Printed cloth has long been used to commemorate events, communicate messages, and convey identity in political and personal arenas. In contemporary practice the process of direct painting, resist dyeing, hand printing, and silkscreening on cloth likewise leaves the mark of the maker's intent-transforming a plain surface to one saturated with color and imprinted with graphic content. As a flexible substrate, cloth offers unique opportunities for the artist or designer to communicate ideas, drape interior environments, and fashion the body. In these hands-on courses, students work with pigments, chemical dyes, and plant-based colors on a variety of fibers and fabrics. Courses rotate content by semester and year and include Saturated Cloth; Blue Prints; Tessellations to Toiles; and Engineered Prints.

In subject:

• Textiles

Undergraduate