Panel Presentation
Community
Ties
Bonnie Lee Holland - Catherine Joslyn - Ginny Lohr
A panel presentation by three artists who use surface design and
art making projects to build connections within and between communities.
On the local level, Bonnie Lee Holland will discuss her projects
with children in elementary schools in the Washington D.C. area.
Ginny Lohr will explore national trends in health care that promote
healing and wellness through art projects. On an international
level, Catherine Joslyn will present her Fulbright project connecting
communities in Peru and the United States.
Discussion
SDA Publications: Meet the Editor
Patricia Malarcher
Are you curious about what goes on behind the scenes in the production
of the Surface Design Journal and the SDA Newsletter? During this
session the editor will discuss thematic development, selection
of articles and reviews, and criteria for images, along with guidelines
for submission of articles and artwork to be considered for publication.
Lectures
Pattern as Powerful Imagery
Lee Bale
The foundation of surface design rests on an exploration of the
repeated gesture. This can happen as a personal and powerful means
of self-expression, as well as a provocative public expression.
Posing as the rebel, Lee Bale will uncover the nature of pattern
as power in a contemporary context using mathematical, scientific,
visual and material culture models, such as the Pattern Painting
movement, Andy Warhol and the Philadelphia Fabric Workshop.
A New Generation of Fibers
for the Textile Artist
Joy Boutrup
Environmental considerations are the driving forces behind the
newest developments in regenerated and synthetic fibers. How are
the properties and the potentials seen from the eyes of a textile
artist? This lecture will introduce us to some of the new fibers
and discuss the environmental consequences, production methods
and textile properties, such as strength, shape stability and
moisture absorbency. The focus will be on the possibilities for
manipulation, dyeing, printing or shaping the fibers.
From Personal Shelter to Performance
Jorie Johnson
Aspects and uses of nomadic felt-making techniques have drastically
changed in the last 30 years. Pandora's box has been pried open
and felt is here to stay as an innovative art form. Crossing the
threshold into experimentation, which challenges the capabilities
of the fiber, creates a fresh expression with this ancient survival
craft. Jorie will introduce exceptional felt work from across
the extended Silk Road, from the Far Eastern coast of Japan, over
Central Asian mountains into European metropolitan fashion centers
and contemporary Scandinavian galleries. Catch the no-mad/mad
spirit and come to understand the outstanding gift that sheep
have given to humankind.
Recursions: Material Expression
of
Zeros and Ones
Carol LeBaron
Recursion is defined as an obsolete form of return. There has
always been a close relationship between textile production and
science, from the most primitive technologies to current digital
processes. Computers came from Jacquard looms: Today a new generation
of artists revisits them. Artists who use digital processes of
weaving, print and combinations of other technologies in their
work create structures that can only be realized with the computer.
Their work addresses questions posed by mechanical production.
Other artists combine hand production with digital processes in
a search for imperfection. Learn about the essential significance
of digital textile production in terms of the growing 'new media'
dialogue.
Pojagi and Beyond
Chunghie Lee
Chunghie Lee is a leading authority on Pojagi: Korean traditional
wrapping cloths. This lecture and video presentation traces the
history and traditional uses of pojagi and examines new interpretations
of this old art form through student work from the Rhode Island
School of Design. The works reflect the diversity of the students'
majors and individual approaches and perspectives. Their ideas
are expressed in 2D, 3D and wearable forms, some reminiscent of
Korean pojagi, others with a completely new twist.
Ingenuity
Born of Necessity
A
Common Thread
Wendy Lugg
The universal art of making-do ignores cultural boundaries. Sashiko
stitching from Japan's rural past, Australia's utilitarian wagga
quilts, the domestic textiles of ethnic minorities still living
traditional lives in Vietnam's mountains: these all share a common
thread, which also permeates Wendy Lugg's family heritage - ingenuity
born of necessity. Wendy's empathy for the honest beauty of utilitarian
textiles has transformed her arts practice, leading to a series
of cross-cultural collaborations. Join her as she shares those
collaborative adventures and her journeys to Japan, Korea and
Vietnam, researching and collecting traditional textiles, and
creating new work in response.
Mutable Reflections: Historic and
Contemporary Paper Garments
Erica Spitzer Rasmussen
Starting in the 10th century, this presentation examines the evolution
of paper clothing from around the world. Slides include wearables
from various museums, including the Minnesota History Museum,
the Goldstein Gallery, the Fashion Institute of Technology, the
Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum
of Arts and Design, the Mingei International Museum and the Victoria
and Albert Museum. The work of numerous living artists and designers
is featured as well.
