Dawn Ottensmeier is a textile artist living and working in St. Louis, Missouri. Originally from Highland,, Illinois, Ottensmeier grew up embroidering and assisting her grandmother on the always-present quilting frame in her grandparent’s living room. She works with recycled cloth to create textile constructions that reflect on memory, time, and the agricultural landscape of her childhood.
Quilted Equations is part of Innovations in Textiles 2011, a biennial collaborative event in the St. Louis region that investigates the state of contemporary textile arts. Over twenty nonprofit and private arts organizations join forces to present exhibitions related to fiber art created by national and international artists. Activities include workshops, lectures, gallery tours, and community programs.
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Carlie Trosclair is a St. Louis based artist who creates sculptural installations and environments using fabric. Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Trosclair moved to St. Louis in 2008 to attend the Graduate Fine Arts program at Washington University where she received her MFA. Trosclair has exhibited at the Craft Alliance Gallery in Grand Center and the Luminary Center for the Arts, where she was an artist-in-residence.
Trosclair will be creating a series of immersive fabric-based installation in the St. Louis Artists’ Guild’s second floor galleries. These installations will explore the ways the physical body experiences and interacts with environments.
Convergence: New works by Carlie Trosclair is part of Innovations in Textiles 2011, a biennial collaborative event in the St. Louis region that investigates the state of contemporary textile arts. Over twenty nonprofit and private arts organizations join forces to present exhibitions related to fiber art created by national and international artists. Activities include workshops, lectures, gallery tours, and community programs.
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Kittrell/Riffkind Art Glass presents “One of a Kind”, a 21st Anniversary
celebration featuring unique works from glass artists nationwide. The
festivities begin with an opening reception on Saturday, October 1st
from 10 -5:30 pm. Door prizes, special workshops and demonstrations will
continue throughout the exhibit until the show’s end on October 29th.
One of the top guild shows in this region, the Holiday Fine Arts and Craft Festival has gathered together top quality handcrafted traditional and contemporary crafts and Fine Arts artisans.
...A year's worth of daily pinch pots is on display from potter Lisa Farris
...A collection of unexpected, imaginative, artist-created figures and dolls captured in ceramics and photography b wildly creative contemporary artists, curated by Darren Baker.
...Entry to ATB 9 is open to all artists who design and weave their own tapestries (defined as "handwoven weft-faced fabric with discontinuous wefts") either individually or collaboratively (all assistants shall be named). Entries must be one-of-a-kind and have been completed after January 2008. Entries may not have been shown previously in any ATA exhibition, including the Unjuried Small Format show. Artists may submit up to three pieces, but a maximum of one piece per artist will be accepted.
...Seeking innovative fiber/textile art that transcends disciplines; combines traditional with cutting edge technology and/or historic concepts with contemporary perspectives. Artists working in any medium with a fiber/textile reference are encouraged to apply. Size, scope, materials and subject matter are open. Submissions may include surface design, 2D and 3D structures, quilts, stitching, body art, etc. Jurors: Elisabeth Agro, Associate Curator of American Modern and Contemporary Crafts and Decorative Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Bruce Hoffman, Independent Curator; Judith Weisman, Designer and Curator, Acquisitions Chair of the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery Support Group. Outside/Inside the Box will take place March 2 -April 14, 2012 at the ICE Box Project Space, Crane Arts Building which will be the hub of FiberPhiladelphia 2012.
...Glass sculptures designed by children and crafted by professional glass artists in the Museum of Glass Hot Shop.
...The exhibition follows the audacious career of fashion designer Todd Thomas, starting with his story-like, local beginning here in Saint Louis. Currently, Thomas occupies a glittering position in the world of fashion, and he credits Saint Louis with establishing his creative foundation during the relatively brief but productive period he spent here in the early 1980s. It was the pinnacle of a kind of Do-it-Yourself Renaissance in Saint Louis, where anything was possible for young artists, clothing makers and performers, all of whom found endless inspiration in each other and what they were doing.
...The online-only gallery opens its physical location for 10 days only to display work from 55 international artists. The artists will exhibit an artwork along with another item that illustrates the genesis for their work - a concept, an image, an object, or a place - to give viewers an idea of the creative process.
