Event Calendar
Share your event with Surface Design Association’s international community of 3000 artists, designers, and enthusiasts. The Calendar is home to fiber, textile and design related exhibitions, events, workshops, and artist opportunities and open to all.
Submit exhibitions, events, workshops, and artist opportunities to the SDA Calendar by completing this FORM
Questions? Please email: calendar@surfacedesign.org.
Textile Medley: Jamie Boyle and Vandana Jain in conversation
Join Intertwine Arts for an online talk wherein artists we admire describe their textile influences. We will examine two artists’ fiber art, as well as discuss the intersections and divergences of their craft and experiences. Featuring Jamie Boyle and Vandana Jain, they will explore how weaving can transform and enhance language and text, as well as the vital role of collaboration in their works.
Register to receive a link to the Zoom meeting and a captioned recording of the program.
Suggested Donation: $10
About Jamie Boyle
Jamie Boyle (they/she) is a person who thinks a lot about and makes cloth and art. A lover of looms, these days, mostly they weave and teach weaving. Poetry was the context in which Jamie first learned to weave, while working in artist Ann Hamilton’s studio. Since then, many people have taught, and continue to teach, Jamie how to work with looms. Currently, Jamie works at Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, where they are growing a fibers program and community, following the belief that textile-practices can be a beautiful communal endeavor.
About Vandana Jain
Vandana Jain is an artist and textile designer based in Brooklyn, NY. She received her Studio Art degree from New York University and went on to study Textile Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Recently, she has started making weavings with stuff found in “free” piles around Brooklyn, used alongside more traditional weaving techniques and materials. Her compositions are improvised directly on the loom, inspired directly by the material on hand. She is interested in the intersections of labor, cost, and value, and how this pertains to the things we make, and the things we throw away.
About Intertwine Arts
We are a nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring creativity, joy, and self-confidence through freestyle weaving for people of all ages with disabilities or chronic illness. Learn more about our work, get involved, and donate at www.intertwinearts.org.
Accessibility:
The speakers have been prepped to provide verbal descriptions, and captioned recordings will be sent to all registrants after the event. Please contact Danaleah at danah@intertwinearts.org for access questions or accommodation requests.
Location
Zoom