What 6000 Looks Like
Bird Ross
You can never really predict how an incident might affect you,
but you can observe and record your response. Processing and making
that response concrete develops your relationship both to the
event and to your work. 'What 6000 Looks Like' is the realization
of Bird's relationship to the events of September 11, 2001. This
presentation explores that process of responding, assimilating
and constructing a (conceptual) body of work and presents some
of the ways other artists have responded to critical current events.
Contemporary Basketry:
30
Years of History and Innovation
Jo Stealey
The focus of this lecture is basketry that is beyond function
and cannot be conceptually distinguished from sculpture. It will
include an overview of the historical roots of contemporary basketry
and how it has evolved during the past 35 years. Influences and
unique characteristics of the movement will be discussed, as well
as themes that are prevalent among a variety of artists to place
the medium within the context of 20th century art movements.
New Texture, New Material and New
Thinking
Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada
Japanese artisans of craft media have long understood tradition
and yet are always embracing the latest ideas. The interesting
aspect of Japan's post-industrial craftsmanship lies in the imaginative
combinations of hand manipulation and technology using natural
and synthetic materials. Yoshiko I. Wada will introduce the methods
and applications practiced by Japanese fashion and textile designers
who use high-tech materials in notably inventive ways. For example,
creating 'mechanical lace' using soft 'solvy' (water soluble sheets)
or treating natural and synthetic blends with devoré and
fulling to yield unusual tactile dimensions. Technical information
will be illustrated with examples of innovative work now found
in Japan.
One-Hour Demonstrations
Paper and Metal Leaf Lamination
Jane Dunnewold
Paper and metal leaf can be permanently and easily applied to
a cloth surface using gel medium and a silk screen. The actual
process of lamination will be demonstrated, the use of papers
and fabrics appropriate to the process will be discussed and creative
combinations and design ideas will be highlighted.
Paint Once, Get Many
Polychromatic
Screen Printing
Joy Stocksdale
An excellent demonstration for painters, monoprinters, screen
printers or anyone interested in obtaining multiples from one
painted image on paper or fabric. Why labor over one painting
when you can paint once and get multiples? The innovative process
of polychromatic screen printing results in a limited edition
from the original painted screen - with no color registration.
This is similar to an extended monoprint process that produces
five to eight prints from a single painted image. With this process,
all the colors in an image are painted on a single print screen
and then are printed on fabric or paper with one pull of the squeegee.
Freezer Paper Appliqué:
Serious
Applications for a Humble Material
Julia E. Pfaff
Freezer paper, inexpensive and versatile, is more than just an
inexpensive substitute for other products like tear away fiber
web stabilizers and fusible web adhesives. Freezer paper achieves
some results not duplicated with other materials. Demonstrating
appliqué techniques used in her own work, Pfaff illustrates
various uses of freezer paper both as a stabilizer and template.
Using step-by-step samples of hand and machine sewing techniques,
Pfaff shows how to make flawless, complex appliqué images.
Other innovative uses of freezer paper will also be addressed.
All techniques shown use the artist's own hand printed fabrics.
Handouts will be provided.
Musical Marks
Jason Pollen
Sometimes the simplest techniques can be the most rewarding. Quick,
innovative techniques allow for listening and responding to the
unexpected moment that can expand the creative mind. Using rhythmic
and melodic exploration of design elements, Jason will offer a
variety of ways of creating magical surfaces using familiar materials.
By choreographing visual events on a canvas, you can find new
ways to make your surface sing.
Design Evolution: 2D/3D Integration
Using Digital Textile Technologies
J.R. Campbell and Jean Parsons
The purpose of this presentation is to demonstrate how incorporating
digital technologies into apparel art forms allows us, as artists,
to explore and visualize new creative possibilities and to expand
our individual creativity through the collaborative design process.
The demonstration will show step-by-step processes for: 1) creating
imagery on the computer for digital textile printing, 2) approaching
the application of imagery to product forms, 3) conceptualizing
the 3D structure, 4) manipulating and engineering the imagery
into garment, upholstery, and sculptural shapes, 5) preparing
the engineered designs for printing, 6) addressing color matching
issues, and 7) digitally printing the design.
When High Technology Met Low Technology
Marie O'Mahony
There is a presumption that advanced textiles and handmade processes
have little in common. On the contrary, the more high tech a product
is, the more essential the handmade element becomes in its production.
Designers and makers are keen to work with industrial processes
and materials but are often frustrated at how difficult it is
to get access. This session will begin by looking at visuals and
fabric samples that combine high and low technologies. The discussion
will focus on how industry and craft are working together for
future collaborations. An advance copy of the limited edition
box set of Techno Textiles fabric samples will also be available
for viewing.
