Textile Masterpieces created by The Materialistics

These are INCREDIBLE and were created by The Materialistics - a group of British textile artists!

Ed Munch's The Scream - knitted by Norma Box

Picas-Sew! - by Sue McBride - Based on Pablo Picasso's Portrait of Dora Maar

Other renditions of masterpieces include: Andy Wool-hol (Marilyn Monroe); Vincent Van Gogh's Sunflowers; Van Meer's Girl with the Pearl Earring; and Rembrandt's Self-Portrait. 

You've seen The Scream...How About The SEAM?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1374029/Youve-seen-The-Scream--The-SEAM-Edvard-Munch-masterpiece-paintings-recreated-ladies-knitting-group.html

Knitted Masterpieces
http://andfinally.tv/2011/04/knitted-art/

Girl with a Knit-1 Purl1 Earring
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3513188/You-wool-never-believe-it-but-these-masterpieces-have-all-been-knitted-embroidered-or-crocheted.html

1,200 Stitches Per Square Inch - The Art of Ray Materson

Ray Materson's work is astounding, and the incredible detail packed into his 2.5" x 3" masterworks is remarkable. While in prison at the Connecticut Pennitentiary, he one day traded cigarettes for a pair of socks, unthreaded them and thus his transformation from a cocaine addicted robber to artist began. His subject matter ranges from gut-wrenching scenes of drug use to inspiring images of baseball players and the American skyline.

 Mariano Rivera - Ray Materson

 

 NYC Skyline from Liberty Island - Ray Materson

Till Death Do Us - Ray Materson

Website - Be sure to click on the links for Recent Work and Past Work
http://www.raymaterson.com/

Video - 3-minutes - Ex-Con on Pins and Needles
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=3057431n

Video - 3- minutes - Eye to Eye: Prison Embroiderer
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=3057448n

American Primative Gallery
http://www.americanprimitive.com/index.cfm?section=artist_works&artist=Raymond Materson&hasBiography=1

Incredible Anatomical Dress Art

"Artificial Beauty" is the name of a show held at Shih Chien University in China during the Fall of 2010. The designs included:

Artificial Beauty Exhibit - Anatomical Ball Gown - Back View

Artificial Beauty Exhibit - Anatomy Dress

More Photos (including front view of Ball Gown)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/charles_studio/4449645410/

The Intergalactic Quilts of Jimmy McBride

Jimmy McBride is fascinated by astronomy and focuses his artwork

on various aspects of it. He states that his work is machine quilted

with hand embroidery, but I think he means that it is machine pieced,

 hand quilted and hand embroidered.

M64 - Jimmy McBride

Whether the focus is on galaxies, planets, nebulae, wormholes, etc., Jimmy likes to incorporate as many elements as possible into the work.

Phobos V2 - Jimmy McBride

Detail: Phobos V2 - Jimmy McBride

Jimmy's website:
http://jimmymcbride.com/home.html

Blog - this contains a lot of information not only about how his work is conceptualized, but he also shares some of the mechanics of how the patterns are drafted and put together.
http://www.intergalactictransport.blogspot.com/

Ethereal Artwork by Gabriel Dawe

Gabriel Dawe creates fascinating and mesmerizing installations
and other artwork primarily using only Gutterman threads,
nails and wood.



Plexus No. 4 - Gabriel Dawe

 Plexus no 2 - Gabriel Dawe

"Gabriel Dawe was born in Mexico City where he grew up surrounded by the intensity and color of Mexican culture. After working as a graphic designer, he moved to Montreal, Canada in 2000 following a desire to explore foreign land. In search for creative freedom he started experimenting and creating artwork, which eventually led him to explore textiles and embroidery—activities traditionally associated with women and which were forbidden for a boy growing up in Mexico. Because of this, his work is subversive of notions of masculinity and machismo that are so ingrained in his culture. By working with thread and textiles, Dawe’s work has evolved into creating large-scale installations with thread, creating environments that deal with notions of social constructions and their relation to evolutionary theory and the self-organizing force of nature." http://sweet-station.com/blog/2010/11/gabriel-dawe/

Gabriel Dawe's Website

http://gabrieldawe.com

Gabriel Dawe

http://www.booooooom.com/2010/12/02/thread-artworks-by-artist-gabriel-dawe/

A Stitch in Jewish Time: Provocative Textiles

Coat of the Agunah - Andi Arnovitz

Middle Matzah - Leslie Golomb and Louise Silk

An amazing exhibit is currently on display through June 30, 2011 at the Hebrew Union College's Jewish Institute of Religion Museum (located at Brookdale Center, One West 4th Street, New York, NY 10012).

