Washington University’s Island Press — suspended from the ceiling.
As the inaugural Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Visiting Artist in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Smith developed Needle Work in conjunction with multiple visits in fall 2009 to participate with Washington University faculty member Lauren Adams in her interdisciplinary course “Past Perfect, Present Tense,” which investigated the use of historical research as a strategy within contemporary artistic practice.
Allison Smith: Needle Work is on view from February 5 to April 19, 2010, and is curated by Lauren Adams, assistant professor of painting in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.
Exhibition Support
Support for Allison Smith: Needle Work was provided by Bunny and Charles Burson, the Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Art Endowment Fund, Washington University’s College and Graduate School of Art in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, and members of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.
Artist Bio
Smith is an assistant professor of sculpture at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She has exhibited in venues throughout the US and abroad, including the Palais de Tokyo in Paris; the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams; the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh; the Arario Gallery in Cheonan, South Korea; and the P.S.1 MoMA Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, New York. In 1999 she earned an MFA from the Yale University School of Art and in 1999-2000 she participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program.
Exhibition Catalog
A fully illustrated color catalog will accompany the exhibition. The catalog includes an essay by Wendy Vogel and interviews with the artist and faculty member Lauren Adams.
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
Washington University in St. Louis
Skinker & Forsyth Boulevards
St. Louis, MO 63130
http://kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/
Current M Ed. graduate student Marie H. Elcin, and former MFA Fibers graduate student Shelby Donnelly are featured in this exhibition.
Literal words are turned into shapes of color, and specific palettes and structures arrive in each letter. It is exciting to see the finished letter, not only as a form of communicating to the specific person or thing, but it is interesting how the letter also becomes a portrait of the person or thing itself.see more here.
Drawing Machine
an installation by Chad Curtis
January 29th- April 4th, 2010
Second Thursday Receptions:
February 11th and March 11th, 6-9pm
NCECA Reception April 1, 2010, 6-9pm
Curtis’s drawing machine retains the tension between high and low-tech, exposing the banality of its components aside the precision of the digital electronics. The nuance of the machine resides in this tension, offering accessibility to the viewer that presents a duality –digital and analog — reflecting the state of contemporary life. The accessibility, further enhanced by the tactility of the imags, challenges the assumptions of both digital processes and of the handmade, residing somewhere in between and less easily categorized.
