The Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival is this weekend!

The 39th Annual Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival is happening this weekend, May 5th and 6th. The festival is home to a variety of events including a sheep to shawl competition as well as spinning & weaving workshops and fiber vendors selling their wares. The Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival is one of the largest and most anticipated of the fiber festivals in the mid-Atlantic region and is definitely worth the two and a half hour trip from Philadelphia.
For more information please check out their website: http://www.sheepandwool.org

-images sourced from www.sheepandwool.org

CONGRATULATIONS to Fibers and Material Studies student winners of Langhorne Carpet Company's inaugural Morrow Student Design Competition.

Tia Bianchini and Caleigh Stednitz, Grand Prize Winning Design, Fauna Category.


Fibers and Material Studies area students, Tia Bianchini and Caleigh Stednitz were announced as the grand winners in the Fauna category and will have their design woven by the Langhorne Carpet Company. Kate Corcoran and Ashley Rodriguez Reed were announced as second place winners in the Flora category and received a cash prize. 


The winning patterns, which will kick off Langhorne’s Conservation Collection, was revealed to the public last night and will ultimately be woven by the legendary Bucks County mill and sold to customers around the world. Winning teams receive cash prizes and non-profit organizations, including the Philadelphia Zoo and Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, will share in all sales proceeds for the benefit of conservation education. 


Twenty teams of students representing six area colleges and art institutes submitted original designs as part of the rigorous competition that began eight months ago. Their research included site visits to the legendary carpet mill in Penndel, as well as special tours of the Zoo and Philadelphia Flower Show. Among the competition’s numerous creative and technical criteria, the teams were required to submit at least one pattern evocative of the fragile plant kingdom and another representing the world of threatened wildlife. In addition, they needed to demonstrate that their proposed carpet designs could be woven on the mill’s Jacquard Wilton looms – the gold standard of global carpet making dating back to 18th century England using hand-cut punch cards to “program” the looms. The panel of judges will also take into consideration the market appeal of the designs and input from representatives of the Zoo and Horticultural Society.


Bill Morrow, Langhorne’s President and a member of its founding family, has personally provided the nearly 50 student designers an in depth behind-the-scenes mill tour. “Every student has been intensely interested in our dedication to the time honored methods of Jacquard Wilton weaving and use of the finest wool. As one of the remaining mills of its kind in the U.S., we are as excited as the students and honored to sponsor this competition, “ said Morrow. “Every team will have a great addition to their portfolio upon graduation as a result of the competition and the winners will forever be able to boast they have their own line.”

Judges included Philadelphia decorator Bennett Weinstock, an Architectural Digest Top 100 member; New York-based designer Alex Papachristidis, Elle Décor “A List“ member, and Hilary Jay, Executive Director, DesignPhiladelphia.  

Design teams represent: Philadelphia University, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Drexel University, Arcadia University, University of the Arts, and Art Institute of Philadelphia.


Congratulations! 


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fabric pattern & image 1 & 2, spring, 2012

alexis turner 

andi hegedus

madisun morgan

kate devlin

brianna wesselius

jen hall

christie kokot

lena pearson

david anderson

valerie houck

becky forward

jeff kardos

abby potts

lauren koch

martha mccloud

rob novak

josh beaver

lindsay thompson

sally hayden gilmore

sorry, no info on this one, fruit, Cast paper with acrylic medium, Paint, polymer clay, flock, Japanese tissue paper, sorry, no info on this one

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Fibers & Material Studies Majors Exploring Philadelphia's Galleries!

The gallery scene in Philadelphia was explored earlier this month on first Friday by some of our majors. Many great exhibitions opened throughout the city including a student show featuring some of our graduating seniors "Oh You Fancy, Huh?" at the Always By Design Gallery.

The images above of two of our Majors, Lina Pearson and Kristen Rosser, were taken at the Grizzly Grizzly Gallery and are currently featured on their website. (www.grizzlygrizzly.com) The photographs document their interaction with the installation currently on view in their gallery, a work by Annica Cuppetelli and Cristobal Mendoza titled "Threaded Interface."

The following text can be found on the gallery's website explaining more about the interactive qualities of the piece.

