Clothesline05 - Exploring the Role of Clothing in the Contemporary Arts

The 2005 season of lectures, studio workshops and exhibitions offered broad based, interdisciplinary programs focusing on the visual arts and other disciplines in the exploration of clothing and its function as metaphor or surrogate, either revealing or concealing identity. The list of visiting artists and writers explored performance, installation, painting, sculpture, photography and video, as well as the underlying principals of camouflage.

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Charles LeDray
Sculptor. Charles LeDray is known for making miniature men's suits that are marvels of meticulous craftsmanship and poetic symbols of male identity.
Lecture Tuesday, May 3

Senga Nengudi
Sculptor / Installation Artist. Senga Nengudi's performance-based sculptures and installations explore aspects of the human body in relation to ritual, philosophy and spirituality.
Lecture Monday, May 16 – Workshop May 16-20

Beverly Semmes
Installation Artist. By exaggerating the forms of clothing, Semmes draws attention to the
dehumanizing attributes of cultural stereotypes.
Lecture Monday, June 6 – Workshop June 6-10

Nikki Lee
Photographer. Nikki Lee's work investigates how fluid and situational identity can be.
Lecture Monday, June 13

Feral Childe: Alice Wu & Moriah Carlson
Performance Artists. Feral Childe creations range from wearable and non wearable clothing often fantastical in nature, to accessories, and props and sculptures, utilizing a renegade approach.
Lecture Monday, June 27 – Workshop June 27-July 1

GuerrillaGirlsBroadBand
Martha Wilson
Two Girls Working
Performance Artists. Martha Wilson is Founding Director of the Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc., which presents and preserves temporal art. GGBB is the interactive activist wing of the Guerrilla Girls, utilizing the potential of new media to increase activism and involvement. Two Girls Working position themselves as assets to civic action and dialogue.
Lecture Monday, July 25 – Workshop July 25-29

Robert Atkins
Robert Atkins is a writer and activist, art historian and media producer.
Lecture Monday, August 8 – Workshop August 8-12

Judy Tuwaletstiwa
Mixed Media Artist. Judy Tuwaletstiwa is a painter with great artistic, moral, spiritual and practical acumen with a particular focus on the experience of the landscape.
Lecture Monday, August 15 – Workshop August 15-19

James Luna
Installation / Performance artist. A resident of California's La Jolla Reservation, James Luna has received wide acclaim for his deconstruction of stereotypes and notions of “Indian” identity.
Lecture Monday, August 22 – Workshop August 22-23

Woofy Bubbles
Sculptor / Installation / Performance Artist. Woofy Bubbles’ perspective and expertise are in the realm of wearable art/body sculpture/performance.
Lecture Monday, September 12 – Workshop September 12-16

Cheri Falkenstien-Doyle
Special lecture on Charles Loloma in conjunction with the exhibition Loloma at the Wheelwright Museum
Lecture Monday, September 26

Colette
Performance / Installation Artist. With the intention of blurring the distinction between art and life, Colette has also selected unorthodox art spaces to create her fantasy installations.
Lecture Monday, September 19 – Workshop September 19-23

Pat Oleszko
Video / Performance / Installation Artist. Pat Oleszko makes a spectacle of herself and doesn’t mind if you laugh.
Lecture Monday, October 24 – Workshop October 24-28