Textile TV 2020
Dorothy Waxman Textile Prize, 2020 Finalists
We are pleased to announce the finalists for the fifth annual Dorothy Waxman Textile Design Prize, awarded to a textile or fashion design student who exhibits innovative thinking and inspiring creativity in textiles.
Proudly supported by America’s leading carpeting and flooring company MOHAWK, the prize winner will receive $5,000 and coverage on Trend Tablet. The prize is part of Li Edelkoort and Philip Fimmano’s TALKING TEXTILES initiative that promotes textile education, creativity and awareness.
The Dorothy Waxman Textile Design Prize honors Dorothy Waxman, the original driving force behind Trend Union and Edelkoort Inc. in the United States and contributing reporter to the magazines View on Colour, Textile View and Viewpoint. Waxman’s insatiable curiosity and discerning eye for the avant-garde has inspired Edelkoort and her team for decades. Waxman also introduced the American fashion industry to European textile partners with her work at the Fashion Group. As an avid textile aficionado, she believes that creative fabrics can change the design landscape in profound ways.
A Conversation with Shoplifter hosted by Ragna Froda
The installation Chromo Zones will open on Sept 18, 2020 at Kulturhuset in Stockholm, Sweden. The installation soundtrack is created by Skúli Sverrisson, Hrafnhildur Arnardottir and Teenage Engineering.
Shoplifter/Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir is one of Iceland’s leading contemporary artists, based in New York. Working with both synthetic and natural hair, her sculptures, wall murals and site-specific installations explore themes of vanity, self-image, fashion, beauty and popular myth. For Shoplifter hair is the ultimate thread that grows from our body. Hair is an original, creative fiber, a way for people to distinguish themselves as individuals, and often an art form. Humor plays a large role in her life and work, sometimes subtly, but at other times taking over.
Cover Image by Rio Ga
Saga TV
Conversations with leading textile influencers hosted by Sagarika Sundaram
Weaving an Awakening
A conversation with Erin M. Riley hosted by Sagarika Sundaram
Discover artist and weaver Erin M. Riley with a discussion about her tapestry weavings that she hand-dyes and deconstructs, and the role textiles can play in our current collective political awakening. Q&A with Sagarika Sundaram, Deputy Editor, Talking Textiles
Design
Duality
A conversation with Suzanne Tick hosted by Sagarika Sundaram
Join Suzanne Tick, artist and leader in the contract textiles world for over 20 years, for a discussion on the connections between her weaving art practice and industry work. Q&A with Sagarika Sundaram, Deputy Editor, Talking Textiles
Commitment
to Craft
A conversation with Judy Ross hosted by Sagarika Sundaram
Judy Ross Textiles is a New York based textile design studio that produces beautiful handmade furnishings for residential, office and hospitality use. Known for her distinctively clean and modern design, Judy Ross creates singular products in which color, detail, materials, and texture all come together in unique home textiles. With products ranging from pillows, rugs, and curtains, to upholstery fabrics and bedcovers, Judy Ross Textiles has developed a particular signature style that inspires.
Infinite Inspiration
A conversation with Peter Koepke hosted by Sagarika Sundaram
Peter Koepke, owner and director of the Design Library, walks us through the textile and fashion industry's best kept secret source of inspiration, and shares his views on cultural appropriation. Q&A with Sagarika Sundaram, Deputy Editor, Talking Textiles
Core-Core #5
For the Loop: Textile, Machine, & Computation Exhibition, Martha Skou will perform Core-Core #5. In Core-Core #5, Skou will create a graphic notation with dye on cotton textile while simultaneously translating it into sound. The performance will be live streamed from a workspace in Copenhagen and she will be accompanied by Chilean artist and lap steel player Tan Vargas. Encouraging risk-taking, spontaneity and playfulness, the performance is centered around her exploration of creating image and sound simultaneously, while examining intuitive methods for improvised collaborations across genres.