This exhibit "...explores how exceptional contemporary artists apply their skillful creativity to the ever evolving understanding of Jewish values. Individually addressing issues of memory and reflection, interpretations of history and ritual, and links between the past and present, they delve into aspects of the Holocaust, war, patriotism, celebration, prayer, feminism, and sexuality, frequently through the inclusion of Biblical texts and sometimes challenging traditional forms."
http://huc.edu/ckimages/files/Digest/August%2026,%202010/Press%20Release%20-%20A%20Stitch%20in%20Jewish%20Time.pdf

More Info About Some of the Artists:

Leslie A Golomb and Louise Silk - "Deez Nites Be All the Same to Me" : These two artists have created a series of quilts depicting the linked story of a Jewish slave-owning family, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Lyons Moss, and their run away slave boy.
http://www.lesliegolomb.com/deezlobby.html

Blog Post to The Jewish Chronicle by Louise Silk - Why Don't Jews Quilt?
http://thejewishchronicle.net/pages/full_story/push?blog-entry-Why+Don%E2%80%99t+Jews+Quilt-%20&id=10679000

Andi Arnovitz - Unchained: While Trying on New Artistic Hat, Artist Develops Series of Paper Coats:
http://www.tabletmag.com/arts-and-culture/26293/unchained/#3

"One series of coats is devoted to agunot, the so-called “chained women,” who, according to Jewish law, cannot remarry due to their husbands’ refusal to grant a divorce, or inconclusive evidence of a husband’s death. Arnovitz obtained and photocopied hundreds of ketubot (marriage contracts), and tore them into small pieces. With thread she affixed the fragments onto massive paper coats. The sleeves, hems and collars were sewn shut, and the threads, evidence of her painstaking process, were left hanging, a metaphor for the agunah, herself."

Robert Forman - String Pictures - "Forman's work is about the journey-his, theirs, ours. It is about transparent shadows of the real world, shifting as we shift, fortelling our own ephemerality even as they document us for posterity, playing tricks on our vision like Puck, like the trickster spirits of every culture. It is about surface, but also about deeper layers and juxtapositions-of thread, form, subject matter, symbol and meaning."
Website: http://www.glueyarn.com/site/Home.html

Robert Forman: The Journey of Self and Other (Surface Design Journal - Spring 2000)
http://www.glueyarn.com/site/Surface_Design.html

Jacqueline Nicholls - "...uses art to explore traditional Jewish ideas in untraditional ways. This website shows the variety of media I use in my work - paper-cuts, embroidery, corsetry, drawings & print, clothing - and explains some of my thinking behind each piece."
http://www.jacquelinenicholls.com/ 

Blog - http://jacquelinenicholls.blogspot.com/

Nancy Koenigsberg

Jane Sauer Galleryhttp://www.jsauergallery.com/sagemoon/MainPages/BasketryInPerspective2009.html#NK

Snyderman-Works Galleries
http://www.snyderman-works.com/artists/nancy-koenigsberg

Elaine Reichek - combines "...vintage and current photography with stitching..."
http://www.elainereichek.com/
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Adam Cohen - "Embroidery offers me a way to explore imagery while still feeling connected to the piece through my hands."

Snyderman-Works Galleries
http://www.snyderman-works.com/artists/adam-cohen

The Amazing Leather Work of Winfred Rembert

 "Winfred uses a canvas of cured leather to tool memories from his life.

These 'snapshots' offer an unprecedented view into the true lives of

African Americans in the Deep South only fifty years ago. The themes

present in his work transcend age, racial, gender and religious differences.

Through Winfred's work, we are encouraged to persevere and find a blessing

- to find redeption in the suffering we each experience as human beings."

