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TAC Summer Camp: Week 3!
Week 3 was dedicated to our senses, new flavors and food stories. As result, the textile projects show the camper’s own relationship to the topic. What’s your favorite dish? What reminds you of home?...
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History in Threads: Exploring Wayúu Mochilas
Sunset in La Guajira. Photo courtesy Laura Erazo Santanilla. Between the tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn, in the land of magical realism, where the sun hides in mountains and two oceans, a...
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TAC Summer Camp: Week 5!
This week the children learned about high fashion while studying the designs in the Comme Des Garcons: The Art of the In-Between exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The show centers around the...
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Following Threads: Interview with Mandy Kordal, AIR Cycle 4
I recently had the opportunity to catch up with former AIR Cycle 4 resident, Mandy Kordal, who since her time at TAC has created her own women’s knitwear clothing line, Kordal. In addition to touring...
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Work in Progress: Diedre Brown
September is here, and so is our Work in Progress (WIP) resident! We are delighted to have Diedre Brown for this month while she works on her project, ‘Wild Crochet.’ This project began with the...
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Following Threads: Interview with Whitney Crutchfield, AIR Cycle 1
Recently I had the amazing opportunity to meet with one of our first AIR residents, Whitney Crutchfield. She received me in her Brooklyn studio, and we talked about her career after AIR , her own...
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October Fiber Art Picks!
“DUALITY” Final Exhibition of Textile Arts Center Artists in Residence, Cycle 8 Featuring works by Andrew Boos, Isabella Amstrup, Martha Skou, Mia Daniels, Rebekah Bassen, Sarah Finkle, and Vien Le...
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Damien Davis: Patterns, Play, and Sticky Spaces
I first fell in love with fiber art in the context of textile printing. While creating my first patterns, I discovered how shapes and symbols function as a language to explore histories and generate...
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Presenting DUALITY: AIR Cycle 8 Final Exhibition
The Textile Arts Center is pleased to present DUALITY, the final exhibition of the 8th cycle of Artists in Residence, on view from October 19th to the 22nd at Gowanus Loft in Brooklyn. DUALITY...
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Work in Progress: Lucia Cuba
Lucia Cuba, our October Work in Progress resident, and I Skyped late one night to chat about her series “Wearables for/to protest,” the third part of her ongoing “Exercises on Health” (EoH) project....
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Work in Progress: Elizabeth Tolson
Elizabeth Tolson, our November WIP resident, and I recently sat down to talk about her growth as an artist, her current and past work, and the ideas that she’s carrying and changing throughout her...
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AIR 9 Show & Tell, Part I
Presenting: the work of four residents in our current AIR cycle. Through the fall, the artists in AIR have been learning a variety of textile techniques, including, machine knitting, natural dyeing,...
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Interview with Fran Aldea of Minka Inhouse
Fran Aldea is the owner and creative mind behind the wonderful store Minka Inhouse, based in Santiago, Chile. I met Fran through Instagram about a year...
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AIR 9 Show & Tell, Part II
Here’s the second half of our two-part Artists-in-Residence Show & Tell series, where we interviewed the artists in our 9-month residency program about work they created at TAC and their overall...
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Work in Progress: Fiorella Gonzales Vigil
We were recently pleased to host Fiorella Gonzales-Vigil as our January Work-in-Progress resident! I met up with her at TAC’s Manhattan studio to discuss the different stages of her artistic process,...
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Celebrating Female Contemporary Artists during African American History Month
There have been several, but not enough, conversations around craft-practitioners who are using textiles in many forms and shapes. Practitioners of today understand that multiple histories have existed...
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Work In Progress: Annie Gunks
On an overcast and unseasonably warm winter afternoon, I sat down with our February Work In Progress (WIP) Resident, Annie Gunks, in her studio to talk about her work. How long have you been working...
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Sculptural Fashion: Current Conversations
My previous research piece explored sculptural fashion and how volume and structure can be used to study its interaction and influence by or on the body. By taking a look at established brands and the...
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Work in Progress: Tai Hwa Goh
I recently sat down with the Work in Progress (WIP) artist for the month of March, Tai Hwa Goh, at Textile Arts Center’s Manhattan studio to discuss her artist process as well as current projects,...
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AIR Cycle 9 Highlight: Jamie Boyle
Above photos by Mariel Rolwing Montes on 35 mm film with Canon Rebel 2000 Jamie Boyle is a visual artist who has frequently collaborated on the creation of material stuff for performances. Most...
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