Crystal Bridgesâ craft exhibition expands the definition of the art form
Crystal Bridgesâ craft exhibition expands the definition of the art form
Joshua White Photography
‘HANDS AT WORK FILM’: Sabrina Gschwandtner takes quilting in a new direction by threading together 16 mm polyester film.
From a distance, a wall hanging by Sabrina Gschwandtner appears to be a quilt, which is what you would expect to see in a craft show. But a closer examination reveals Gschwandtnerâs quilt, lit from behind, is made up of 35mm film footage sheâs stitched together in a quilt motif. The film images are of women engaged in traditional womenâs craft: knitting, weaving, dyeing. It is a tribute to the history of women in craft made by a woman working in a new form.
How to Diversify Trump County
Brentin Mock, Bloomberg, December 11, 2020
When driving from Pittsburgh to its deep eastern suburbs, you know you’ve arrived in Westmoreland County when you see the farms with the massive Trump campaign displays, some as elaborate as Christmas Nativity yard scenes. Indeed, there is an entire Trump House. The county is reliably Republican and overwhelmingly white roughly 95% white compared to 2.4% Black and 2.8% “Other.” When Trump alarmed voters that Democrats and socialists were coming to doom the suburbs, this county was the kind of place he envisioned saving. He won it in November with 63.46% of the vote, which was 2 percentage points less than he won it with in 2016.
Send Alice Walton s nonprofit Whole Health Institute will be designed by famed Fayetteville architect Marlon Blackwell and will be located on the grounds of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville.
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Architecture and Art Faculty and Staff Cara Armstrong
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Cara Armstrong is an educator, writer, and illustrator who was trained as an architect.
She brings interconnectivity to the classroom and to her current research, which involves integrating better solutions for community health, accessibility, and adaptability. She completed bachelor’s degrees in environmental design and philosophy (both
cum laude) at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, a Master of Architecture from Columbia University, and a Master of Fine Arts in poetry from Drew University.
Armstrong was a project director at the Urban Design Center in Kent, Ohio, from 1994 to 95, and an intern architect at Myers Associates, Architects, Medina, Ohio, before taking a post in 1995 as historic preservation planner for the city of Key West, Florida. In 1997, she became president of Gecko Roamin’ Inc., a gallery in Key West that featured her art-to-wear designs and the work of other local arti