Jorie Johnson, Kyoto, shows her felt-creations at the Museum Sursilvan, Trun
Born into a New England wool merchant family, Jorie Johnson studied Textile Design in the USA and Finland. Residing in Kyoto for the last thirty years, she established her studio, JoiRae Textiles, which focuses on the expression of felt-making in our modern nomadic times. She is the author of two books and articles on the subject, her work has appeared in various textile magazines including Surface Design Association Journal (US), Fiber Art Now (US), and FELT Matters (UK). She travels worldwide to research the history and teach the genius of the medium. She is a researcher for The Nara Imperial Household Agency analyzing the 8th century Tang felt carpets in their collection.
Selected for such exhibitions as “Artwear, Fashion and Anti-fashion”, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, “HATS: an Anthology by Stephen Jones”, Victoria & Albert Museum, “Fashioning Felt”, The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, NYC, “Celestial Threads”, The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among other institutions which include her work in their collections.
Picture: Sunset Over Uji River Ensemble, 2014, Cape (Detail), felted, Swiss Walliser Wool, silk floss
The concept image is taken from the intense amber glow of the setting sun on the flowing Uji River behind my studio in southern Kyoto.
The traditional Turkish shepherd’s Kepenek felt cloak is dramatized in the hopes it will appear on a “Contemporary Nomad” on the Hollywood Red Carpet (which I do believe the origin of historically was red felt from Asia).
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Ana Lisa Hedstrom, San Francisco, exhibits at the Museum Sursilvan, Trun
Ana Lisa Hedstrom shows her Origami-folded Shibori installations at the exhibition "Shades of Memory" in Trun from July, 28 to Sept. 8, 2018.
Ana Lisa’s signature shibori textiles are included in the collections of the Cooper Hewitt, the Museum of Arts and Design, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the De Young Museum, the Oakland Museum, and the Racine Museum. She has completed public art commissions for the Emeryville Ca. city hall and the American Embassy in Brunei.
Recent exhibitions include: one person show at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 2017; Materials Hard and Soft, Denton, Texas, 2014; ISS international, Hangzhou, China, 2014; The Box Project: The Cotsen Collection, Fowler Art Museum and Textile Museum; Focus on Fiber 2016; Quilt Visions 2016; Quilt National, 2015 & 17.
Teaching engagements include San Francisco State University and California College of Arts.
She has received two National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) grants and is a fellow of The American Craft Council.
Picture: Patterning Paper Yukata, 2017, indigo on paper, folded and wrapped, each composition 100 x 76 cm
The Yukata kimono shape is the perfect way to display the compositions of the paper squares which are pinned to a wall.
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"Panta Rhei" at the Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo
The 11th International Shibori Symposium in Japan selected Mascha Mioni's wall-installation "Panta Rhei - Always Flowing" for the exhibition "International Contemporary Art of Shibori" at the Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo.
The felting-expert and textile artist Jorie Johnson photographed her colleague Ana Lisa Hedstrom in front of Mascha's creation.
The exhibition lasts from July 1st to August 19, 2018.
2nd picture: A detail was used for the poster of the exhibition
3rd picture: The original of the detail: One of the 18 objects of Panta Rhei - Always Flowig, 2017/18
18 handmade paper-objects are arranged on the wall, each suspended on strips of used sari-silk from the head of an antique hat-pin.
Color flows and diffuses on handmade paper-objects – this creates a random pattern, guided but not deliberately controlled by the artist. Expanded Shibori.
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Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada, Berkeley, exhibits at the Museum Sursilvan, Trun
For the exposition "Shades of Memory", taking place from July 28 to September 9, 2018, at the Museum Sursilvan, Trun, Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada's installations were inspired by cocoons of silk-worms.
She is an artist, curator, and author and co-author of several books of reference on Shibori. Yoshiko was titled as a “Distinguished Craft Educator-Master of Medium” by the Smithsonian Institution and in 2016 she was honored with an award for her lifetime achievement in the field of textile art from the George Washington University Museum.
She has a B.F.A. in textile from Kyoto and a M.F.A. in conceptual art from USA.She has translated three books on textile from Japanese to English and co-produced several DVDs on Shibori and Natural Dyeing.
She is President of World Shibori Network, Founder of Slow Fiber Studios, and Adjunct Professor of the Institute of Textile & Clothing at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China. She has co-chaired all ten International Shibori Symposia in India, Chile, Australia, U.K., France, Hong Kong, China, including the 11th ISS 2018 now taking place in Japan.
She has been promoting sustainable practices in traditional textile craft, natural dyeing, and organic cotton, and empowering regional communities in Japan, China, India, and the USA.
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Corin Curschellas Testing for the Opening
On July 28th, 2018, at 3 p.m. the singer/song-writer/composer Corin Curschellas, who received the culture price 2018 of the Swiss Canton Graubünden, will present some local and international songs in the monumental Sculpture OGNA designed by the Trunser artist Matias Spescha. This will be a musical introduction to the opening of the exhibition of five world-renown textile atists, which will commence at 5:00 p.m. at the Museum Sursilvan, Trun.
OGNA features complex acoustics, it is open to the sky and has echo-walls, therefore Corin tested, whether it can be played without electric sound equipment.
Now we just hope for "no rain".