PRNT 226 S001: Textile, Surface + Pattern
This course will introduce students to hands-on methods of surface design and textile printing, focusing on repeated pattern. Projects will encompass various pattern-design techniques and will use methods such as block printing and screen-printing to make yardage, textile works, and sculptural forms. The class will be taught through workshop demos and projects. Class critiques and tutorial discussion will encourage the student's artistic development. Emphasis will be on the critical examination of the students' work, technical development the exploration of contemporary ideas.
This course is subject to priority rules; see here.
Completion of 12 credits
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Valérie d. Walker is an alchemyst of code, transmedia artist, educator, curator, Indigo Griot and radiowave creatrix & transmitter. She holds 5th level Ikebana (Japanese flower arranging) & Chado (tea-ceremony) degrees with Urasenke-Kyoto.
Valérie enjoys exploring Stereoscopie, Virtual Spaces, Solar powered Circuits, Memory, environmentally beneficial studio processes, craft-based techniques, software-design, programming, sensoriality & magical story-telling.
V has 17+ years of independent radio created on the XX Files Radio show online @Matricules (www.studioxx.org/xxfiles), Canada's only open-source, feminist digital media arts portal, listen & download freely!
V joins us from Montréal where she taught TechnoCulture, Arts & Gaming (TAG) & computation arts in Fine Arts Faculty of Concordia University. Involved with Studio XX for 17 years, V started a number of alternative, feminist LGBTQ+ hacker spaces in MTL, which like Studio XX are thriving.
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Jan 8-Apr 20 12:30:00-15:20:00 |
W | A4060 | MAIN |
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Jan 8-Apr 20 12:30:00-15:20:00 |
W | A4080 | MAIN |