Textiles

Students focus on fabric dyeing, printing, and surface-treatment techniques for the creation of one-of-a-kind fashions, interior furnishings, and fine art. They learn to slow down our fast-paced, high-tech lives and concentrate on “low-tech,” traditional processes that have contemporary applications.

Half of the class time is spent immersed in resist-dyeing, block printing, and screenprinting patterned fabric surfaces. The other half concentrates on the intricacies of crochet, embroidery, and appliqué as additional and independent surface embellishments. Alternating between these two approaches, students learn to research, design, and develop imagery, narratives, and layering effects to create personally expressive and unique fabrics.

Textiles is an all-day studio.