Commonthought (2014),
2014
Lesley University
Commonthought (2014), Commonthought Staff
Commonthought
This issue features works created by Lesley University students and covers a broad range of topics. The work itself crosses many disciplines from creative writing to visual arts.
Colours Of Dementia : A Community Art Facilitation Programme For People With Dementia,
2014
Lingnan University
Colours Of Dementia : A Community Art Facilitation Programme For People With Dementia, Suk Mun, Sophia Law
Research Expression through Art : Visual Studies Faculty
Colours of Dementia was a trial art facilitation programme for dementia care in a community setting led by Prof. Sophia Law, Associate Professor of the Department of Visual Studies at Lingnan University. The programme was supported by the Hong Kong Alzheimer's Disease Association (HKADA) and Art for All. The funding came from Prof. Law's Education for Service-learning Faculty Award (2013) from the Lingnan Foundation.
The programme, which ran from December 2013 to June 2014, consisted of a series of eighteen specially designed creative workshops for 14 elders, aged 59 to 94, who were suffering from mild to advanced dementia. A …
Artist Spotlight: Net Chick,
2014
University of New Mexico
Artist Spotlight: Net Chick, Julianne Aguilar
Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas
No abstract provided.
The Windows Of Kanley Memorial Chapel,
2014
Chicago State University
The Windows Of Kanley Memorial Chapel, Sherwood Snyder
All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors
An alumnus of Western Michigan University who in 1957 designed one of Kanley Memorial Chapel’s 72 student-designed stained glass windows embarked on a project last year to identify all the artists who created them so many years ago.
Laboratory: Where Science Becomes Art,
2014
Kennesaw State University
Laboratory: Where Science Becomes Art, Amy Norton, Madeline Carpenter, Colton Weeks, Jae Lim
P-12 Lesson Plans
This is group of lessons for K-12 art classroom is connected to the artists in the ZMA exhibition Laboratory, on view November 14, 2014 - February 21, 2015. The exhibition worked to demystify artistic practice by revealing parallels between art and scientific research and methodology. These associated lessons include scientific concepts and principles paired with art.
Stolperstein Für Ernst Collin,
2014
Syracuse University
Stolperstein Für Ernst Collin, Peter D. Verheyen
Librarian Publications
Article (in German) provides biographical details about the life of Ernst Collin, son and grandson of Prussian and German court bookbinders, who was one of the leading writers in the field of bookbinding and the history of the book in the period between the World Wars.
On April 1, 2014 two Stolpersteine (Stumbling Blocks) were laid to memorialize Ernst Collin and his wife Else (nee Cronheim) in front of the entrance to their home at Cicerostr 61 in Berlin. Stolpersteine are “monuments created by Gunter Demnig that commemorate victims of the Holocaust. They are small, cobblestone-sized memorials for an individual …
Celestial Sphere,
2014
University of the Pacific
Untitled,
2014
University of the Pacific
White Aspens,
2014
University of the Pacific
Burnt Out,
2014
University of the Pacific
What?,
2014
University of the Pacific
Jazzy Blues,
2014
University of the Pacific
Peekaboo,
2014
University of the Pacific
Juices,
2014
University of the Pacific
Ghosts Of The Horseshoe,
2014
University of South Carolina - Columbia
Ghosts Of The Horseshoe, Heidi Rae Cooley, Richard Walker, Duncan Buell
Digital Projects
Ghosts of the Horseshoe (Ghosts) is a mobile interactive application that endeavors to bring into view--literally, on mobile micro screens (iPads and iPhones at present)--the largely unknown history of slavery at South Carolina College. It deploys game mechanics (i.e., ludic methods), as well as Augmented Reality (AR) and GPS functionality to generate awareness of and questioning about what otherwise seems ordinary: a grassy space at the center of a university campus. It organizes content into distinct but overlapping themes: (1) architectural ghosts (e.g., razed outbuildings); (2) human ghosts (e.g., un/named enslaved persons); and (3) the historic Wall delimiting the Horseshoe …
Inscribed Cotton Ikat From Yemen In The Tenth Century Ce,
2014
Graduate Theological Union
Inscribed Cotton Ikat From Yemen In The Tenth Century Ce, Carol Bier
Textile Research Works
More than a thousand years ago, Baghdad was capital of the Islamic empire under the Abbasid caliphs, and Yemen was a flourishing center of agriculture and trade. Among its famous products were dyestuffs, and cotton cloth with warp stripes, patterned using techniques of compression resist. As the strength of the Abbasid caliphate declined and claims to power gained hold in the provinces, regional artistic styles began to emerge. The rulers of Yemen adopted one of the prerogatives of the Abbasid caliphs, bestowing honor by rewarding their subjects with inscribed textiles called tiraz. From burial sites in Egypt, many such textiles …
Robert Hillestad, Professor And Fiber Artist,
2014
University of Minnesota
Robert Hillestad, Professor And Fiber Artist, Marilyn Delong
Department of Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design: Department Information
Dr. Hillestad has been a member of the Costume Society of America since 1978 and has participated in many annual Symposia. Dr. Hillestad has multi-faceted abilities—he is a superb design educator as well as an active fiber and apparel artist—and he integrates the two roles of educator and artist expressively, superbly, and elegantly. Dr. Hillestad is professor emeritus at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. In 1997, The Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery on the Lincoln Campus of the University of Nebraska was named in his honor upon recommendation of the faculty in the Department of Textiles, Clothing and Design and the …
Sinan’S Screens: Networks Of Intersecting Polygons In Ottoman Architecture,
2014
Graduate Theological Union
Sinan’S Screens: Networks Of Intersecting Polygons In Ottoman Architecture, Carol Bier
Textile Research Works
An often overlooked characteristic of Sinan’s architectural production of the 16th century is the use of low screening walls and windows carved of marble with pierced openwork or tracery to let in light and allow for air circulation. Typically these screens display polygonal networks often with intersecting polygons. This paper explores aspects of these carved patterns, which have antecedents in earlier Islamic architecture, attributing particular significance to this architectural feature in the works of Sinan and three successors whom he had trained. These slabs (and their counterparts in forged iron) may be considered études, serving as opportunities for the training …
Rematerializing: Interviews With Emerging Artists About Physicality, Pattern And Textile Techniques,
2014
Alfred University
Rematerializing: Interviews With Emerging Artists About Physicality, Pattern And Textile Techniques, Caroline Hayes Charuk
Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings
This paper will be a presentation of emerging Bay Area artists who draw upon textile materials, forms, and processes, but who refuse the label of ‘textile artist’ in favor of a more ambiguous relationship. References to textiles may be foundational for the work, or brought in as a means to an end. The conceptual basis of their work is contained within its physicality, and they acknowledge (or knowingly set aside) histories of handwork. Each artist has a practice that necessarily slides on a line between the dematerialization of conceptual art and a rematerialization that recognizes haptic experience as indispensable and …
Maguey Hammock: A Weaving Of Resistance And Persistence In Puerto Rico,
2014
University of Puerto-Rico
Maguey Hammock: A Weaving Of Resistance And Persistence In Puerto Rico, Soraya Serra Collazo
Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings
Textiles are primary technology to almost all societies. Puerto Rico and the Caribbean are no exceptions. There is an object that has been weaved in the region since pre-Columbian times and it is still passing through the fingers of local artisans. Hamaca, an invention of the American inhabitants,2 is an indigenous voice incorporated into many languages. It was in the Caribbean, where Europeans saw its utility, and it was quickly incorporated as the best way of sleeping in their transatlantic voyages. Its production has spread throughout the world and today it is made in many countries. In Puerto Rico …
