Homework #1: Collaborative Fiber Installation in the Studio
For your first homework project of the semester, I would like you to explore thinking and making a work using any of your accrued fiber skills to create an installation that activates our fiber studio in some meaningful way. This could be one larger installation or an installation in parts of zones.
The rules:
1.) Everyone should work together to plan, design, create and install the work dividing up the work amongst yourself as makes sense. You will all earn the same grade. This is a collaborative artwork that combines all 3 of your artistic voices in some way.
2.) Use any fiber techniques you already know. It could be from any fiber classes you have already taken, or what we have done so far in this class. Fiber should be the star of the artwork, though other materials could be part of it as well.
3.) Determine a particular space in the fiber studio as your site and get approval with the professor before you begin. I will help with installation on the ladders for the project as needed. Your job is to activate this space in some new interesting way.
4.) what you make, how you make it, and how it is installed will all be decided by the artist collaborators and should serve your own project ideas.
5.) Have the work installed and ready to be discussed in a critique at the beginning of class on October 5th.
Images above, from top:
historic fiber installation artwork by Faith Wilding
fiber installation by Annette Messenger
fiber installation by Sheila Hicks
