wall hanging by(fine artists) Lisa and Lori Lubbesmeyer
Monday, 21 October 2013
wall Hangings
wall hanging by(fine artists) Lisa and Lori Lubbesmeyer
Monday, 14 October 2013
Miller, K., (2009) The Art of Katazome [Online]Available at http://www.bentoncountymuseum.org (Accessed on 4th October at 11:17)
scarves quote
Salter, K., (2011) The neck's big thing: a colourful history of the silk scarf [Online] Available at: http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG8464030/The-necks-big-thing-a-colourful-history-of-the-silk-scarf.html (Accessed on 10th October 2013 at 15.27
Audrey Hepburn once said, 'When I wear a silk scarf I never feel so definitely like a woman, a beautiful woman.'
Crysalis, an EC project
http://makingfutures.plymouthart.ac.uk/mf3.php?pageID=10 (Accessed on 12 October 13 at 3.30)
Plymouth College of Art in association with Crysalis, an EC project funded under the INTERREG IV A 2 Seas Programme.
MAKING FUTURES
textiles sector is vast. it has social and environmental consequences , that outstrip other practices. effects are entwined in production and consumption, they traverse the exploitative regimes of the ‘sweatshop’ and a progressive activism rooted in a micro-politics of DIY, ‘Craftivism’, transition and slow movement thinking.
The terrain is complex entails seemingly contradictory turns. artisanal workshops can be just as polluting as a large regulated and efficient factory; pesticides are used heavily on cotton crops while the mordants used with dyes can be extremely toxic. synthetic does not inevitably equate with bad: enormous advances in synthetic cellulose fibers based upon sources of potentially sustainable raw materials.
government and some large manufactures, have made very significant contributions. small-scale initiatives and interventions are often particularly effective in addressing specific localized circumstances.
the range of activity,and the complex requirements creates an exceptionally challenging field of enquiry with opportunities to learn, to develop, and make positive impacts.
Thursday, 10 October 2013
Monday, 7 October 2013
Craft Activism
Tapper, J., Zucker, G., (2011) Craft Activism, New York: Random House Inc
p5
"When I am asked to define craft, I don't and I won"t. I like to think of it as undefinable
- with no rules - and that is why I was drawn to it in the first place. Craft is a way to connect with people, a way to create a community that you are inspired by. I have come to realise that once one's hands are in motion, "making" is difficult to stop."
p6
"I came to realise that all kinds of crafts have moved from private passion to public statement."
"...we were stunned to realise how far reaching this new blend of craft and activism ......"craftivism" ...
really is. "
it's part of the DIY movement, which promots handmade objects ....over mass-produced articles.
p7
Profitability of the work of one's own hands and heart have been expanded by the most up to date technology, in particular the internet.
p5
"When I am asked to define craft, I don't and I won"t. I like to think of it as undefinable
- with no rules - and that is why I was drawn to it in the first place. Craft is a way to connect with people, a way to create a community that you are inspired by. I have come to realise that once one's hands are in motion, "making" is difficult to stop."
p6
"I came to realise that all kinds of crafts have moved from private passion to public statement."
"...we were stunned to realise how far reaching this new blend of craft and activism ......"craftivism" ...
really is. "
it's part of the DIY movement, which promots handmade objects ....over mass-produced articles.
p7
Profitability of the work of one's own hands and heart have been expanded by the most up to date technology, in particular the internet.
Saturday, 5 October 2013
Extreem Knitting
Link to you tub vidio Looks like great fun.
Rachel John, Extreme Knitting, 1000 Strand Knit - YouTube
Example of extreme knitting from The Thinking Housewife web site.
A Knitted Car Cozy by Magda Sayeg and her group, Knitta Please
Friday, 4 October 2013
Gloria Loughman
These spectacular quilts make me feel the sun shining through the trees.
http://tangerinekey.wordpress.com/tag/gloria-loughman/
carol suto
I love the movement in this work.
Link to more of ner work. http://www.pinterest.com/janicecavaletto/quilts/
Greyson Perry
tapestries and articleartical byl Greyson Perry
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/10117264/Grayson-Perry-Taste-is-woven-into-our-class-system.html
Taylor, C., Contemporary Art Quilts [Online] Available at :http://www.caroltaylorquilts.com {Accessed on 4th October 2013 at 12 20)
This looks great I love the colours used.
Dragonflies 2008
Red Clover 200
- Miller, K., (2009) The Art of Katazome [Online]Available at http://www.bentoncountymuseum.org (Accessed on 4th October 2013 at 11:17)
Love the subjects and colour of these art quilts.
Saturday, 21 September 2013
Thinking through craft
Adamson, G., (2007), Thinking through craft, Oxford, New York, BERG.
p11
"artworks are something made that have become more than something simply made".
craft does not function as a vehical of self doubt and rigorous internal analysis that art does-far from it. It is instead a supplement of the art work, .... A supplement is that which provides something necessary to another, "original" entity, but which is nonetheless considered to be extraneous (irrelevant) to that original....the supplement as pointing to a "lack", which might be present in a single work....
p12
"the guilt frame that surrounds a painting ...is not part of the artwork, but ...conveys the sense of the paintings importance, it props up the artwork".
p59
"the way in which something has been produced shows itself in te finished product. the way it shows itself is what we call facture".
p71
"it's not the technical side of it that matters: it's something beyond that".
