Textile Intensive with Padma Rajendran (Tuesdays)
Instructor: Padma Rajendran
Weekly: October 26, November 2, November 9, November 16, November 30th, December 7
Time: 6:00PM - 9:00PM (EST)
Length: 3 Hours
Where: Online on Zoom
Faculty - Padma Rajendran
Manipulating textile is a global tradition that extends beyond the decorative. The intersection where textile and image come together represents our personal, private worlds and universal ideals and values. Participants will learn techniques in printing design and image on textile to consider their own relationship with painting, form, and pattern. Utilizing home and studio accessible techniques, artists will explore how to transform textile. Artists in this class will explore different approaches to create and consider asymmetrical forms, collaged painting and print surfaces, decorative objects, and/or installation. Through regular demonstrations, individual and group feedback, active critiques with 3 visiting artists, and collective studio time participants explore how pattern and form come together in this 2D/3D studio intensive.
In this course, artists:
Experiment with direct painting with pigments and bleach, using cold water dyes to enhance our fabrics to create patterns that become part of the fiber’s surface + print techniques for fabric, canvas, and paper- collage and stencil techniques
Learn from 3 visiting artists talks
3 presentation experiences: Individual and/ or group critical feedback
1 critique opportunity with a visiting critic
Generate work that explores boundaries of painting and print in connection to fabric and decorative concepts. Participants will create 2-3 art works and gain knowledge of techniques to apply to studio work beyond the class time
Lauren Luloff
Lauren Luloff (b. 1980, Dover, USA) received her MFA in 2010 from Bard College in Annandale-On-Hudson, New York and her BFA from Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA. Her work relates to life in the domestic realm, using collaged bedsheets as her canvas to create unique and expressive paintings. She has exhibited internationally, at such venues as COOPER COLE, Toronto, Canada; Halsey Mckay Gallery, East Hampton; The Queens Museum, Malborough Chelsea, The Hole, Brand New Gallery, New York; CB 1 Gallery, Los Angeles, USA; Bernard Ceysson Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland and Luxembourg. Luloff currently lives and works in Brooklyn, USA.
David B. Smith
David B. Smith is a third generation immigrant of Ashkenazic descent who lives in Lenapehoking / Brooklyn. Working between photography, textiles, sculpture, and sound, he has been awarded fellowships by NYSCA/NYFA, Apex Art, Marble House Project, Textile Arts Center, Socrates Sculpture Park, and Millay Arts. His work has appeared at Halsey McKay Gallery, Asia Song Society, Johannes Vogt Gallery, Museum Rijswijk, Millersville University, and SUNY Old Westbury.
Addoley Dzegede
Addoley Dzegede received a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, and an MFA from Washington University in St Louis. Solo exhibitions include millefiori, at KSMoCA in Portland (2020), and Ballast, at the Contemporary Art Museum St Louis (2018). She has most recently been in-residence at Loghaven Artist Residency (2021), The Norton Museum of Art (2020), Cité Internationale des Arts (2019), and Osei Duro (2019). She is currently a fellow at the Tulsa Artist Fellowship.