- from his website

Many textile artists use leather in their work - Winfred Rembert, however, uses this "textile" as his fabric to create stunning and masterful narratives. The detailed imagery in the slices of life that he gives us from his own memories and experiences are fascinating, riveting and incredibly moving.

Family Picking Cotton - Winfred Rembert

Chain Gang (All Me) - Winfred Rembert

Website
http://www.velocissima.com/winfred/

The Indelible Images of Winfred Rembert - Folk Art Messenger Magazine
http://www.folkart.org/mag/winfred-rembert

Call Him "Artist" - includes a slideshow with 10 images of his work
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2010/05/13/entertainment/doc4bec01551d0fd865045524.txt?viewmode=fullstory

Adelson Galleries - Winfred Rembert - can view 44 images of his work
http://www.adelsongalleries.com/exhibitions/2010-04-07_winfred-rembert/

Winfred  Rembert at Work - 3:17 minute YouTube video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UTfKyjHB_g&feature=player_embedded

WFXL Interview of Winfred Remnbert - 6:03 minute YouTube video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2hPEitmam4&feature=related

Ben Cuevas - Knitted Skeleton & Organs

Ben Cuevas is a fiber artist who has knitted a skeleton

and internal organs that are incredibly detailed and intricate.

Knitted Head & Thorax - Ben Cuevas

Transcending the Material - shows many detailed close-ups of his knitted skeleton

http://bencuevas.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/transcending-the-material/

Ben Cuevas Interview, 2010 Wassaic Artist Resident - video of Ben Cuevas discussing his work in his studio in the Luther Barn in Wassaic, NY

http://vimeo.com/13860849

Healing Disparities: The Condition of Embodiment - Interview

http://arttistsspeak.blogspot.com/2010/08/ben-cuevas.html

Healing Disparities: The Condition of Embodiment - Includes links to detailed images of knitted body parts including: Rectum; Genitosexual; Intestines; Heart, Thyroid; Brain

http://bencuevas.wordpress.com/2010/07/26/healing-disparities-the-condition-of-embodiment/

Jeanne Martin: The Fabric Chef

Breakfast and Pastry Platters - Jeanne Martin

Jeanne Martin creates soft sculptures of food (from flannel, fleece, linen, broadcloth and other fabrics) so realistic that it takes usually takes a while for viewers to realize they have been created from fabric.

Fried Chicken, Texas Style - Jeanne Martin (a tribute to Bobby Flay)

Magic in the Fabric - 3:20 minue YouTube Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4fyk0_K8PA&feature=player_embedded

Sculptures that Look Good Enough to Eat - Interview by The Denver Post [NOTE: You'll need to scroll 1/3 way down a seemingly mostly blank page]
http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_16005749

The Fabric Chef - Jeanne Martin's website - shows many detail views of her work
http://www.thefabric-chef.com/

The Coiled Art of Carol Eckert

"Kingdom of the Birds" by Carol Eckert



Carol Eckert has taken the medium of basketry to a new level by using a signature "stitch" and universal symbols to illustrate legends, parables and creation stories by using the technique of coiling. Although she describes this technique as "simple" and only requiring the use of a threaded needle (to wrap copper wire with DMC cotton embroidery floss) her work is very sophisticated and complex. Through it she tells stories using a variety of forms such as staffs, shrines, wall art and books (as well as the occasional "basket" as she defines it).

DETAIL - "The Raven Addresses the Animals" by Carol Eckert

Smithsonian Archives of American Art Interview - An 2007 interview of Carol by Jo Laurie for the Smithsonian's Craft and Decorative Arts in America documentation project can be read online:
http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/eckert07.htm

To view more of Carol's art:

Carol's Website:
http://www.caroleckert.com/Carol_Eckert/Welcome.html

Jane Sauer Gallery
http://www.jsauergallery.com/sagemoon/artistPages/CEckert.html

The Fabric Collages of Wycliffe Lincoln Bennett

 

Angela by Wycliffe Lincoln Bennett

Wycliffe Lincoln Bennett creates textile collages on a base of either canvas or wood. His work is compelling, evocative and captivating. It immediately draws and holds the viewers eye.

