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Textile Society Of America Newsletter 21:3 — Fall 2009, Textile Society Of America

Textile Society of America Newsletters

Conservation of Three Hawaiian Feather Cloaks
Activities and Exhibitions: Textiles and Settlement: From Plains Space to Cyber Space! TSA 12th Biennial Symposium—Lincoln, Nebraska, October, 6–9, 2010
From the President
TSA News
TSA Member News
Collections News
Conference Reviews
Book Reviews
Exhibition Reviews
Exhibitions Calendar
Lectures, Workshops, Tours
Call for Papers
Conferences & Symposia
From the Editor
Publication News

Review Of The Cabinet Of Eros: Renaissance Mythological Painting And The Studiolo Of Isabella D'Este. By Stephen J. Campbell, Andrea Bolland

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Faculty Publications and Creative Activity

Isabella d'Este's activities as an art collector and patron are richly documented and have received a correspondingly large amount of art historical attention in the modern era. Yet Isabella--and the studiolo she had created and decorated in the Mantuan Palazzo Ducale--have gotten mixed reviews in this scholarship; the former has historically emerged as difficult, irrational, and acquisitive rather than discerning, while the paintings done for the latter by Andrea Mantegna, Perugino, Lorenzo Costa, and Correggio between 1497 and 1530 are often treated as curiosities-stilted in style and didactic in subject-within the larger scope of the artists' careers. The paintings have …

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 21:2 — Spring/Summer 2009, Textile Society Of America

Textile Society of America Newsletters

Symposium 2010: Exhibition Preview, Part 1
Textiles and Settlement: From Plains Space to Cyber Space, 12th TSA Biennial Symposium, Lincoln, Nebraska, October 6-9, 2010: Call for Papers
From the President
TSA News
TSA Member News
Collections News
In Memoriam: Mildred Constantine, 1913-2009
Remembering Peter Collingwood
Featured Collection: The Tilleke & Gibbins Textile Collections
Book Reviews
Exhibition Reviews
Exhibitions: United States, International, Virtual
Lectures, Workshops, Tours
Conferences and Symposia
Call for Papers

The Constellatlons Of Palomar, Shane Haley

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work

Palomar is one of the oldest observatories in the United States with one of the largest telescopes built; Thousands visit Mount Palomar each year to stare through a lens and get a glimpse of distant constellations and to view what is beyond unaided vision. For me, this physical observatory is a perfect metaphor for the intemal Palomar I have created. Palomar is not just a location on a map or a building on a mountaintop. Palomar is a place of quiet contemplation where I go to connect with all that is good in life. It is where the tangible meets …

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 21:1 — Winter 2009, Textile Society Of America

Textile Society of America Newsletters

The Woven Word: Sasigyo
Stephen Beal Receives 2008 Lillian Elliott Award at TSA Symposium
From the President: Symposium Thanks, 2010 Symposium, Board Concerns, Study Tours, The Next Two Years
TSA News: TSA Board Committees 2008-2010, First Founding Presidents Awardee, Students/New Professional Awardees, Shep Award Nominations Sought, TSA Study Tour 2009: Uzbekistan, Publications Initiative Summary
TSA Member News
In Memoriam: Fran Reed, 1943-2008; Peter Collingwood, 1922-2008
Call for Papers
2008 Symposium Reviews
Collections News
Featured Collection: New Costume and Textiles Facilities at Philadelphia Museum of Art
Exhibition Reviews
Book Reviews
Calendar—Exhibitions
Calendar—Lectures, Workshops, Tours
Conferences & Symposia
TSA 12th Biennial Symposium, …

Rural Consumers’ Online Shopping For Food And Fiber Products As A Form Of Outshopping, Sharon J. Lennon, Young Ha, Kim K. P. Johnson, Cynthia R. Jasper, Mary Lynn Damhorst, Nancy Lyons

