Textile installations come to Bascom Hall

A new exhibition on the first floor of Bascom Hall allows university students to explore cloth as a medium of artistic expression.

Eleven undergraduate students in a Print and Dye course each has items on exhibit for one week, says Jennifer Angus, assistant professor of environment, textiles and design. “We won’t know what will be in (each) exhibit until it opens Monday morning — students interpret the project in their own way,” she says.

Her class begins with lessons on the history and technique of different textile printing processes: indigo dyeing, immersion dyeing, batik, feltmaking, silkscreening, block printing and more. Students also learn about elements of design, such as motifs, pattern spacing, scale and color. In addition, they discuss ways of problem solving, and business and industry practices. Angus adds that locating the exhibitions on the heavily trafficked first floor of Bascom is an excellent way to acquaint passersby with the textile art and the work of the Dye and Print Studio in the School of Human Ecology.