The implication is that the proper response is not theoretical discussion, but shoulder-shrugging amazement. when somebody's' got "it" ...we are usually content to admire, rather than analyze.
p74
"good workmanship is that which carries out or improves upon the intended design. Bad workmanship is what fails to do so and thwarts the design.
p74/75
...craft skill never comes free; it must be learned. ...skill is something that seems noteworthy only from the position of the unskilled.
p81
...any craft had inherent moral integrity as a creative experience, so it followed that every child should be educated to become 'self-expressive craftsmen...'. The inclusion of artistic and vocational courses in school's curriculum was not a way to make education a more efficient way of building the economy, but rather a means of working towards "a sound society".
p83
...technigue applied through materials gives access to a universal whole.
p84
"The best education is one;s own experience.Experimenting surpasses studying".
p139
If modern art....is grounded in serching for self-awareness, then amerterism is a form of creativity that can never be intergrated into this model.In the popular imagination, hobby crafts ar on a par with such activities as stamp collecting and weekend sport - activities done in a spirit of self-gratification rather than critique.
p140
Sewing in the living room or woodworking in the garage are activities that reflect a culture of prosperous excess.
.....idle hands make for potentially revolutionary work.Similarly, the succassful displacement of unused time into harmless leisure activities has been vital to the project of capatalist expansion.
....there are huge profits to be gained by selling commodities (materials/equipment) to aspiring craftspeople, amaturs perform a valuable ....service to the economy.
Presicsely because they are made so lovingly, homemade crafts betray the degree to which their makers are integrated into the larger structure of capitalist ideology, in which commodidity forms are the primary carriers of meaning.
p152
Seek to be good but not to be great
A womans noblest station is retreat
Her fairest virtues fly from public sight.
Domestic worth still shuns too atrong a light.
p153
"Quality is something that a white Anglo-Saxon protestant man does .....Quality is expensive decoration for rich people who happen to be blind."
p155
rather than "untying the apron strings" the artists involved in womanhouse were "keeping the apron on, flaunting it , and turning it into art"
p11
"artworks are something made that have become more than something simply made".
craft does not function as a vehical of self doubt and rigorous internal analysis that art does-far from it. It is instead a supplement of the art work, .... A supplement is that which provides something necessary to another, "original" entity, but which is nonetheless considered to be extraneous (irrelevant) to that original....the supplement as pointing to a "lack", which might be present in a single work....
p12
"the guilt frame that surrounds a painting ...is not part of the artwork, but ...conveys the sense of the paintings importance, it props up the artwork".
p59
"the way in which something has been produced shows itself in te finished product. the way it shows itself is what we call facture".
p71
"it's not the technical side of it that matters: it's something beyond that".
The implication is that the proper response is not theoretical discussion, but shoulder-shrugging amazement. when somebody's' got "it" ...we are usually content to admire, rather than analyze.
p74
"good workmanship is that which carries out or improves upon the intended design. Bad workmanship is what fails to do so and thwarts the design.
p74/75
...craft skill never comes free; it must be learned. ...skill is something that seems noteworthy only from the position of the unskilled.
p81
...any craft had inherent moral integrity as a creative experience, so it followed that every child should be educated to become 'self-expressive craftsmen...'. The inclusion of artistic and vocational courses in school's curriculum was not a way to make education a more efficient way of building the economy, but rather a means of working towards "a sound society".
p83
...technigue applied through materials gives access to a universal whole.
p84
"The best education is one;s own experience.Experimenting surpasses studying".
p139
If modern art....is grounded in serching for self-awareness, then amerterism is a form of creativity that can never be intergrated into this model.In the popular imagination, hobby crafts ar on a par with such activities as stamp collecting and weekend sport - activities done in a spirit of self-gratification rather than critique.
p140
Sewing in the living room or woodworking in the garage are activities that reflect a culture of prosperous excess.
.....idle hands make for potentially revolutionary work.Similarly, the succassful displacement of unused time into harmless leisure activities has been vital to the project of capatalist expansion.
....there are huge profits to be gained by selling commodities (materials/equipment) to aspiring craftspeople, amaturs perform a valuable ....service to the economy.
Presicsely because they are made so lovingly, homemade crafts betray the degree to which their makers are integrated into the larger structure of capitalist ideology, in which commodidity forms are the primary carriers of meaning.
p152
Seek to be good but not to be great
A womans noblest station is retreat
Her fairest virtues fly from public sight.
Domestic worth still shuns too atrong a light.
p153
"Quality is something that a white Anglo-Saxon protestant man does .....Quality is expensive decoration for rich people who happen to be blind."
p155
rather than "untying the apron strings" the artists involved in womanhouse were "keeping the apron on, flaunting it , and turning it into art"
Thursday, 14 March 2013
Craft in dialogue
Jonsson, L., (ED), (2005), Craft in dialogue. Six views
on practice in change,Stockholm: IASPIS
Page 7
Crafts themselves are one of the areas in which the
contemporary is exposed and discussed.