Department of Textiles, Merchandising, and Fashion Design: Faculty Publications

The purpose of the research was to longitudinally investigate rural consumers’ online shopping for food and fiber products as a function of satisfaction with local retailing and outshopping. Innovation diffusion theory was used to guide the research. Eight hundred seventy-nine rural consumers from 11 states completed surveys twice (in 2000 and 2003). Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling and analyses of variance. Dissatisfaction with local retailing in 2000 was a powerful driver of outshopping, beliefs about online shopping, and online shopping (both in 2000 and in 2003). Outshopping was positively related to online shopping at both points in time, …

Citric Acid Cross-Linking Of Starch Films, Narendra Reddy, Yiqi Yang

Department of Textiles, Merchandising, and Fashion Design: Faculty Publications

This paper shows that citric acid can cross-link starch and improve the tensile strength, thermal stability and decrease the dissolution of starch films in water and formic acid. The poor mechanical properties and water stability of starch have restricted its industrial applications. Although cross-linking is a common approach to improve the properties of starch products, current starch cross-linking methods are either expensive, toxic or do not impart the desired properties to the cross-linked materials. In this research, the possibility of cross-linking starch films using citric acid to improve their strength and stability was examined. Citric acid cross-linked starch films show …

Agency Of Time: An Installation By Leighton Pierce, Leighton Pierce

Sheldon Museum of Art: Catalogs and Publications

Leighton Pierce uses film, video and sound to create transformative experiences for viewers in time-based media. He creates multi-channel, sitespecific installations as well as single channel works. His award-winning short films and videos have been exhibited at museums and film festivals throughout the world, including the Whitney Biennial and film festivals in San Francisco, New York and Rotterdam.

He has had retrospectives at The Lincoln Center, The Cinematheque Francaise, Festival Nemo and Pompidou Center in Paris, and at The Lisboa Bienal of Contemporary Art. Pierce has received fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, The Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for …

Evolving Eden, Sharon L. Kennedy

Sheldon Museum of Art: Catalogs and Publications

Eden is an idealized place where one experiences happiness, harmony and a sense of timelessness. While some believe this can only be experienced after death, others are convinced that the only Eden is the one we currently inhabit and therefore good stewardship is needed in order to sustain it. Photographers have historically captured our evolving planet and have brought to light its beauty as well as its destruction due to human intervention.

The artists in Evolving Eden address the much-discussed topic of the environment and our relationship with our surroundings, using three distinct approaches. While Arno Rafael Minkkinen's spiritual images …

From Particles To Planets: Exploring The Physical In Art, Susan J. Soriente

Sheldon Museum of Art: Catalogs and Publications

Our physical reality-its span, depth and breadth; from microcosm to macrocosm, from particle to planet-may be experienced through the eye of the artist as we contemplate a work of art.

It is clear that the physical is a primary element of art, but that statement does not encompass the multitude of ways the physical may be expressed. From antiquity, artists have used their art to encapsulate and express the world, or to change, invent and portray the physical to express their view of reality.

Line, form, color, texture and composition produce a visual experience of a subject that delineates and …

New Acquisitions 2008 African-American Masters Collection, Patrick D. Jones, Sharon L. Kennedy, Christin J. Mamiya, Tyre J. Mcdowell Jr., Jorge Daniel Veneciano

Sheldon Museum of Art: Catalogs and Publications

Charles Henry Alston

Romare Bearden

Elizabeth Catlett

Aaron Douglas

Löis Mailou Jones

Jacob Lawrence

Alvin D. Loving, Jr.

