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Drawing From Perception: A National Juried Drawing Exhibition, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

A program from a juried drawing exhibition held at the Wright State University Art Galleries from March 31 through May 5, 1996. The prize juror was Professor Emeritus at Yale University Art School, Bernard Chaet.

Roberley Bell The Site Of Memory, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

This catalog features exhibition of work by Roberley Bell. The Site of Memory was held at the University Art Galleries, Wright State University from January 2 through 28, 1996.

Legacy Of Collector George Hewitt Myers, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

A CULTURAL JEWEL in the nation's capital, The Textile Museum is a testament to the vision and unerring eye of its founder, George Hewitt Myers. Established in 1925, this small museum has assumed a revered place in the international museum community not only for the quality of its collections and library, but also for its leadership. in the study, preservation and interpretation of the textile arts. Over the years it has been the flagship institution for the conservation and display of textiles around the world based upon the foresight of Myers. Today, The Textile Museum's exhibitions and educational initiatives distinguish …

The Meaning Of Yoruba Aso Olona Is Far From Water Tight, Lisa Aronson

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

While researching the ritual meaning of cloth among the Eastern Ijo of the Niger Delta, I examined the contents of a number of family owned trunks in which were stored old and much valued cloths traded from elsewhere in Africa, Europe, and India. One type of cloth which I frequently found in these collections was one made up of three, or sometimes four, woven strips that are sewn along the salvage and decorated with supplemental weft-float design. The Eastern Ijo regard this cloth as a valuable heirloom for its trade value and for the fact that its designs evoke spiritual …

Textiles Of Sacrifice: Aztec Ritual Capes, Patricia Rieff Anawalt

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

This presentation analyzes three long-gone prehispanic textiles, a feat made possible due to the peculiarities of the Aztec language, Nahuatl, and the sixteenth-century Spaniards' dedication to detailed recordkeeping. From Columbus' first voyage in 1492 to Spain's final expulsion from the Americas in the nineteenth century, the Spaniards were exemplary recorders. Fortunately, this trait was particularly evident in the decades following the 1519–1521 conquest of Mexico, a period that yielded invaluable conquistador eye-witness accounts, administrative records and missionary chronicles. It is to the latter genre that we owe the data presented in this paper.

Of all the newly-discovered peoples in the …

Other Pile-Weavings From Safavid Iran - The Persian Velvets At Rosenborg, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

Among Persian pile-weavings, the most famous are carpets produced in Safavid Iran connected with the Persian monarchy or with European royalty. These include the Habsburg hunting Carpet today in the Osterreichisches Museum for Anfewandte Kunst, Vienna, the Swedish royal carpet, and perhaps the Boston Hunting Carpet . A hunting carpet which may also be categorized as a "medallion carpet" is that in Milan at the Poldi Pezzoli; another celebrated medallion carpet is the Ardabil carpet in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London , with a companion in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. More numerous are the star medallion …

Blanket Statements, Issue 47, Winter 1996

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 47, Winter 1996

Approaches To Understanding Oriental Carpets, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

ORIENTAL CARPETS reached a peak in production in the late nineteenth century, when a boom in market demand in Europe and America encouraged increased *24 production in Turkey, Iran and the Caucasus.* Areas east of the Mediterranean Sea at that time were referred to as. the Orient (in contrast to the Occident, which referred to Europe). To study the origins of these carpets and their ancestral heritage is to embark on a journey to Central Asia and the Middle East, to regions of low rainfall and many sheep, to inhospitable lands where animal husbandry and the seeking of good pastures …

Symmetry & Pattern: The Art Of Oriental Carpets, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

The beauty of oriental carpets is achieved by various means including choice of colors and designs, as well as by the manipulation of designs to form pleasing patterns. Patterns in Oriental carpets are never quite what you expect — a surprise here, a flourish there, a change of color, the flip or rotation of a design where you might not predict it. The more you look, the more variations you will find.

The study of symmetry offers an approach to analyzing patterns in Oriental carpets. Through symmetry analysis we may identify areas of pattern that exhibit expected repetitions, and areas …

Uncoverings: The Research Papers Of The American Quilt Study Group, Volume 17 (1996), Virginia Gunn, Tracy Barron, Jill Sutton Filo, Cassandra Stancil Gunkel, Elizabeth Hoffman, Susan Price Miller, Pat L. Nickols, Rebecca A. Ries

Uncoverings Journal

Preface by Virginia Gunn

Research Papers

Nancy Riddick's Quilts: Autobiographical Statements by Cassandra Stancil Gunkel

Carlie Sexton and Her Quilt Pattern Business by Susan Price Miller

Ruby Short McKim: The Formative Years by Jill Sutton Filo

Quilting Imagery in the Writings of Rachel Field by Tracy W, Barron

Stitched in Place, Stitched in Time: Relationships of Quilts, Quiltmaking, and Landscape by Rebecca A. Ries

Contributors

In Memoria: Natalie Youngquist and Eva Earle Spruiell Kent (d. April 20, 1996)

Index

A Naturalistic Study Of The History Of Mormon Quilts And Their Influence On Today's Quilters, Helen-Louise Hancey

Theses and Dissertations

This interpretive study investigated the "quilt" and its significance to Latter-day Saint Women. Mormon master quilters were chosen because of their knowledge of fabrics, patterns, and symbolism, their skill levels, and their intense interest in quilting. The researcher conducted interviews with the master quilters from July 1995 to April 1996. Field notes were taken and data concerning both observed actions and verbal comments regarding the importance of the quilt were collected, charted, coded, and analyzed.

