Cable Gram Blog from June 2010
June Guild Meeting: the Cliff Notes™
The Youngest Knitter and ‘Socks’
When guests and visitors were recognized, we learned that we had a VERY NEW KNITTER among us. She told us that she had been knitting for three DAYS and she is three years old. Rock on!
The program topic was ‘Socks,’ and there were five tables of instruction and demos. So what are some of the things we learned?
String, Felt, Thread The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art
CHECK OUT THE STRING, FELT, THREAD VIDEO
Featuring author Elissa Auther and artworks by Sheila Hicks, Miriam Schapiro, Senga Nengudi, Barbara Shawcroft, and more:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHdhoXJ_7co
Elissa Auther
University of Minnesota Press | 248 pages | 83 color images | 2009
ISBN 978-0-8166-5609-7 | paper | $29.95
ISBN 978-0-8166-5608-0 | cloth | $90.00
String, Felt, Thread presents an unconventional history of the American art world, chronicling the advance of thread, rope, string, felt, and fabric from the “low” world of craft to the “high” world of art in the 1960s and 1970s and the emergence today of a craft counterculture. In this full-color illustrated volume, Elissa Auther discusses the work of American artists using fiber, considering provocative questions of material, process, and intention that bridge the art–craft divide.
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