Website : www.internationalfibercollaborative.com
Sponsorship Provided by Allied Arts Foundation
Product Donations: Stickley, Audi & Co. , Cancord Inc., Service Canvas Company Inc.
In 2007 I founded a project called the International Fiber Collaborative. This collaborative highlights our world’s dependency on oil as an energy source, questions the role of public art, and elevates a relatively quiet tradition of fiber art into a forum on contemporary social awareness. This collaborative effort calls for artists, students, educators, and craft enthusiasts from around the world to create 3’x 3’ fiber panels that represent their concerns pertaining to this massive problem. In April 2008, these panels will be sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station and gas pumps in Central New York.
As this collaborative continues to grow and become more tightly connected to its local community, one thing has become increasingly clear - there is great potential to propel this project further through travel and collaboration with other communities. At one particular gas station in Syracuse, NY, more than 1,000 local grade school and college-level students are participating. Not only does this project enable them to become part of a nationally recognized public art project and talk about greater world issues, but it gives then the opportunity to learn traditional fiber art techniques such as knitting, crocheting, sculpting, and quilting, as well. Tapping into the international fiber community has allowed me to blur the line between tradition and the contemporary state of political, educational, and studio awareness.
Publications
The Post-Standard
Front Page
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Syracuse, New York
artdeadlineslist.com
ArtDeadline.com - Ongoing
Sculpture Magazine (Insider) - Oct, Nov, Dec
Art Calendar (The Listings) - Nov, Dec, Jan
MySpace.com
www.spazzmanda.com
CNY Green
Green Options www.greenoptions.com
The Green Options Interview with:
Jennifer Marsh - the International Fiber Collaborative
By VictoriaE Aug 20, 2007
Vogue Knitting International – Holiday 2007 by Faith Hale & Kristen Pumphrey “Fill ‘Er UP!”
Lime and Violet's Daily Chum - http://www.limenviolet.com/blog/?p=646
Jerk Magazine – 11/2007, Vol. Vl, Issue ll, Syracuse, New York, pg. 50
Written By Jenna Hanchard & Illustration By Nicole Troillet
Fiber Arts - October 2007
Raverly.com Group – Started October 2007
On her very own Courtney Lee Weida from Radford University is taking part in writing a book being published in 2008 called G.L.O.B.A.L.I.Z.A.T.I.O.N..
Co-editors include Alice Arnold, Ann Kuo, and Michael Parsons. Courtney will include the International Fiber Collaborative among other collections for this book.
Opinion, The Tico Times - Costa Rica - November 2, 2007 pg.22
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