Daniel Fountain "Nest" (detail)

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My mother, Helen, was born and raised on a hard-scrabble farm outside of Boonville, Missouri. In this Depression-era self-sustaining household, if the household goods were to be more than simply utilitarian, they would be decorated by female family members. Clothing was constructed, altered, and refashioned, and all manner of textiles were created and beautified by …

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I’m a pediatric oncology nurse, a nurse educator-researcher, and a hooked rug artisan who has been surrounded by artistic women all my life who never considered themselves artistic. Of the hundreds of traditional rug hookers I have met over the years, only a handful consider themselves artists. Thanks to them, I’m making that distinction now …

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Unraveling Women’s Art: Creators, Rebels & Innovators in Textile Arts by P.L. Henderson The big gem of this book is that P. L. Henderson has uncovered so many women that work in textiles, that one could be busy for a very long time researching their work and finding images. Within the broadly titled chapters of …

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) image generation programs have recently become available to the general public. Debates about the ethics and aesthetics of these generated images have exploded across mainstream media as well as art forums. There seems to be a general concern about AI generated art images (as well as videos and texts) that appear to …

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Patterns in Art: A closer look at the Old Masters by Francesca Leoneschi, Giovanna Ferraris, and Silvia Lazzaris As you wander through an art exhibition, what attracts you to an artwork and makes you linger? Is it color? Subject matter? Technique? While visiting museums together, three friends–Francesca Leoneschi, Giovanna Ferraris and Silvia Lazzaris–discovered they each had …

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Surface Design Association is excited to announce our first Journal of the year: SDA 45th Anniversary, Spring 2023 edition of Surface Design Journal. The 45th Anniversary issue revisits the evolution of the Journal, to take a deep dive into the issues that mattered then, and still matter today. The issue begins with former editor Patricia …

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I recently received a Small Event Grant from SDA for this collaborative Kansas and Missouri meetup at the Kansas City Art Institute (co-sponsored by Missouri Fiber Artists) this past February. KCAI Fiber students were involved under direction of Fiber Chair Pauline Verbeek. We were exposed to a prominent BFA Fiber program plus a presentation and …

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We arrived in Vadodara, Gujarat, India in late May 2022. The temperature was over 110 degrees fahrenheit, but the town was familiar: we had lived in the city on three previous stays. My husband, Jay Kreimer, was working on a Fulbright-Nehru project creating invented musical instruments from common Indian materials found in local markets. I …

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Each/Other: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger edited by John P. Lukavic Each/Other is an exhibition catalog from the show of the same title. It was on display May 23 to August 22, 2021, with contributing essays by Jami C. Powell and Namita Wiggers. An exhibition catalog is, by design, a memento of someone’s viewing …

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If you are a creative, how often do you spend time truly thinking about what influences your work? Lately, I have spent a great deal of time alone; no schedule, no commitments, and removed from my studio. I have always known that nature is my muse, but I’ve also realized that the everyday plays a …

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