Linc by Wycliffe Lincoln Bennett [self-portrait]

"To me an artist is someone who is gifted in being able

to express the feelings we all share.

If my art evokes a memory, changes a mood, captures an image

to which you can relate then I've done my job."

Wycliffe Lincoln Bennett

The Art of Linc Bennett - 5-minute video of the artist speaking about his work.

http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/entertainment/watch/v6389580GaQG62pG

Linc's Art

http://lincsart.com/index.htm

Wycliffe "Linc" Bennett's Photo Page on Black Art In America - More examples of Linc's artwork.

http://www.blackartinamerica.com/photo/photo/listForContributor?screenName=3n9i9kwn5etit

The Silk Thangkas of Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo

Manjushri - Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo

Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo is a contemporary American textile artist working in a Tibetan tradition. In her fabric thangkas, sacred Buddhist images commonly portrayed in Tibetan thangka paintings are rendered in vivid mosaics of silk.

"Leslie is one of few non-Tibetans and probably the only Westerner

to be formally trained in this traditional art form."

Green Tara - Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo

How Silk Thangkas are Made - Leslie states that the Thangkas are "...a mosaic or patchwork of silk pieces outlined, cut, and arranged like a jigsaw puzzle to form a precise and intricate image."

http://www.silkthangka.com/the-tradition/technique

Creating Buddhas: The Making and Meaning of Fabric Thangkas - 3:07 YouTube video - this is the trailer for a documentary about Leslie's work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlAk10Y72qw  
 
Leslie's Blog
http://silkthangka.com/blog/?p=927  

Felt Alive: Sculptural Needle Felting by Kay Petal

"Li'l Mr. T - I Pity the Wool!" - Kay Petal

"Li'l Jay Leno" - Kay Petal

These are absolutely fascinating - and Kay has only been needle felting since 2007.

See more of her work (including some videos) at:
http://www.feltalive.com/

The Sistine Chapel in Cross-Stitch

Joanna Lopianowski-Roberts' Cross-Stitch Rendering of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling

Joanna Lopianowski-Roberts undertook the monumental task of recreating the Sistine Chapel Ceiling in cross-stitch. Her design contains more 628,296 stitches, measures 40"x80", and uses 1,206 distinct color combinations. 

Close-up - Joanna Lopianowski-Roberts

It took Joanna nine years and three months (2,872 hours of stitching) to complete (including 718 hours to design it, and an additional 68 hours to choose the colors).

Charting Sample - Joanna Lopianowski-Roberts

Check out the project website for full details.

http://www.lopianowski-roberts-sistine-chapel.com/index.html

A Different Canvas

"If art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way

that appeals to the senses or emotions, then the world might agree

that the Giotto and Morris pieces are both fundamentally works of art.

How then did Western cultures come to
assign greater value to a painting than a textile?"

Liz Harger

A Different Canvas: Series Prologue - Liz Harger - "This is the first in a number of inter-related posts, in which Venetian Red explores aspects of artist-designed textiles."
http://venetianred.net/2009/09/18/a-different-canvas-series-prologue/

A Different Canvas: Raoul Dufy - Liz Harger - "Dufy’s textile designs are where he manipulates the decorative into sensuous and ecstatic works...Poiret saw no distinction between the fine and applied arts; he saw art and fashion as indivisible."
http://venetianred.net/2009/10/07/a-different-canvas-raoul-dufy/
 
A Different Canvas: The British Abstractionists - Liz Harger - "While primarily known as sculptors and painters, the British “Abstractionists” Ben Nicholson (1894-1982), Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975), and Henry Moore (1898-1986) also designed a fair number of textiles...Nicholson, Hepworth, and Moore were eager to experiment with textiles; they all considered designing for the applied arts to be a legitimate part of their artistic output."
http://venetianred.net/2009/11/13/a-different-canvas-the-british-abstractionists/
 
A Different Canvas: Charles Burchfield's Landscapes for Interiors - Christine Cariati - Burchfield is "...an interesting variation on the theme of established artists venturing into textile design and yet another example of the fruitfulness of embracing both decorative and fine art."

