YToday J.R. Campbell, Director and Professor of the Fashion School at Kent State, and Susan Taber Avila, artist and professor at The University of California Davis , visited the studios of Colleen Quen and Rick Lee.
J.R. Campbell's digital textile department printed the silks for the Surface and Shape collaborative project Colleen, Rick and I are working on. He was in town to see a show at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and he had an hour window of time that matched Colleen's window of time to meet. I almost was not able to make the meeting but am so glad that I did! It was an extra bonus to meet Susan.
J.R. Campbell's digital textile department printed the silks for the Surface and Shape collaborative project Colleen, Rick and I are working on. He was in town to see a show at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and he had an hour window of time that matched Colleen's window of time to meet. I almost was not able to make the meeting but am so glad that I did! It was an extra bonus to meet Susan.
Colleen shows the scale of the skirt portion of the topography garment.
Emotion mapping textile print incorporated into forms.
Colleen's long time seamstress works on one of the sleeves of the topography garment.
Intern Elena works on the lantern like forms for the emotion garment.
Intern Barbie works on the garments.
J.R. Campbell and Rick Lee discuss project.
The textiles.
Colleen shows us her many pattern pieces.