Tag: Deeds Not Words
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Textile Talks And The Importance of Words
We think it’s pretty obvious to our readers by now how important we think words are. They are the underpinning of our art, so when we moderated in a recent Textile Talk, which is sponsored by a consortium of fiber arts organizations, we weren’t surprised the topic arose again. Deeds Not Words The irony doesn’t…
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Katharine McCormick: The Boa
It’s Deb again, back with more about our project for the exhibition Deeds Not Words: Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage. One of the reasons I love the particular photo of Katharine McCormick we used is because she’s wearing a boa. In my personal statements, I always end with this: “I’m waiting for feather boas…
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Katharine McCormick: Two Diaphragms Are Better Than One
It’s Kris, back with another post about our KDM project for the 2020 exhibition, Deeds Not Words: Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage. We’ve already blogged about some of the technical issues in creating this piece and some biographical information (see below for links to these posts), but today we want to put the technical and the…
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Katharine McCormick: Making Her Mark Part 1
It’s funny how the creative process works. Multiply that by 2, and you get an idea of what it’s like for us to come up with an idea and see it to fruition. That second part can sometimes take years. We’re finally working on a piece that has been on our collective back burner for…