http://venetianred.net/2009/11/18/venetian-red-notebook-charles-burchfields-landscapes-for-interiors/
 

Other textile related posts include:

 

Poetic License": A Joan Schulze Retrospective" - Liz Harger

http://venetianred.net/2010/02/20/joan-schulze/

 

Stripped Bare: Amish Quilts at the de Young - Liz Harger

http://venetianred.net/2009/11/25/stripped-bare-amish-quilts-at-the-de-young/

 

Hmong Appliqué - Liz Harger

http://venetianred.net/2008/06/10/hmong-applique/

 

Inner Sympathy of Meaning - Liz Harger

http://venetianred.net/2008/05/27/inner-sympathy-of-meaning/

 

Venetian Red Notebook: Kuba Cloth, the Geometry of the Labyrinth - Christine Cariati

http://venetianred.net/2009/08/07/venetian-red-notebook-kuba-cloth-the-geometry-of-the-labyrinth/

 

Ethnography by the Bay, Textiles - Liz Harger

http://venetianred.net/2009/02/15/ethnography-by-the-bay-part-i-textiles/

 

Venetian Red in Berlin: Ethnological Arts from Azerbaijan - Liz Harger

http://venetianred.net/2008/10/22/venetian-red-in-berlin-ethnological-arts-from-azerbaijan/

 

Tomorrow's Headlines? Oil and Textiles in Daghestan - Liz Harger

http://venetianred.net/2008/07/03/tomorrows-headlines/

 

My Own Piece of Paradise: Uzbeki Suzanis - Liz Harger

http://venetianred.net/2008/06/16/my-own-piece-of-paradise/

 

 

Extreme Surface Design: Wooden Textiles

     Elisa Strozyk

    Elisa Strozyk

The art of Elisa Strozyk

Eisa Strozyk is a German textile designer who bonds wood veneer off-cuts to fabric to create pieces that seemingly have the drape and fluidity of ordinary textiles. Look at her amazing work:

Elisa Strozyk: Wooden Carpet
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/8823/elisa-strozyk-wooden-carpet.html

Wooden Textiles Add a New Dimension
http://www.yatzer.com/2075_wooden_textiles_add_a_new_dimension
 
Elisa Strozyk's Web Site
http://www.elisastrozyk.de/seite/woodtex/wooden%20carpet.html
 

Textile Related Podcasts - Part 2

Textile Related Podcasts – Part 1

http://creativityjourney.blogspot.com/2009/02/textile-related-podcasts-part-1.html

Jeanne Williamson - 29:34 minute interview - WICN Public Radio - In 1999 Jeanne decided to expand the limits of her understanding of her art, by making one small quilt a week for the entire year. This process encouraged her to think outside the box of how quilts can be made and what they can be made from and changed forever her concept of quilting. Materials like plastic fruit bags, dryer lint, coffee filters, coins and even stones all were incorporated into an amazing series of visually intriguing quilted works, many wonderful works of abstract art.
http://www.wicn.org/audio/inquiry-uncommon-quilting-jeanne-williamson

Sonya Clark - 10/12/2008 25 minute Interview - Museum of Contemporary Craft - Namita Gupta Wiggers, curator at Museum of Contemporary Craft, talks with Manuf®actured artist Sonya Clark about her recent series of work using combs, hairdressing as a primordial fiber art, and the social and historical significance of the black plastic fine toothed comb. Includes an informal Q & A with museum visitors.
http://www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org/programs_podcasts.php
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http://www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org/media/2008_10_12_Sonya_Clark.mp3
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MuseumOfContemporaryCraft/~5/4dH_Nfq2d3w/2008_10_12_Sonya_Clark.mp3

Glenn Adamsom - 2/21/09 - 1 1/2 hour lecture - Craft in the 21st Century: Directions and Displacements - Museum of Contemporary Craft - Adamson is one of the most dynamic theorists currently considering craft. A leading force in the development of an academic framework for craft, he is hailed by writer and historian Garth Clark as one of craft’s fresh, young, nontraditional voices. Adamson dispenses with clichéd approaches to craft theory, posing such questions as: Is craft truly a subcategory of art, or rather its antithesis, challenging art’s most fundamental values? Why is craft perceived as subservient to art? Could craft’s orphaned status actually be its great strength? Framing his discussion broadly throughout contemporary aesthetic culture, Adamson provides ripe context for a range of visual practitioners including fine artists, designers, architects, historians and indie crafters.
http://www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org/media/2009_02_21_GlennAdamson.mp3
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MuseumOfContemporaryCraft/~5/a16Fj8n_ALw/2009_02_21_GlennAdamson.mp3

