9ISS Tour = Special Access to Textiles + Experts In China
Travel to China from almost anywhere is no small undertaking. Organizing a truly open international symposium - meaning any participant can simply register to attend without institutional invitation...
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Spectator Sport? I didn’t think those two words fit anywhere into my artist resume. Until I began to pick over some of the language: balls, sticks, fields, players, goals, speed, discovery. Fair....
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Since it opened on August 29, 2015, Materialites: Contemporary Textile Arts – the 1st international juried exhibition of work by members of Surface Design Association – has been viewed by hundreds of...
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Eager to attend Made/Aware, SDA’s 1st Craft + Concept Intensive - and my 4th SDA conference – I arrived at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts on Wednesday evening, well after dark, stressed from being...
View ArticleNYC’s Best Annual Fashion Conference
Anyone interested in the history and future of fashion and contemporary design culture should have the annual Initiatives in Art & Culture fashion conference on their radar. If you live in New York...
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