Liza Donnelly, Cartoonist/writer for New Yorker, CBS News, CBS This Morning, Author, performer, TED speaker, global traveler is looking to change the world with humor. It was freezing during the 2018 Women's March, her hand wouldn’t really function until it warmed in a café.
Signs were everywhere, and she tried to chose the ones to make drawings of that were more positive in nature. As she saw it, the march was about a variety of concerns: extreme disagreement with President Trump, hope and desire for women’s and girls’ rights, a call to get out the vote and a call to elect more women to public office. One woman just stood in the middle of the street and held her sign for a long time. Another group of young women expressed their strong feelings, chanting and holding their signs about the importance of diversity in the women’s movement. A father had brought his two sons, and they posed for her. She had not seen any boys of any age, so she thanked these two for being there. The women's march attracted hundred of thousands of participants in hundreds of towns in the United States with sister rallies in Canada and other countries.
Intricate 3D Sculpture. Fascinating, delicate sculptures made using the latest 3D printing technology by Phil Webster . His primary focus has been exploring the combination of traditional Islamic motifs with fractal patterns. This has led to an entire family of art works.
The best way to see this in action is simply to browse the portfolio. Phil Webster is a self-taught artist exploring the intersections of mathematical patterns and shapes, natural forms, ancient design traditions, and sacred geometry. He blends his distinctive and diverse set of skills and interests with his lifelong love for the beauty of geometry to produce unique works of geometric art and décor. Phil creates his art using a variety of techniques, including laser cutting wood, paper, and acrylic; 3D printing in plastic and metal; giclée prints on paper, canvas and metal.
Webster was born in Rochester, NY. His studies have been in the fields of geometry, cognitive science, music, cartography and computer science. The common threads running through these fields inform his art and design today, including the appreciation of technological tools, aesthetics and design skills, mathematical and programming skills. He currently resides in Scotts Valley, CA with his wife and cat.
In 2017 exposeerden 3 textiel kunstenaars en 1 acryl schilder uit de Randstad een maand lang in de Tavenu Kunsthal & de Oude Kerk in het historische dorp Maasland, provincie Zuid-Holland.
Het was een eenmalige maar unieke samenwerking van de 4 kunstenaars, de Tavenuhal, de prachtige Oude Kerk, The Elastic Stockings (ukelele band) en het Kreatiehuis-kinderatelier.
Ida Brookhart Hedendaagse Textielkunst, Peter Hofland Acryl Schilderijen, Mary Poppelier Hedendaagse Textielkunst, Hanneke van Santum - Filum Catena - Monumentale Gehaakte Sieraden.
Women are thought of as property: A woman walking down the street is yours to all ogle and say crude things to. The woman in your office wearing a short dress is yours to touch. A woman in an advertisement wearing skin tight jeans and no shirt is yours as well. A highly sexualized female cartoon figure in a video game can be manipulated as you choose. They are interchangeable. We are experiencing a change in the USA, and LizaDonnelly, cartonist, author & performer predicts that we will look back on the fall of 2017 as the time when America really woke up to sexism, hidden and overt. We may not be able to fully stop the ad agencies from using women’s bodies as selling objects, but we can learn to understand it for what it is, and we can teach our children — boys and girls — to respect women as people, not just bodies.
Anni Albers (1899-1994) initially wanted to be a painter. But it was the loom where she found artistic freedom at. When she arrived in 1922 at the Bauhaus in Weimar, she aimed to complete the studies that she began at the School of Arts & Crafts in Hamburg and become a fine artist. She attended the preliminary course and then joined the weaving workshop. (In 1925 she married the Bauhaus master Joseph Albers.) In 1930 she completed her education with a sound-absorbing, light-reflecting curtain made from cotton and cellophane, which is installed in the auditorium of Hannes Meyer’s trade union school in Bernau. When Gunta Stölzl left in 1931, Anni Albers took over as head of the workshop, thereby becoming one of the few women at the Bauhaus to hold such a position. In her designs for industrial mass production and her unique weavings, Anni Albers proved her courage and her skill with textiles.
When the National Socialists came to power in 1933, the couple emigrated to the USA. Anni began to teach and continued to work on her textile designs, with her printing techniques, writing and later also drawing up to her death. In 1965 she published the results into the theory and practice of weaving, its history and significance, in the book 'On Weaving'. Anni Albers was the first female textile artist to have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art New York (1949); a number of further exhibitions followed. The awarded versatile artist received also an honorary doctorate.
De culturele diversiteit in Rotterdam omarmen. Een prachtig initiatief. Niet lullen maar poetsen. Zo is hoe het hoort. (Inter-) nationaal een voorbeeld willen zijn. Met glansrollen voor Roodkapje, Scapinoballet, Theater Zuidplein, PopUnie en vele andere culturele instituten in de mooie stad Rotterdam.
