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TSGNY meets ten
times a year, September through June, on the
third Wednesday of each month.
Eight meetings feature
slide lectures by speakers who are among the movers and
shakers of the fiber art world. One meeting every
year is set aside for members to show their work and one
meeting is reserved for a special
event.
Information
about the next speaker and the date, time, and location
of TSGNY’s next monthly meeting are posted at
the beginning of the month. TSGNY is on
vacation during July and August.
Meetings keep
members up-to-date with what is happening in
contemporary fiber art. They also provide
opportunities for networking with speakers and
other TSGNY members.
The Textile
Study Group of New York welcomes guests.
We cordially invite you to attend a monthly meeting―and consider becoming a TSGNY member.
NEXT MEETING: Wednesday,
February 17, 7 pm
SPEAKER: SHEILA PEPE
Sheila Pepe creates large, site-specific, web-like installations
involving flexible linear elements that are
interconnected—braided, knotted, knitted, crocheted,
entwined—and then looped, dangled, coiled, wrapped,
pooled as they swing through space and cast transitory
shadows. She uses humble materials—cotton yarn,
shoelaces, rubber bands, nautical towline—with audacious
intent.
Pepe earned an MFA at the School of the Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston, in 1995, and moved to New York in 1999 to
continue her career. Now the assistant chair of the Fine
Arts Department at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, she has
been exhibiting her work in solo and group exhibitions
since 1995, including more than fifty major public
installations. Two of these constructions have been
conserved beyond the end date of their exhibition:
"Tunnel" (2005), at the Jersey City Museum; and “Red
Hook at Bedford Terrace" (2008), at the Smith College
Museum of Art. Others were installed, then dismantled
and recycled into subsequent works.
Her work has been extensively documented in reviews and
articles. She is represented by the Susan Inglett
Gallery, New York, and the Bernard Toale Gallery,
Boston.
To view pictorial examples of her work, visit:
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/
gallery/sheila_pepe.php?i=1706.
Future TSGNY programs include:
March ―
Adrienne Sloane, hand and machine knitter.
April ―
Elizabeth Whyte Schulze, coiled vessels of longleaf
pine needles bound with raffia.
May ― Joanne
Mattera, encaustic paintings.
June ―
Members show their work.
LOCATION:
Community Church of New York
Unitarian Universalist
40 E. 35th St. between Park
and Madison
New York City
(Entrance at street level on the far right of the church
itself;
doorway marked #40.)
Admission:
Free for TSGNY’s Full, Donor, Benefactor, and Student
members. $10.00 for Newsletter Subscription members
and unaffiliated guests. $5.00 for members of other
textile organizations. Fees support TSGNY’s Nancy
and Harry Koenigsberg Award. |
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For years, TSGNY members
have benefited from programming that
included speakers who exemplified the diversity and
inclusiveness of the contemporary textile world.
For example:
2008–2009
September ― Emiko Toda Loeb, Japanese-American
quiltmaker known for reversible quilts built using an
innovative "log cabin" technique of her own invention.
October ― Anne Clarke, knitter who creates
wearable art, textile wall hangings, and large format
digital prints; professor at Syracuse University.
November ― Gail Martin; the Gail Martin Gallery
specializes in ancient, antique, and ethnographic
textiles, and shows the work of selected contemporary
fiber artists.
December ― Annual Holiday party.
January ― Polly Barton, nationally recognized
artist, trained in Japan, who weaves ikat paintings
using extra fine warp and weft threads of silk.
February ― Janice Arnold, felter who produces
"exquisite felted fabrics," works for commercial
enterprises, and collaborates with artists and
designers.
March ― Orly Genger uses knitting and crochet
techniques to wrestle lengths of rope into scarf-like
sections that she folds and layers into massive,
monolithic objects.
April ― Orly Cogan embroiders fantastical,
feminist scenes that explore relationships and intimacy
using vintage fabrics as sentimental foundations.
May ― Mia Pearlman creates cut paper
installations, graphite drawings, and paintings on paper
that are atmospheric, ephemeral, ambiguous, and
evocative.
June ― Show of Members’ Work.
2007─2008
September
— Chad
Patton for NUNO, one of Japan’s most influential and
innovative producers of beautiful, commercial fabrics.
October — Meg Little,
hand
tufts rugs, cushions, and doormats with colorful,
painterly, playful, geometric designs.
November — Debra Smith,
creates
fabric collages from recycled silk fabric, mostly
kimono; owns Sakiori, a textile company based in Kansas
City.
December — Holiday party.
January — Thomas P Campbell,
Associate Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
lectured about Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of
Splendor, an MMA exhibition he curated.
February — Susan Shie,
"outsider" quilt artist and teacher, who embellishes her
work with airpen drawing and autobiographical writing.
March — Ann Clarke
(cancelled
because weather grounded flights from Syracuse; to be
re-scheduled)
April — Slides of members’ work.
May — Cyrilla Mozenter,
artist who works with handmade paper and wool felt,
creating two- and three-dimensional works that are
primarily white.
June — Tziporah Salamon,
performance artist featuring outfits assembled from her
garment and accessory "finds," changed to coordinate
with her autobiographical story.
2006─2007
September — Annika Ekdahl,
weaver who experiments
with tapestry limitations, scale, and digitizing to tell
stories with her work.
October — Doug Beube,
altered books sculpted into fantastical shapes with
reconstructive/deconstructive tactics.
November — Tracy Krumm,
sculpture integrating traditional textile processes with
found industrial and domestic objects.
December — Holiday Party.
January — China Marks,
sewn drawings using various fabrics with machine
appliqué and embroidery to create surreal scenarios.
