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Tag Archives: Modern
One more thing…
As a follow up to yesterday’s mini-manifesto I think I need to add one more thing, one clarification that I woke up worrying about: I think the modern quilting movement (I do believe it is a movement of sorts) matters. … Continue reading
Impasse…
(Note #1: this post was written quite rapidly following a few emails and the like that I’ve received over the past 24 hours. The entire post was written in about 15 minutes without editing. I just need to put this … Continue reading
Why words matter…
So, if you’ve spent any time here reading the words I post you will have likely picked up on the fact that I think words matter. The reason I am so interested how we use the word Modern is not … Continue reading
Modern Inspiration…
In my crazy little head I’ve been thinking of 2013 as my year of writing (and talking). There’s the book, QuiltCon, some essays I have planned, and goodness knows what else (fingers crossed to get going on a second book … Continue reading
Toward QuiltCon
After spending the week at Quilt Market it seemed to me that there was palpably less buzz about the whole modern thing. I’m not saying the modern community wasn’t enormously present, but it felt very different than just a year … Continue reading
In progress…
I can’t wait to share these pics any longer (though I’ve only had them for a couple of days). Here’s what the incredible Lisa Sipes and I have been working on (mostly her to be honest)… This quilt started out … Continue reading
A Brief History of Modern: Part Two [Space, Time, & Color at the Turn of the Century: Cézanne, Picasso, & Matisse]
In 1900 more than fifty million people attended the Exposition Universelle in Paris, a celebration of progress and the future; in 1903 Henri Bergson published his extraordinarily influential “Introduction to Metaphysics”; and in 1905 Albert Einstein published his Special Theory … Continue reading
A Brief History of Modern: Part One [Origin Myths: The Roots of Modernism]
I would never call myself a Modernist; I have been firmly in the Post-Modern camp since the mid-nineties, at least on philosophical grounds. I don’t think the art-world has really hit post-modern yet, except as a passing style, but that … Continue reading
