As we continue our Weaving Data History posts, we will examine how weaving and technology are connected. Watch and find out! 🧶💻 #arthistory #computerscience

The JSMA at PSU is pleased to introduce “Weaving Data” featured artist Joan Truckenbrod! Over the past 40 years, Truckenbrod has been exploring the world of art and technology. Joan Truckenbrod Support by: The The Ford Family Foundation The Oregon Cultural Trust #textileart

Joan Truckenbrod uses the Thread Controller 2, a digital loom, to create tapestries such as “Provocative Futures” (2021). Here she explores the connection between fencing and weaving 🔗🧶 Joan Truckenbrod Support by: The Ford Family Foundation the Oregon Cultural Trust #textileart

JSMA at PSU is hosting a fun and FREE activity for kids next Saturday! 🔗Visit the link in bio to learn more and RSVP! This program is geared towards pre-K through early elementary students. Children must be accompanied by a guardian throughout the event. #portlandkids

JSMA at PSU is pleased to introduce “Weaving Data” featured artist Kayla Mattes! ⁠Mattes’ tapestries provide social and political commentaries balanced with humor by recreating memes, such as the cat! ⁠ ⁠ Swipe through to see Kayla in the studio with her cat, Penny🐱🐈‍⬛!⁠

Appreciating the details of the Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize. There’s so much to see from “Missing You” to horses in blue and plant-dyed shoes! —⁠ Supported and created by the Harold and Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation #portlandartist #pdxart

The JSMA at PSU is pleased to introduce “Weaving Data” featured artist Vo Vo! Using installations, they interrogate power dynamics and challenge histories of imperialism, white supremacy, and colonization. Supported by The Ford Family Foundation and the Oregon Cultural Trust

An installation piece created specifically for the "Weaving Data" exhibition, Vo Vo draws inspiration from the 1912 Bread and Roses strike Vo Vo uses weaving and audio to explore a historical moment in labor industries and workers’ conditions. #textileindustry

We're not April fooling you that today is the last “Weaving Data” public tour! 🔗Link in bio to learn more! ⁠ ⁠ This program is free and open to the public. ASL interpreting will be provided. ⁠ Images from a tour with PNCA at Willamette University MFA visual studies⁠ 📸: Simone Fischer⁠ #pdxevents

The JSMA at PSU is pleased to introduce “Weaving Data” featured artist Sarah Wertzberger! With each project, Wertzberger collaborates with technology, asking herself what kind of loom she will use and what materials she will use to create the desired effect🌀 #portlandartist

The artworks in this exhibition were made on three different kinds of looms, an industrial power Jacquard loom, Thread Controller 2, and a 16 harness floor loom. Immerse yourself in the colorful artwork of Sarah Wertzberger🌀 #contemporarytextiles #portlandartist

Learn about #adalovelace, the first computer programmer in today’s episode of “Weaving Data History”! Artwork in video by Shelley Socolofsky and Ahree Lee #Womenintech

Hard to believe it's been a month since our #artisttalk with April Bey! Thank you April Bey for delving deeper into Atlantica and to all who joined!⁠ 📸: Photography by Jeremy Chun Sajqui

We are thrilled to introduce our very own Portland State University faculty Shelley Socolofsky as a “Weaving Data” featured artist!🧶 Socolofsky situates her art practice in the “expanded field of #tapestry,” referring to the histories of community-centered groups of weavers. ⁠

Shelley Socolofsky takes landscape art to a new level in her tapestries, replacing natural scenery with surveillance images taken by aerial drones of areas affected by #climatechange. ⁠ ⁠ Pictured is her 2022 tapestry "Blood Moon over Arctic Shelf Melt (Lunar Double)"

Watch our final episode of Weaving Data History!🧶💻 Artwork in video by [shown in order of appearance]: Ahree Lee, Jovencio de la Paz, April Bey, Kayla Mattes The Ford Family Foundation OR Cultural Trust #arthistory #code

We're going back to basics for the #paperweaving workshop next week, led by Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize recipient Johanna Houska! ⁠ 🔗Learn more at the link in bio! ⁠ ⁠This program is free and open to the public. ASL interpreting will be provided*⁠ Portland State University

Introducing “Weaving Data” featured artist Faig Ahmed. #FaigAhmed is well known for his conceptual works that utilize traditional decorative craft and the visual language of carpets.

Did you also do a double take seeing this carpet that is… melting? Today is the last day to experience the illusion of featured artist Faig Ahmed's transformed surrealist object before "Weaving Data" closes. ⁠ Faig Ahmed, Gautama, 2017, Edition 3/3 Arsenal Montreal

JSMA at PSU is excited to have our new exhibition Labor of Love featured in HereisOregon! Briana Miller includes our exhibition in 10 winter art shows to visit!