Fiber Biennial: First Friday at the Synderman Gallery

The 7th International Fiber Biennial
Opening Reception: Feb 5th from 5:30-830
End date March 20th

Submitted by Leah D'Ambrosio

For more information please visit:

http://www.snyderman-works.com/snyderman/gallery.html

Textile Market Association Industry Education trip

Six Textile Design graduate students participated in the 2010 International Textile Market Association Industry Education trip January 20-22 in High Point, NC. Along with representatives from other universities, students toured: Valdese Weavers (a jacquard manufacturing plant), Glen Raven Finishing, Wesley Mancini's Design Studio, Pearson Furniture Manufacturing, Tomlinson and EJ Victor furniture showrooms. The trip included a networking and portfolio review event with textile design industry executives. This annual event is open to undergraduate and graduate students majoring in textile design.

Fallen Blossoms Exhibit

The Philadelphia Musuem of Art and the Fabric Workshop are currently running a joint exhibition featuring Cai Guo-Qiang.

"The Fabric Workshop and Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art present a multi-site exhibition of the work of Cai Guo-Qiang, one of the most prominent contemporary artists on the international art scene. Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms consists of a poetic meditation on the passing of time, memory, and memorializing. One of the artist's signature "explosion events," Fallen Blossoms: Explosion Project has been specifically commissioned for the exhibition and occurred at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; followed by a second explosion event at the Fabric Workshop and Museum. Inspired by the memory of Anne d'Harnoncourt (1943-2008), late director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and her long friendship with the founder and artistic director of the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Marion Boulton Stroud, Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms addresses themes of memory, loss and renewal on a personal and public level. It is Cai's first solo exhibition in Philadelphia and the first in the United States since his retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in early 2008."

The exhibit is currently open and runs until March 21st.

For more information please visit:

http://www.fabricworkshopandmuseum.org/exhibitions/upcoming.php or

http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/381.html