From Tehran to the Guggenheim, Iranian artist reflects
Fred Pleitgen visits Monir Farmanfarmaian, age 91, at her Tehran studio; the first retrospective of her work at a U.S. museum is now on display in New York.
This website is devoted to the exploration the world of non woven fiber structures alongside our in class time together this Spring. This course explores a wide range of off loom textile structures such as basketry, netting, crochet, felting and soft sculpture.
This website will serve as the homebase for this class. Check here regularly for important course information on fiber techniques, processes, and concepts as well as information for all assignments, class announcements, and detailed linkable fiber art resources.
We will examine off loom textile techniques together in hopes of finding ways that the concepts, materials, and processes of fiber might serve to enhance your own developing art practices, wherever you go after this class.
I’m glad you are here!
Images above, from top:
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, "Heartache No 22", 1994, mixed media.
Meret Oppenheim, "Object", 1936.
Sarah Zapata, "A Famine of Hearing", 2019
Cecilia Vicuna, "Balsa Snake Raft to Escape the Flood", 2017, found mixed media sources from New Orleans, Chile and New York.
Yayoi Kusuma, "Accumulations #1", 1962
work by Josh Faught
art meme
some things to learn in non woven structures, from a deck of cards I made using text from the book “101 Things to Learn in Art School by Kit White