Rebecca Mushtare
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Consumption Quilts Travel North to the Mountains
Contemporary Fiber Artist A two-person exhibition: Rebecca Mushtare and Hisami Taniguchi The Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts in Blue Mountain, NY September 30 – October 29, 2011 Reception: October 15th @ 5pm. It is an honor to share the space with Hisami, whose work is absolutely beautiful in person (the digital versions do not [...]
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StoryQuilt @ Pixilerations
Pixilerations [v.8] September 22 – October 2, 2011 New Media Fringe Festival @ FirstWorks SOL KOFFLER GALLERY Gallery Hours: 12:00 – 8:00 pm daily RISD, CIT Building 169 Weybosset Street Providence, RI 02903 Check out the short film documenting the installation process. I make a cameo about 2/3 of the way in!
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StoryQuilt @ UFVA
StoryQuilt did a lot of quilt making during the new media exhibition during the UFVA conference in Boston from August 3-6. Here are some images captured during the reception and the closing morning of the exhibit.
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StoryQuilt Debut August 3-6 in
University Film and Video Association Annual Conference New Media Exhibition. August 3 – August 6, 2011 Emerson College: Huret & Spector Gallery Tufte Performance and Production Center 10 Boylston Place, Sixth Floor Boston, MA Reception: 6-8pm on August 5, 2011 View documentation (including video) of StoryQuilt.
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New Work in Quilted Consumption Series
See the whole series!
Made in NY Opens March 26
March 26- May 29 Made in NY Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center Auburn, NY Reception: March 27 from 3-5pm http://www.schweinfurthartcenter.org/exhibits/upcoming_exhibits.html
Fiber PLUS opens March 20
March 19 – May 21, 2011 Opening Reception: Saturday, March 19 @ 2pm Curated by: Arlé Sklar-Weinstein
StoryQuilt
2011. Software (written with Processing) and Installation (3.5’ square white quilt, small table & stool, thread and thread rack, pins and pin cushion, acrylic 2D sewing machine, microphone, pedal, and projector). “Tell me a story, and I will make you a quilt.” Participants are invited to sit at the StoryQuilter (the sewing machine) and tell [...]
Feminizing Technology
2004. Installation (Handmade Paper, Sewn Fabric, 3 Sewing Machine Pedals, Micro-controller, Speakers, Projector) “Feminizing Technology” is an exploration of the antithetical pairing of technology (labeled masculine) and domesticity (labeled feminine). Sewing, embroidery and needlework are common signifiers in feminist art, as well as signifiers of my own matrilineage. My grandmother sews, knits, embroiders, etc. and [...]
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