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GVL / Holding Pattern

Holding Pattern  Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville, Greenville, SC + KMAC Museum, Louisville, KY

Exhibition Dates

KMAC: March 3 - April 9 Reception: March 3 Artist talk: April Dauscha March 18 Artist talk: Nneka Kai March 30

TSA GVL: April 21 - May 20 Reception: May 5

Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville (TSA GVL) artist collective and KMAC Museum are excited to present Holding Pattern, a 6-artist exhibition that investigates fiber arts as a form of modern technology in Louisville, KY and Greenville, SC.

Over the past decade, the value of what we call “technology" became largely correlated with its ability to gather and hold information — data. Today — in algorithms and AI, science and social media — the highest value is assigned to technologies that hold data and the stories that can be derived from it to give it meaning.

But is this really new? Holding Pattern examines how fiber arts helped create the template for our current understanding of what makes a technology valuable, and how contemporary works deserve consideration as technologies that hold both data and story. And, while fiber artwork that employs contemporary digital is usually framed as doing something “new,” it actually reveals a relationship that already existed.

Artists Danielle Burke, April Dauscha, Nneka Kai, Elysia Mann, Keysha Rivera, Skye Tafoya

Co-curated by Tiffany Calvert, Jennifer Oladipo & Kelsey Shaeffer, members of Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville

Artist Bios

Danielle Burke Danielle (Dani) Burke is an artist and folklorist. She studies textiles, craft pedagogy, and artist communities; her studio practice focuses primarily on the structure and storytelling potential of woven cloth. She is currently a PhD student in Design Studies (history) within the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

April Dauscha Born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, April Dauscha received her BFA in fashion design at the International Academy of Design and Technology and her MFA in fiber from Virginia Commonwealth University. April has served on the board of directors for the Surface Design Association (SDA) and is one of the founding members of Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville (TSA GVL). She has been represented by Page Bond Gallery in Richmond, Virginia and her work has been featured in Vogue Portugal. She has exhibited her work nationally, at the Fuller Craft Museum, MANA Contemporary, and Tracey Morgan Gallery, and internationally in Berlin, Cape Town, Jerusalem, and Belgrade. She is currently heading the fiber arts program at the Fine Arts Center, a performing and visual arts high school, in Greenville, South Carolina. Her work can be seen here at www.aprildauscha.com .

Nneka Kai Nneka Kai is an interdisciplinary artist from Atlanta, GA, whose practice is rooted in the exploration of personal and archival narratives through the material of hair. She received her MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, where she was a research assistant at the Textile Resource Center. There she explored the history and conservation aspects of textiles within the Fiber & Material Studies collection. Not seeing herself represented in the objects, she decided to research the peripherals of textiles, in hopes of uncovering Black women’s material sensibilities throughout the diaspora. She also received her BFA from Georgia State University, where her material studies sparked her curiosity for hair. Currently, Nneka’s studio practice explores these findings through fiber, sculpture, and performance works, emphasizing methods of abstraction and opacity. She has performed her works in Chicago, Atlanta, and North Carolina. In 2021, Nneka exhibited in the Hair Stories Exhibition at The Newport Art Museum in Rhode Island. She is currently working as an art teacher while exploring her home in Atlanta, Georgia as a site of Black presence and preservation.

Elysia Mann Elysia Mann is a studio technician at the University of Tennessee and is a member of Knoxville’s Relay Ridge community studios and printshop. She was the co-founder of a collaborative print shop in St. Louis called All Along Press where she published fine art prints and letterpress editions. She holds a BFA in Printmaking from Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Tennessee. Her work combines print, textile, and poetry and has been shown nationally including upcoming exhibitions at the KMAC Museum in Louisville and Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Greenville. Website: elysiaaileenmann.com.

Keysha Rivera Keysha Rivera is a textile and media artist of Afro-Indigenous ancestry. Rivera combines traditional craft and contemporary digital technologies. Her work revolves around cultural preservation and the configuration of displaced histories.

Her work being rooted in the connection of material and process, she creates soft sculptures, paintings, and installations that point to the conversation around the vulnerability of home, Caribbean identity and the tenderness of memory and remembrance.

Her familial research acts as a guide for the creation of works. By centering Puerto Rican liberation, her art functions as a contemporary form of resistance to the present-day realities.

