Wednesday, March 20, 2013

This is the overall description of what I will be doing in Italy in about a week!


Lace Event Italy: 1st International Symposium of Young Lace Makers, April 4-7, 2013

Title: “Doily-Free Zone: Raising the status of lace and lace making”In coordination with Milan Design Week

Place: Palazzo del Broletto, Pavia, Italy


Sponsor:  Textile Support, c/o Anharad Rixon
Via della Pusterla 26, 27100 Pavia, Italy
Symposium Date: April 4-7, 2013
Four days of trips will follow the symposium. Excursion Programme
Website: http://www.doilyfreezone.com/
Email: info@textilesupport.it
Registration:  http://www.doilyfreezone.com/symposium-registration/
Standard Registration fee for all three days is 330 EUR.  One day registration is 170 EUR.
Student registration for all three days is 170 EUR. One day student fee is 70 EUR.
There is also a day trip either to Gandino or Rapallo, and a 2 day lace tour in Venice.
Download the registration form here: Symposium Registration
3/13/2013 – This is an update on the symposium.  The presenters are listed below along with their talk titles. Afternoon workshop titles are given in bold lettering.  Download the program here: Doily Free Zone Programme
Alicia Jane Boswell  “Delicate Perspective”
“Metal Hardening Techniques”
Stefanie Mittmann   “Lace as Dance”
“Lace and Contemporary Design Languages”
Dorie Millerson
Olivia Valentine   “Stitches in the Air”
“Thinking About Lace in an Installation Context”
Premysl Knap  “Traditional Czech Vlacka Bobbin Lace”
Armel Barraud   “Whispering Walls”
“Whispering walls: Designing Lace on a Vertical Surface”
Clizia Ornato
Kerry Howley  “Attraction/Aversion”
Orla Breslin   “Clones Lace/ Irish Crochet”
“Clones Lace”
Daniel Iglesias Prieto  “Toca Fedealla Toca: a 0km Project”
“Designing Fascinators and Brooches with Bobbin Lace and Found Objects”
Kim Wille  “Fashion Design/Lace Design”
“Lace and Garment Design – the T-Shirt Project”
Emer Finnegan  “Kenmare Needle Lace”
“Kenmare Needle Lace”
Alessandra Francesca Capurso  “A Sensory Approach to Macramé”
“Macramé Worked Directly on the Body”
Angharad Rixon “Northern Italian Baroque Metal Laces”
“Lace and Local Identity: The Survival of Italian Lace Making Traditions”
Guillermo Roig   “Suspended Lace: an Approach to Tatting”
“Guillermotting” (tatting as you have never known it)”
Marianna Kosic   “Using the Internet and Social Networks to Stimulate New Lace Makers”
Rebecca Evans “That’s not Lace” – a young Curators experience (Love Lace exhibition)
The symposium will consist of three parts, one each day of the symposium:
Lace and Tradition:  Historical lace research and projects to revive local traditions. Mini-workshops on traditional techniques, lace identification, or preparing historical reconstructions.
Lace and Design: Projects from young fashion and industrial designers working with lace. Mini-workshops on lace design for fashion, lace and new materials, lace as high-end craft.
Lace and Art: Artists presentations and performance work.
Mini-workshops on lace and conceptual art, lace and performance, designing for artistic production.
Presenters and artists must be under the age of 40 at the time of the symposium.
The symposium itself is open to all – you don’t have to be  young to attend!
Doily Free Zone
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Saturday, November 10, 2012

The Metropolitan Museum of Art



It was a bit of a last minute (fantastic) opportunity but I was invited to show my work and assist a small lecture and workshop at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York November 8-9th!

Old is New Again: Bobbin Lace Technique in Contemporary Art In conjunction with Gems of European Lace, ca. 1600-1920, an exhibition in the Ratti Gallery, artist and weaver Lauran Sundin will speak about the application of bobbin lace techniques to contemporary art. Modern art running the gamut from large three dimensional fiber works produced in Czechoslovakia to the site specific light sculpture of electroluminescent wire recently installed at Kensington Palace are so contrary to conventional associations with the word "lace" that most people would not realize that are made using the same techniques. Examples of historical lace will be made available for examination in the Ratti Textile Center and Sundin will explain the three simple techniques drawn from weaving and braiding that form the basis of bobbin lace and identify them in the museum pieces. Using slides, Sundin will present images of contemporary work in fiber and other filaments for comparison to the pieces from the Museum's collection.

Thursday, November 8th
2 -3:30 pm
Antonio Ratti Textile Center
Metropolitan Museum of Art
RSVP:TheinD@metmuseum.org

East Coast(well close enough)!!

It has taken me way to incredibly long to update but I am very excited to announce after a huge move across country, I am now the Resident Artist in the Claflin Jewelry Studio in the Hopkins Center for Performing Arts at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire! Looking forward to new work (already happening) and upcoming exhibitions/shows and travel over the next year (Italy!)

Sunday, January 29, 2012

2nd Annual SNAG Trunk Show & Sale!!

Extremely excited to have a spot in the Society of North American Goldsmiths 2nd Annual Trunk Show & Sale at the 2012 conference in Arizona May 23rd-26th. Last year (Seattle) was amazing with both emerging & professional makers selling their work in a very intimate, bare (no prop or booths) atmosphere. I certainly left the trunk sale last year with a huge desire to try & take part in the the next one ... not to mention how incredibly inspiring it was to see all the amazing work. 
I  am also volunteering at the conference as a "New Emerging Professional" THANK YOU Society of North American Goldsmiths & I will see you there!