Fiber Art Calls for Entry

Wangaratta exhibitions Gallery holds a biennial Award for Contemporary Textile Art. Professional artists working in any style of textile media are invited to make an entry for consideration within a competitive assessment process.

A judging panel consisting of the Wangaratta exhibitions Gallery Director and two respected professionals will select a shortlist of finalists for the Award exhibition at the Gallery 4 June – 17 July 2011. The value of the Award in 2011 is $5,000 including GST and this includes the acquisition of the work.

Entry Fee: $22 inc. GST. per artwork (max 3 entries $66)

Deadline: 25 March 2011 by 5pm (RECEIVE)

Wangaratta Contemporary
Textile Award 2011
Wangaratta Victoria
Australia
4 June - 17 July 2011

For more information please visit: http://fiberartcalls.blogspot.com/2010/09/wangaratta-contemporary-textile-award.html
Submitted by Jennifer Gin

Congratulations Susan Smilek- ITMA Cover Winner

Twice a year the Showtime Directory & Guide and Showtime Magazine are printed and distributed. Their mailing list consists of over 6450 industry executives from around the world.
This years winner is Susan Smilek.
Showtime™, High Point's Semi-Annual Fabric Market, is produced by and for the members of the International Textile Market Association (ITMA). Twice a year, ITMA brings all segments of the home furnishings industry together, in one place, at one time for Showtime™. During the months of December and June this internationally acclaimed market offers the most thorough fabric, leather and trimmings presentations in the western hemisphere.

For more information please visit: http://itma-showtime.com/Default.cfm

A Very Interesting Article: MIT Smart Fibers Take In And Send Out Sound

"Whether you slap on whatever's handy or put together a well-coordinated ensemble, your outfit makes some sort of fashion statement. But imagine wearing clothes that could, literally, speak for themselves. A lab at MIT has designed special fibers that can detect and emit sound. The team described exactly how they accomplished this in a paper in Nature Materials.
Besides having clothes that make noise, why might this be important? Dr. Yoel Fink, a professor with MIT's department of materials science and engineering, says that highly functional fibers can be used to listen for the things your body is trying to tell you but that your ears can't seem to hear. "Our body is about flow, the flow of blood, air and oxygen," Fink explained when I sat down with him in his office. "When flow is obstructed in any way it releases sound. It has a particular acoustic signature."
If you think about it, when doctors use a stethoscope to check your heartbeat and breathing patterns they are listening for these disruptions in flow."

For more information and rest of article please visit:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/insidenova/2010/08/mit-smart-fibers-take-in-and-send-out-sound.html?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=fanpage&utm_campaign=pbs

Written by Intern Rebecca Cheung is a graduate student at the University of British Columbia's School of Journalism.

Submitted by Sarah Sheber