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SAGE AUTOMOTIVE INTERIORS DESIGN INTERNSHIP
Congratulations, Hannah Briggs!
Sage Automotive Interiors has awarded their annual design internship to Hannah Briggs this year! She has spent the summer working on designing a collection of woven fabrics, embossed fabrics, and dyeing knit fabrics! Biggest congratulations to Hannah - very well deserved!
Mrs. dauscha attends Artist Residency at Vermont Studio Center!
SAGE AUTOMOTIVE INTERIORS DESIGN INTERNSHIP
Congratulations, Jordyn Abtahi!
Sage Automotive Interiors has awarded their annual design internship to Jordyn Abtahi this year! She has spent the summer working on designing a collection of woven fabrics, embossed fabrics, and dyeing knit fabrics! Check out some of her Jacquard stitching below! Biggest congratulations to Jordyn - very well deserved!
Congrats to our student winners!
Go team fiber!
ANNUAL UPSTATE HIGH SCHOOL ART EXHIBITION GREENVILLE TECH 2022
2nd Place: Fiber - Megan Edwards, “Comfort Food”
SCHOLASTIC ART AND WRITING AWARDS 2022
Diana Allen Honorable Mention Digital Art Classic & small scale
Diana Allen Honorable Mention Design Bubbly Soap!
Rebecca Bouvier Honorable Mention Fashion Ethereal Ocean
Erica Cooper Honorable Mention Digital Art Tropical Breeze
Alyssa Dutka Gold Key Mixed Media Off To Class
Megan Edwards Honorable Mention Digital Art Half Circle Textile Design
Sydney Harrison Silver Key Mixed Media What a Picture Doesn't Show
Sydney Harrison Honorable Mention Mixed Media Past Playtime
Lauren Hunter Gold Key Design Can’t Get Past It
Emmy Jantz Silver Key Mixed Media Bundle of Nerves
Emmy Jantz Honorable Mention Mixed Media Security Blankets
Emmy Jantz Honorable Mention Mixed Media Festering Thoughts
Emma Laing Silver Key Expanded Projects Treading Water
Meijun Lin Gold Key Mixed Media Nexus
Sydney Mcafee Gold Key Mixed Media Make Eye Contact
Sydney Mcafee Silver Key Mixed Media Masking
Tanisha Poojary Gold Key Design The Golden Globes of Self-Destruction
Cassandra Zbin Silver Key Mixed Media Disconnection
GREENVILLE COUNTY DISTRICT ART EXHIBITION 2022
Comfort Food, Megan Edwards, Fine Arts Center, Instructor: April Dauscha
ARTFIELDS JR. 2022
Good Boys and Model Citizens, Sierra Hollinsed, Instructor: April Dauscha
MRS. DAUSCHA's work was FEATURED IN the April 2022 issue of VOGUE PORTUGAL!
BIG BODY PLAY!
The summer exhibition presented in the FAC gallery, curated by fiber instructor, April Dauscha, is up until September 10th! Check out some of the recent press about the exhibition and be sure to join us for the closing reception on 9/10 from 6-8pm.
Katherine Wiedemann named 2021 OUTSTANDING STUDENT by Surface Design Association!
Check out Katherine's work and the work of three other FAC alumni who got awarded this year! Caroline Galliard (Virginia Commonwealth University), Sarah Palmer (NC State), and Jack Rose (University of Georgia Athens)
Congratulations to all of these wonderful artists exploring and expanding the world of contemporary fiber and fashion.
FIBER AWARDS DAY WINNERS 2021
Outstanding Senior | Harshitha Visikamalla
Outstanding Senior | Mariana Beltran
Fiber Art Student, Nicholas Turgeon named Presidential Scholar in the arts for 2020!
The United States Presidential Scholars Program was established in 1964, by executive order of the President, to recognize and celebrate some of our nation's most distinguished graduating high school seniors. Each year, up to 161 students are named U.S. Presidential Scholars, one of the nation's highest honors for high school students.
Through his distinction, Nicholas Turgeon nominated Fiber Art Instructor, April Dauscha as a distinguished teacher and was named one of 2020 U.S. Presidential Scholar's most influential teachers!
