PRESENTER: Rowland Ricketts
(School of Fine Arts, IU Bloomington)
TOPIC: “I am Ai, We are Ai: Awa Indigo Art Program at the
2012 National Cultural Festival in Tokushima Japan”
DATE: Friday, February 22, 2013
DATE: Friday, February 22, 2013
TIME:
12:00-1:15 p.m.
LOCATION: Ballantine 004
LOCATION: Ballantine 004
I
am Ai, We are Ai
was a public art project by Rowland Ricketts as part of Japan’s 2012 National
Cultural Festival hosted by Tokushima Prefecture that ran from July 28-December
16, 2012. The project celebrated the history and future of indigo in Tokushima
by creating both visual and physical connections between the indigo growers,
processors, dyers, and end users who together comprise this ongoing tradition.
This presentation will take an in-depth look at the ideas behind the project as
well as the final artwork that resulted from it including the sound
collaboration with Norbert Herber.
Rowland
Ricketts utilizes natural dyes and historical
processes to create contemporary textiles that span art and design.
Trained in indigo farming and dyeing in Japan, Rowland received his MFA from
Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2005 and is currently an Assistant Professor in
Textiles at Indiana University’s Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Art.
His work has been exhibited at the Textile Museum (Washington, DC),
Cavin-Morris Gallery (New York), and Douglas Dawson Gallery (Chicago) and has been published in Textiles Now, FiberArts,
Selvedge, Surface Design Journal, and Hand/Eye Magazine.
Rowland is a recipient of a 2012 United States Artists
Fellowship.
Persons with disabilities
interested in attending our events who may require assistance, please contact
us in advance at (812)
855-3765.
East
Asian Studies Center
Indiana
University
1021
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Memorial
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IN 47405
Phone:
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E-mail:
easc@indiana.edu
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