Textile Talks features weekly presentations and panel discussions from SDA, the International Quilt Museum, Quilt Alliance, and Studio Art Quilt Associates.
Textile Talks are presented free of charge. If you enjoy these talks, help ensure they continue with a gift today.
When: Online at 2 p.m. Eastern (11 a.m. Pacific) on Wednesdays
Preregistration is required and recordings are available (playlist below).
Upcoming & Recent Talks
TEXTILE TALK, May 8, 2PM ET
Hunter / Gather: Ritual in Performance Art and Natural Dyes
with Pachia Lucy Vang and Dina Nazmi Khorchid
Join us in celebrating the Spring 2024 Surface Design Journal, Hunter / Gather and explore the intersections of performance and natural dyes with artists Pachia Lucy Vang and Dina Nazmi Khorchid along with moderator, Merill Comeau. As Surface Design Journal Editor, Elizabeth Kozlowski writes, “As hunter-gatherers, our paleolithic forebearers foraged natural resources until about 12,000 years ago when archaeological evidence of agricultural practices started to appear. Our nomadic lifestyle waned as humans built permanent settlements and domesticated plants and animals. This issue of Surface Design Journal highlights the relationship between performance art and natural dyes: a relationship that centers on beauty, ritual and tradition. Combining these two practices is a way to honor our natural world.”
This event is free and open to the public; registration is required.
For more information, contact info@surfacedesign.org
PRESENTER BIOS:
Pachia Lucy Vang (she/her) is a textile artist and design educator whose work is informed by a pluriversal imagination centering paj ntaub or “flower cloth” and indigenous-diasporic perspectives. Her practice focuses on crafting experiences within and beyond the gallery, extending into community spaces to preserve HMong ways of knowing. Vang currently teaches at the University of California, Davis and is the founder of Culture through Cloth, a studio providing Paj Ntaub Circles programming to the public. She is a second generation HMong-American, who has lived and traveled throughout the HMong diaspora in Asia.
Dina Khorchid (she/her) works primarily with printed and woven textiles. She explores themes of identity and geo-politics, domesticity, land and memory access, in relation to being a Palestinian artist. Dina completed a Master of Fine Arts in Textiles at the Rhode Island School of Design (2023) and had her work showcased in the USA, Tunisia, UAE and Lebanon.
Recordings of Previous Talks
SDA Talks
All Textile Talks
The following is a playlist featuring all of the previous Textile Talks. Pressing play will begin the most current talk or you can click the hamburger button (icon of three horizontal lines) near the upper right of the video to select a specific video from the playlist.
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