Skye Tafoya skye tafoya is an indigenous artist from the eastern band cherokee and santa clara pueblo tribes. her tribal heritage and lineage are significant components continuously present within her artwork. skye comes from a lineage of basket-weavers, both paternal and maternal, and also used to make red willow baskets with her dad. skye continues to use paper-weaving processes to honor her loved ones and ancestors. her meticulously crafted designs, patterns, prints, and weavings are influenced by basketry and contains themes of cultural teachings, cherokee language preservation, motherhood and personal & family narratives. skye creates with the intention of archiving, preserving and sharing stories, language, culture, and experiences.  

skye has worked in both two-dimensional and three-dimensional forms ranging in sizes from hand-held to life-size. the methods of her art practice include serigraph (screen-printing), relief and letterpress printmaking, digital design, paper-weaving, and book-making.

skye published her first artist book, ul’nigid’, in the spring of 2020 and has exhibited work nationally and internationally in russia. her work is also housed in many special collections including the u.s. library of congress, kohler art library, and the bainbridge museum of art. she received her b.f.a. from the institute of american indian arts in santa fe, nm and her m.f.a. from the pacific northwest college of art in portland, or.

[megacoraglasser-blog]

Sometimes a storage rack is more than that. #holdingpatterns#sunriseinthewest#virtualopenstudio (at Pfizer 630 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn) https://www.instagram.com/p/CC3o3xYlDxw/?igshid=8qp8645h3xlw

[denise108]

A full day of yoga today! A wonderful class with @mokshaayurvedaphx followed by my handstand practice, then teaching a class, then back home to goof off more. This is what I love the most. Yoga all day. Researching, practicing, writing, talking, thinking about it, all day. It may sound a little far out. But we need to then define yoga. This doesn’t only the poses. The all encompassing practice on the mat, and what you do with that off the mat is what I’m talking about. How you live the day to day life gracefully. 💫 I’ve been sharing about my sister this past week. Stirring my own shit up and coming closer to a healing pattern. Tears streaming and mixing with my sweat every time I’m on the mat. It’s been outrageous to finally feel the all the feels of pain and sorrow, because there is no path to joy when those are pushed aside. ✨ Pushing them aside was necessary for me and served me for a while. But no longer. I’ve stepped into a new realm of joy and freedom. And I thank the Uni-Verse and yoga for the safe holding pattern I was held in until I was ready. ❤️🙏🏻 #holdingpatterns #healingpatterns #yogaat56 #yogaeverydamnday #yogaphx #compasspose #inspired #optimism #takeavinyasa #waheguru #onesongyogateachertraining #onesongyoga #sisters #yogateachersarepeopletoo https://www.instagram.com/p/BtmD67VhasP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=fwdm0n301x3s

[bethegentleone]

It's that time of the week again - a new chapter has been posted! Check it out and leave an honest review, please :) thanks guys and happy holidays! 

[vanillelavendernotes]

moi. #blackboyjoy #holdingpatterns #blackqueermagic #KingV 📸 by the magnificent @zunleephoto

[omanxl1]

The Holding Pattern (Part Nine)

The Holding Pattern (Part Nine)

Overhead? planes flying in my airspace headed to Atlanta’s Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, it seems they’re in a holding pattern! I need to file a complaint with the FAA, but I understand how they play due to local / national / international and intergalactic trips from here in Atlanta to Louisville / Newburg to Johannesburg and from Pluto to Mars to Saturn! Reflecting on this per…

[hapinez]

Had to dust off my tinfoil hat to protect me from the #chemtrails today #Portland #holdingpattern (at Beaverton, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4nVQSQAHhi/?igshid=obnu1gyost5r

[lifedoulasally]

Hold your vision: Fixed Moon. "There are two main possibilities with this card. The first is that you need to stand firm in whatever situation you're in. The second, very different, interpretation is that something is stuck. That could well be referring to the situation you're asking about. If that's the case, have a think about what you can do to grease the wheels so that events move forward. Are you being stubborn? If so, that's great, because if you really want things to change, there's a solution: stop digging your heels in! Be the one to break a deadlock. With two interpretations for this card, it's up to you to decide what's going on and which meaning applies to you. This offers up a chance for some self-reflection." Attune to the Moon: Yes. Just say the word a lot and see how it feels. Additional meanings: Staying-power, faith or patience are needed; someone needs to back down; avoid stagnation; a personal or professional relationship will be enduring. #oraclecard #oracleoftheday #seeking #moonology #yasminboland #fixedmoon #holdingpattern #feelingstuck #clarity #sayyes #affirmations #selfreflection #fixedsigns #taurus #leo #scorpio #aquarius #astrology #moon (at Rocksteady Life) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtggiOvFn_H/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=180dy8tz20f4n

