“Experiments with Life Itself”
—Francisco González de Canales
This workshop is made for the study of perspective and botany to create textiles through printing with nature, collage, drawing, embroidery, patchwork for finished interior tapestries to translate to a garment or sculpture. Examples will be shown and open to free interpretation, always in flux.
Understanding the process of making as a process of healing, Susan Cianciolo leads the program as an extension of her spiritual practice, building off her 2009 cookbook This Cookbook Is Made for Jesus.
This program includes a meditation, tea and lunch.
SUSAN CIANCIOLO
Susan Cianciolo was born in 1969 in Providence, Rhode Island, and lives and works in New York. Between 1995 and 2001, she created eleven ‘runs’ of handmade, unique garments under her label RUN, which at one time was alternatively incarnated as a popup restaurant. Her presentations blended fashion with music, film, performance, and food. Cianciolo has held academic appointments at Städelschule, Parsons School of Design, Yale School of Art and NYU Steinhardt. Since 2013, she has been Assistant Professor of Fashion Design at Pratt Institute. Her work has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at The Community Centre, Pantin (2022); the Lumber Room, Portland (2021); South London Gallery (2019); Yale Union, Portland (2016); and 365 S. Mission Road, Los Angeles (2016). Her participation in the 2017 Whitney Biennial saw the reprisal of RUN Restaurant as Run Restaurant Untitled, a three-day installation and gastronomic event.
And the words and apples and tea and silences and laughter were all washed in a continuous river of love
This workshop is a part of And the words and apples and tea and silences and laughter were all washed in a continuous river of love, a series of artist-guided programs by Ron Athey and Susan Cianciolo focusing on dissolving barriers between artist and viewer and reformulating exhibitions as instruments of self-reflection. Utilizing meditation practices, automatic writing, workshops, and food-based experiences, this series situates the Schindler House as the site of collective art production through participation and making.
And the words and apples and tea and silences and laughter were all washed in a continuous river of love is curated by Seymour Polatin, Exhibitions and Programs Manager with support from Brian Taylor, Program Associate, and Maeve Atkinson, Education and Engagement Manager.
Image: Courtesy of the artist.
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