Category Archives: SDA – Washington

“Working with Artists Working in Fiber”

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Bellevue Art Museum’s, Stefano Catalani will speak about BAM’s recent projects and collaborations with artists who work in fiber at the upcoming Surface Matters Symposium on March 3, 2012.

Catalani’s talk will focus on the selected works and installations taking us on the journey from their inception—in the artist’s intention—to their realization, coming to life in their final presentation in the museum galleries.

An Italian native, Catalani relocated to Seattle in 2001. His classics and humanities studies provided him with a strong theoretical background in art history and philosophy. In 2005, he joined the Bellevue Arts Museum as Curator and in 2010 was appointed by Bellevue Arts Museum as the Director of Curatorial Affairs/Artistic Dirctor.  Catalani focuses on “craft as a cultural signifier,” stressing the social implications of craft.

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Trisha Hassler – Life-Long Fascination with Paradox

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Trisha says that she has always been fascinated with paradox and that she has been stitching, cutting and reassembling everything that would hold still since childhood. Both impulses are clearly visible in her continuing series where she combines torch cut steel with quilted fabrics.  If you haven’t seen her work, take a moment to visit her website.  It will inspire you.

Trisha will be talking about how personal style evolved, her inspiration and her plans for the future at the Surface Matters Symposium in a talk entitled, Surface Connections.

We hope you will join us for what is surely to be an amazing conference.  Registration opens January 7th.

website: trishahassler.com

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Jane Dunnewold to speak at Surface Matters Symposium

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We are thrilled to announce that Jane Dunnewold will be speaking on March 3rd at the upcoming symposium, Surface Matters.  She will join Marci McDade and Lou Cabeen for a discussion about surface design followed by a break out session tentatively titled, “Finding Your Own Visual Language.”

Jane Dunnewold is the author of Complex Cloth (1996) Improvisational Screen Printing (2003), and co-authored Finding Your Own Visual Language (2007). Interweave Press published Art Cloth: A Guide to Surface Design on Fabric in 2010. Dunnewold is the former chair of the Surface Design Studio at the Southwest School of Art. She teaches and lectures on art cloth internationally, including recent tours to Australia, Italy and the United Kingdom.

Dunnewold’s work was featured in the one-person exhibitions Sacred Planet (2009/2011) and Etudes: A Daily Practice (2011). She was awarded the Quilt Japan Prize in the 2002 Visions exhibition, and the Gold Prize, at the Taegue International Textile Exhibition. The vice-president of the Surface Design Association, she maintains Art Cloth Studios, in San Antonio, Texas, USA. Additional information on commissions and exhibition experience can be found at complexcloth.com. Essays on the creative process and acts of making are offered regularly at existentialneighborhood.blogspot.com.

Website name and URL: complexcloth.com
Existentialneighborhood.blogspot.com

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Mandy Greer Showcased in the Seattle Times

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Mandy Greer by Benjamin Benschneider/ The Seattle Times

We were excited to come across a great article about Mandy Greer in the Pacific Northwest Section of the Seattle Times.  Click here to read the article and see some images of her work.

Mandy will be speaking at our March conference, Surface Matters.  For more information about the conference, click on the link in sidebar.  We will be updating this information as the conference takes shape so do sign up to receive our email updates.

Registration for the conference will open on January 7, 2012.

New Bellevue SDA group to meet Sunday, October 2!

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Hi, SDA Members,

Lynne Rigby and I have decided we’d really like to start having a regular meeting for SDA Members who live on the Eastside.  We’re hoping you can come join us for the first meeting and help shape the group and direction we’d like to go.  Our plan is to determine interest areas for our members, look at how we want to structure our meetings, discuss the upcoming WA state SDA Symposium, and do any show and tell or critique for items that we bring to the meeting.  Our fantastic WA state SDA representative, Peggy O’Heron, will be attending to help us kick-off our Eastside group.  We’ll be meeting:

Sunday October 2 from 2:30-4:30 pm
QuiltWorks Northwest – Classroom 2
121A 107th Avenue NE, Bellevue, WA 98004
Phone: (425) 453-6005 :: Toll Free: (877) 295-7222

Please come join us!  If you can’t make it at this time, let me know that you’re interested so we can keep you in the loop of what’s going on.

Sincerely,

Christina Fairley Erickson