PRACTICES IN WEAVING: LOOM-THINKING

Catalog description

(Slashed with ARTS 55351 )(Repeatable for credit) This intensive studio course focuses on weaving and its relationship to the evolving landscape of contemporary art. Working with multi-harness floor looms, students engage rigorous questions in imagery, sculptural form and spatial intervention. Vocabulary is expanded through the study of complex woven constructions, hand and digital drafting and dye processes. Emphasis is placed on developing fluency with the language and logic of the loom. Here, students enter the space of “loom-thinking” to create, mutate, subvert and interrupt weave drafts and thread interlacements in the production of woven form. Through their developing technical virtuosity, students push the algorithmic sensibility of weaving toward visual and material poetics. Critical discussion of core texts and individualized research occur in tandem with studio activity. Students produce studies and fully realized artworks developed through in-process discussions and presented in formal critique settings. This work considers the practice of weaving as an expansive playground to complicate the paradigms of contemporary art with textility. Students who do not meet the prerequisite may register for the course with special approval. Please speak to an advisor for more information.