Virtually Woven is NBO’s third biennial online conference.
It will be held on three consecutive Fridays: July 12, July 19 and July 26, 2024.
Schedule
ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC DAYLIGHT TIME (PDT)
July 12, 2024
Day 01: GATHERED
11:00 am – 11:05 am
Welcome to Virtually Woven 2024
Host: Pam Morton, NBO Executive Director
11:05 am – 12:30 pm
Gathered: A Panel Discussion
Host: Eric Stark
Panelists: Jeannet Leenderste, Kadey Ambrose, Delia Fian
12:30 pm – 12:45 pm
Break
12:45 pm – 1:45 pm
1:45 pm – 2:00 pm
Break
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
3:30 pm – 3:45 pm
Closing
Wrap up, share next Friday’s schedule
July 19, 2024
Day 02: ALTERNATIVE
11:00 am – 11:05 am
Welcome to Virtually Woven 2024
Host: Pam Morton, NBO Executive Director
11:05 am – 12:30 pm
12:30 pm – 12:45 pm
Break
12:45 pm – 1:45 pm
1:45 pm – 2:00 pm
Break
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Alternative: A Panel Discussion
Host: Nick DeFord
Panelists: Julia Gartrell, Linda Tien, Ellen Kleckner, Lela Arruza
3:30 pm – 3:45 pm
Closing
Wrap up, share next Friday’s schedule
July 26, 2024
Day 03: INSTALLED
11:00 am – 11:05 am
Welcome to Virtually Woven 2024
Host: Pam Morton, NBO Executive Director
11:05 am – 12:30 pm
Installed: A Panel Discussion
Hosts: Ann Coddington & Amie Adelman
Panelists: Rebecca Hutchinson, Ashley Blalock, Carmen Mardonez
12:30 pm – 12:45 pm
Break
12:45 pm – 1:45 pm
1:45 pm – 2:00 pm
Break
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Presenters
Amie Adelman
Amie Adelman is a professor teaching fiber courses at the University of North Texas, Denton. She has an MFA in fibers from the University of Kansas and a BFA in fibers from Arizona State University. Through various travel grants, Adelman researched fiber techniques in Africa (Ghana, Lesotho, South Africa, Uganda), Europe (England, Ireland, Norway, Scotland), and South America (Guatemala). Her artwork appears in numerous books and journals, including American Craft, Fiberarts, Fiber Arts Now, and Surface Design. Adelman exhibits artwork nationally and internationally and has participated in artist-in-resident programs at The Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, Texas (2023), Lakkos Artist Residency, Heraklion, Crete, Greece (2018), Gullkistan Residency for Creative People, Laugarvatn, Iceland (2014), and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee (1998-99). She is currently serving on the National Basketry Organization Board of Directors.
www.AmieAdelman.com
Kadey Ambrose
Kadey Ambrose is a basketmaker on a quest to discover her ancestral heritage. Her work connects ancient craft and ethnobotanical knowledge with the innovations of living culture and ranges from traditional ‘using’ baskets to inventive woven forms. She holds a BAS in Ethnobotany from The Evergreen State College and a MA in Studio Art from Eastern Illinois University, both with an emphasis on basketry. In 2020, Kadey was selected for the inaugural Traditional Craft Mentorship Program at the John C. Campbell Folk School and for the American Craft Council’s Emerging Artist Cohort in 2022. She serves on the board of directors for the Northwest Basketweavers Guild and is an active member of the National Basketry Organization. Kadey now weaves in Fairbanks, Alaska, inspired by the community she grew up in.
https://www.instagram.com/kadeyweaves/
Lela Arruza
Lela Arruza is a contemporary paper artist from Apex, North Carolina. She received the Chancellor’s Scholarship from Appalachian State University and completed her BFA in ceramics in May, 2023. Her background as an adopted Asian American artist encourages her to explore identity and culture through paper; utilizing an origami technique called Golden Venture Folding. She draws inspiration from traditional Chinese porcelain ceramics. Arruza is a 2023 recipient of the Windgate-Lamar Fellowship and her work has been exhibited at the Blowing Rock Art & History Museum.