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When the needle is on the record and you don’t know what to do, You can touch the record But there may be no need for the violence. Instead, Look out your window. Let the Vinyl play and watch the planes fly their holding patterns above your city. Watch and listen. Until... You hear your record suddenly play something that wasn’t on the record before. And You see a plane finally touch down. Then you can finish getting ready and walk out the door. From When & Then Thanks for holding on... #vinyl #records #steadfast #holdon #holdingpatterns #when https://www.instagram.com/p/BtguMr0BnlA/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1j2wo9mv0rbvh

[gold-tcm]

Holding patterns and shifting Season

 It can be very uncomfortable to be in Holding pattern in the Midst of shifting season you feel like you want to get out you want to move around you want to do more but you almost feel stuck.

 You want to move there is frustration to get out and do but these this hold back something keeping you, you in place

 What?

-          You Duty

-          Your assignment

 God don’t Call the qualified he qualifies the called

 Many are called few are chosen  

 When God has a call on your life and you accept it you have to live your life a bit different then everyone else, you have o be open and aware to what god is telling and where he is telling you do go and why.

 Which also mean when he wants you to stay someplace weather you like it or not you can’t leave or Move before he tells you can go, no matter how uncomfortable you get when your there or while you’re there. You can’t move or Go ANYWHERE until he says so.

 There a pull in your spirit that will say “I am frustrated and I don’t want to deal with this I want OUT”

There is another part of you that wants nothing more than to complete the work

-          Who do I have to talk to

-          What do I have to pray over

-          Where do I have to go

-          What scripture do I need to pay attention to?

 What need to be done for GOD in order to get me OUT if this situation?

 I have been put in to some precarious situation only to find out I was supposed to Bless someone with a

Word about god

-          A meal

-          To Pray and intercede on their behalf

 You must stay open to what god is telling you and how he is speaking to you and his warning discern his signs but also be aware and discerning because we can’t always look for signs we have to trust signs but it has to be from God sometimes I will receive warning in the midst of something and that the best time to take the sign but be cautious to any signs you see at any other time, if you feel it going in the wrong direction and then you get a confirmation from a sign or person around you then you know that’s GOD  talking so know HOW to use signs just don’t mindlessly follow or you will be lead into a trap

 But it’s those things that will allow you to get through your holding season unscathed or with the least amount of issue, because you don’t want to jump in the wrong direction and the enemy is always trying to get us out of place

 John 10:10

The Devil come to

-          Kill

-          Steal

-          Destroy

 But God comes so that we may have life and have it more abundantly.

 But we must stay focused and continue to Heal and Grow and as soon as we do what we are supposed to do we will achieve… you will win

 Keep your eyes on the lord and keep your eyes on the directive and blessing God is going to do for you.  

 Just hold on and our New season will be here before you know it o9�A?

[atcmemes]

#holdingpattern #atc

[andymanmccabe]

#HoldingPattern over #SLC http://bit.ly/2WwrAdH

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#Ceramic #charlesbenton #clay #genesisbelanger #holdingpattern #margotnorton #nathaliekarggallery #newmuseum  #newyorkcity #sculpture #tobydevanlewis #Art #JADM #justadesignmag...

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#Repost @joelhoekstra13 (@get_repost) ・・・ Just a Snake and a Scorpion jamming/noodling to stay sharp! #🎸#Sydney #Whitesnake #Scorpions #JoelHoekstra #PawelMaciwoda #hotelroom #holdingpattern https://www.instagram.com/p/B88Pj0RHnXl/?igshid=anurs2gu318i

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#goodmorning #mood #projectsfordays all in a #holdingpattern until we're sure what #maria is up to... #theprice of #paridise #keepcalmandcarryon #palmbeachvintage #antiquerowwpb

[omanxl1]

You Don’t Quit / You Don’t Stop!! (Part Seven)

You Don’t Quit / You Don’t Stop!! (Part Seven)

 Even on this Monday morning of a so called Labor Day Holiday? we’re taking the advice of the  old school Baptist preacher up in Louisville ; he told us you don’t quit and you don’t stop! We see how these earthlings are trying to play; they want to keep us in a holding pattern!! it doesn’t look like the madness will ever stop! Digital Crate Digging Continues!!  might even set this O-Dog Day…