Harris LIbrary Closd for the Summer
The Harris Library has closed for the summer and will likely reopen after the start of fall classes when the student monitors' schedules have been arranged.
Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection Blog
Thanks to Diana Zlatanovski, the HLATC move team has an excellent blog: http://hlatc.blogspot.com/!
'Creating Buddhas' on Tour
Creating Buddhas: The Making and meaning of Fabric Thangkas is the story of a western woman who became a fabric thangka maker. The one-hour documentary film by Isadora Leidenfrost, Design Studies graduate student is now on tour. For details and screening times and locations, visit http://www.creatingbuddhas.com/index.html
Design Studies Faculty at International Textile Conference
Design Studies Professor Carolyn Kallenborn chaired the Surface Design Association’s 2009 “Off the Grid” International Textile Conference, held recently in Kansas City www.surfacedesign.org/offthegrid2009conference/2009archive.asp. Professors Mary Hark and Carolyn Kallenborn gave presentations.
More than 400 textile professionals from all over the world attended four days of lectures, two weeks of workshops, and 20 fiber exhibitions in the Kansas City Crossroads district, including an installation at the Belger Arts Center by Design Studies Professor Jennifer Angus and international shows from Africa and the United Kingdom: www.surfacedesign.org/2009exhibitions.asp. A DVD of the conference is available for purchase on the website.
Carolyn Kallenborn’s Installation at Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society Performance
Design Studies Professor Carolyn Kallenborn installed a textile exhibition on The Playhouse stage at the Overture Center to support a performance of the Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society on June 13. She also made dresses for the performers, including one made of kelp.
Isadora Leidenfrost Featured in Tompkins Weekly
Isadora Leidenfrost and her Creating Buddhas documentary was featured in the Tompkins Weekly, Ithaca, New York. Click on the June 1 issue.
Mary Hark's Work in European Show
Assistant Professor Mary Hark has work included in the exhibition Paper Global being shown at the Stadt Museum in Deggendorf, Germany, through Sept. 6th. This exhibition showcases artwork of 80 artists from Europe, Asia, and the United States who use handmade paper as a primary media.
Review of 'Insecta Fantasia'
You can find a glowing review of Design Studies Professor Jennifer Angus’ exhibition, Insecta Fantasia, at Newark Museum, New Jersey, online at http://curiousexpeditions.org/.
'Silks of South Asia' in Third Floor Cases
The Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection has installed Silks of South Asia in its display cases on the third floor of the Human Ecology building. The display will be up for the semester and it will be the last one before the Collection relocates temporarily during building renovations. The installation features textiles from the Collection, as well as cocoons and hanks of wild-silk rope loaned by J. Mark Kenoyer, UW-Madison anthropology professor. The world's oldest-known silk is from Pakistan - not China - a discovery made by Professor Kenoyer, who directs the Center for South Asia.
Green is the trend for UW design students
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