https://www.arruzale.com/
Ann B. Coddington
Ann Coddington utilizes a variety of ancient fiber techniques including twining, looping, and netting in her sculptural forms. Her work has been shown across the United States and Internationally with recent exhibitions: Art Evolved: Intertwined, (venues: Yellowstone Art Museum in Montana, the Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Art Museum in Washington, the Fuller Craft Museum in Massachusetts and the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art in Mississippi); Redefining the Basket, Gallery 76, Sydney Australia; Fiberart International, Museum of Art Fort Collins, CO; Degrees of Commitment: Climate, Ecosystems and Society, Arrowmont Gallery, Gatlinburg, TN. Ann is a Professor of Art and Graduate Coordinator Emerit from Eastern Illinois University. She received her MFA from the University of Illinois Sculpture Department, and her BFA from the Colorado State University Fibers Department. She is active exhibiting her work and teaching sculptural twining workshops around the world, having just returned from teaching at the Fibre Arts Australia and Fibre Arts New Zealand. Coddington is an active member of the National Basketry Organization.
www.abcoddington.com
Nick DeFord
Nick DeFord is an artist, educator, and arts administrator who resides in Knoxville, TN. Currently, Nick is the Chief Programs Officer at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. Nick has exhibited at the Bascom Center for Visual Arts, The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, and the Knoxville Museum of Art and has taught past workshops at the University of Louisville, East Carolina University, Arrowmont, and Penland School of Craft. In the fall of 2018 he was a resident at the Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva, Florida. He has been a reviewer for the Ohio Arts Council and the juror for the American Tapestry Biennial 13.
www.nickdeford.com
Delia Fian
Delia Fian is a basket weaver and teacher, making her way towards a handmade life in the Unicoi mountains of Southern Appalachia. She directs School of the Greenwood, a nonprofit working to restore connection to the land through creative empowerment. At Greenwood, she teaches basketry to children and adults, utilizing invasive and abundant wild materials. When not teaching, Delia is passionately hunting the limits of all that is possible in weaving material culture for a rooted and regenerative future.
www.deliafian.com
Julia Gartrell
Julia Gartrell is a sculptor who uses wood, textiles, native clays, plaster, bric-a-brac and found objects to interrogate material usage in traditional Appalachian craft and American culture. Reuse of material and “making do” are central to her explorations. Oral history, lore, and relics are among the things gathered for her practice. She also runs a traveling art project called the Radical Repair Workshop. Julia received an MFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design (2015) and a BA in art from Kalamazoo College (2008). She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and has participated in residencies at Fine Arts Work Center, Western Carolina University, Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, The Power Plant Gallery at Duke University, Ox-Bow School of Art in Michigan, Ifitry Artist’s Residency in Morocco. Julia has taught at RISD, John Tyler Community College, Kalamazoo College, and Virginia Commonwealth University.
www.juliagartrell.com
www.radicalrepairworkshop.com
Rebecca Hutchinson
Rebecca Hutchinson’s sculptural work is informed by observations of the natural world, drawing inspiration from its resilience and resourcefulness. As a Professor at University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth she has taught ceramics for over 20 years. Rebecca Hutchinson’s sculptural work has been shown across nationally and internationally. Her work has been published in over 80 publications around the world and she has been awarded numerous grants, fellowships, and awards- notably from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, as Artist of the Year by the Society of Arts and Crafts in Boston and as Distinguished Artist by the James Renwick Alliance in Washington DC. For teaching and research, Hutchinson is highly-awarded by UMass Dartmouth. She has been nominated 4 years in a row for the Outstanding Educators Award of the International Sculpture Center (Sculpture Magazine).
www.rebeccahutchinson.com
Ellen Kleckner
Ellen Kleckner (she/her) is an artist and educator living in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Her artistic practice weaves together community engagement, material investigation, and collaboration. She studied Ceramics at the Appalachian Center for Craft (BFA) and Ohio University (MFA). Ellen is the Executive Director of the Iowa Ceramics Center and Glass Studio, a non-profit community art center.