Several dominant patterns and themes emerged from analyses of the data, including: quilting is an enjoyable and active art form among Mormon women, pattern selection …

William Kendall - Recent Paintings, William Kendall

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Blanket Statements, Issue 42, Fall 1995

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 42, Fall 1995

Blanket Statements, Issue 41, Summer 1995

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 41, Summer 1995

Mercedes Nuñez - New Work, Mercedes Nuñez

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Jatun Molino: A Pottery Village In The Upper Amazon Basin, Joe Molinaro

Art and Design Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Documentation on the pottery making process by the women from the village of Jatun Molino located in the Amazon region of Ecuador.

Public Information: Desire, Disaster, Document, The Anti-Artist

SWITCH

An article about how photographic and electronically created pictures mediate and determine social reality, which is one of the most complicated concerns of our time. Definitions of media, the individual's position and responsibilities in society, and the nature of the photographic picture are all on the table. Gary Garrels, Jim Lewis, Christopher Phillips, Sandra S. Phillips, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Robert R. Riley, and John Weber analyze the work of fifteen postwar artists working in a variety of media to answer these issues. The article starts with a third person point of view about the subject. As the article progresses, it shifts …

Women's Rites Of Passage: Telling The Story, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

This catalog features work from an exhibition of female artists Kathleen Browne, Robin Taffler, Gail Rebhan, and more. The Women's Rite of Passage exhibition was held at Wright State University Art Galleries from April 4 through May 14, 1995.

Blanket Statements, Issue 40, Spring 1995

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 40, Spring 1995

Interview: Joel Slayton, Christine Laffer

SWITCH

Interview with Joel Slayton, Professor of Computers in Fine Art at San José State University, and Director of the CADRE Institute. Slayton discusses the history of the Cadre Institute and details his views on the relationship between art and new technology. Slayton describes the role of artists in exploring the possibilities and ethical implications of emerging technologies such as genetic engineering, nano-techology, robotics, and artificial life. He describes installations and in-progress work focused on ubiquitous video surveillance. The interview concludes with a discussion of Slayton’s use of the DoWhatDo model for artistic collaboration and of his piece "Conduits," presented in …

Urban Landscape, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

This catalog features paintings from artists Yvonne Jacquette, Rackstraw Downes, and John Moore. The exhibition was Wright State University Art Galleries from February 12 through March 19, 1995.

Realistic Abstractions, Kenneth Bailey

Senior Scholar Papers

This Senior Scholar project has been an attempt to develop an abstract style of representation. My title, "Realistic Abstraction", seems to be a contradiction, but I am using this terminology to refer to the degree of abstraction that I attempted to reach in my work, where the nonobjective elements are equally as important as the representational elements. I used my prior studies in realistic rendering as a starting point in a quest for a higher degree of abstraction than I had been previously using in my art. I wished to maintain an equal sense of reality and abstraction because I …

Blanket Statements, Issue 43, Winter 1995

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 43, Winter 1995

Uncoverings: The Research Papers Of The American Quilt Study Group, Volume 16 (1995), Virginia Gunn, Kathryn W. Berenson, Ricky Clark, Naida Treadway Patterson, Merikay Waldvogel, Xenia E. Cord, Marlene O'Bryant-Seabrook, Carol Williams Gebel, Judy Elsley

Uncoverings Journal

Preface by Virginia Gunn

Research Papers

Origins and Traditions of Marseilles Needlework by Kathryn W. Berenson

Ruth Finley and the Colonial Revival Era by Ricky Clark

Marion Cheever Whiteside Newton: Designer of Story Book Quilts, 1940-1965 by Naida Treadway Patterson

The Origin of Mountain Mist Patterns by Merikay Waldvogel

Marketing Quilt Kits in the 1920s and 1930s by Xenia E. Cord

Symbiotic Stitches: The Quilts of Maggie McFarland Gillispie and John Gillispie, Jr. by Marlene O'Bryant-Seabrook

Quilts in the Final Rite of Passage: A Multicultural Study by Carol Williams Gebel

Making Critical Connections in Quilt Scholarship by Judy Eisley

Authors …

Portals: Past And Present, Cynthia L. Rodday

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

No abstract provided.

Blanket Statements, Issue 38, Fall 1994

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 38, Fall 1994

Blanket Statements, Issue 37, Summer 1994

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 37, Summer 1994

Sculptural Inquiry Into Geometric And Organic Forms, Gregory Christopher

Senior Scholar Papers

In my Senior Scholar project I manipulated simple geometric shapes in an attempt to construct organic forms using transparent planes, created areas, and implied volumes. The sculpture, which was influenced by my interest in the Renaissance, Russian Constructivism, and the Minimalists, can best be divided into five series; each series is identified by a physical and a conceptual change of ideas. The first series focused on the conceptual ideas of each piece and expressed a lack of concern for the physical properties of the objects. The work progressed during the project; the focus of other series shifted from a purely …

Blanket Statements, Issue 36, Spring 1994

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 36, Spring 1994

One Hundred Years Of Street Photography, Ronald R. Geibert, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

A program from an exhibition featuring street photography from a variety of artists including but not limited to Diane Arbus, Alfred Stieglitz, Henri Cartie Bresson, and many more. One Hundred Years of Street Photography ran from February 20 through April 3, 1994. The catalog for this exhibition was originally available via CD-ROM.