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"Livingstone's first attempt to make felt was in the late 1960s, while studying textile arts in Oregon. Felt is made when wool fibers or fur are fused together. Livingstone's first experiment with sheep fleece included boiling it, beating it with a potato masher and running over it repeatedly with her car. She has improved her technique." – Ruth Lopez, "Livingstone's Body of Work," Chicago Tribune, December 30, 2001
Joan Livingstone has become known as one of the foremost fiber and materials artists in the U.S., and is now the Chair of the Undergraduate Division, and Professor of Fiber and Material Studies, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Detroit Institute of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. This work precedes her first credited exhibition, "Dimensions: Felt," at the Charles & Emma Frye Art Museum, Seattle, in 1982.
Subjects:
screen prints; Wool Link to share this object record:
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