Jeanne Medina: Conducting artistic research in Fashion and Textiles.
Monday, July 18, 2011
New collaboration with The Ladies Ring Shout
This has been a very busy and enriching summer as I prepare to ship off to Grad School at Cranbrook!
I am working on a new collaboration with The Ladies Ring Shout. The performance is August 4-6, 8 p.m. at Defibrillator Performance Gallery in Wicker Park. Here is a link to the Facebook Event.
Here is the postcard, designed by yours truly:
I asked Chris Nightengale to partner up with me on the set design and video elements for the performance. His resourcefulness and ability to realize this project has been amazing. He has taught me that anything is possible and that resources abound.
This whole project has been chock-full of delightful coincidences, learning moments, and truly meaningful experiences. I'm also assisting Lindsay Obermeyer with constructing the wonderful costumes inspired by the work of Alabama Chanin. Lindsay was actually my very first Fiber and Material Studies instructor at SAIC. As I work in her studio, we chat and reminisce, share stories and ideas. It's an incredible journey into my past to realize how influential she has been on my entire work...from how I thread a needle to my interest in the body and African textiles and ethnography.
Brought together by my dearest kindred spirit, Felicia Holman, I met Meida McNeal and Abra Johnson. These women are awe-inspiring. I've never in my life met such powerful, creative, loving, and committed women. This collaboration has offered me the opportunity to look at my work through a new lens. While my work is about memory, identity, and the body, contextualizing my work around the LRS experience, memories, and expression is a true honor.
Here is a shot from our rehearsal at Defibrillator 7/15. Chris and I installed the first of the quilts (still in progress and held together with pins!)
Here are the wonderful sculptures for the installation that Chris has been working on. They are all made from reclaimed wood. We are using all reclaimed materials to create the backdrops, set elements and costuming! This is truly a GREEN production. COMPLETELY SUSTAINABLE!
This is project is also helping me formulate my ideas for Grad Thesis considering Deconstructionist theory and Sustainability as it relates to Textile, Fashion, Architecture, and the Body...but that's a whole other thing. If you want to see some of that research, check out my other blog .
I am working on a new collaboration with The Ladies Ring Shout. The performance is August 4-6, 8 p.m. at Defibrillator Performance Gallery in Wicker Park. Here is a link to the Facebook Event.
Here is the postcard, designed by yours truly:
I asked Chris Nightengale to partner up with me on the set design and video elements for the performance. His resourcefulness and ability to realize this project has been amazing. He has taught me that anything is possible and that resources abound.
This whole project has been chock-full of delightful coincidences, learning moments, and truly meaningful experiences. I'm also assisting Lindsay Obermeyer with constructing the wonderful costumes inspired by the work of Alabama Chanin. Lindsay was actually my very first Fiber and Material Studies instructor at SAIC. As I work in her studio, we chat and reminisce, share stories and ideas. It's an incredible journey into my past to realize how influential she has been on my entire work...from how I thread a needle to my interest in the body and African textiles and ethnography.
Brought together by my dearest kindred spirit, Felicia Holman, I met Meida McNeal and Abra Johnson. These women are awe-inspiring. I've never in my life met such powerful, creative, loving, and committed women. This collaboration has offered me the opportunity to look at my work through a new lens. While my work is about memory, identity, and the body, contextualizing my work around the LRS experience, memories, and expression is a true honor.
Here is a shot from our rehearsal at Defibrillator 7/15. Chris and I installed the first of the quilts (still in progress and held together with pins!)
Here are the wonderful sculptures for the installation that Chris has been working on. They are all made from reclaimed wood. We are using all reclaimed materials to create the backdrops, set elements and costuming! This is truly a GREEN production. COMPLETELY SUSTAINABLE!
This is project is also helping me formulate my ideas for Grad Thesis considering Deconstructionist theory and Sustainability as it relates to Textile, Fashion, Architecture, and the Body...but that's a whole other thing. If you want to see some of that research, check out my other blog .
Friday, July 8, 2011
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