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SDA Journal Fall 2010 Issue

The SURFACE DESIGN JOURNAL is a full-color, quarterly magazine that inspires the imagination through features on innovative artists and emerging issues in surface design. The Surface Design Journal offers editorial coverage and dramatic pictorial layouts.

The Surface Design Journal includes insightful articles, interviews with prominent people in the field, reviews of exhibitions and books and members’ work. Every issue explores a theme relevant to current events and timely art practices.

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Welcome -and thanks for your support- to Dionne Swift (UK) who has just joined SDA.

Dionne Swift : Textile Artist
www.dionneswift.co.uk
Gold winner of Craft & Design Magazine’s SELECTED Award for Textiles 2011, Swift studied embroidery at Goldsmiths College followed by a Masters at University of Central England.

Heather Johnson combines images of mechanical & celestial motion with embroidery:

"suck squeeze bang blow" Now - June 03 at Kesting/Ray (NYC)
kestingray.com

What to expect if you take a class in fold & clamp resists with Elin Noble:

Wall Photos
This mornings wash from the class "Folds For Clamp Dye Resist" .... this afternoons wash is fantastic!

Paper + perspex = collaged sculptography?

Photographic Collages Suspended in Plexi
www.thisiscolossal.com
Auckland-based artist Peter Madden gleans found images from old encyclopedias, National Geographics & nature books to create his dense, nearly psychedelic collages suspended in safety glass....

Thanks to Textile Blog for posting this spectacular crocheted mandala pattern by Julene Watson via ravelry:

Ravelry: Cathedral Rose Window Afghan
www.ravelry.com
Yarn:

Not fiber but mos def stupendous surface design:

WESTERN EXHIBITIONS Geoffrey Todd Smith
www.westernexhibitions.com

Macrame evolves in the hands of a new generation in Minsk/Moscow:

Macrame | News
macramecollective.com
Work by Elena Miklush

Take your textile talent to Turkey! May 18 deadline for presentation proposals; July 14 deadline for exhibition calls-for-entry.

1st Int'l Antalya Fashion & Textile Design Biennial
www.motexbienal2012.org
Theme is "Green Textile, Slow Fashion" for October 2012 exhibitions, workshops & symposium in southern Turkey.

Fashionality ON NOW in ONtario - with work of Nicole Dextras whose Weedrobes are featured on cover of Spring Surface Design Journal:

McMichael Canadian Art Collection > Fashionality: Dress and Identity in Contemporary Canadian Art
mcmichael.com

See what FLORENTIJN HOFMAN (Netherlands) made from flip-flops - in the spirit of Brazil:

Florentijn Hofman
www.florentijnhofman.nl

"Threads" premieres May 11 (USA) with profiles of Faith Ringgold, Randall Darwall, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood & Terese Agnew. Check local listings.

Craft In America - TV Series | PBS
www.pbs.org
Craft In America is a groundbreaking, comprehensive visual exploration of the history, vitality & cultural significance of Americas craft movement....

Cranbrook Academy of Art to Confer Distinguished Alumni Award on Artist Anne Wilson (CAA ’72 Fiber) on Friday, May 11, 2012

CCA: In the News
www.cranbrookart.edu

#CallforEntry Victorian Quilters Inc. (Australia) One Step Further. http://t.co/LHCDNPh1 Entry Deadline October 15th, 2012

It's PAPER!

Eric Standley
ericstandley.30art.com

Another installation artist strung out on yarn:

LEE BAKER :: Refractive Monolith
www.leebakerart.com

Ellen Brook's silk clothing at EVE: Lust for Couture May 17-20 at Fiber Arts Design Studio in Palo Alto CA. http://t.co/5etmtvlG

New on SDA NewsBlog: Tilleke Schwarz embroidery:

SDA Members In Print: How I Self-Published *New Potatoes*
www.surfacedesign.org
After her first book sold out, Tilleke Schwarz (NE) decided to self-publish the next one. Savor the whimsey of her embroidery while tasting the complexities she faced upon deciding to finance - and take control of - all decisions herself.

“PRIMORDIAL MUSE” by Lanny Bergner in the Parrish Gallery Sponsored by ART Elements Gallery and @ChehalemCenter opens May 11.

New Bauhaus show in London foregrounds women & weaving:

Bauhaus: Art as Life
www.coolhunting.com
An exhibition pays tribute to the human aspect of the influential school

Thanks, Amy Howell, for this:

Smart Fabrics Conference — Speaker Margarita Benitez
www.fashioningtech.com
...this blog coverage of the conference begins by highlighting the wonderful talk by fashion technologist & assistant professor in Fashion Design at Kent State Margarita Benitez.

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