Textile Society Of America Newsletter 28:2 — Fall 2016,
2016
Textile Society of America
Textile Society Of America Newsletter 28:2 — Fall 2016, Textile Society Of America
Textile Society of America: Newsletters
Letter from the Editor
Letter from the President
Letter from the Outgoing Executive Director
Volunteer Opportunities
Welcome New TSA Board Members
R. L. Shep Ethnic Textiles Book Award
Joanne Arnett Honored with Brandford Elliott Award
Opinion Page – After Savannah: Some Questions
Letter from the TSA Executive Board
TSA's 15th Biennial Symposium: Reports & Reviews
Letter from the Symposium Planning Chairs
Reports from Student & New Professional Awardees
TSA: Trading in the Unexpected
Trade in Cotton & Manufactured Cloth from Europe, to Africa, to North America: SNPA Symposium Session Review
SNPA Report: Analyzing Objects, Building History
Jean L. Kares Honored …
The Emergence Of The Bird In Andean Paracas Art. C. 900 Bce - 200 Ce,
2016
CUNY Graduate Center
The Emergence Of The Bird In Andean Paracas Art. C. 900 Bce - 200 Ce, Mary B. Brown
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
In the first millennium BCE, an enigmatic cultural group now known as Paracas inhabited the remote desert coast of southern Peru. Following its disappearance, Paracas culture did not emerge in the historical record until 1927, when three burial centers were scientifically excavated on the arid Paracas peninsula that gave the culture its name. The burials contained over 400 mummy bundles that preserved the only physical remnants of this culture and its unique art forms. When unwrapped, mummy bundles of elite males revealed multiple layers of finely woven and elaborately embroidered textiles and painted ceramics, along with gold objects, feathers, and …
Druen, Sibyl Jean And Patricia Gilley (Fa 878),
2016
Western Kentucky University
Druen, Sibyl Jean And Patricia Gilley (Fa 878), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 878. Paper titled: “Quilt Patterns: The Jonesville and Wisdom Communities.” Project includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of quilt patterns, process and terms of quilters in Hart and Metcalfe Counties, Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description, informant’s name, and a photo or drawing of the quilt and/or quilt pattern.
Northwest Coast Native American Art: The Relationship Between Museums, Native Americans And Artists,
2016
State University of New York Buffalo State
Northwest Coast Native American Art: The Relationship Between Museums, Native Americans And Artists, Karrie E. Myers
Museum Studies Theses
Museums today have many responsibilities, including protecting and understanding objects in their care. Many also have relationships with groups of people whose items or artworks are housed within their institutions. This paper explores the relationship between museums and Northwest Coast Native Americans and their artists. Participating museums include those in and out of the Northwest Coast region, such as the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, the Burke Museum, the Royal British Columbia Museum, the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Museum. Museum professionals who conducted research for some of these museums included Franz Boas, …
Blanket Statements, Issue 124, Summer 2016,
2016
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Blanket Statements, Issue 124, Summer 2016
Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group
Blanket Statements, Issue 124, Summer 2016
Law Library Blog (July 2016): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive,
2016
Roger Williams University
Law Library Blog (July 2016): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law Library Newsletters/Blog
No abstract provided.
Full Issue,
2016
Winthrop University
Full Issue, The Anthology
The Anthology
This is the entirety of the 2013 Winthrop Anthology issue.
All Tied Up,
2016
Winthrop University
Full Issue,
2016
Winthrop University
Full Issue, The Anthology
The Anthology
This is the entirety of the 2014 Winthrop Anthology issue.
Evolving Patterns: Conflicting Perceptions Of Cultural Preservation And The State Of Batik’S Cultural Inheritance Among Women Artisans In Guizhou, China,
2016
Lawrence University
Evolving Patterns: Conflicting Perceptions Of Cultural Preservation And The State Of Batik’S Cultural Inheritance Among Women Artisans In Guizhou, China, Katherine B. Uram
Lawrence University Honors Projects
My exploration features Miao batik-making in Guizhou Province and explores several sets of overlapping questions. The first set focuses on the status of the craft of Miao batik-making and the perceptions of its future. Is batik-making a dying art form? To what extent is Batik-making a thriving cultural practice today, or do Miao in China (and other ethnic groups involved in batik-making) perceive an inheritance crisis? My next focus is on the role of institutions and the tourism industry. If taught less and less in the domestic sphere (traditions passed from mother to daughter), what role do public domains such …
Li Remembered,
2016
Rhode Island School of Design
Li Remembered, Meredith (Yue) Du
Masters Theses
This thesis work arose from my interest and concern in the ongoing transformation happening in China socially, culturally, and environmentally. As a child of hydro engineers, I grew up on the construction site of Lishui Hydro project. In my experience, the hydroelectric plant was a poetic place, a huge geometric structure surrounded by beautiful water and views of mountains. In my research, I found that many people argue against hydro projects, especially Three Gorges Dam, and the main focus of their objections has to do with demolition and the displacement of people from their homes. Through publications, documentary films, and …
Thrills, Spills, And Unacknowledgments,
2016
Washington University in St. Louis
Thrills, Spills, And Unacknowledgments, Caitlin Aasen
Graduate School of Art Theses
Through the use of stains, resulting from a process of water and pigments, I showcase the metaphorical importance of stains within our lives. Nature, the everyday, and our bodies have always been an inspiration to my process. Instances such as looking through car windows at the colors rushing past, becoming one, as I travel 60 miles per hour. These moments of moving colors that blur the line between object and pigment are where I find inspiration formally and conceptually. These instances of blurs happen constantly in our lives. Not just because we are moving so fast, but because we can …
Full Issue,
2016
Winthrop University
Full Issue, The Anthology
The Anthology
This is the entirety of the 2015 Winthrop Anthology issue.
