Archive for the ‘Contemporary Craft’ Category

color and crochet.

Thursday, February 18, 2010 13:15 View Comments

One of my embroidery students sent me the link to Portuguese artist, Joana Vasconcelos, an artist who I had seen some work of before but not the full breathe of her work. I must say that her super fancy website has way too many bells and whistles, I just want to see the work, dammit.
But [...]

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a midwestern girl….

Friday, February 5, 2010 11:55 View Comments

The second to last connective thread feature is on the Midwestern artist Summer Zickfoose, a fabulous name I must say. Summer had two lovely works in the exhibit, both hair embroideries on old childrens christening dresses. The work spoke about memory, loss, nostalgia, and innocence.
They were very beautiful and worked incredibly well with the [...]

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Fiber Artist Talk in Brooklyn, NY this Sunday

Friday, January 22, 2010 14:49 View Comments

Come one, come all, bring friends, tell friends.

Hear from the Artist’s mouth all about their awesome fiber work.
Featuring 8 artists from the connective thread exhibit.
Artists Talk this Sunday, January 24, featuring artists from the connective thread exhibition.
5:30 pm at Sweet Lorraine Gallery.
Artists include:
Sarah Bahr
Marcy Chevali
Crystal Gregory
Einet Imber
Joetta Maue
Alisha McCurdy
Simone Melteson
Stacy Renee Morrison
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connective thread exhibition

Friday, January 15, 2010 16:08 View Comments

Kendra Skalski

Here are some images of the opening and install of the fabulous connective thread exhibtion, I was so honored to curate this exhibition and blown away by the quality of work that was submitted. The curating process was so difficult – but in the end I felt like it was a very exciting and [...]

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color and content.

Monday, November 30, 2009 17:53 View Comments

1200 hats crocheted by residents of the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women – one hat for every incarcerated woman.

I fell upon the awesome work of fiber artist Sherri Wood on flickr last week and was totally wowed. She combines traditional techniques and contemporary thinking to make incredibly cool embroidered works, quilts, and [...]

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mending.

Thursday, November 5, 2009 13:30 View Comments

I so need to make it down to Lombard-Freid projects by November 14th to see the Mending Project by Lee Mengwei.

The press release states:
The Mending Project, is an interactive conceptual installation that uses the gesture of mending to explore ideas of trust and intimacy between strangers…Trained in weaving by a monk in Taiwan and [...]

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