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On Campus with Kaino: Making Your Net Work
I’m a student in the UC Davis MFA program and also a “returning” student who has seen a few hard knocks in the real world. As part of my mandate to address SDA student issues, I want to use this space...
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On Campus with Kaino: Get Your Student Work Out There!
Good student-level work is missing from art shows, galleries, runways and competitions. Why? We hesitate. We are afraid. We don’t make the time to enter. We have got to be brave! Here is how and why we...
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On Campus with Kaino: Shingo Sato Workshop Jumpstarts Creative Thinking
I discovered Shingo Sato’s unique take on fashion/surface design just as I was planning my MFA show this year. I needed to break a design-block that had dropped in on me like a thick London – or in...
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SURTEX Stories: 4 Student Competition Winners Get Seen In NYC
SURTEX, now in its 26th year, has long recognized outstanding art & design students for exceptional surface design work through its annual international designext competition. SDA member Melodie...
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Get-up-and-Gho: Visit Bhutan Where Weaving Is Highly Valued
Sometimes opportunity knocks so hard you just have to answer! The opportunity was a trip to Bhutan and the knock came from a relative who was a professor at the Royal College of Thimpu. Throwing...
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On (& Off!) Campus: ECU Students Make the Scene at *Identity* Conference
When it comes to traveling and experiencing venues outside the academy, the textile students of East Carolina University (Greenville, North Carolina) know how make things happen. Our students are...
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On Campus with Kaino: Making Your Net Work
I’m a student in the UC Davis MFA program and also a “returning” student who has seen a few hard knocks in the real world. As part of my mandate to address SDA student issues, I want to use this space...
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On Campus with Kaino: Get Your Student Work Out There!
Good student-level work is missing from art shows, galleries, runways and competitions. Why? We hesitate. We are afraid. We don’t make the time to enter. We have got to be brave! Here is how and why we...
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SEFEA: Life Support for Fiber Arts Educators
A career in academia is terrifyingly uncertain. Contracts are increasingly short, work is scarce and upward mobility is staggeringly difficult. Fewer and fewer careers are secure. This is especially...
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On Campus: UWGB’s Grow-Your-Own Flax Project
I have never been a “sheep to shawl” kind of fiber artist. In fact, until about 2010, my own studio practice was deeply entrenched in the philosophical mire of post-modernist fine art, albeit with some...
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In Search of Textile Arts at College Art Association
College Art Association’s (CAA) annual conferences are just one of many member services that serve their mission to “advance the highest standards of instruction, knowledge and practice in the visual...
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New MS Degree in Surface Imaging at Philadelphia U
I have been teaching digital textile print design at Philadelphia University (formerly Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science) since 2000. Both undergraduate and graduate courses are offered...
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