NEWS
• Pictures are up of the Virgin Knitters opening and my artist's talk is this Friday December 3rd at 7PM! Please join us at the Textile Arts Center.
• I just did a podcast with Anne Kenlon of Greenstitch. Listen here.
• There will be 4 knitting workshops in October for anyone who wants to join the Virgin Knitters project at the Textile Arts Center! The dates are:
Saturday Oct 9 11AM-2PM
Saturday Oct 16 11AM-2PM
Thursday Oct 21 6-9PM
Thursday Oct 28 6-9PM
Participants in the workshops can have their scarves be a part of the exhibiton. See the Textile Arts Center website for more information.
• The Virgin Knitters project has finally gone live with its own website! All of the work will be shown at the Textile Arts Center from November 5-December 16, 2010 with an opening reception Friday November 5 from 8-11PM. The opening night will also host a silent auction to find wearers for the scarves. I will also give an artist's talk on Friday December 3 from 8PM. The TAC has also scheduled the fabulous Sabrina Gschwandtner to speak during the run of the show on November 11!
• My work for The Land Of will be featured in an Index book on identity design, Basic Identity, being published in October 2010.
• I'm the guest critic this semester for F.I.T.'s Associate Apparel Design's Final Fashion Exhibition on November 30 2010. I will be advising students on the development and creation of their final piece as well as being part of the team that selects the winning student's work.
• My article on natural dyeing is out in the April 2010 issue of Bust Magazine!
• Some of my design work has appeared in Made & Sold by Fl@33. Available October 2009.
• I'm teaching textile
classes this summer at 3rd Ward in Brooklyn!
• I will be promoting the Virgin Knitters project at a booth at Austin's Maker Faire October 18 & 19 2008. I'll be teaching knitting to anyone who wants to join the project and also be spreading the word about beginner's luck!
• I am teaching classes at Etsy labs in Brooklyn and you can see my natural dyeing How-To video here.
• I participated in the 21 Cities Project at Conflux this past September (final work hasn't been updated on their site yet)
• I was featured in Iqons 15 Minutes of Fame on August 15, 2007. My profile is here.
• My work has been profiled in Coroflot's Magazine
• My latex jackets are noted on www.vvork.com
• I have a gallery on the Saatchi website
• You can now see my work on the UK's Axis website. Axis Graduates aims to show the diversity of work being produced by the top new MA graduates and includes work from Central St Martins, Slade, RCA, Goldsmiths and Glasgow School of Art. I was nominated by Freddie Robins.
• My Marriage Shirt project has been documented in Sonic Scope Quarterly :: contemporary visual art issue #6 :: Winter 2006, which is downloadable from the Portugal-based Grain of Sound.