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Allison McElroy

July 26, 2007 at 11:19 am | In art, education, recent grads | Leave a Comment

Allison completed her MFA in the painting department at SCAD in 2005. She took several fibers classes during her studies.

Hothouse: Expanding the field of Fiber at Cranbrook 1970-2007

June 29, 2007 at 8:21 am | In art, education, lecture/exhibition | Leave a Comment

Cranbrook Academy of Art has been a hothouse environment for graduate studies in the visual arts for more than seventy-five years. In particular, the program in fiber under the successive leadership of Gerhardt Knodel and Jane Lackey has contributed to the rethinking of the field, redefining and shifting it in new directions. Hot House: Expanding the Field of Fiber at Cranbrook, 1970-2007 presents work by Knodel and Lackey as well as over 150 of their 275 graduates, all of whom have contributed to the ever-expanding field of fiber. From the introductory essay by Gregory Wittkopp

Connecting

January 31, 2007 at 7:56 pm | In announcements, education | Leave a Comment

It’s 2007 and we are a bit behind on the fibertext project! Let’s work on getting the conversation going again. Please send links to your personal websites for inclusion in the practice section.

I just heard about an MFA textile listserv located at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MFAtextiles/

Fiber Class

December 3, 2006 at 11:59 am | In education | 1 Comment

I am putting together projects for my first fiber art class, and looking for suggestions on what to include. Any ideas would be much appreciated. Thanks.

This is my first time teaching fiber arts at the college level, and most of the students have never even heard of fiber arts, much less have any experience in the subject matter. It is a special topics class in the art dept, so I can do whatever I want with it.

Jennifer Jenkins

December 2, 2006 at 12:47 am | In art, education, recent grads | Leave a Comment

Jennifer Jenkins completed her MFA in Fibers at the Savannah College of Art & Design in 2005. This is her new website.

Radical Craft: 2006 Art Center Design Conference – By Janet Abrams

October 26, 2006 at 10:13 pm | In conferences, education, lecture/exhibition, theory | Leave a Comment

Radical Craft: 2006 Art Center Design Conference – By Janet Abrams

Conference swag bag

As I lugged my Timbuk2 swag bag of conference sponsor goodies back to my hotel room–an advert for unsustainability, heavy enough to dislocate your shoulder–and wrenched its ultimately useful contents (a pen, a notebook, a discount voucher and some breath mints) free from their surfeit of packaging, I found myself pondering what Maurice Cox had said, in his talk, about using design to stir unrest, dissatisfaction with the way things are, and of making access to design one of every citizen’s “inalienable rights.” Could a design conference truly galvanize, challenge its audience, provoke us into action, spurred rather than dazed by the stunning variety of its speakers’ agendas and accomplishments?

Now, that would be radical.