Seminar Session - Fiber and Place
*Special Topic Session in Seminar Format
Coordinators: Denise Green, Cornell University, USA; Connie Ulasewicz, San Franciso State University, USA; and Susan Kaiser, University of California-Davis, USA
The Fiber and Place seminar session will explore the multi-sited nature of fiber, tracing lifecycles, supply chains, identity politics, aesthetics, production/consumption and epistemologies to understand how places are produced, transformed and engaged through fiber.
2:45pm-5:00pm Session continues in same room with planned activities and film screenings.
Participants:
Lauren Michel and Young-A Lee, Iowa State University, USA;
Teena Jennings, University of Akron, USA;
Anna Burckhardt, New York University, USA;
Mary Ruppert-Stroescu, Oklahoma State University, USA;
Sandra Keiser, Mount Mary University, USA;
Belinda Orzada and Jo Kallal, University of Delaware, USA;
Sharon Kilfoyle, Textile Artist;
Helen Trejo, Cornell University, USA;
Jennifer Ayres, New York University, USA;
Leslie Davis Burns, Oregon State University, USA;
Jen Hoover, University of California-Davis, USA; and
Sherry Haar, Kansas State University, USA
