Multimedia artist Taylor Ross utilizes found, all-natural fibers to create handmade clothing. She harvests materials like black walnuts, pokeweed, and velvetleaf stalks to create natural yarns. Collecting, spinning, and weaving these pieces offers a direct, physical, tactile, emotional, olfactory experience.
Taylor's newest project will be featured at the 2016 festival as one of our art installations!
To give you a sneak preview, this Saturday Taylor will present a talk that examines the unique characteristics and histories of a number of local plants that can be processed into fiber. Through this lens, she will address how our clothing, the first architecture of the body, is anything but peripheral to our modern human habits of over-consumption through a convoluted global production system.
The talk will both be practically informative as well as being a historical journey through our ancient relationship with string, into robes, ropes and sails, those things without which the world as we know it would not exist.
ARTIST TALK: Saturday, November 14th, 11:00AM
Fibers Studio, University of Missouri
902 S. College Avenue
Taylor will also be presenting two workshops that are open to the public (Sat, Nov 14, 2-4P and Sun, Nov 15, 2-4P) For more info and to sign up for either or both workshops, contact Camellia Cosgray, camellia@truefalse.org.
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