...Hand & Lock Emobridery hosts an event to lauch their expansion from London to New York, including an awards ceremony for their annual Prize in Embroidery. Attendants will have the opportunity to hear speakers from the textile and fashion industries, as well as view a fashion show that will highlight some of the best embroidery submissions. Taster embroidery lessons also available.
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Aspiring furniture makers, bookbinders, jewelry makers, carpenters, violin makers - and those merely curious about the process of making exquisite things by hand - are invited to a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at one of the America's oldest schools of craftsmanship during a special open house at the North Bennet Street School in Boston's historic North End.
...The artwork presented in this three-person show at Santa Fe Clay is inhabited by emotion and spirit. Sandra Byers, Jennifer McCurdy, and Susan Schultz bring SFC all white work.
Translucent porcelain is just one underlying theme in these three women's work. The dynamic play between light and shadow is achieved with this beautiful ceramic medium. Light is absorbed and reflected. It dances through the lucent porcelain.
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The exhibition will feature recently donated pieces to the Bray's permanent collection. This year works include exiting residents Aaron Benson, Sunshine Cobb, Jacob Foran, Andrew Gilliatt, Mark Hall, Giselle Hicks, Peter Christian Johnson, Myung Jin Kim, Mathew McConnell, Greg Pugh, Adam Shiverdecker, and Kevin Snipes.
Other donated works include Rudy Autio, Josh DeWeese, Robert Harrison, Ted Vogel, Patti Warashina, and Kurt Weiser.
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Janis’ work is the result of a laborious and challenging process. Similar to scrafftio, where a design is scratched through a colored ground revealing another color beneath; to produce the image Janis sifts black glass powder onto sheet glass, scraping away the powder to produce the detail. The image is suspended between layers of sheet glass and fired in a kiln to fuse the constituent pieces together. In this manner any number of images can be combined to produce complex juxtapositions. The result is a collage produced entirely in glass, built from a time-consuming process allowing for an extended contemplation of his subjects.
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SOFA Chicago, the Annual International Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair, now in its 18th year, is the city's longest continually running annual art fair, featuring more than 80 art galleries and dealers from 10 countries. This year SOFA will be presented alongside the Intuit Show of Folk & Outsider Art, bringing together leading dealers and galleries presenting self-taught art, outsider art, art brut, ethnographic art, non-traditional folk art and visionary art. An extensive series of lectures and special exhibits are also part of the two-fair event.
...The Intuit Show of Folk & Outsider Art will bring together leading dealers and galleries presenting self-taught art, outsider art, art brut, ethnographic art, non-traditional folk art and visionary art. The show will be presented alongside SOFA Chicago 2011, the Annual International Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair. An extensive series of lectures and special exhibits are part of the two-fair event.
...The culmination of NCC's 20th anniversary, this exhibition, guest curated by D. H. Rosen, focuses on contemporary Japanese artists who use clay and other materials to create work outside traditional Japanese functional styles. A curator led walk-through and lecture will take place on September 22nd in conjunction with the exhibition.
...The Contemporary Crafts Market will be returning as the West Coast's premiere holiday craft event for one-of-a-kind functional and decorative crafts November 4-6, 2011. This year's market will feature the distinctive works of over 250 of the nation's finest artists, ranging from intricate jewelry, unique glassware and ceramics to hand-painted textiles, custom furniture, mixed-media creations and much more. All items on display and for sale have been jury-selected for their exceptional quality
...Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts announces that they will be honoring four artists whose contributions to the world of ceramics have made a lasting impression on two generations of artists, students, and collectors: Val Cushing, Richard Shaw, Paul J. Smith and Patti Warashina.
...Since the days of the Roman Empire, South Indian textile artisans have been weaving, painting, dyeing, and embellishing sumptuous textiles for the courts of kings and the markets of the world. Handcrafted textiles continue to play an important role in daily life and are often associated with specific villages, where family life and the village economy are centered on traditional textile production. The focus of this tour is on these textile traditions and the textile villages where these fabrics are still produced by hand.
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