FLOW
A Sound and Visual Experience. Visual artist Linh My Truong and sound magician Josh Dunn present a collaborative performance of live suminagashi marbling visuals, analog video effects, VHS transmissions, and ambient modular synth textures for an out-of-this-world experience. FLOW maintains a playful improvisational framework while using technology to create mutually reactive connections between sight and sound. Join us for this special performance + a peek inside our process and methodology.
Linh My Truong is an interdisciplinary artist and educator working with textiles, video, and electronics. Through her exploration of the Japanese marbling art of suminagashi and her penchant for hard geometric forms, her work finds a place between chaos theory and an ordered universe. Her application of technology uses light to create immersive art installations, bringing traditional art forms into the 21st century.
Josh Dunn is an artist, DJ, and producer with a 20+ year record of championing obscure and leftfield sounds. He is a co-founder of Detroit record label 100 Limousines and a resident DJ at Nowadays in Brooklyn.
Art & Industry
Join Liz Collins as she engages some of her textile industry collaborators in conversation to talk about their work together, and other pertinent subjects in this realm. Topics range from realities of the textile industry now to supply chains and sustainability, to how artists can engage with industry to problem solve around today’s issues.
Liz Collins &
Greg Voorhis
Greg Voorhis is the Executive Design Director of Sunbrella/ Glen Raven
Liz Collins &
Rachel Doriss
Rachel Doriss, Pollack’s Design Director, has textile design in her DNA. In the Studio, she and her team always begin a pattern by first creating artwork by hand. The studio’s designers are, first and foremost, weavers. Each has a degree in textile design, having learned the architecture of cloth and how to build a fabric from the ground up. They are makers, and they are artists–they believe in the value of drawing with a pencil rather than a computer mouse. Besides the control it gives over the quality of the line, putting pencil to paper expresses a uniquely personal hand, and the majority of Pollack’s patterns begin as hand-drawn sketches. Rachel’s designs for Pollack have been featured in national magazines, including Architectural Digest, Interior Design and Elle Décor, and she has been profiled on such sites as Apartment Therapy and House and Home TV. Two of her creations, “Mod” and “Curlycue,” are in the permanent collection of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.
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Rachel Doriss @pollacktextiles
Liz Collins @lizzycollins7
Liz Collins & Michele Rondelli
Swiss Italian Michele Rondelli was educated in architecture and design in Switzerland and France. Following his education, his career took him to Asia and America in creative roles for various design organizations. With his unique sense for Zeitgeist, he contributed to major international design and architectural projects. With a strong dedication to contemporary architecture and design, Rondelli opened his own practice in Spain in 2002, followed by a second office in Zurich in 2008 offering architectural, interior design and consulting services to private and corporate clients, to architects and manufacturers. Rondelli lives and works in Zurich and Cadiz, Spain. Since 2015 he was appointed as the creative director of 4Spaces, a Swiss based textile editor and its lifestyle label ZigZagZurich. In his prestigious interior design projects, Rondelli masters his sense for colours, spaces, light and finishes and interprets the crossover between art and interiors with a seamless ease. It is not about the garment, it’s about the look and feel and the sensibility that’s embedded in the way he frames interiors. The language of timeless, modern and tasteful lifestyle is the thread throughout his works. Recent works include the new HQ of Swiss RE in Zurich, HQ BBVA Bank Madrid, Spain, Perez Art Museum PAMM Miami, USA and a collaboration for a private Masterhouse with David Chipperfield London.
DICTIONARY of MORE with LESS
Debra Rapoport and Martina Dietrich are teaming up to combine their passion for sustainable fashion with their unique style intellect. This three part workshop will transform, refurbish or repair items into fascinating, enchanting, and eccentric forms. Join them to create something as expressive, colorful, sophisticated or trendy to fit your lifestyle.
Explaining and defining the dictionary
Part 3: REPAIR
Stitching and embroidering - mending socks, sweaters, hats.
Explaining and defining the dictionary
Part 2: REFURBISH
Fabric piecing - teabag patching
Explaining and defining the dictionary
Part 1: TRANSFORM
Crocheting and finger knitting (plastic bags, fabric selvage, scraps)
Please, Meat, Me (I)
Please, Meat, Me (I)
One ritual,
one chapter,
multiple readings.