The Changing Dynamics of Craft and Design - 4/9/2009 - Panelists include Andrew Wagner, editor in chief of American Craft magazine; Namita Gupta Wiggers, Curator Museum of Contemporary Craft; JP Reuer, Chair of the MFA in Applied Craft and Design program, offered jointly by Oregon College of Art and Craft (OCAC) and Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA); and Karl Burkheimer, OCAC Wood Department Head. Moderated by Tim DuRoche, Community Program Manager at Portland Center Stage.
http://www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org/media/2009_04_09_Community_Conversations_2.mp3
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MuseumOfContemporaryCraft/~5/2fu-O3WgRSk/2009_04_09_Community_Conversations_2.mp3

Garth Clark - How Envy Killed the Craft Movement: An Autopsy in Two Parts - 10/16/2008 - Garth Clark presents his first lecture on the craft field as a whole - and his first public lecture in years. Clark is a leading international writer on modern and contemporary ceramics today - a provocative, controversial but deeply informed voice. In this two-part program, Clark will analyze the current state of American Craft, then invite the audience to join him in an examination of how aesthetics, economics and art-envy have "killed" this 20th century movement.

Part I - http://www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org/media/2008_10_16_Garth_Clark_CraftPerspect1.mp3

Part II - http://www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org/media/2008_10_16_Garth_Clark_CraftPerspect2.mp3

Lynn Mclure – In this 21 minute podcast, Lynn is interviewed at Penland by Steve Miller about how she integrates her textile art with her book art.
http://www.bookarts.ua.edu/podcast/070306mclure.m4a



"Modern Materials: The Art of the Quilt" - 29 minute podcast Interview with Jill Rumoshosky Werner
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kwgs/news.newsmain/article/0/1/1608389/StudioTulsa/%E2%80%99Modern.Materials.The.Art.of.the.Quilt%E2%80%99.at.Living.Arts.of.Tulsa#

Maiwa Textile Symposiums:

     African Textiles: The Heart of the Yoruba

• PART 1 - In this lecture master craftsman Gasali Adeyemo opens the evening with a description of his early life in Nigeria and tells how fibre art came into his life. As a participant of the Nike Centre for Arts and Culture, both as a student and later as a teacher, Gasali encountered a range of traditional crafts. He gives a description of the famous adire techniques and illustrates how they relate to Yoruba culture.
  http://www.maiwa.com/documentaries/pc_gasali.html
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• PART 2 – In this lecture master craftsman Gasali Adeyemo fields questions from the audience about traditional techniques and about working in Africa and Santa Fe. Gasali concludes with a story about the role of clothing and cloth in life.
  http://www.maiwa.com/documentaries/pc_gasali2.html  

     The Cotton Road 

• PART 1 - In part one Rosemary Crill describes the scope and range of India's trade, its historic beginnings and describes in detail the commerce with the countries in the east.
  http://www.maiwa.com/documentaries/pc_crill_1.html
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• PART 2 - In part two Rosemary Crill explores India's cotton trade with the west. Printed cotton known as "chintz" changed the very fabric of life itself - especially in the British Commonwealth.
  http://www.maiwa.com/documentaries/pc_crill_2.html
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• PART 3 - In part three Rosemary Crill explores India's trade with the west as the focus shifted from printed cottons to muslins and Kashmir shawls. She concludes her lecture by answering some questions from the audience.
  http://www.maiwa.com/documentaries/pc_crill_3.html

