{"id":1589,"date":"2015-04-23T16:47:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T00:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2015-04-25T16:16:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T00:16:28","slug":"southwest-school-of-art-final-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/events\/southwest-school-of-art-final-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest School of Art – Final Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Crochet Coral Forest” and “Branched Anemone Garden” at the Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, Tx. Photo courtesy, Southwest School of Art.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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This weekend is the last chance to see the gorgeous installation of the IFF’s\u00a0Crochet Coral Forest<\/i>\u00a0 at San Antonio’s Southwest School of Art. Comprising six giant sculptures, the\u00a0Coral Forest\u00a0<\/i>consists of three works in yarn, and three in plastic, metaphorically representing the dichotomy of the organic and the anthropogenic in our changing ocean environment.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Each sculpture stands between 8 and 10 feet tall, each a sentinel crafted through thousands of hours of human labor and meticulously assembled from hundreds of crochet pieces. As living reefs are made up from thousands of heads of coral \u2013 these in turn the work of many coral polyps cooperating together \u2013 so works in the IFF’s\u00a0Crochet Coral Reef<\/i>\u00a0project are complex ecologies fabricated over years of quiet, accumulative labor by communities of people. Where the yarn reefs represent the beauty of nature, forged through aeons, the plastic reefs reference the increasingly dominant powers of humanity, and the synthetic-saturated future we are ushering into being. Crafted from used plastic shopping bags, video tape, Saran wrap, bits of old hula hoop, and other plastic detritus, these glittering monsters are constructed by Margaret and Christine Wertheim, and incorporate pieces from the IFF’s Core Reef Contributors.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Accompanying the\u00a0Coral Forest<\/i>\u00a0is the ever-playful\u00a0Branched Anemone Garden<\/i>, and<\/span>\u00a0an array of miniature coral\u00a0<\/span>Pod Worlds <\/i>assembled<\/span>\u00a0from works by some of the IFF’s most skilled and imaginative\u00a0Reefers<\/i>. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><\/div>\n
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Contributors to this exhibition:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Coral Forest<\/em>\u00a0sculptures crafted by Margaret and Christine Wertheim. And incorporating pieces by:<\/em>\u00a0Sarah Simons (CA), Anna Mayer (CA), Jemima Wyman (CA), Christina Simons (LA), Evelyn Hardin (TX), Helen Bernasconi (Australia), Marianne Midelburg (Australia), Helle Jorgensen (Australia), Barbara Wertheim (Australia), Ildiko Szabo (England), Heather McCarren (CA), Dr. Axt (VT), Anitra Menning (CA), Shari Porter (CA), Clare O\u2019Callaghan (CA), Kathleen Greco (PA), Nadia Severns (NY), Arlene Mintzer (NY), Jill Schrier (NY), Pamela Stiles (NY), Siew Chu Kerk (NY), Irene Lundgaard (Ireland), Orla Breslin (Ireland), Una Morrison (Ireland), Sally Giles (IL), Pate Conaway (IL), David Orozco (CA), Ann Wertheim (Australia), Elizabeth Wertheim (Australia), Katherine Wertheim (Australia), Lucinda Ganderton (UK), Beverly Griffiths (UK), Jane Canby (AZ), Jennifer White (AZ), Sharon Menges (AZ), Tane Clark (AZ), Nancy Youros (AZ),\u00a0Gina Cacciolo (CA), Chantal Horeau (CA), Ying Wong (CA), and unknown Chinese factory workers.<\/p>\n

Coral Pod-Worlds<\/em>\u00a0curated by Margaret and Christine Wertheim, featuring pieces by:\u00a0<\/strong>Sarah Simons (CA), Diana Simons (CA), Vonda N. McIntyre (WA), Sue Von Ohlsen (PA), Rebecca Peapples (MI), Mieko Fukuhara (Japan), Anita Bruce (UK),\u00a0Gunta Jekabsone (Latvia),\u00a0Jane Canby (AZ), Dagma Frinta (NY), and wire models by contributors to the\u00a0Chicago Satellite Reef<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0Irish Satellite Reef.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0 This weekend is the last chance to see the gorgeous installation of the IFF’s\u00a0Crochet Coral Forest\u00a0 at San Antonio’s Southwest School of Art. Comprising six giant sculptures, the\u00a0Coral Forest\u00a0consists of three works in yarn, and three in plastic, metaphorically representing the dichotomy of the organic and the anthropogenic in our changing ocean environment.\u00a0 \u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1618,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions\/1618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}