How many alter egos?
One individual.
Endless silence.
Loud silence.
Too many people.
Yelling in silence.
Loving in silence.
Grieving in silence.
Alone in the crowd.
Devouring time.
Just for the sake of being touched.
Touch me.
Please, meat, me.
Tiago Valente presents a short film with a new chapter from his body of work " Please, Meat, Me ", followed by a Q&A with the artist.The series tells a story of a fictional world, where members of a clan are challenged through different rites of passage. In this particular chapter, these individuals explore how to expand their individual persona into multiple alter egos, to further enhance their survival skills. Tiago Valente is a Creative Director, Designer and Multi-disciplinary artist. The theatrical magic in his creative universe is unveiled through a variety of mediums, crafted with extreme attention to detail, merging artisanal techniques with the latest technologies. Valente explores issues of identity, belonging and social justice, articulating unique narratives through immersive experiences, architectural installations and even wearable sculptures. Relevant projects include immersive multi-sensory experiences at unexpected public spaces to challenge the perception of the viewer that may choose - or not - to be part of such encounters. Performance, video art, documentary and photography.
Watch the trailer
Tiago Valente - Creative Design
Tiago Valente - Visual Artists and Creative Director
Animation Collaboration
A collaboration between Animator/Filmmaker Nicole Antebi and Sculptor Courtney Puckett combines documentation images from Puckett’s “Calendar Series”, an ongoing body of work wherein Puckett exchanges her usual found object sculptural forms for flat, square surfaces of repurposed fabric and Antebi's stop motion clay animations. Puckett's "Calendar Series" mines the cultural and mythological associations of the 12-month calendar year and distills references into shape and color abstractions which are hand-sewn onto fabric surfaces. Antebi responds to Puckett’s calendar series by “weaving” animated modules through the images. Antebi’s quick clay animation technique began with backgrounds of bookplates found at the Public Domain Review and are daily exercises that sharpen her skills as an animator while taking breaks from a larger ongoing animated archive about the border landscapes of El Paso and Juárez. Visual artist and musician Colin O'Con of the bands Big High Hills and Dark Carpet composed an original score to accompany the collaboration.
Gallery Passado Composto Sec XX - São Paulo
in conversation with
Lili Tedde of Bloom Brazil
In 2002, Graça Bueno founded the Gallery Passado Composto Século XX, with a focus on Brazilian 20th century modern furniture and artistic tapestry. The gallery has as one of its missions to rescue the memory and enhance national historic design and tapestry and was thus a precursor to hold exhibitions in honor of the Brazilian masters and modern designers and artists. In April 2016, at the first edition of design inside the SP-Arte 2016 fair, the gallery showed "In the Curves of Modernism - From Tenreiro to Niemeyer", with its collection and stars of Brazilian modern historical furniture, tapestries and studies, besides contemporary photographs. The exhibition, curated by Graça Bueno, presented chronologically some of the first modern Brazilian furniture, starting from the soft curves of the pioneer and iconic armchair "Leve" dated 1942, designed by the master Joaquim Tenreiro, until the free and sensual curves of the furniture created by the great architects Oscar and Anna Maria Niemeyer from 1971 to 1980. This show was continued in a more comprehensive version at the gallery until August 2016, with the period 1950-1968 standing out the furniture which marked the modern period with its unique Brazilianness of the major designers like Sergio Rodrigues, Jorge Zalszupin and Jean Gillon, among others. From October 2016 to February 2017, Passado Composto Século XX gallery has reformulated and expanded the universe of the 2012 event, which included Genaro de Carvalho, Jacques Douchez and Jean Gillon. This time, with the exhibition "Artists of Modern Tapestry II", curated by Graça Bueno, the trio joined by other four important artists: Norberto Nicola, Rubem Dario, Edmar de Almeida and Eva Soban.