ellenkleckner.com
im-ple-ment.com
Gyöngy Laky
Gyöngy Laky (b.1944 Budapest, Hungary) exhibits her work nationally and internationally. Early in her career she created a large work for the Federal Art-in-Architecture Program. Her work is in a number of permanent museum and corporate collections. She is a past recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant among other awards including the National Basketry Organization. In 2003, she was one of a team of three to develop an Arts Master Plan for the new US Federal Food and Drug Administration campus and the Bancroft Library, UC, Berkeley, released her oral history. Her personal papers are in the Smithsonian Institution‘s Archives of American Art. In 2022, a book, Gyöngy Laky: Screwing with Order, assembled art, actions and art practice, essays by Mija Riedel and David M. Roth, designed by bybrowngrotta arts, published by Arnoldsche, Germany (328 pp). As of 2005, Laky is Professor Emeritus of UC, Davis, (chair, Department of Art mid-1990s).
www.gyongylaky.com
Jeannet Leendertse
Born in The Netherlands, I spent much of my childhood crafting with fabric, using my grandmother’s hand-crank sewing machine. In order to be able to make a living, I chose to study graphic design, and at 27 left for New York in search of an internship. After completing my degree cum laude, I moved to the Boston area and became an award-winning book designer. Several years ago I turned my focus again to textiles. I grew up on the coast of the province Zeeland [Sea-land], and discovering The Blue Hill Peninsula of Maine felt in many ways like coming home. Even though the landscape is different, the smells, sounds, and wildlife are familiar. There, my Shibori and knit work evolved to echo its ancient landscape and marine life. As an immigrant, my Dutch culture and heritage are always with me. Adaptation and reflection are ongoing. My fiber process brings these outer and inner worlds together. My work has been widely exhibited and is currently represented by BrownGrotta Gallery.
https://www.jeannetleendertse.com
Carmen Mardonez
Carmen Mardonez (1988) is a Chilean textile artist who recently arrived in London from Los Angeles where she lived since 2017. Her artwork seeks to radically reimagine intimate spaces of memories, dreams, and discovery, exploring variations around traditional embroidery by combining oversized formats, textile sculpture and the recovery of textile waste. Carmen studied History and Arts in the Catholic University of Chile, a master’s degree in Community Psychology at the University of Chile. Her artwork has been exhibited in Craft Contemporary Museum, Building Bridges Art Exchange and Brea Gallery, among others, and her practice has been supported by grants and residencies from “Quinn Emanuel Trial Lawyers”, “Arts at Blue Roof”, and “The Other Art Fair: New Futures:”.
www.carmenmardonez.com
Eric Stark
Originally from California and now living in Portland, Maine, Eric Stark is a teacher, architect, and maker who has served as the program chair for the University of Maine at Augusta’s Bachelor of Architecture degree for the past 12 years. His primary teaching responsibilities are in the design studio, where he is focused on design process and community partnering.
www.MadeSomethingToday.com
Jo Stealey
Jo Stealey – professor emerita, former head of the fiber program and founding director for the School of Visual Studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She teaches workshops, lectures, and curates exhibitions, including the traveling exhibition and catalogue, Rooted, Revived, Reinvented: Basketry in America. She is best known for her sculptural objects, artist books, installations, and mixed media based on basketry processes. She has been exhibited widely in over 300 national and international exhibitions and has work in the permanent collections such as the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, the School of Art Granada Spain, the Windgate Gallery at the University of Arkansas, Fort Smith, the Springfield Art Museum, MO among others.
www.jostealey.com
Linda Tien
Originally from Fort Worth, TX, Linda Tien is a visual artist, curator and exhibition producer of Vietnamese heritage. Linda has a studio background in metalsmithing & jewelry design but has always worked across media and formats including sculpture, performance, installation and video. She received her BFA in 2011 at Texas Tech University and her MFA in 2016 from Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. In addition to her studio practice, Linda has many years’ experience in curation and gallery work. She has curated for many galleries including the galleries at the Appalachian Center for Craft (Smithville, TN), The Fuller Projects (Bloomington, IN), the Columbus Museum of Art + Design (Columbus, IN) and now currently works as the Director of the Grunwald Gallery of Art at Indiana University (Bloomington, IN). Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Lindatien.com
im-ple-ment.com
Registration
Virtually Woven 2024 is open to the public. The registration fee for all three sessions is $80.
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