The Saratoga Springs Satellite Reef at the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, is a centerpiece of the Tang’s 2022 exhibition, Radical Fiber: Threads Connecting Art and Science. The IFF is delighted to be part of this ground-breaking engagement between craft and science.
Exhibition webpage and photo gallery:
Tang Museum project webpage:
Crochet Coral Reef website:
“For centuries, fiber art practice has influenced practical, theoretical, and pedagogical areas of the sciences as diverse as modern computing and digital technologies, mathematical theories, neuroscience, psychology, biology, environmental science, and more. Through contemporary art by a diverse group of intergenerational artists working in weaving, quilting, needlework, crochet, knitting, dyeing, and other fiber-based practices Radical Fiber: Threads Connecting Art and Science demonstrates how fiber practice has influenced mathematics, science, and technology. The exhibition foregrounds each work as at once fine art, process-driven craft, and scientific tool, complicating existing frameworks across fields.
Radical Fiber also features a new artwork created by amateur and professional makers around the globe: the Saratoga Springs Satellite Reef, part of the worldwide Crochet Coral Reef project by Christine and Margaret Wertheim and the Institute For Figuring. The Saratoga Springs Satellite Reef draws on the long historical connections, especially in the United States, between fiber practice and community building and will connect hobby crafters, art professionals, novice crocheters, and students from Skidmore, broader Saratoga, and global communities.”
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Call to participate in the Saratoga Springs Satellite Reef – see here.