Congratulations to Nicholas for all his hard work and acheivements in the arts! He is now headed to Chicago as a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago!
FIBER ARTS STUDENT named FINALIST FOR PRESTIGIOUS international DESIGN AWARD!
Sabrina Kindervater, class of 2020, has been named a finalist in the Dorothy Waxman Textile Prize - it is a prestigious international design award for fiber and fashion students and is a part of the New York Textile Month that is happening this month! Check out her beautifully printed and sewn fabric book, made in the Advanced Fiber class in 2019.
The winner will be selected on 9/30 at 2:15pm during what looks to be an exciting online event - here is more information in case you're interested in attending.
We are so proud of Sabrina!
'EXPLORE FIBER' Blog highlights FAC FIBER ART EDUCATOR, april dauscha
Fiber instructor, April Dauscha was recently interviewed by Christine Miller of "Explore Fiber" and was featured on the blog that highlights Fiber Art educators around the US - check out the interview here!
FIBER AWARDS DAY WINNERS 2019
Outstanding Senior | ABBEY RUNION
Achievement in Fiber Art
Parris Jefferson
ANNA BRINKMAN
Giselle Ramirez-Garnica
Mackenzie Watson
Advanced Fiber students featured on the
"create the collection" website!
Join us on APRIL 25 @ 5pm for the Fiber Arts Open House!
Students Participate in Design Charrette with Libby O'Bryan
February 26, 2019, Hendersonville, NCAdvanced Fiber students got to participate in a design charrette with Libby O'Bryan of Sew Co., Rite of Passage, and the Carolina Textile District. During our visit the students were asked to give feedback on a sustainable clothing line geared towards teens, while also giving feedback on branding and logo design. What an awesome way to spend the afternoon!
Annual Student Juried Show: Fiber Awards
Sheffield Wood Gallery, Fine Arts Center, Greenville, SC
1st Place - Lyndall Harris, Discomfort
2nd Place- Destiny Johnson, Beginning of Destruction
3rd Place- Thye DeForest, Cape Neddick Campground: Site 13
Honorable Mention - Nicholas Turgeon, The Amazingly Lissome Lucy
Honorable Mention - L.A. Thoma, An Unexpected Subject of Beauty
Honorable Mention - Kaitlyn Rice, Through my Eyes Only
Visiting Artist:
RAchel Meginnes
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5th
A.M. LECTURE TIME: (9:30 - 10:30)
P.M. LECTURE TIME : (1:45 - 10:45)
Trained as a weaver, Rachel Meginnes’s fascination with textiles began in high school. After receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree from Earlham College in 1999, Rachel followed her interest in textiles by travelling to Northern Japan to study the traditional crafts of saki-ori, ikat, and indigo dyeing. Upon returning to the States, she apprenticed as a rug weaver and continued her study of art and textiles by moving to Seattle to earn her Master of Fine Arts degree in Fibers at the University of Washington in 2005. From 2005-2011, Rachel co-owned and operated Dorjé Contemporary, LLC a custom rug design company producing hand-knotted, Tibetan carpets for the interiors trade. 2012 marked a significant shift in Rachel’s career when she dedicated herself to being a studio artist full time. This past August, she completed a three-year residency at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina.
Although no longer working directly at the loom, Rachel has kept many of her weaving processes alive in her current studio practice. Integrating textiles with painting, Rachel accepts and encourages her need to work hands-on with her materials and enjoys the solitude that comes along with producing such methodical work. Her original love for the plain weave structure has never ceased and she continues to believe that there is infinite possibility in the most basic of methods.
Rachel's studio is based in western North Carolina.
Spotlight on student fiber trends
Southeastern Fiber Arts AllianceSheffield Wood Gallery, Greenville, SCFine Arts Center (FAC) is proud to host the opening reception of the Southeast Fiber Arts Alliance's (SEFAA) exhibition, Spotlight on Student Fiber Trends. The evening will feature a presentation given by Rachel Meginnes, the announcement of award-winning artworks, and a tour of the FAC Fiber Arts studio.
Spotlight on Student Fiber Trends 2018 features the work of 23 students enrolled in high school, college, and graduate-level fiber programs throughout the Southeast.
