WEAVING LAB with marianne fairbanks
Opening reception: Sunday, June 2, 1:00-4:00pm
Weaving Lab invites the public to participate in the process of weaving, speculation and conversation. Weaving tutorials are combined with conceptual inquiries into domains of rhythm, math systems, meditation, and materiality. Weaving Lab both explores and subverts each of these associations, hovering between process and speculation, theory and making, and providing questions and experiences so that each participant can draw their own conclusions. The project works to extend access to weaving so that we might invent new ideas about textiles, community, and making .
Whether you can stay for five minutes or one hour, we hope that you can come join us to weave, connect, and explore. More info at weavinglab.com.
Week 1:
June 3- Monday 10-5
June 4- Tuesday 10-5
June 5- Wednesday 11-7
June 6- Thursday 11-7
June 7- Friday 10-5
June 8- Saturday 10-5
June 9- Sunday 12-5
Week 2:
June 10- Monday 10-5
June 11- Tuesday 10-5
June 12- Wednesday 11-7
June 13- Thursday 11-7
June 14- Friday 10-5
June 15- Saturday 10-5
Closing reception and discussion:
3:30-5pm Sunday, June 30, 2019
Marianne Fairbanks, Emily Winter and Lisa Vinebaum
Weaving Art and Community:
Join us for an informal conversation about how the art of weaving can also help bring people together to help foster community among participants of diverse genders, ages, abilities, and cultures. Artist Marianne Fairbanks will talk about the social practice of weaving at the Weaving Lab, a grassroots, international project based in Madison (WI) that provides community access to free weaving equipment and instruction. Artist Emily Winter will discuss the Weaving Mill, an industrial weaving studio in Chicago that builds collaboration between artists and adults with developmental disabilities as a core part of its mission. Other historical and contemporary examples of social and community oriented weaving will be presented by artist and historian Lisa Vinebaum.
Bios:
Marianne Fairbanks is a visual artist, designer, curator and Assistant Professor of Design Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BFA from the University of Michigan. Her work spans the fields of art, design, and social practice, seeking to chart new material and conceptual territories, to innovate solution-based design, and to foster fresh modes of cultural production. mariannefairbanks.com
Emily Winter is a weaver based in Chicago. She is co-founder of The Weaving Mill, an experimental weaving studio in Humboldt Park that blends design, fine art, textile education, and research-based practice. She has an MFA in Textiles from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BA in History from the University of Chicago
Lisa Vinebaum, PhD is a leading scholar on community building and social change through fiber and textiles. She is an Associate Professor of Fiber and Material Studies and affiliated full-time faculty in Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. www.lisavinebaum.com