From the marrying of technology and fiber, to simply adorable embroidered necklaces, this Friday Fibers Roundup features an array of historical, contemporary, and technical fiber work. We are also celebrating the release of our latest Surface Design Journal, “The Body Embellished“, so we’ve included a video related to the article “Recreating The Hunt of the …
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This edition of The Journal is filled with a selection of textile and fiber objects of adornment from around the world, along with captivating tactile interpretations of portraiture from multiple points of view. Throughout human history, the body has been both muse and canvas for a wide range of fiber art forms. Aspects of personal …
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When her computer crashed, digital artist and coder Juliet Martin was driven to get her hands on something real. She discovered Saori weaving and its mind-altering philosophy of no-mistakes and no-holds-barred self-expression. Find out more about Saori, its founders and Martin’s work using the approach, here….
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Stephen Blumrich volunteered to be on the “newsletter committee” of the fledgling Surface Design Association in 1976. His guidance as first managing editor – then editor until 1988 – put Surface Design Journal on the path to becoming the thought leader in textile arts magazines that it is today. Find out more about his work and unique contribution to early SDA history in this exclusive tribute….
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Let SDA Journal Editor Marci McDade take you inside a College Art Association conference via her recent mission to evaluate the visibility of textile arts at the 2014 meeting. Get her informed overview of the resources and range of presentations on offer at this annual event for arts educators….
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Sculptor Janet Echelman rarely has time to give talks – but she accepted SDA’s invitation. She delivered an extraordinary keynote that brought in•ter•face conference audience to their feet with thunderous applause in appreciation of her powerful imagination. Read the unabridged version of her interview in SDA Journal Spring 2013 issue here….
Read More »After 18 years of service, Patricia Malarcher has stepped down as editor of Surface Design Journal (effective January 1, 2012). Revisit the upward spiral of excellence attained during her tenure in this chorus of gratitude from colleagues and collaborators. Use the comments app to add your voice….
Read More »Find out more online about the makers selected by SDJournal Editor Patricia Malarcher to highlight the range of approaches currently being used to express ideas using paper as medium….
Read More »SDA Journal editor Patricia Malarcher confesses she “didn’t used to be a “lace person”: lace was fussy, frivolous,susceptible to snags; it belonged on wed- ding gowns and garments of historic artistocrats, not in the studio. Seeing the lace that artists are making today reversed [her] “no” to a vigorous “yes”.” Find links to the new face of lace stories featured here!
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To entice you to register for CONFLUENCE: 2011 International Surface Design Conference in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN (June 9-12), this issue spotlights featured speakers Pat Hickman and India Flint along with SDA’s President Emeritus Jason Pollen, who will have an exhibition there. Other articles consider ways in which the notion of “confluence” is textile-specific, where “ideas meet and mingle”–whether it be the surface design of municipal recycling trucks or how etsy.com has supercharged the DIY craft movement. Get your hot links here!…
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