[Nfb-krafters-korner] Akiko Kotani fiber arts show - WAS:RE: Where is everyone?

Sun Sep 15 01:12:02 UTC 2013

Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
6300 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15232
Phone is: 412 361 0873
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Annette Carr" <amcarr1 at verizon.net>
To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2013 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Akiko Kotani fiber arts show - WAS:RE: 
Where is everyone?


> Can you give me the name of the gallery and its address?
>
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> On
> Behalf Of River Woman
> Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2013 4:36 PM
> To: List for blind crafters and artists
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Akiko Kotani fiber arts show - WAS:RE:
> Where is everyone?
>
> I doubt it will travel - have not heard that.  It is an enormous
> installation work that takes up several galleries there.
> The show runs through     November 3. There will be gallery walks and
> several lectures while it is up, in that place. There will be an Artist's
> talk with Akiko on Wed.  October 2 from 6 - 8 pm  I will be there with 
> bells
> on as they say.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Annette Carr" <amcarr1 at verizon.net>
> To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" 
> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2013 1:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Akiko Kotani fiber arts show - WAS:RE:
> Where is everyone?
>
>
>> Lynda,
>>
>> That sounds wonderful.  I wish I lived closer to Pittsburgh.  How long
>> will the exhibit be on display?  Do you know if it will be traveling
>> to any other locations?
>>
>> Annette
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org]
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>> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 9:36 PM
>> To: List for blind crafters and artists
>> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Akiko Kotani fiber arts show - WAS: 
>> RE:
>> Where is everyone?
>>
>> Akiko Kotani was a professor at Slippery Rock University of PA, and
>> was my teacher when I was working on the BFA degree there. Her fibers
>> exhibitions span the globe. She is a Japanese American who was born in
>> Hawaii, in 1940.
>> This exhibition that opened on Friday night at the Pittsburgh Center
>> for the
>>
>> Arts features work that she has created over the past two years - all
>> imagery is from nature, such as grass, wind, rain, etc.  The show's
>> theme is
>>
>> based on the German word, sheinen, and she creates a show that
>> reflects the "shining of space." The pieces are ethereal, some done in
>> many layers of silk, each with embroidered patterns - they are
>> overlaid so that there is a layering of imagery. The entire show is
>> white silks,  with black  threads that are french knots - forming
>> imagery. Other pieces are very delicate drawings that have been etched
>> on slabs of clear glass - mounted on the walls.  One room is
>> completely filled with two walls, created by crocheting strips of
>> white plastic from garbage bags. She used thousands of bags, cut into
>> strips, to create these "soft walls."  It is an installation, and the
>> view of humans walking around and interacting with the soft white
>> walls is pure magic.
>>
>> Other works are very small, perhaps about 5 inches square - the
>> embroidered dots on white paper - then the piece is mounted on special
>> made wooden brackets that are also painted white - and they form very
>> deep shadows on the walls - the light is cast down upon them from the
>> ceiling - breathtaking!
>>
>> She is the Pittsburgh Artist of the Year, and her show received the
>> largest grants ever given to an artist for this exhibition - it is
>> very spare- and absolutely stunning to stand in the galleries and be a
>> part of it all. You as a viewer are transported to infinity, it seems.
>>
>> This is how a craft technique is translated into fine art in the hands
>> of a master - when what is created in conceptual, an idea, rather than
>> anyting copied from nature.
>>
>> We had the most wonderful night at the opening. It was just a joyous
>> experience to be there.
>>
>> Lynda
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Annette Carr" <amcarr1 at verizon.net>
>> To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'"
>> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2013 4:05 PM
>> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Akiko Kotani fiber arts show - WAS: RE:
>> Where
>>
>> is everyone?
>>
>>
>>> Lynda,
>>>
>>> Tell us more about the Akiko Kotani fiber arts show.  How are you
>>> connected to it?
>>>
>>> Annette
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>> Behalf Of River Woman
>>> Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2013 2:58 PM
>>> To: List for blind crafters and artists
>>> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Where is everyone?
>>>
>>> Well, I am accounted for. I am in the studio making three strand
>>> necklaces -
>>>
>>> for the Christmas Market at my friend's studio the first weekend in
>>> November.
>>> Now, it is a bit too hot up there - and I am expecting guests from
>>> out-of-state, so I am back in the house waiting for them to arrive.
>>> Shortly
>>> after that, we will all drive to Pittsburgh to see the opening
>>> reception of the Akiko Kotani fiber arts show...awesome day, huh?
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Annette Carr" <amcarr1 at verizon.net>
>>> To: <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2013 2:36 PM
>>> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Where is everyone?
>>>
>>>
>>>> Wow, the list is very quiet lately.  Hopefully that means that
>>>> everyone is crafting or doing something enjoyable.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I finished crocheting my 4 squares, 4 circles and 4 hexagons for the
>>>> upcoming class I am taking.  Now I am back to knitting the baby 
>>>> blanket.
>>>> I
>>>> have exactly 2 weeks to finish it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Annette
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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