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Teri Carson

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Teresita Carson (b. Mexico) is an artist working across disciplines, including moving image, new media, fiber, and installation. Taking an irreverent feminist approach to world and counter-archive building, she explores the abstract intersection between the historical, the speculative, indigenous cosmogonies, and magical peripheries. Recent venues presenting Carson’s work include Mana Contemporary, Sullivan Galleries, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA Museum), Hyde Park Art Center, Gallery 400, and the Cleve Carney Museum of Art. She has screened her experimental films internationally, notably at the Slamdance Film Festival, the Chicago Underground Film Festival, Light Matter Film Festival, Festival Internacional de Cine con Medios Alternativos, Antimatter, Experiments in Cinema, and at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Carson has received grants from DCASE’s Individual Artists Program (IAP), and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Carson holds a BFA from The School of the Art Institute and an MFA from the University of Illinois Chicago.

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Description

This course introduces students to a diverse range of textile materials, processes, histories, politics, traditions, and cultures of fiber and their relationships to contemporary art practice. Historical and contemporary approaches to process and materials are explored as students are introduced to a variety of fiber techniques in construction and surface application. Taught technique can include printing, tapestry weaving, immersion and resist dyeing, knitting, crochet, felting, coiling, hand embroidery, machine sewing, piecework, and embellishment. Textiles have rich and complex histories in all cultures. Examples from across time and place will be explored and discussed through visual presentations, assigned readings, in-class discussions, visiting artist lectures, and field trips.

By the end of this course, students will become familiar with the formal, conceptual, expressive, and political potential of fiber as an expressive medium with limitless possibilities.

Course work will vary but typically includes the creation of technical samples, critique projects, and reading responses.

Class Number

1584

Credits

3