From The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design
Sound and Weaving Exhibition Opens at CCCD
WARPED brings contemporary textile and sound art to Asheville, NCASHEVILLE, NC – The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design’s (CCCD) Benchspace Gallery & Workshop announces its summer exhibition, WARPED, featuring six internationally based textile artists exploring connections between sound and weaving.
“WARPED brings together an innovative selection of art works from the US and the UK.” Says exhibition curator and CCCD Assistant Director Marilyn Zapf. “Asheville’s thriving music scene will appreciate the groundbreaking ways these artists, designers, and composers are working at the intersection of sound and weaving.”
Practitioners have long observed the relationship between sound and weaving. Appalachian master weaver Lou Tate (1906-1979) remarked how the weaving draft pattern resembles the five line musical staff. Both composing and weaving are time-based endeavors that require significant planning, and are often recorded with the intention of being repeated, replayed, or replicated.
The artists in the exhibition continue to investigate this intersection. Artist Alyce Santoro takes a material approach; weaving audiocassette tapes into an audible cloth. Nadia-Anne Ricketts and Christy Matson work with spectrograms, or the visual representation of sound waves, in their wall hangings. Conversely, composer Chris Kincaid translates weaving techniques, drafts, and patterns into sound, creating a six-movement arrangement for strings and electronics. Finally, Alayna Rasile-Digrindakis and Raisa Kabir investigate the loom as an instrument that can be used either to silence or give voice to the maker.
Featured artists include: Raisa Kabir (London, UK), Chris Kincaid (Louisville, KY), The Little Loomhouse (Louisville, KY), Christy Matson (Los Angeles, CA), Alayna Rasile-Digrindakis (Philadelphia, PA), Nadia-Anne Ricketts (London, UK), Alyce Santoro (Fort Davis, TX)
EVENT DETAILS
Opening Reception: Friday, June 10, 2016, 6 – 9 pm
‘Re-weaving Narratives’, Artist’s Talk with Raisa Kabir: Thursday, June 23, 2016, 6:30 pmLocation: Benchspace Gallery & Workshop at The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design, 67 Broadway Street, Asheville, NC 28801
Admission: Free
Exhibition Dates: June 10 – August 20, 2016
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10 am – 6 pmABOUT THE CENTER FOR CRAFT, CREATIVITY & DESIGN
Founded in 1996, The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design (CCCD) is a national 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the field of craft through fostering new ideas, funding craft scholarship, and backing the next generation of makers, curators and critics. CCCD has developed a strong national reputation as a significant resource for artists, museums, academic researchers, university students and arts organizations. Each year, CCCD administers over a quarter million dollars in grants to those working in the craft field. craftcreativitydesign.org
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