Fibers

 

Recent Submissions

  • Tristan Lee : capstone 

    Contributor:Lee, Tristan
    Date Submitted:2017
    Plastic Wastelands encompasses my perspective on current environmental issues depicting oil fracking, water pollution, and an overall sense of fear in abstracted sculptural forms. My use of polypropylene fibers in fine, ...

  • Taylor Landry : capstone 

    Contributor:Landry, Taylor
    Date Submitted:2017
    The artist's statement: Often, I find myself stopped in the street, observing how perfectly composed the caution tape floating in a leaf strewn puddle over a break in the curb appears. What conspired for everything to come ...

  • Erin Bolte : capstone 

    Contributor:Bolte, Erin
    Date Submitted:2017
    The artist's statement: I create work that draws on the historic traditions of fiber art while pushing towards forms that ease the ennui. Every piece starts as a series of strings that build up with intention over time ...

  • Maddie Shackelford : capstone 

    Contributor:Shackelford, Maddie
    Date Submitted:2017
    The artist's statement: There used to be an uncomfortable tension between art and craft. That pressure has since dissipated and been replaced with a new tension – that between art and design. Arguably art and design have ...

  • Abigail Galvin : capstone 

    Contributor:Galvin, Abigail
    Date Submitted:2016
    The artist's statement: Through documentation or metaphor, I seek to understand how both our sense of agency and our sense of restriction are deeply tied to an awareness of our own bodies. The result of this process is two ...

  • Alyson Crist : capstone 

    Contributor:Crist, Alyson
    Date Submitted:2016
    The artist's statement: By challenging the division between the realm of memory and the realm of practice, I have attempted to create work with a fascination of content and an adamant attitude towards conceptual art. ...

  • Gabrielle de la Torre : capstone 

    Contributor:de la Torre, Gabrielle
    Date Submitted:2016
    The artist's statement: Growing up, I learned that each day was a day to celebrate. My family made every day special. They showed me that we could celebrate people, events, and stories. Within my faith life, the Catholic ...

  • Gena Wasilewski : capstone 

    Contributor:Wasilewski, Gena
    Date Submitted:2015
    The artist's statement: Even when I was young, I thought this world was beyond extraordinary. The neighborhood band of kids and I would discover and conjure up grandiose adventures worthy of story books in our green and ...

  • Nanette Bertoni : capstone 

    Contributor:Bertoni, Nanette
    Date Submitted:2015
    The artist's statement: When I was young, leaving the ocean after a family trip gave me a sense of emptiness. The ocean represents serenity and contentment. My work speaks of this wonderful and somewhat elusive world. I ...

  • Holly Sargent : capstone 

    Contributor:Sargent, Holly
    Date Submitted:2015
    The artist's statement: My art is inspired by my spiritual relationship with Jesus Christ. I don’t expect everyone that encounters my work to understand the theology of what I am expressing, but I spend my creative efforts ...