Fundraising, and all that jazz!

Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to say thank you again to everyone who put an effort into our fundraiser! We were able to raise $1,170 to put towards our spring trip! Hopefully another fundraiser before we go will give us even more help to have fabulous time!

Good luck with reviews!

xo

Chemo Caps

Hey Girls and Andy,

I get emails from this organization, "Knit for Boston", and they are requesting adult sized chemo caps for adults with cancer. Here's a link to their request, and also where you can link to patterns.

http://www.knitforboston.org/blog/32/more-caps-needed

Thanks,
Cady

get$$$honey

The deadline for this scholarship is next week December 8th!!! It's pretty simple to apply & I think everyone in fibers has a great chance of winning...So do it!

Community Supported Fiber

I saw this neat post on DesignSponge today about Fiber CSAs. Now all I want to do is start a fiber farm Here's the link to the CSF Article

Get Money!

For those of you applying to grad school, check out the Kate Neal Kinley Fellowship. They award two prizes to fine arts students: one for $20,000 and one for $9,000. It's open to people under 25, so if you're not going right away, but want to in the next few years, keep it on file! The deadline is December 3rd. Here's a link to the website with the application pdf: http://faa.illinois.edu/Administration. Scroll down to awards and grants and it's first on the list!

Show time!

This beautiful drawing was done by our very own Erin Shaw!

Still working on the image quality but it is looking good!

Kingston Gallery Show

Faculty Janet Kawada is now showing at the Kingston Gallery in the SOWA district of the South End. The show, A Conversation..., will run from Sept 29, 2010 through October 31, 2010. Gallery hours are Wed-Sun 12 -5 or by appointment. Go to either www.kingstongallery.com or www.janetkawada.com for more information.

Join her at the gallery for the opening on Friday, October 1 from 5-7:30 or Saturday, October 16 @ 3 p.m for a gallery talk

silk worms by Kiranada

Check out the website at www.betsysterlingbenjamin.com to see the life of a silk worm in New Hampshire this past summer as per faculty member Kiranada Sterling Benjamen.

Lets make some $$$

This is just a friendly reminder for all majors- please make it a goal for yourself to make 5-10 things you can sell at our fundraiser in December. It is a great way to make use of any scrap material you have hanging around your studio!



<3
Ashley

Architecural Knitted Surfaces

WGSN reports from the Architectural Knitted Surfaces workshop recently held at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Tel Aviv, which offered a cutting-edge insight into interactive knitted surfaces.

"The Architectural Knitted Surfaces workshop brought together architects and interior and textile designers to highlight recent developments in intelligent knitting ."

"Designed by Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen and Ayelet Karmon, Listener is a knitted textile membrane that senses and reacts to its surroundings by inflating. Each cell of the fabric can continually increase and decrease in size according to people's proximity."

















"Listener also has its own autonomous relationship to its environment. By integrating conductive fibres knitted directly into the textile, as well as embedding touch-sensors, this composite knitted structure allows the material to sense its own conductivity."

"Similar approaches were developed through conductive flaps and folding systems, playing further with the three-dimensionality of the knitted surface."

Cool!

Spray-On Fabric!

I came across this on notcot.org, and I'm feeling very old-fashioned. Back in my day, fabric was knit or woven, not sprayed on.



"Spray-on Fabric is a patented technology developed by Fabrican which involves the creation of a liquid suspension which is then sprayed by use of either a spray gun or an aerosol can. The fabric is formed by the cross-linking of fibres which adhere to create an instant non-woven fabric that can be easily sprayed on to any surface"

They're still researching and perfecting Fabrican, but what they have so far is pretty incredible. It was originally intended for use in fashion, but now they're thinking of all kinds of applications: spray-on nicotine patch, fly paper, cleaning wipes, upholstery, the possibilities are basically endless.










I'm not totally sure how I feel about this stuff, as I'm perfectly satisfied with that old-timey woven fabric, but it's pretty amazing. Kind of like spray on felt? I'd like to see+feel this stuff in person, and I totally want to spray a garment on someone. It looks much better in some photos than others, but they've been able to make some beautiful things, like this top:









Do you think this kind of technology will ever be commonly used? Are our kids going to be spraying on new clothes on the first day of school? I don't know, but I'm excited to see how this progresses. There are some videos you can watch on their website to see how they manage to make a dress come out of a can.

http://www.fabricanltd.com/index.php

Its that time of year again!

Fibers Studio is back in session! There is a fresh new crop of juniors in the studio and everyone is ready to start making art again. This is our new blog where people will post interesting artists, articles, important info, etc.....


Here is a glimpse of our studios and work by some of the talented Fibers majors!