FIBERS

The Fibers Program stresses an informed, mixed media approach to art-making, with a particular emphasis on the gathering, processing and structuring of diverse elements.

Material, process and content are seen as an integrated unit in a successful work of art, and the goal of the Fibers faculty is to equip students with the intellectual, aesthetic and techincal skill required to bring that integration to fruition.

Although the undergraduate program offers core courses in the traditional fibers techniques of surface design and weaving, the graduate program stresses the conceptual development of the artist. The graduate student is encouraged to work with those materials and methods best suited to communicate their ideas. Consequently, the students and alumnae of the graduate Fibers program reflect a diverse range of intellectual, and material approaches. They share an interest in rigorous critical dialoge and the development of a body of work that communicates in the strongest terms the issues that inform their work.

Lou Cabeen | Exhibit History
Associate Professor
MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989

Layne Goldsmith | Exhibit History
Professor
MFA Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1979