Textile Talks features weekly presentations and panel discussions from SDA, the International Quilt Museum, Quilt Alliance, and Studio Art Quilt Associates.
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When: Online at 2 p.m. Eastern (11 a.m. Pacific) on Wednesdays
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Upcoming Talks
TEXTILE TALK, February 14, 2pm ET
Seeing / Being Seen: Celebrating LGBTQIA+ Voices
with Rebekah Frank, Tyah-Amoy Roberts, Cate O’Connell-Richards, and moderator Elizabeth Kozlowski
Join us as we celebrate the Surface Design Association’s Winter Journal, Seeing / Being Seen: LGBTQIA+ Writers on LGBTQIA+ Fiber Artists. Guest Editor, Rebekah Frank will be joined in conversation by featured writer Tyah-Amoy Roberts and artist Cate O’Connell-Richards, and Journal Editor, Elizabeth Kozlowski as they delve into the complexity of intersectional identity and how it informs creative practices in fiber. In particular, the significant impact LGBTQIA+ artists have had in deconstructing craft binaries – masculine/feminine, high/low, functional/decorative, and, of course, art/craft. As Guest Editor Rebekah Frank writes, we offer “an invitation to see and be seen, in all our complexity.”
Seeing / Being Seen: LGBTQIA+ Writers on LGBTQIA+ Artists was supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.
This event is free and open to the public; registration is required.
For more information, contact info@surfacedesign.org
PRESENTER BIOS:
Rebekah Frank (she/her) received her MFA in Jewelry/Metalsmithing from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2012 and a BFA in Jewelry/Metalsmithing from Texas State University in 2010. Her chosen material is steel, a fascination discovered through a challenge received when she was 18. Her creative practice has focused on that material ever since, working as a blacksmith, a welder, a machinist, and, currently, a jeweler and metalsmith. She explores themes of protection, vulnerability, and boundaries in her work. In 2024, she’ll participate in the Salzkammergut Craft Art Lab in Austria.
Cate O’Connell-Richards (they/them) is an artist, broomsquire, and educator currently living in Madison, Wisconsin. O’Connell-Richards has exhibited internationally and shown work at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (North Adams, MA), The Museum of Glass (Tacoma, WA), The Trout Museum of Art (Appleton, WI), Abel Contemporary (Stoughton, WI), Hesse Flatow (New York), Lillstreet Arts Center (Chicago), and the Gallery im Körnerpark (Berlin, DE). Their last solo exhibition “SWEPT” was held at Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, MA in 2022.
Tyah-Amoy Roberts (they/any) is an artist whose work focuses on racialized gender and its relationship to artmaking, community building, and selfhood. Their artistic practice includes the mediums of writing, music, and fiber art. Tyah-Amoy graduated from Stanford University in 2023 with honors in the African and African American Studies program, with a minor in Political Science. Tyah-Amoy is currently the Alumni Fellow at the Queer Student Resource Center, as well as assistant to the Chief Curator at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco.
Elizabeth Kozlowski (she/her) is now serving her seventh year as Editor for the quarterly and international journal, Surface Design. Kozlowski has a M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Tulane University, New Orleans, an M.A. in Museum Studies from Arizona State University, Tempe, and a B.F.A. in studio art, ceramics from Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton. She has been awarded numerous curatorial residencies and travel grants including the Curator-in-Residence at Konstepidemin in Gothenburg, Sweden, 2024; the Creative New Zealand Cultural Exchange Grant, 2019; the Windgate ITE Scholar-in-Residence at the Center for Art and Wood, Philadelphia, 2017; and the Danish Arts Foundation International Research Grant in 2015 and 2017 respectively. Kozlowski lives in the Blue Ridge mountains of Georgia with her partner and two cats Neruda and Cleopatra.
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