     Masters of the Art: The Khatri Blockprinters of Dhamadka and Ajrakhpur

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  PART 1 - Ajrakh has become the signature cloth of the Khatris. It is a cotton textile traditionally dyed with indigo and madder, and printed on both sides with complex geometric and floral patterns using hand-carved wooden blocks. There are between 14 and 16 individual stages of preparation, printing, and dyeing. The process can take 15–21 days to complete.
  http://www.maiwa.com/documentaries/pc_masters.html
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  PART 2 - After the formal presentation the evening was opened up for questions from the audience. The questions explored trade patterns, the technique and culture of blockcutting, how the excavated textiles from Fustat, Egypt have found their way back into contemporary Ajrakh designs, tradition and the future of the art.
  http://www.maiwa.com/documentaries/pc_masters2.html  

London’s Enterprise Centre for the Creative Arts – “Choosing to make your career as a fine artist is a notoriously difficult path to follow. Income can be unpredictable and sourcing funding can be a minefield. Knowing how much to charge and how to work with funders, curators and galleries are vital skills for survival. This podcast brings together an artist, a collector and a specialist artist's advisor to uncover practical advice on how to make money and working with others within the fine art world.”

• Don’t Suffer for Your Art: Make Money as a Fine Artist – PART 1
  http://www.ecca-london.org/assets/podcasts/gw07_art_part_1.mp3 
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• Don’t Suffer for Your Art: Make Money as a Fine Artist - PART 2http://www.ecca-london.org/assets/podcasts/gw07_art_part_2.mp3
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• Applying for Funding for Creative Projects – PART 1 - “You've got a fantastic idea for a creative project. But you need money to make it happen. Who's going to give it to you? What are funders really looking for? How do you write a proposal? All these questions and more will be addressed in this podcast from a leading funder and creatives who have successfully applied for business funding.”
  http://www.ecca-london.org/assets/podcasts/gw07_funding_part_1.mp3
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• Applying for Funding for Creative Projects – PART 2
  http://www.ecca-london.org/assets/podcasts/gw07_funding_part_2.mp3 

The Arts Now Podcast #26 - 18 minute conversation with curators of the Big Fibre, Little Fibre exhibit about how the featured textile artists are bringing sexy back and proving that textile art is just as edgy and relevant as all contemporary art forms.
http://www.blogto.com/arts_now_podcast/2007/10/arts_now_podcast_26/

Bonnie McCaffery provides access to the amazing list of podcast & Vidcast interviews she has conducted with textile artists
http://www.bonniemccaffery.com/wordpress1/?page_id=13

Master Quilter Hystercine Rankin Dies

Hystercine Rankin, recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellowship in 1997, has died at the age of 80. She is best known for the extremely powerful stories told through her quilts about her family's history and about growing up in the segregated rural south - one in particular about the murder of her father. She is one of the quilters featured in Roland Freeman's book, A Communion of the Spirits. Her work has also been featured in many other books, documentaries and magazines.

Mrs. Rankin was a wonderful artist who will be missed not only by her family, but by the art community at-large.

To read the online article about her in today's Clarion-Ledger Newspaper:
http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20100216/NEWS/2160331/1001/newsfrnt/Nationally-known-Lorman-quilt-artist-honored-by-NEA-in-1997-dies-at-age-80
 
National Endowment for the Arts – 1997 National Heritage Fellowship
http://www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/fellows/fellow.php?id=1997_10

Mississippi Quilting: Hystercine Rankin – includes video of her talking about how she began quilting
http://www.arts.state.ms.us/crossroads/quilting/quilting1.html

Craft in America – includes a video of Patty Crosby, the director of Mississippi Cultural Crossroads talking about Mrs. Rankin
http://www.craftinamerica.org/artists_fiber/story_168.php? 

The Alliance for American Quilts Presents: Hystercine Rankin – includes links to an interview, photo gallery, timeline, biography & bibliography
http://www.allianceforamericanquilts.org/treasures/main.php?id=11

Textile Sculpture - Part 5: Ruth Asawa, Karen Searle, Sarah Hewitt, Olga de Amaral

More stunning work by fiber artists exploring different disciplines

RUTH ASAWA

Ruth Asawa - Ruth Asawa is renowned for her
wire and fiber sculptures. Explore all pages of her
website to learn about her creative process.
http://www.ruthasawa.com/