Ancient art of Ajrakh
block printing tradition,
talk, demonstration
and workshop
This is an introduction talk to the art of Ajrakh block printing tradition in India, followed by a short demonstration and workshop. Ritu Jadwani, founder of Namaste NYC will demonstrate the print technique using traditional wood blocks.
Participants can bring with them some colours/paints/dyes as per availability in their house. They are encouraged to scout for objects in their house to print with.
Dye ideas: Turmeric, beet root, ketchup, tamarind paste, soy sauce, old nail paints, old lipsticks, paints Print objects: Lids, containers, chopsticks, lipsticks, clips, vegetables like Okhra, Potato, any object with a mark to use as a stamp/block Participants can join the workshop and create their own piece of art virtually and share with the community. If permitted, art pieces will be shared on NYTM/Namaste NYC social media channel/newsletters.
Donation: Participants can buy digital card/gift tag templates that can be used for printing during the workshop. Suggested donation-$10. Part of the proceeds will go to the disabled women's organisation, that helps Namaste NYC create their clothing and accessories. As per government restriction in current Covid-19 pandemic, the organisation is unable to operate. The proceeds will help the organisation to sustain during these tough times
Suggested Donation Options:
Option-1 Greeting cards
Option-2 Greeting cards
Anni Albers’s Warp Families
Karis Medina, Associate Curator at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation for a lecture exploring Anni Albers’s working process and the creation of her Pictorial Weavings.
Anni Albers intended for her pictorial weavings to be viewed as visual works, worthy of contemplation, as art, but much is unknown about the process of making them as Albers left no studio journals or preparatory drawings for these works.
Building a weaving takes time, and unlike painting, is a construction of parts, the first step of which is preparing a warp. Her warps, these structural grounds, are shared throughout multiple weavings. This economical practice saved Albers significant time on the loom but also required her to work within limits to create visually divergent compositions.
This illustrated lecture – hosted via Zoom – will take a deep dive into the very fibers of Anni Albers’s pictorial weavings. Examining them closely--reverse engineering them--tracking down the path of Albers’s practice. It traces Albers’s weavings back to their particular warps, the warps to their groups or families, and even back onto her loom to try and understand the moments when her hands manipulated the threads.
Robin Kang - Virtual Studio Visit
A visit into the making space of Robin Kang hosted by Ragna Froda director of New York Textile Month
Contemporary fiber artist Robin Kang will discuss her process and recent artworks while giving a virtual tour of her studio and Jacquard loom. Utilizing a TC-2 Digital Jacquard loom, a contemporary relative of the first binary operated machine and argued precursor to the invention of the computer, Kang hand weaves tapestries that combine mythic symbolism, computer related imagery, and digital mark making. The juxtaposition of textiles with electronics opens an interesting conversation of reconciling old traditions with new possibilities, as well as the relationship between textiles, symbols, language, and memory. Kang holds a MFA from SAIC and is a recipient of the 2017 NYFA Fellowship in Craft/Sculpture. She has exhibited throughout the US, Canada, Spain, Belgium, Berlin, London, France, Austria, Indonesia, and Saudi Arabia.
A conversation with Adi & Gabi from threeASFOUR
hosted by Ragna Froda
threeASFOUR is a trio of transnational artists based in New York City who use fashion as their primary medium. Founded in 2005 by Gabriel Asfour (b. Lebanon), Angela Donhauser (b. U.S.S.R) and Adi Gil (b. Israel), the collective has built a legacy of fusing cutting-edge technology with traditional craftsmanship to create clothing at the intersection of fashion and art. Drawing their core aesthetic from the universal languages of sacred geometry, threeASFOUR is devoted to the creative exploration of themes of consciousness and cultural coexistence.
Dead Craft Walking?
A Handweaver’s Take
on Traditional Skills
Justin Squizzero shares his background in the Anglo-American weaving tradition and current work. Handweaving functional textiles inspired by the past, his practice seeks to preserve a tradition with a relevant present and vital future. Justin answers questions about his practice from his 19th-century Vermont farmhouse.