Page 12
In the classical episteme, things are separate from history.
A thing is analyzed according to its visibility, measurability, and through
various tests......in the modern episteme the internal relations among things
are what is significant. The link to vision no longer plays the same crucial
role, the function of things and their determination do.
Craft is undergoing a revival in the 21st
century, but the question is why. Is it simply nostalgic yearning for the
human-made and the synthetic in between everyday life and art....
Page 31
Students now spurn the constraining focus on the physical
workmanship of finished products and the need to concentrate on a particular
material, and are instead becoming more
concerned with underlying ideas. ...There message is that if one resists
getting locked to a specific material, the possibilities of expression are
wider.
Page 39
“it is the uniformity of perfection that kills,”stated
Bernard Leach every thing is the same.
Page 64
“how can we remain indifferent to what is going on? Our art
must necessarily be a reflection of that which surrounds us.”
Page 65
With the use of poignant motifs, the public should be made to
react and then act by extension.
Page 68
To associate in groups and organizations is something that
has once again started to become more frequent among the crafts practitioners,
artists and designers in our time ...their association is based on mutually
shared attitude towards the work,
But is it art?
Freeland, C., (2001) But
is it art?, New York: Oxford University Press.
The book gives an overview of the history of art and some of
the theories in art. It is easy to read and understand. It has given me
connections between past and present, from the Arts and Craft movement, right
up to the technological age.
P11 Beautiful
objects do not serve ordinary human purposes, as plates and spoons do. ...
Something beautiful has ‘purposiveness without purpose’.
P60 stained glass,
... is now more associated with craft than art; and landscape gardening seems a
hobby or design practice rather than ‘Art’.
P 117-‘ ...some art
takes place outside ...using public or government funding. One example is the
public art project culture in action.
... public projects like this one are successors of earlier efforts to bring
art to the so-called masses, ... similarly, the arts and craft movement ...
aimed to enhance peoples everyday experiences by bringing beauty to there usual
aesthetic surroundings’.
P130 ‘Genius belongs
to creators who employ their medium so that, all viewers can respond, with awe
and admiration’.
Craft council report 2012
Economics as well as Environmental effects and concerns are
changing Contemporary crafts.
Crafters are becoming aware of the effects of there practice on the environment and so they are sourcing materials more locally and using recyclable/sustainable and environmental friendly materials,,
and where possible have changed there making processes.
The income of makers has declined but this may be due to the makers cutting back on hours due to the economic difficulties within the country.
Crafters are becoming aware of the effects of there practice on the environment and so they are sourcing materials more locally and using recyclable/sustainable and environmental friendly materials,,
and where possible have changed there making processes.
The income of makers has declined but this may be due to the makers cutting back on hours due to the economic difficulties within the country.
as technology becomes more advanced crafters are expected to
collaborative more rather than stay as
independent workers.
Craft council report 2012,
Available a: http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/files/professional-development/Craft_in_an_Age_of_Change.pdf Accessed on 19th February 2013 at
11: 05
Cradle to Cradle
Mc DonoughW., Barungart, M., (2002), Cradle to Cradle remaking the way we make things, New York : North
Point Press.
Page 20
“Citys … are nothing less than overgrown prisons that shut
out the world and all its beauties,” wrote the poet John Clare.
Page 23
Winston Chirchill refered to manufacturing as, “the arsenal
of democracy.” Because the productive capacity was so huge, it could (as in
world war two) Produce an undeniably potent response to war conditions.
The book is about recycling and it states why the way we
recycle at the moment is not very good. This is due to the fact that we recycle
at present are not designed to be recycled.
The book suggests the path of redesigning the goods we make. This will
make recycling goods much more efficient, as they will be made completely from
reusable components.
The Persistence of Craft
Greenhaig, p., (ED) (2002) The Persistence of Craft, London:
A&C Black LTD.
1 Classification , 2 Economy, 3 Amatteuridm, 4 Techology, 5 Morality,
6 Ethnicity, 7 Place, 8 Domesticity, 9 Museolohy, 10 Gender,
11 History, 12 Modernity, 13 Quality.
Page 7
A key element of the idea of modern craft lies in these
observations. In an affirmation of
process over product, amateur craft is to do with the need to physically engage
with things ....it is not the same thing as the obsessive. Intense search that
is central to the professional sphere.
The former is to do with the injection of the subjective self into
objective phenomena the latter is to do with the objectification of the
subjective.
Page 13
Works of art are not objects, works of art are relationships
between people and oblects,. If the
relationship does not exist, neither does the work of art.
Art is primarily an ides. Remove the ides and only social class and economics remain.
Page 20
The actual making of beautiful objects is only one aspect of
the success or failure of a genre.
POWER OF MAKING
Charny, D., (2011), POWER
OF MAKING the importance of being skilled, London: V&A Publishing and
the Craft Council.
Page 43. The role of
making is ... to give life to things, but also to show evidence of life within
us, perhaps also at a spiritual level.
The effect the industrial revolution has had on today’s
craft movement. It also says where the craft movement may be moving in the
future.
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