Podcasts from Confluence 2011

Click on one of the names below to hear audio podcasts, view photos and read digests from each session.

Jack Becker / Loose Ends: Connecting Fibers in the Public Art World / June 10, 2011
Jane Dunnewold / What Matters? / June 10, 2011
Anna Carlson / Fear Not, Alternative Forms of Critique / June 10, 2011
Chad Alice Hagen / Intermingling of Desires in the Middle-Aged Brain: A Journey of Self Discovery / June 10, 2011

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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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