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Textile Society Of America Newsletter 19:3 — Fall 2007, Textile Society Of America

Textile Society of America Newsletters

Algerian Conservation Project—"One, Two, Three, Viva Algerie!"
President's Letter
Symposium 2008 Plans—TSA 11th Biennial Symposium, Textiles as Cultural Expressions, Honolulu, Hawaii
TSA News
TSA Member News
Collections News
Opportunities
Exhibition Reviews
Book Reviews
Publications News
Calendar: Exhibitions, Lectures, Workshops, Tours
Conferences and Symposia
Nomination Form for TSA Board of Directors
TSA 11th Biennial Symposium 2008 logo

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 19:2 — Spring/Summer 2007, Textile Society Of America

Textile Society of America Newsletters

"Miao Children's Dress"
President's Letter
TSA News
TSA Member News
Call for Papers TSA Symposium 2008—Textiles as Cultural Expressions
Symposium 2008 Plans
Featured Collection—The Erikson Carpet Collection, Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary, Alberta
Exhibition Reviews
Funding News
Education News
Publications News
Calendar: Exhibitions, Lectures, Workshops, Tours
Conferences and Symposia
Collections News

Textile Society Of America 19:1 — Winter 2007, Textile Society Of America

Textile Society of America Newsletters

"Lillian Elliott Award Presented at TSA Symposium"
Symposium 2006 Wrap-Up—"textile narratives + conversations"
President's Letter
TSA News
Symposium 2006 Reports
TSA Member News
Exhibition Reviews
Collections News
Calendar: Exhibitions, Lectures, Workshops
Calls for Papers
Conferences and Symposia
TSA Symposium 2008 Attractions

Structure And Properties Of Chicken Feather Barbs As Natural Protein Fibers, Narendra Reddy, Yiqi Yang

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

The structure and properties of chicken feather barbs makes them unique fibers preferable for several applications. The presence of hollow honeycomb structures, their low density, high flexibility and possible structural interaction with other fibers when made into products such as textiles provides them unique properties unlike any other natural or synthetic fibers. No literature is available on the physical structure and tensile properties of chicken feather barbs. In this study, we report the physical and morphological structure and the properties of chicken feather barbs for potential use as natural protein fibers. The morphological structure of chicken feather barbs is similar …

Painting Music: Rhythm And Movement In Art, Sharon L. Kennedy

Sheldon Museum of Art: Catalogs and Publications

In the past 100 years music has played a tremendously important role in the stylistic development of visual art. It has created impetus and inspiration for those artists wishing to produce a pure and transcendental art form. Music has also been used as an analogy or metaphor in artistic expression. By listening to music and emulating it in their work, artists have discovered unconventional techniques in their art-making approach. Painting Music: Rhythm and Movement in Art explores the influence of music on the visual arts beginning in the early 20th century with the Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky and continuing with …

Seasonal Celebrations, Daily Life: Photographs By Graciela Iturbide, Sharon Kennedy

Sheldon Museum of Art: Catalogs and Publications

The photographs in Seasonal Celebrations, Daily Life highlight the work by contemporary Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide. Early in Iturbide's artistic career she studied with Mexico's preeminent photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo. Several of his photographs selected from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery's permanent collection are also on view.

The exhibition focuses on Iturbide's photographs of the people of Juchitan, a Zapotec community in Oaxaca. She created this portfolio over a six-year period beginning in 1979. Here she earned the trust of the people she photographed by living among them and participating in their daily life and festivities. Iturbide gravitated toward the …

Simple Complexity, Eric T. Anderson

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

I enjoy a combination of different things. Growing up full of humor and self-awareness, I always knew I would do something artistic. Art gave me creative freedom. Most of my time was used dreaming and imagining, about places, people, and things. Therefore, my roots in the northern Midwest culture and countryside are great inspiration for me. It is in this area of the country where the idea of art and craft are blurred, a place where nostalgic wildlife art shares the same wall with a Monet print and family photos. Unusual artistic conversation happens within that kind of environment, which …

Self, Justin D. Shaw

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

am proud of my traditions. My work is a conglomeration of my life 's worth of teachings and skills. I see my past in my sculpture, not specific events or dates, but periods of developmental growth. I respond to my surroundings being either location or company. These reflect in my actions and attitude, and although humorous in some regards, items like clothing and other subject matter are closely related to my upbringing and were fundamental in my development as an artist and a person. My interest in the figure comes from our natural ability to relate to other human beings, …

Beautiful Objects, Jenni Brant

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

I believe that the experience of beauty is important for its ability to inspire reflective contemplation. Beautiful things have the power to arrest our attention, to take over our consciousness and move us to new places in unexpected ways. Beauty has the power to make us more aware of the present moment, more aware of those we are sharing it with, and of the consequences of our actions. The experience of beautiful objects is an enriching and necessary facet of human existence. My work is life affirming and reminds us to celebrate the ordinary as well as the extraordinary: the …

Density, Jesse Ross

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

This work is porcelain tableware and architectural ornament. I choose the context of function because the things we use contain purpose both actual and metaphorical. They are concrete, connected to our lives by necessity, regardless of meaning or aesthetics. Form and surface are more than the residue of concept, they must be specifically engineered for right application. This work, be it shelter, ligbt, containment, etc. is the foundation for the intimacy we feel toward our belongings. That said, utility is only one facet of the objects I make. A Styrofoam cup works well enough, but its expressive potential is limited. …

Inslde Out, Caitlin Rose Applegate

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

The intersection, or in some cases, collision between public and private lives, provides a place to peer through the cracks in the mask we put on for one another each day. A glimpse of this fleeting relaxation of boundaries helps us see one another for what we really are. Alone or in intimate groups, my sculptures describe the vulnerability and insecurity most of us feel beneath our perceived exteriors. I look at the ways in which we define ourselves for others, at the awkwardness found there, and at what happens when that pretense is stripped away. Despite attempts to clothe …