Marianne Fairbanks: Weaving Lab: Closing Reception/artist talk
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Sunday, June 30th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, June 30th
Weaving Lab was open for two weeks in Oak Park and we hosted over 150 visitors!
We will hold a closing event to share some of the collective research, celebrate and connect.
Sunday, June 30th 3-5pm
Join Emily Winter, Lisa Vinebaum, and Marianne Fairbanks, at the closing for a discussion: Weaving Art and Community.
Discussion to begin at 4:00pm
Join us for an informal conversation about how the art of weaving can also help bring people together to help foster community among participants of diverse genders, ages, abilities, and cultures. Artist Marianne Fairbanks will talk about the social practice of weaving at the Weaving Lab, a grassroots, international project based in Madison (WI) that provides community access to free weaving equipment and instruction. Artist Emily Winter will discuss the Weaving Mill, an industrial weaving studio in Chicago that builds collaboration between artists and adults with developmental disabilities as a core part of its mission. Other historical and contemporary examples of social and community oriented weaving will be presented by artist and historian Lisa Vinebaum.
Marianne Fairbanks is a visual artist, designer, curator and Assistant Professor of Design Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BFA from the University of Michigan. Her work spans the fields of art, design, and social practice, seeking to chart new material and conceptual territories, to innovate solution-based design, and to foster fresh modes of cultural production. mariannefairbanks.com
Emily Winter is a weaver based in Chicago. She is co-founder of The Weaving Mill, an experimental weaving studio in Humboldt Park that blends design, fine art, textile education, and research-based practice. She has an MFA in Textiles from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BA in History from the University of Chicago
Lisa Vinebaum, PhD is a leading scholar on community building and social change through fiber and textiles. She is an Associate Professor of Fiber and Material Studies and affiliated full-time faculty in Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. www.lisavinebaum.com
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