"Let's C"

Nick Cave is the most recent artist in residence at The Fabric Workshop and Museum. His current show "Let's C" opened on the 16th with a record number of attendees.

"The exhibition features Cave’s iconic “Soundsuits”—which function in chorus as dance costumes, sculptures, and extensions of one’s persona—video of recent performance, and, for the first time, Architectural Forest: an ambitious, floor-to-ceiling installation of ornamented bamboo. This forest serves as a playful yet mysterious landscape in which Cave’s December 16th performance at FWM takes place.

For over two decades, Nick Cave has constructed Soundsuits out of a litany of unique, found materials, such as crocheted hats, plastic sandwich bags, gleaming buttons, stuffed animals, and other items from thrift stores, flea markets, and estate sales. Their sculptural form functions simultaneously to display and conceal through the visual references to the exuberance of masquerade and the protection of body armor."-Fabric Workshop & Museum Website


The exhibition will run through mid-February, more information can be found at:
www.fabricworkshopandmuseum.org

lisa qualls

Berenice, 2007, Page, photo transfer, block print, pigment, 8 x 10, Tonure, 2006, Page, stitching, 8 x 10, Tehran II, 2006, Page, fabric, photo transfer, block print, dog fur, stitching, 8 x 10, Tehran I, 2006, Page, photo transfer, pigment, stitching, 8 x 10

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Artist of the week will resume on January 25...Have an awesome holiday break!!

Fibers & Material Studies Alumni Erin M. Riley Will Speak About Her Work Thursday Evening!

Erin graduated from our MFA program in 2009 and has since gone on to take part in numerous exhibitions & residency programs throughout the country. Her work is currently on display at the Fleisher Art Memorial as part of their Wind Challenge Exhibition Series. She will be giving a lecture on her practice this Thursday evening, check it out, it is sure to be great!

More images and information about Erin's work can be found on her website erinmriley.com & on her blog at www.erinmriley.blogspot.com


Congratulations Erin!

cyrilla mozenter

all: felt, pencil, thread, more saints seen #16, passage, tomb III

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Inflatable Spaces!

18 Clock Tower Place - Peniqueproductions from Penique productions on Vimeo.

Penique Productions is an artists group made up of Sergi Arbusà, Pablo Baque, Alvaro Chamorro, & Pol Clusella whose work focuses on architecturally based inflatables. Based out of Spain their work has been installed internationally. Further examples can be viewed on their website: www.peniqueproductions.com

art=craft!

Looking for a studio course for Spring 2012? ALTERNATIVE MATERIALS and MIXED MEDIA PRINTING.

Looking for a studio course for Spring 2012?

ALTERNATIVE MATERIALS

11432 - CRFT 3312 - 001

TR 12:30 pm - 3:20 pm

This course involves the exploration of alternative materials not primarily intended or used by fiber artists. Products such as Tyvek, rubber, adhesives, found and recycled materials will be combined with processes such as collage, layering, stitching, and heating. This is a course open for enrollment to majors and non-majors from sophomore to graduate level. The exploration of alternative materials will be used in conjunction with other media and unconventional methods of joining to create a strong, sculptural surface. Technical demonstrations, field trips, and conceptual problems with an emphasis on the process of collecting will be used as a basis for the creation of unconventional work. Students will be encouraged to experiment with these materials and processes in combination with media from other disciplines. Students will create work based on a personal direction discovered through the course. Areas of focus for study include two and three dimensional forms, functional and nonfunctional constructions.

MIXED MEDIA PRINTING

6019 - CRFT 3314 - 001

MW 8:00 am - 10:30 am

This course emphasizes the development of digital capture, exploration of scanning and digital cameras, and translating images on to pliable substrates including fabrics, papers, plastics, and other materials. Single and repeat images, pattern formation, scale, and collage work will be realized using inkjet printing, alternative photographic methods including, Polaroid, Thermofax, and Xerox, and heat and solvent based transfers. Students will experiment with analog and digital compositing processes and material considerations. Students will use these contemporary practices to create innovative two and three-dimensional work.

The second round of The Fleisher Art Memorial's 2012 Wind Challenge Series. Opening Reception December 9th, 2011 from 6-8pm. Exhibition runs December 9th, 2011 - February 5th, 2012. This is three solo exhibitions by Anita Allyn, Laura Ledbetter, and Erin M. Riley, recent Tyler Fibers and Material Studies area MFA graduate.

No Means No?
2011
41" x 29"
handwoven tapestry, hand dyed wool on a cotton warp.


The second round of The Fleisher Art Memorial's 2012 Wind Challenge Series.

Opening Reception December 9th, 2011 from 6-8pm.
Exhibition runs December 9th, 2011 - February 5th, 2012.

This is three solo exhibitions by Anita Allyn, Laura Ledbetter, and Erin M. Riley.

Established in 1978, the Wind Challenge Exhibition Series is an annual juried competition that is committed to enriching and expanding people's lives through art. Three Wind Challenge Exhibitions are held from September through May, featuring the work of exceptional artists living in the Philadelphia region. Over three hundred entries are juried each year resulting in the selection of nine winning artists.


Fleisher Art Memorial , 719 Catharine Street, Philadelphia, PA
http://www.fleisher.org/
http://erinmriley.com/home.html

Image Library for The Design Center at Philadelphia University

The Design Center at Philadelphia University has a blog which houses a TON of useful imagery for textile designs. Get inspired, check it out!- thedesigncenter.tumblr.com

art=craft!

Open House with Haas + Hahn, The City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program invites you to meet Dutch artists Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn, 01 DECEMBER 2011, 04:00 PM - 07:00 PM.

Open House with Haas + Hahn
01 DECEMBER 2011, 04:00 PM - 07:00 PM
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The City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program invites you to meet Dutch artists Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn, artists in residence at The Village of Arts & Humanities through Fall of 2012.


Come visit their North Philadelphia studio, view an exhibition of their past and present public art projects, and share with them your thoughts on a new community-based public art project they are developing with neighborhood residents and business owners for the 2600-2800 blocks of Germantown Avenue.


WHERE:
The Window Factory
Corner of 9th and Dauphin Streets
Second Floor


TO RSVP:
favela@muralarts.org


FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Judy Hellman, Director of Special Projects
judy.hellman@muralarts.org | 215-685-0725


Sponsored by: Bank of America, City of Philadelphia Commerce Department, Goldman Properties,
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Manayunk Special Services District