Maiwa Podcasts
Summary: Voices on Cloth features presentations from luminaries in the textile and fiber arts. Recorded live at the Maiwa Textile Symposium, held in Vancouver Canada, the presentations are from an international collection of writers, travellers, craftspeople, and artists.
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Like all great arts, textiles recreate our visiton of the world. We hold them up as exemplars of skill, ingenuity, creativity, and ambition. Textiles are poetic metaphors woven from ideas just as much as they are physical items woven from fibres.
Joy Boutrup is a textile engineer, chemist, and historian from Denmark. Catharine Ellis is a textile artist from North Carolina who specializes in combining weaving and dyeing. They first met at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. They have worked and taught collaboratively for many years.
In this lecture Amy Putansu will discuss how notions of spirituality have influenced her own hand-woven artwork. Inspired by Buddhism, Zen design precepts, and the minimalist art movement, Amy presents a powerful way to reimagine textiles as an invitation to the divine.
Traditional ajrakh block printing is one of the most iconic crafts to survive into the twenty-first century. But ajrahk, as practiced by the Khatris of the Kachchh Desert, has done much more than just survive; it has flourished and expanded to become a craft with a keen sense of tradition and a vision for how this tradition can be taken into the future by a new generation of ajrakh artisans.
Aya Matsunaga is a Japanese textile artist who tempered her formal studies by moving to Nottingham, England and embracing the UK fibre art scene of the 1990s.
When leading natural dye expert Michel Garcia goes into a garden, what does he see? He sees botanical strategies for survival that often give new insights into dye procedures and methods.
When leading natural dye expert Michel Garcia goes into a garden, what does he see? He sees botanical strategies for survival that often give new insights into dye procedures and methods.
For over thirty years Susan Shie has been producing art on cloth that mixes the personal and the political. Her distinct method of working combines narrative, drawing, and writing into large-format, highly graphic art quilts. Her imagery combines the immediacy of street-art with the depth of personal journal keeping. In this lecture Susan will talk about how her work has developed over her lifetime. Beginning with narrative interests in art-making from childhood, she incorporated new techniques during college and grad school and has refined her approach throughout her professional art career. Her processes have shifted as she added sewing to her painting as a feminist choice. In the end, her life’s work is a body of stories of the life around her—an ongoing series of illustrations of how art and life can be one.
On October 5, 2015, Barbara Todd delivered her lecture, "Stone Drawings and Quilted Lines" or "One Day Tells Its Tale To Another." to a full house at the Maiwa School of Textiles.
Jenny Balfour Paul tells her story of tracing the life of unknown explorer Thomas Machell. Indigo planter, writer, illustrator, and adventurer.
Bappaditya Biswas Linda Cortwright Stephen Huyler Charllotte Kwon Sheila Paine In this presentation the panel talks about how they manage a trip financially and which trip has meant the most to them. Recorded at the 2009 Maiwa Textile Symposium on October 21, 2009 Posted November 2010
Bappaditya Biswas Linda Cortwright Stephen Huyler Charllotte Kwon Sheila Paine In this presentation the panel consider the unique identity of stitches and weaves and their greatest travel disasters. Recorded at the 2009 Maiwa Textile Symposium on October 21, 2009 Posted November 2010
Bappaditya Biswas Linda Cortwright Stephen Huyler Charllotte Kwon Sheila Paine In this presentation the panel consider the desire to go to remote distances, insurance against snow leopards, collections and collectors. Recorded at the 2009 Maiwa Textile Symposium on October 21, 2009 Posted October 2010
Bappaditya Biswas Linda Cortwright Stephen Huyler Charllotte Kwon Sheila Paine In this presentation the panel consider what it means to be a working traveller, talk about cultural intervention, trade, and the benefits and pitfals of craft preservation and marketing. Recorded at the 2009 Maiwa Textile Symposium on October 21, 2009 Posted September 2010
The Artisan's Alliance of Jawaja Question and Answer In this presentation the Artisan's Alliance of Jawaja answer questions from the audience and ask a few of their own. The Vancouver audience asks about the process of leatherworking but also about the position of artisans in the community and the challenges that must be overcome for success. This presentation is posted as a series of video files. Recorded at the 2009 Maiwa Textile Symposium on October 27, 2009 Posted July 2010