Contemporary Embroidery Talk

This Thursday, March 26th, the American Craft Council will host a discussion called Present Tense: Embroidery in Contemporary Art. My friend Richard Saja will be speaking along with Elaine Reichek with scholar Vickie Halper moderating. The discussion will take place at the American Craft Council’s library in SoHo this Thursday, March 26th from 6:30 to 8:30.

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WIP - St. John the Baptist

This is what I've been working on for the upcoming Biblical Proportions show since early February. This is about 20 hours of work and I have been posting start-to-finish progress photos on Flickr. Jordan Lee (Sublime Stitching's Shipping Manager and resident musician) was my just-what-I-needed-and-willing model:



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Italian Vogue / March 2009

I'm in Vogue Italy (March), included in a piece about contemporary crafting and needlework. Their editor very kindly sent me a PDF of the article, but I am going to scour the newsstands to get a hard copy so I can kinda try to read what it says (and run it through google translate). And clutch it to my chest in disbelief. Oh, and that photo was taken by my good friend, Aubrey Edwards. It originally ran in Juxtapoz Magazine June 2007 to accompany an interview. (Man, I really need to update my press. We're working on a shiny, new site.)

Also, this week is SXSW craziness here in Austin, so blogging has been sporadic but will resume shortly. You might want to wander over to Sublime Stitching where we have a new line of patterns available (Artist Series: Daniel Johnston).

The Thread

Animated embroidery film by songstress Lenka.

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Susan Collis

Susan Collis works in numerous media, but this 'splattered' labcoat caught my attention. The stains aren't stains at all, they're fine embroidery.

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(via Dinosaurs + Robots)