.jpg)
.jpg)
Sew to Speak: 25 Years of Mixed Media/Fiber by Lisa Kokin
LECTURE AT TEXTILE STUDY GROUP OF NEW YORK
Community Church of New York Unitarian Universalist 40 E. 35th St.
(between Park & Madison Avenues)
New York, NY
September 21 at 7:00 p.m., 2016
I’m delighted to deliver a lecture to the Textile Study Group in New York in September. I will be presenting work from the past twenty-five years, encompassing artist’s books, found photos, collage, gut, buttonworks, lace cowboys, thread works and asemic text, in short, an overview of my obsessions and meanderings with sewing and thread as the common denominators.
If you are in the New York area, you are cordially invited to attend.
Uppercase Magazine
A feature-length article by Alyson Kuhn, photography by Lia Roozendaal
May 2016
The current issue of Uppercase magazine includes a feature-length article about my work by Alyson Kuhn, illustrated with many gorgeous photos by Lia Roozendaal. You can subscribe to the magazine by going to their website and typing in the code "lookformein29" for $15 off subscriptions. I am very pleased to announce that the entire pdf of the article is now available for your reading pleasure.
UPPERCASE pdf →
In the Studio
Textiles are in Lisa Kokin's blood. Her parents were upholsterers, and she uses the techniques of sewing and book arts to create detailed, thoughtful work that often transforms found objects and words. For the exhibition Do Not Destroy, she created the piece Fauxliage: No Birds Sing which transformed Rachel Carson's landmark environmental book Silent Spring into delicate and quite convincing leaf forms, a reference to the anti-pesticide message therein.
MIND OVER MATTER
Florida CraftArt Gallery
St. Petersburg, FL
August 26 – October 22, 2016
I am pleased to be invited to show my work in an eight-artist exhibition of wood and fiber, Mind Over Matter, curated by Jorge Vidal at the Florida CraftArt Gallery. I knew I had found a kindred spirit when Jorge wrote “I am interested in work that masses a multitude of unspectacular decisions but ends in spectacular results.” I will have nine pieces representing various series utilizing mixed media, buttons and thread.
Folia
Mobilia Gallery
Cambridge, MA
November 2016
This exhibition features sculptural horticultural pieces made of stitched paperback book covers, mull and wire. From tree to paper and back to tree again.
COACHING/MENTORSHIPS
I work one-on-one with many artists in my Coaching/Mentorship Program, an outgrowth of decades of mentoring graduate students in local colleges and universities. The program is tailored to the needs of each artist and includes six one-hour meetings or the equivalent to be completed within six months.
Artists use their coaching/mentorship sessions for critique and career development, as well as issues related to maintaining a consistent studio practice.
For artists who live outside of the San Francisco Bay Area, mentorships are available via Skype.
Read more →
REUSE MUSE IV
Six weeks, October 5 — November 9, 2016
Wednesdays, 1:00 — 3:30 p.m.
Cost: $495 (includes most supplies)
CLASS IS FULL.
Contact me to be on waiting list.
Registration has begun for Reuse Muse IV 2016. This ever popular six-week mixed media class is currently in its fifth year. The theme for the new year is Ephemerama, transforming all kinds of found paper and photos into books, collages and sculpture.
Read more →
Sinuate #2
Commission for a private collection
Dallas, Texas
My latest commission, Sinuate #2, now resides in a private collected in Dallas. One of the things I enjoy is to do special commissions for both private and public collections. I most enjoy making work for healthcare facilities, where people who might not ordinarily visit galleries and museums spend time waiting in a sometimes anxious state of mind. I am happy to make work that calms the spirit and takes the mind off a difficult situation, if even for a few moments.
Continue to commissions→