Tag: Textiles

• Mission Artists United ~ A Few Photos from Open Studios

  Please pardon the photography. I took these photos on my phone and didn’t want to wait too long to post a few of my favorites from Open Studios this weekend. I highly encourage visiting their sites and taking a look around. Obviously, their work is so much better in person but these were definitely some […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  April 17, 2012

  Art, Art Practice, Artist’s Studio, Inside the Artist’s Studio, Observations

  bay area, diane komater, jonathan barcan, mission artists united, open studios, painting, San Francisco, sonya philip, text, Textiles

• Take Off Your Pants for Women!!!

  Artists, Emmanuelle Namont Kouznetsov and Elyse Hochstadt certainly caught my attention when I read their request for participation in their latest work. They are developing work around the current political climate. One piece is addressing the ever-changing status of women in culture and how the extreme right/religious right/Tea Party is changing not only legislation but undermining the overall […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  September 12, 2011

  Art, Interactive / Participatory Art, Visual Arts

  bay area, call for participation, east bay, elyse hochstadt, emmanuelle namont kouznetsov, participatory art, postaday2011, San Francisco, Textiles

• LJ Roberts: shifting textiles, queer craft, and resilience – Interview

  I’ll write a little something today but not very long due to yesterday’s post on my impressions of the current exhibition, It’s All a Blur, at the SomArts Cultural Center. THAT, my friends, was A LOT. Instead, I’ll recommend reading my dear friend, L.J. Roberts, interview with the Social Media Management for Contemporary Art organization. It’s a fantastic interview. LJ discusses […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  January 7, 2011

  Art, Art Practice, Art Vocabulary, Arts and Crafts, Visual Arts

  Art, art practice, California College of the Arts, contemporary art, contemporary craft, contermporary art history, craft, interview, lacey jane roberts, lj roberts, postaday2011, queer craft, queer theory, quilting, social media management for contemporary art, Textiles

• The Truth in our bodies: Reflections Sonya Clark’s Work

  Some time ago, I was introduced to the work of Sonya Clark. It encapsulates the truth, which resides in our bodies. Hair, for example, contains information about our biology that we often neglect or forget. Our predispositions, if you believe they exist are engrained in every part of the body. Clark explores hair in such a […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  August 28, 2010

  Art, Performance and Conceptual, Visual Arts

  Art, Body Art, Body Image, contemporary art, feminism, Feminist Art, Hair, human condition, re-appropriation, Sculpture, Sonya Clark, Textiles, visual culture