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2项清单.

• 关于Fiberforum

  Fiberforum is a 50-year-old northwest Ohio art group whose members use a wide variety of fiber media and techniques to create individual works as well as collaborative projects. The group encourages the appreciation of traditional techniques and ways in which these techniques can be expanded. Its members use a variety of media and techniques such as quilting, 表面设计, 毡呢, 造纸, 冷蜡, 混合媒体. 
  
  

  成员经常合作工作, where each artist adds to or modifies each other’s work in a communal manner or otherwise produces art as a group. 更多关于他们项目的例子在上面 网站.

• Fiberforum的历史

  Fiberforum was founded in 1974 by Mary Mabry, Pat Brown, and Julie Harrison. Their goal was to create a group of like minded artists to share information and ideas as well as to encourage the use of fiber media as an art form in addition to its more traditional uses. Although it was often disparaged as "women's work,” fiber as an art medium at this time was exploding onto the art scene worldwide, 成为一种公认的艺术形式.
  
  The three artists connected through Mary who was teaching at Bowling Green State University. Pat was Mary’s independent study graduate student. Julie was teaching art in the Toledo Public Schools and Mary had placed student teachers in Julie’s classroom. From these three women Fiberforum began to grow, with other fiber artists being invited to join the group.
  
  Fiberforum hosted workshops that were open to the public. A couple of the early workshops included one on 毡呢 and another on silkscreening on fabric. In 1983, Fiberforum received a grant from the Ohio Arts Council to experiment with a computerized loom, 在当时哪个是新技术. This two-month experiment ended with a demonstration open to the public. They displayed their weaving samples and written results in Dallas, TX, at the Handweavers Guild of America’s convention, “融合," in 1984.
  
  

  Fiberforum has had group shows throughout Ohio. The purpose of these activities has been to show people that fiber is a recognized art form and an exciting art medium. Individual and collaborative works help members grow as artists. 多年来, 成员来了又走, but the core purpose of the group has remained the same: to explore and promote fiber as an art form.