"Video meets material in the collaborative installations of Detroit-based artists Annica Cuppetelli and Cristobal Mendoza.  This April 2012, Grizzly Grizzly is pleased to present their latest work, “Threaded Interface,” an immersive, interactive installation that combines reactive video projections with physical structures.  This innovative exhibition is part of the city-wide Fiber Philadelphia 2012 series.
“Threaded Interface” will fill the entire gallery with fields of vertical and parallel lines made of elastic cord and illuminated with a video projection generated through a custom software program. The motion of the projected lines is ruled by a simulation that makes them act like soft ropes.  The direction and strength of their movement is affected by the viewer’s motion as registered by a video camera that feeds its image to the computer. Thus, the physical movements of the audience are translated into virtual forces that affect the computer-generated lines, while the physical lines of the installation remain motionless.  
Interface – the point of contact between entities – is revealed in multiple ways: between the viewer and the piece (a human/computer interface); between the real and the virtual (the physical structure and its relationship with the projected structure); between the foreground and the background (as the projection interferes with its shadow)."

The artist's website is: http://cuppetellimendoza.com

alternative materials, spring 2012

jen albright 

kristen snow
                                                                                                       

katey murphy

liz pillagalli

cristina kelvas

sienna martz

matt gillespie

megan bogart

kate devlin

alexis turner

madeline smith

greg laut

kasey emig

cara taggersell

Samantha Jones, Succour, MFA Thesis Exhibition, April 25-28, 2012, Opening Reception: Friday April 27, 6-8pm.

Samantha Jones 
Succour
MFA Thesis Exhibition April 25-28, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday April 27, 6-8pm


The ecstatic terrain of Samantha Jones’s immersive installation builds tensions between the ruins of a designed, formal garden, and unchecked, chaotic growth. Artificial materials evoke romantic visions of beauty and order, while simultaneously dissolving in a sicky-sweet decay of fluid translucency. Grotesque flora and fauna conjure the familiar and the unsettling, expressing natural and numinous forms through an alchemy of the synthetic. Jones’s work questions what lies just past the ragged edge of reason and our faltering comprehension of what we believe to be real.


http://www.samjonesstudio.com/

Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday 11am-6pm

Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art

2001 N. 13th Street, Philadelphia PA 19122

Zippers!

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Google is looking fly today!


The search engine is celebrating the 132nd birthday of Gideon Sundback, a Swedish engineer credited with helping to develop the modern zipper, with a large, interactive zipper in place of its usual logo that allows users to unzip their search results.


Sundback wasn't the very first to conceive of a zipper-like device -- that distinction goes to Elias Howe, who patented the "Automatic, Continuous Clothing Closure" in 1851, as well as Whitcomb Judson, who, in 1893, developed the "Clasp Locker" (which you can see here) and is credited with being the inventor of the zipper.


But Sundback made refinements to Judson's design in and in 1913 produced a device that was more practical and marketable. According to the Washington Post, Sundback "increased the number of teeth on the zipper and nearly tripled the number of the zipper’s teeth per square inch," "scoop-dimpled the teeth to strenghthen the closure," and "created the slider for opening and closing the interlocking mechanism." Sundback patented the "Separable Fastener" in 1917 and is considered the brains behind the zippers in use today.


The Lemelson-MIT Program notes that credit for giving the device a catchy name goes to yet another man: "The term 'zipper' was coined as an onomatopoeia by B. F. Goodrich, whose company started marketing galoshes featuring the fastener in 1923.

Fibers and Material Studies area student designs presented in the Morrow Design Competition Awards at the Marketplace Design Center, on Friday, April 27, 2012, 6:00PM-8:00PM.

Fibers and Material Studies area students may be the grand winner and have their design made by the Langhorne Carpet Company. The winning patterns, which will kick off Langhorne’s Conservation Collection, will be revealed to the public following the ceremony and ultimately woven by the legendary Bucks County mill and sold to customers around the world. Winning teams receive cash prizes and non-profit organizations, including the Philadelphia Zoo and Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, will share in all sales proceeds for the benefit of conservation education. I hope to see you there!                                                                                                                                                                                 


Friday April 27, 2012


6 – 8 pm


Marketplace Design Center (1st Floor)
2400 Market St # 209, Philadelphia, PA 19103
(215) 561-5000
http://www.marketplacedc.com/


6:00 pm  - Reception


6:45 pm  - Welcome from the Morrows


6:50 pm  -  Introductions and Acknowledgments


7:00 pm  - Observations of Judges


7:10 pm – Announcement of 3rd runner up, second, grand prize in categories


7:20 pm – Certificates for all participants


8:00 pm  - Thank You and good night




LANGHORNE CARPET COMPANY
“The Foundation of Fine Interiors”


NEWS RELEASE


DESIGN STUDENTS AND CONSERVATION GROUPS BIG WINNERS WHEN MORROW DESIGN COMPETITION AWARDS ARE PRESENTED AT 6 PM, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, AT THE MARKETPLACE DESIGN CENTER
Nutter Administration Business Development Head Among Participants


PHILADELPHIA, PA (April 23, 2012) – The next generation of premier Philadelphia area designers will be announced at 6 p.m., Friday, April 27, when the winners of Langhorne Carpet Company’s inaugural Morrow Student Design Competition are announced at a ceremony at the Marketplace Design Center. The winning patterns, which will kick off Langhorne’s Conservation Collection, will be revealed to the public following the ceremony and ultimately woven by the legendary Bucks County mill and sold to customers around the world.


