Fiber artist Cathryn Amidei at ETSU during In Flux: SEFEA Juried Art Exhibition Reception at Slocumb Galleries .
October 24–25, 2019 @ Slocumb Galleries
JOHNSON CITY, TN — The East Tennessee State University Department of Art & Design and Slocumb Galleries present a public lecture by fiber artist Cathryn Amidei during the reception of ‘In Flux: Southeast Fibers Educators Association Juried Exhibition 2019’ Oct. 24 at 6 p.m., Ball Hall Auditorium, reception is from 5 to 7 p.m. at Slocumb Galleries. Visiting artist Amidei also presents art demo/workshop on fiber art on loom Friday, Oct. 25, at the Fibers Studios, Ball Hall.
SEFEA membership is open to textile arts professors in higher education; textile professionals at craft schools and professional organizations (with teaching experience). As educators in the textile arts, the members of the Southeast Fibers Educators Association are dedicated to the continuing interchange of knowledge, the exchange of ideas, and the joy of creating unlimited possibilities within textile medium. SEFEA is committed to maintaining textile traditions while opening pathways for crossing new boundaries.
The In Flux participating artists are Cathryn Amidei, Susan Brandeis, Edwina Bringle, Miyuki Akai Cook, Rosa Dargan-Powers, Nick DeFord, Gabrielle Duggan, Hillary Waters Fayle, Susan Fecho, Crystal Gregory, Robin L. Haller, Jess Jones, Jeana Eve Klein, Bethanne A. Knudson, Katie Kretz, Rob Merten, Erin Miller, Patricia Mink, Andrea Vail, LM Wood+, Rena Wood, Janie Woodbridge, Christine Zoller and exhibit coordinator Lisa Kriner.
Throughout human history people have moved — migrating, immigrating, emigrating, relocating and resettling. With the language of the mark, we examine this process, this sense of self in flux. We develop autobiographies of heritage—a process rather than a static state, where we imagine ourselves through traditions, stories, and collective memory. The processes, rhythms, and actions of our making bears witness to our physical and mental movements. As personal histories and identities interconnect, converge, and diverge we reinvent and re-narrate imagined stories and hidden histories, and speculate on the possibilities of the past and of our future.
The exhibit at ETSU Slocumb Galleries is funded by the Tennessee Arts Commission’s Arts Project Support Grant, the In Flux: SEFEA 2019 catalogue is sponsored by a 2019 Craft Research Fund Exhibition Research Grant from The Center for Craft. The Slocumb Galleries are located at Ernest C. Ball Hall, 232 Sherrod Drive, East Tennessee State University campus. For more information, email Slocumb Galleries’ Director’ Karlota Contreras-Koterbay at contrera@etsu.edu or call/text 423.483.3179. For more details about SEFEA, visit their website at http://www.sefea.us/.
Category: Exhibits