Charles Wilber White

The Unknown Blakelock, Sharon L. Kennedy

Sheldon Museum of Art: Catalogs and Publications

Understanding the work of nineteenth-century American painter Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847-1919) has proven elusive despite several exhibitions and publications about his life and art. As Sheldon Director Emeritus, author, and founder of the Nebraska Blakelock Inventory Project Norman Geske observes, "Essentially self-taught, Blakelock proceeded with an imagination that was singularly free of any allegiance to established procedures, allowing him ... to address subjects as diverse as Jamaica, upper Manhattan Island, and the ocean shore - to find new solutions to differing pictorial problems. In some instances, it is clear he was cognizant of stylistic innovations in the higher artistic community. …

Dysfunctionation, Samuel B. Rapien

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work

We live in a society that perpetuates, if not celebrates, dysfunctional attitudes. The intention of my work is to point out the follies, hypocrisy, and failings of our society. With my ink drawings, I use a combination of humor and rage to mirror a grotesquely exaggerated reflection of my vexed world view filtered through uncanny and surreal imagery. I am a satirist; I use sarcasm, irony, and expressions of anger to criticize social standards, at times with humor, but always with a certain amount of cynicism. With subjects ranging from artifice, historical and modern sexuality, our obsession with violence, inequality, …

Displacement, Kelly Manning

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work

Displacement is the act by which fluid is forced to move by an object floating or submerged in it. During the course of a bath, the bather continuously affects the water he/she displaces, creating water distortions that visually contort and fragment the bather. Our human senses cannot fully digest all these nuances made from one simple splash. We are essentially blind to these beautiful milliseconds save through the use of a camera. In studying my photographic references, I have been able to discern different types of water formations. The complexity of rendering water is its own struggle. More than a …

Catch Shadow, Hold Light, Autumn Cipala

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work

I aspire to make forms that quietly engage the viewer, inspire curiosity, and invite a sense of discovery. These are objects that ask one to slow down, and to notice the subtleties of form, surface, and function. My intention is for these vessels to be used mindfully. An assuredness of form is essential to this work. Curves, volume and proportion are balanced with restraint. I prefer complex yet clean forms that are enhanced by soft translucent glazes. Consideration of balance continues as pattern is balanced with unadorned surface, cool color with warm, cup with saucer. I am attracted to glazes …

Of Vapor Beneath The Evening Star, Sarah Barnard Blitz

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work

The things we see are but shadows of reality. We are in a cave, but if we tum around we can see the fire that casts the shadows we call reality. We can take the difficult journey to see the beauty and magic that is our true world. Stories such as this, Plato's allegory of the cave in The Republic, have taught for centuries that there is more to our world than we initially know. Allegory and metaphor can help us begin to understand the shadows for what they are. II is in our hearts and our imaginations that we …

Saturated Memory, Jewel Noll

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work

We face experiences in life that we cannot ignore; we approach them with uncertainty and understand them with what rational thought that we have to offer. But what about the elements of an event that we never fully understand, yet carry with us to pick apart and revisit time and time again? It is the tastes that linger in our mouths, thread through our thoughts and formulate our personalities. These are the memories that evolve us into the future and keep us searching for answers. We saturate ourselves with these uncertainties, waiting for a bit of light, a chance to …

Bringing Spiritual Symbolism To A Material Plane, Seth Green

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work

I am a ceramic vessel maker who has developed a passion for the aesthetic, historical and technical aspects of ceramics, merging the three in my work. Identifying the objects I make as vessels rather than pots (the contemporary term for the word pottery) allows me to clarify where they belong in the world and my intentions for their function. My vessels included in this exhibition primarily focus on spiritual symbolism rather than the traditional daily uses of pottery. My work is influenced by spiritually symbolic elements used in the creation of religious architecture. Specific inspirations include the temples, palaces and …

View Of The Void, John E. Carrasco

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work

Memories form, memories fade, and memories are lost. Small cavities of emptiness replace memories that have drifted away, where they then spread like thin cracks on the surface and diverge to form a void. Within the hollows of these voids, perplexities in mental and physical conditions emerge. Such perplexities of the void have captured my attention. With this body of Sculpture, defining and embodying the mental void within a physical presence is my ultimate goal. Methods have been instituted to aid in the creation and definition of the nonentity. Skins are developed to encase a void, enabling one to see …