Oral History Interview – this is the transcript of
a 2002 interview that is archived at the Smithsonian
http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/asawa02.htm

Ruth Asawa: A Life in Art – an article by Pam RuBert
posted to the Ragged Cloth Café blog
http://raggedclothcafe.com/2008/01/30/ruth-asawa-a-life-in-art-by-pam-rubert/

YouTube Video – 8 ½ minute video – Daniell Cornell,
Curator at the San Jose Museum of Art talks about Ruth
Asawa’s exhibit, “Contours in the Air”. It includes an
interview by phone with her oldest daughter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir5vq7FogSg

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KAREN SEARLE

Karen Searle – knits and crochets into 3-dimensional
form any malleable medium, from linen to wire to hog
gut to telephone cable. Her predominant interest is in
exploration of the feminine form
http://www.karensearle.com/Fiber_Works/gallery.aspx
http://www.mnartists.org/work.do?pageIndex=1&rid=166329
– click image for large close-up

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SARAH HEWITT

Sarah Hewitt – “I choose to sculpt using fibers – using a variety of materials from jute twine from the hardware store to bark peeled fresh from a tree, and cloth purposed for commercial fishing. To build an object I use a variety of textile techniques – stitching, knitting, crochet, coiling, weaving – any form of joinery. My forms develop from the materials’ strengths and weakness. They border on the yonic and womb-like, referencing nests, bindings, and scarification.”
http://www.sarahhewitt.com/gallery.php?port=2

In her blog, Sarah goes into detail about her artistic and creative thought process as well as in-depth info about “The Love Armor” project
http://sarahhewitt.com/blog/
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OLGA DE AMARAL

Olga de Amaral is a Columbian Textile Artist
whose works often “…take the form of large
tapestries covered with gold or silver leaf…” [and]
“…is one of the textile artists who, in the 1960s,
first turned textile arts from a primarily two-
dimensional representational art form into a
three-dimensional, abstract art form.”
http://www.omahapubliclibrary.org/events/gallery/ml-textile-sculpture-alt.html

The Sun Queen – this is an in-depth 3-page
article about Olga de Amaral in TREND
(art+design+architecture) magazine – wonderful
pictures
http://www.bellasartesgallery.com/artistsstudio1.html

Landscapes of Imagination – gives details
and images of an installation of her tapestries
http://www.bellasartesgallery.com/amaral.html

More Images – click on images for close-up views
http://www.artincontext.org/artist/artist_images.aspx?id=3368
http://www.artnet.fr/Galleries/Artists_detail.asp?G=&gid=138&which=&aid=1443&ViewArtistBy=online&rta=http://www.artnet.fr

Raoul Dufy: A Celebration of Beauty

“My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.” Raoul Dufy

"I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down

are only so many props to be cast aside when the

hour of creation arrives." Raoul Dufy
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"The subject itself is of no account; what matters is the way it is presented." Raoul Duffy

If you are lucky enough to be anywhere near Jackson, MS between now and July 5, make sure you take the time to beat a path to the Mississippi Museum of Art to view the international tour exhibit Raoul Dufy: A Celebration of Beauty, an exhibition that includes 100 antique silk fabrics and fabric designs on loan from the Bianchini-Ferier (Lyon, France) archives.
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During his lifetime, Dufy created over 4,000 fabric designs becoming one of the great innovators of 20th century textile design.

From the museum's website:

“Dufy transformed the face of fashion and fabric design,
formulated practically all modern fabric design between
1909 and 1930, and his style radically influenced the
popular arts and the commercial design of the Western
world. Even today, his vision informs the color, design,
texture, and imagery of a wide range of products such
as book covers, perfumes, posters and stage decor,
and textiles for furniture and clothing.”

Raoul Dufy: The Controversial Aesthete
http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/index.php/site/comments/raoul_dufy_the_controversial_aesthete_030409/

Raoul Dufy: A Celebration of Beauty - Textile and Fashion Design
http://home.earthlink.net/~raoul.dufy/id2.html

Raoul Dufy: Créateur d'Étoffes [Raoul Dufy: textile designer; printing on Mulhouse fabrics] - written in French, but has some pictures.
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/other/mlm_dufy.pdf