Fragmentality,
2016
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Fragmentality, Elena Volkova
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Contemporary art is dedicated to the conversation between the past and the present, the established and the experimental; it becomes more and more trans-border, as life itself. Nowadays, people live in the world, where their beliefs, ideas, politics, and religion are constantly colliding. The more people expand boundaries and develop connections, the more complex and tangled our society becomes as a system.
FRAGmentality presents a set of mixed media pieces incorporating painting, weaving, embroidery and three-dimensional elements dedicated to these contradictions in the modern society. It deals with structures within Social relations and human nature.
Being a representative of a …
Dollhouse,
2016
East Tennessee State University
Dollhouse, Whitney Goller
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The artist discusses the work in DollHouse, her Master of Fine Arts exhibition on display at Tipton Gallery, Johnson City, Tennessee from January 25 to February 5, 2016. The exhibition was an installation consisting of five sets, each containing furniture - both 2D and 3D - and a mask with instructions relating to a room found within a dollhouse.
The sets and supporting thesis explore the ideas of social norms, feminism, and identity, and how submission to ideologies can create emptiness, while engagement can prompt social change. Topics include the process and evolution of the work and the artists who …
Self Portrait In Thread,
2016
Winthrop University
Historical Corsets Retrospective 1558-1890,
2016
Western Michigan University
Historical Corsets Retrospective 1558-1890, Jacquelyn Marks
Honors Theses
Women and men have worn corsets for centuries, primarily in Europe. Throughout the years, the style of the undergarment changed. A corset was an undergarment that served the purpose of adding warmth or coverage, gave support to the wearer’s body, gave structure to outer garments and created visual appeal. As styles transitioned throughout history, undergarments had to accommodate to the changes. Modesty prioritized the garment’s purpose but the late 1800’s encouraged more attractive corsets. After researching an archive of historical patterns, I selected several corsets that I would create and conduct research for a gallery display in Korhman Hall’s Design …
Blanket Statements, Issue 123, Spring 2016,
2016
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Blanket Statements, Issue 123, Spring 2016
Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group
Blanket Statements, Issue 123, Spring 2016
Textile Society Of America Newsletter 28:1 — Spring 2016,
2016
Textile Society of America
Textile Society Of America Newsletter 28:1 — Spring 2016, Textile Society Of America
Textile Society of America: Newsletters
Letter from the Editor
Volunteer Opportunity: TSA Is Looking for a New Proceedings Editor
Letter from the President
Textiles Close Up Report: Art of the Zo: Textiles from Myanmar, India, and Bangladesh, Chin Weaving at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
R. L. Shep Ethnic Textile Book Award 2015 Nominees
Ossabaw Island, Indigo, and Sea Island Cotton: Two Ways to See a Georgia Barrier Island
Peer-Review Process Yields Range of Exciting Exhibitions for Biennial Symposium
Book Reviews:
Symbols of Power: Luxury Items from Islamic Lands, 7th–21st Century
Textiles of the Banjara: Cloth and Culture of a Wandering Tribe
The Handbook …
Lara Salmon, Thesis Statement,
2016
Claremont Graduate University
Lara Salmon, Thesis Statement, Lara Salmon
CGU MFA Theses
My art brings together materials and ideas inspired by personal experience that do not usually exist side by side. My body is the primary mechanism with which I make work, incidentally making me the subject matter of the work. I use my physical self as an instrument to coalesce and transform other materiality. Through live performance and photographic installations I create tension and balance between crude biology and bright, polished formalism. This body of work focuses on Millennial Feminism and the Middle East.