February — Jill Heppenheimer,
co-owner of the Santa Fe
Weaving Gallery selling work by garment and accessory
designers; fiber conference director.
March — Sabrina Gschwandtner,
combines film, sewing,
knitting, and crochet for installations, participatory
events, and magazine publication.
April — Janet Eschelman,
large to massive sculptural installations that re-shape
urban space with diaphanous materials.
May — Kevin O’Brien,
textile designer whose studio creates hand-crafted
fabrics for home furnishings, scarves and shawls.
June — Slides of members’ work.
2005─2006
September — Lesley Dill,
creates sculptures,
prints, installation and performance pieces
using various materials and printing processes.
October — Elena Herzog,
sews, stuffs, and
drapes sculptural objects from old domestic
materials.
November — Gary Van
Wyck, art
historian, writer, authority on African
cultures; owns a Chelsea gallery featuring
South African art
December — Holiday
Party.
January — Jackie Abrams,
basket maker who
uses heavy cotton paper to shape woven,
stitched, layered forms.
February — Susan
Martin Maffei, weaves colorful,
detailed, large and small tapestries
celebrating her NYC life.
March — Jean Shin,
transforms mundane,
discarded objects into sculptural
installations using reconstructive alterations.
April — DoHo Suh,
Korean with an
international reputation for large sculptural
installations constructed of stitched fabric.
May — Xenobia Bailey,
crochets colorful,
African-influenced, sculptural hats, garments,
wall pieces, and installations.
June —
Slides of
members' work.
2004–2005
September — Ed Bing Lee, small works created
with densely packed half-hitch knots.
October — Amy Orr, quilter who
constructs surface imagery from street
castoffs and other objects.
November — Angiola Churchill, elegant, ethereal,
site-specific works fashioned from white paper.
December — Lewis Knauss, small, abstract,
landscape interpretations constructed from
natural materials.
January — Lindsay Rais, wire vessels shaped
with knotless netting studded with pistachio
shells.
February — Wenda Gu, monumental
installations with global social implications
built using hair.
March — Slides of members’ work.
April — Raylene Marasco, custom-printed,
dyed, painted fabrics for fashion, costume,
and home decorating customers.
May — Margaret Hluch, tapestry weaver
whose imagery chronicles personal experiences;
quilter.
June — Jorie Johnson, felter who
fabricates clothing and accessories using
innovative processes and materials.
2003–2004
September — Polly Apfelbaum, “fallen paintings,”
spreading floor arrangements of little shapes
hand cut from fabric.
October — Jane Ingram Allen, sculptures and
public art installations of paper, painted
string, and found objects.
November — Layne Goldsmith, authority on
textile history, fiber structure, feltmaking,
weaving.
December — Holiday party, slides of members’
work.
January — Dorothy Caldwell, large constructions
of dyed, stitched fabric with wood, stone, and
other elements.
February — Barbara B. Goldberg, review of the work
of basket maker Joanne Segal Branford.
March — Jacqueline Atkins, textile historian;
propaganda textiles of Japan, Britain, and the
U.S., 1931–1945.
April — Betsy Sterling Benjamin, wax-resist textiles
with imagery influenced by Japanese design and
aesthetics.
May — Barbara Lee Smith, embroiderer who
builds intensely colored, complex surfaces
with layering and stitchery.
June — Annual business meeting, slides of
members’ work.
2002–2003
September — Janis Jefferies, Textile Dept. at
Goldsmiths College; London digital printing
artist, writer, educator.
October — Donna Lish, hand- and
machine-knitted structures reinforced with
beads.
November — Katherine Cobey, hand-knitted
garments and large sculptural objects.
December — Miriam Schaer, multimedia book
artist using garments as containers.
January — Joanne Russo, explores childhood
influences that shaped adult artists.
February — Slides of members’ work.
March — Sonya Clark, African-influenced,
beaded, embellished, conceptual headdresses
and objects.
April — Beverly Semmes, large, abstract
sculptures referencing social relationships.
May — Joan Livingstone, felt shaped into
large forms and installation objects.
June — Koenigsberg Award
presentation to
wearable artist Rebecca Turnbow..
2001–2002
September — Tetsuo Kusama, Japanese weaver of
large commissioned installations.
October — Missy Stevens, small pictorial
images using punch needle embroidery.
November — Donna Sharret, needle-lace designs
of synthetic hair with rose petals.
December — Reception and raffle of MANY PAGES, member-created
artists’ book.
January — Henry Drewal, professor/scholar;
art of Yoruba-speaking African people.
February — Chunghie Lee, Korean; wearables,
sculptural forms, and installations.
March — Donna Rosenthal, small sculptures
constructed from household items.
April — Jon Eric Riis, tapestry weaver who
enriches surfaces with beads.
May — Emma Amos,
artist who includes African fabrics in her
painted works.
June — Annual business meeting, slides of
members’ work.
2000–2001
September — Annet Couwenberg, hand-sewn
mixed-media sculptural works.
October — Tamiko Kawata, jewelry and art
objects constructed from safety pins.
November — Alan Shields, handmade paper
objects.
December — Three exhibitions of contemporary
lace art.
January — Jill Furst, historian; Aztec
and Mayan beaded and feathered objects.
February — Jane Sauer, basketry and
sculptural forms.
March — Barbara Shawcroft, small-to-massive
three-dimensional fabrications.
April — Twylene Moyer, Sculpture
magazine editor; observations about fiber.
May — Randall Darwall, weaver of
functional, wearable textiles.
June — Annual business meeting, slides of
members’ work.
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