Winning teams receive cash prizes and non-profit organizations, including the Philadelphia Zoo and Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, will share in all sales proceeds for the benefit of conservation education. Karen Randal, Director, Office of Business Attraction and Retention for the Nutter Administration, will underscore the importance of the event in attracting top student talent to Philadelphia and revitalizing its once thriving textile industry.


Twenty teams of students representing six area colleges and art institutes submitted original designs as part of the rigorous competition that began eight months ago. Their research included site visits to the legendary carpet mill in Penndel, as well as special tours of the Zoo and Philadelphia Flower Show. Among the competition’s numerous creative and technical criteria, the teams were required to submit at least one pattern evocative of the fragile plant kingdom and another representing the world of threatened wildlife. In addition, they needed to demonstrate that their proposed carpet designs could be woven on the mill’s Jacquard Wilton looms – the gold standard of global carpet making dating back to 18th century England using hand-cut punch cards to “program” the looms. The panel of judges will also take into consideration the market appeal of the designs and input from representatives of the Zoo and Horticultural Society.


Bill Morrow, Langhorne’s President and a member of its founding family, has personally provided the nearly 50 student designers an in depth behind-the-scenes mill tour. “Every student has been intensely interested in our dedication to the time honored methods of Jacquard Wilton weaving and use of the finest wool. As one of the remaining mills of its kind in the U.S., we are as excited as the students and honored to sponsor this competition, “ said Morrow. “Every team will have a great addition to their portfolio upon graduation as a result of the competition and the winners will forever be able to boast they have their own line.”


Judges include Philadelphia decorator Bennett Weinstock, an Architectural Digest Top 100 member; New York-based designer Alex Papachristidis, Elle Décor “A List“ member, and Hilary Jay, Executive Director, DesignPhiladelphia.  


Design teams represent: Philadelphia University, Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Drexel University, Arcadia University, University of the Arts, and Art Institute of Philadelphia.


Sponsors include The Marketplace Design Center, British Wool Marketing Board, DesignPhiladelphia, ASID. The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and the
Philadelphia Zoo provided competition assistance.




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Contacts:
Bill Morrow, Langhorne President
billjr@langhornecarpets.com / 215.757.5155


Josh Peskin (for Langhorne)
josh@idadvisors.com / 267.218.5530

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Ashley Rodriguez Reed's MFA Thesis Exhibiton

Be sure to stop by to see the show and attend the reception if you are in town! Congratulations Ashley!

Concerned about finding a career after school? Alumni panel discussing career paths and networking opportunities at Tyler, “Outside the Box” - Saturday, April 21, 11 am, B-04.

Alumni Panel Discussion:  “Outside the Box”  - Saturday, April 21, 11 am, B-04

The panel will include the following Tyler Alumni:

Bruce Hoffman, Independent Curator

Kim Mitchell, Chief Communications Officer, Museum of Modern Art

Jennifer McTague, Executive Director of Second State Press

Michael Adler, Partner at Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby LLP

Gabriel Martinez, Visual Artist

This is an excellent way to meet and network with some Tyler alumni, learn about career paths you might not have considered, and ask some questions you know are burning in your head.  These alumni are generously giving their time to you!  Come and hear what they have to say, AND enjoy a FREE post-panel lunch and breakout session afterwords!  Even though it's the weekend before final crits/final papers are due, YOU KNOW you will need to be here working on your final projects, and YOU KNOW you will need to eat, so take a couple hours out of your Saturday COME AND START YOUR FUTURE!  The first 50 students/alumni to attend will get a FREE bamboo Tyler Alumni jump drive.

Tyler School of Art

Temple University

2001 N. 13th Street

Philadelphia, PA 19122

su blackwell

pandora opens box, 2009, wild flowers, 2007, 37x34x24cm, birds, beasts and fishes, 2007

Paper has been used for communication since its invention; either between humans or in an attempt to communicate with the spirit world. I employ this delicate, accessible medium and use irreversible, destructive processes to reflect on the precariousness of the world we inhabit and the fragility of our life, dreams and ambitions.

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