Work in the show was selected by juror, Rachel Meginnes. Rachel is a studio artist based in Western, North Carolina, working within the media of textiles and painting. Rachel studied Fibers at the University of Washington and Earlham College and studied traditional textile processes in northern Japan. She was a Penland School of Crafts Resident Artist from 2012-2015.
SEFAA, an Atlanta based organization whose mission is to cultivate the regional fiber arts community, by celebrating, supporting, and perpetuating all fiber art forms and by fostering collaboration and co-operation in the fiber arts community. The SEFAA offers classes, workshops, exhibitions, events, rental space and much more at the SEFAA Center.
This exhibition features work from the following FAC Fiber Students:
Anna Burkhardt
Thye DeForest
Giselle Ramirez-Garnica
Abbey Runion
Nicholas Turgeon
Mackenzie Watson
Wen Zhang - 1ST PLACE AWARD!
Check out this feature article in Livability online publication that features the Fiber Arts Program!
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end of the year awards: 2018
Outstanding Senior in Fiber Arts: Anna Burkhardt
Achievement in Fiber Arts: Nicole Salazar
Emerging Artist in Fiber Award:
Wen Zhang
District Show, Artisphere, Greenville, SC
Honorable Mention:
Wen Zhang
Annual Upstate Art Exhibition, Greenville Tech, Greenville SC
She, They, He
2018 DESIGN INTERN: Sage Automotive Interiors
Nicholas Turgeon
Scholastic Art and Writing Award Winners
2017-2018 National Award Winners (Fiber)
Fiber works include:
Sabrina Kindervater - Silver medal: Design, One Opposite.
Wen Zhang - Gold Medal: Future New, Genus Apsentia.
2017-2018 Regional Award Winners (Fiber)
GOLD:
Eileen Selby, Soft Skin Goes First. Mixed Media.
Anna Burkhardt, Flaking. Sculpture.
Sabrina Kindervater, One Opposite. Design.
SILVER:
Sarah Landmesser, Patient Number Two. Fashion.
Lydia Hammond, Shedding. Sculpture.
Abbey Runion, Watching & Observing. Mixed Media.
Anna Burkhardt, Prevalent. Sculpture.
Anna Burkhardt, Epidermis. Art Portfolio.
HONRABLE MENTION:
Anna Burkhardt, There are certain things which God cannot be taken out of... Fashion.
Anna Burkhardt, Stratum. Sculpture.
Elizabeth Clark, Perception and Deception. Fashion.
Alison Fisher, Urban Design. Design.
Problem Solver. Mixed Media.
Nicole Salazar, 1 out of 3 Bites. Mixed Media.
Art Fields Jr.
The following students had their fiber work selected to exhibit in Lake City, SC
Callie Moreland
Abbey Runion
Field Trip: Sage Automotive Interiors
Spring Fiber students had the chance to visit Sage's Sharon Plant & Abbeville Plant to get a first-hand look at the industry in action. Here we were able to see the manufacturing of woven fabric and the dyeing process.
Below are some pictures from our adventure!
Young Women in the Arts
Converse College, Spartanburg, SC
First Place: Sculpture
Lydia Hammond, Shedding
Second Place: Photography
Abbey Runion, Mommy's little girl
Annual Student Juried Show: Fiber Awards
Sheffield Wood Gallery, Fine Arts Center, Greenville, SC
1st Place - Sophia Beall, Red #40
2nd Place- Anna Burkhardt, Prevelant II
3rd Place- Anna Burkhardt, Stratum
YoungArts National Merit Award: Visual Arts
Anna Burkhardt
Visiting Artist: Susan Iverson
Color of No Exhibition
Susan Iverson is a Tapestry Weaver from Richmond, Virginia, Co-Director of the American Tapestry Alliance and Professor Emerita for Virginia Commonwealth University.
She has been invited to exhibit her new body of work, "The Color of No" at the Fine Arts Center in addition to giving an artist talk at the opening reception and to give a three-day tapestry demo to the AM and PM fiber students.
SPRINGS CREATIVE DESIGN COMPETITION:
World hood trend
1st Place: Alison Fisher
2nd Place: Sabrina Kindervater
3rd Place: Jack Rose