FIBERS FACILITIES
Fibers maintains facilities for dyeing, printing, and steaming fabrics, an area for three-dimensional work, and critique/discussion/slide viewing facilities. The undergraduate weaving studio has a large number of floor looms; occasional use by graduate students can be arranged. (If a graduate student's work is primarily loom oriented, provision should be made for bringing personal equipment to use in the studio).
Weaving Room 207
The fibers studios are also equipped with 2 AVL computer dobby looms and both IBM and Mac II computers with software for weaving and surface design. There is air brush equipment, a heat transfer press, simple papermaking equipment, and an assortment of carding and spinning tools including a drum carder and various types of wheels. There is an upright tapestry loom which may be used by a graduate student for the period of residency with prior arrangement.
All graduate students are provided with studio space for the period of residency, and are required to use the School of Art facilities for the majority of their research, unless scale or thesis objectives dictate working elsewhere. The latter must meet faculty approval.
Surface Room 216
Seattle has excellent supply sources for art and fiber process supplies. There are many industrial resources for special fabrication or technological assistance. Several major industrial surplus centers in the area provide a wealth of raw materials and tools for the student.
Warping Room 215
Campus and Community Resources. We are most fortunate in having access to vast holdings of the Historic Costume and Textile Study Center (collections and library), the School of Art Library and the Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum. The University of Washington also maintains the Henry Art Gallery. The School of Art's Art History Division offers an unusually broad range of courses of interest to emerging fiber artists.
Close at hand and available for prearranged study are the excellent Fibers collections of the Seattle Art Museum and City of Seattle's Museum of History and Industry. Seattle boasts one private gallery devoted exclusively to fibers: Cerulean Blue Limited. Within the metropolitan area there are many galleries and museums that feature textile or Fibers exhibitions and/or competitions each year.
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