Anne Clarke, a knitter who creates one-of-a-kind wearable art—primarily coats, jackets, and hats—using wool yarns that are knitted, felted, pieced together with hand stitching, and embellished with needlepoint details, will speak about her work at the March meeting of the Textile Study Group of New York. (Thanks Marci)
image caption: (wall hanging) Peony etc Fulled wood, 36″ x 24″
Location: Community Church of New York Unitarian Universalist, 40 E. 35th St. betw. Park and Madison, New York City : Date: Wednesday, March 19, 7 pm : More: Ann will be teaching “Experimental Intensive in Machine Knitting,” Aug. 8–12, at Peters Valley.
After finishing her art degree and no longer having access to a large studio space she started to “shrink” her work and began incorporating handwork and stitching as a drawing technique. This allowed her work to fit into her life both in scale and in portability—she could cram it into a bag and do it everywhere. She then learn’t to knit and started making one-of-a-kind garments.
Anne tells stories with her work using image and color in the form of heavy wool garments. Her main themes are family history, nature, literary references and the news.
Ann is interested in teaching students to see fiber as the vehicle for their communication. Knitting utilizes the vocabularies of surface design and weaving. It is a language of pattern, a language of color, or hand, of surface.
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Thank you to everyone who showed up to see this lecture. So sorry that Ann Clarke got fogged out and was stuck in Syracuse. We are going to re-schedule her for next year. At the last second, an artist who weaves these enormous wall hangings of children’s portraits dropped off a disk of her work. We did have several guests via whipup.net but we refunded $$$ so hopefully no one is mad. These things happen.
The meetings are always the third Wed. of every month. April’s meeting is going to be a member’s slide show and it is going to be free for all. There will also be an artist insurance company speaking and the fellowship will be awarded. There are some great lectures planned for May and June.