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The Fiberworks gallery showcased textile art in the early 1970s, a time when most other commercial galleries and museums gave textile medium scant exposure. Foremost was the year-round Community School, the Special Studies program and the Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts accredited programs in conjunction with Lone Mountain College of San ...
Recently, quilted fiber art wall hangings have become popular with art collectors. This non-traditional form often features bold designs. Quilting as an art form was popularized in the 1970s and 80s. [9] Other fiber art techniques are knitting, rug hooking, felting, braiding or plaiting, macrame, lace making, flocking (texture) and more. There ...
Quilt art, sometimes known as art quilting, mixed media art quilts or fiber art quilts, [1] [2] is an art form that uses both modern and traditional quilting techniques to create art objects. Practitioners of quilt art create it based on their experiences, imagery, and ideas, rather than traditional patterns. [ 3 ]
Gerhardt Gunther Knodel (born 1940), [1] is an American contemporary textile artist, academic administrator, and educator. [2] He was the head of the fiber arts department at Cranbrook Academy of Art from 1970 to 1997, and also served as the school director from 1997 to 2007. [3]
In 1982, Claire Zeisler was honored in New York City by the Women's Caucus for Art for her lifetime in art. The press release read, "We honor Claire Zeisler as a weaver of multidimensional forms and a builder of powerful presences. The ancient techniques of knotting and wrapping fibers have found new lie, and new meanings, in her hands." [20]
Diane Itter (4 October 1946 – 12 October 1989) [1] [2] was an American fiber artist. Her work emerged from the 1960s renaissance of interest in fiber art. Her work emerged from the 1960s renaissance of interest in fiber art.
Ideas from mathematics have been used as inspiration for fiber arts including quilt making, knitting, cross-stitch, crochet, embroidery and weaving. A wide range of mathematical concepts have been used as inspiration including topology, graph theory, number theory and algebra.
Josh Faught was born in 1979, in St. Louis, Missouri. [citation needed] Faught graduated from Oberlin College in 2001.[citation needed] He earned an AAS degree in textile and surface design from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in 2004; and an MFA degree in fiber and material studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SIAC) in 2006.