Meeting Announcement:

Creative Impulses – Japanese Fashion and Textiles

with

Yoshiko Wada

at

Seattle Asian Art Museum, Stimson Auditorium

1400 East Prospect Street, Seattle

(in Volunteer Park)

Thursday, November 16, 2006, 7:00 PM

Internationally renowned textile artist, scholar, and president of the World Shibori Network, Yoshiko Wada will discuss the intersection of tradition and technology in post-industrial Japan. While artists and designers in the West were beginning to explore fiber art in the early 1970s, the majority of those in Japan were exploring new forms of creative expression within the traditional context. By looking at Japanese fashion and textiles, we can gain and understanding of essential and universal aspects of the textile arts.

Yoshiko Wada is a lecturer at the Okinawa Prefecture University of Fine Arts, and Research Associate at the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. She has been the recipient of numerous grants in support of her research on textiles, including two Japan Foundation Fellowships, an Indo-US Subcommission Fellowship, and the Renwick Fellowship from the Smithsonian Institution. Yoshiko Wada is the co-author of Shibori, The Inventive Art of Japanese Shaped Resist Dyeing, and the author of Memory on Cloth: Shibori Now.

This event is jointly produced with the Seattle Asian Art Museum under the auspices of their Community Partners program. As such, it is free to all STARS members.

Meeting Location and Directions:

The Seattle Asian Art Museum is located in Seattle’s Volunteer Park. The address is 1400 East Prospect Street, Seattle, WA 98112.

From the South: Take I-5 North to the Olive Way Exit. Bear right up the hill (east). Turn left on 15th Avenue East. Turn left on East Prospect Street. The park entrance is at 14th Avenue East and East Prospect Street. Turn right into the park, go around the water tower, and continue straight. The museum will be on your right.

From the North: Take I-5 South to the Roanoke Street Exit. Turn left over the freeway on Roanoke. Turn right on 10th Avenue East. Turn left on East Prospect Street. The park entrance is at 14th Avenue East and East Prospect Street. Turn left into the park, go around the water tower, and continue straight. The museum will be on your right.