Teresa Paschke’s work in textiles utilizes surface design techniques such as dyeing, embroidering, and printing. She came from Ohio for a WSW fellowship to develop her textile-printing and papermaking techniques. Teresa earned an MFA in Textile Design at the University of Kansas. Currently, she is a professor at Iowa State University College of Design.
I’ve become increasingly invested in the use of digital technology and its application within the arts. I’m intrigued by the expressive qualities that exist when combining new tools with ancient and traditional practices, merging sophisticated technology such as digital printing with the most modest ones—a needle and thread.
My current artwork combines elements of painting, printmaking, photography, and textile design. It represents a confluence of traditional techniques and state-of-the-art technology to highlight the visual impact of global perspectives on modern cultural landscapes. By juxtaposing contemporary and historical, sublime and profane, natural and cultural elements, it explores three relationships: how ornament and pattern are expressive of cultural, social, and political ideals that serve to define place; similarities between historical styles and contemporary forms of visual expression; specifically historical needlework or other decorative arts and contemporary graffiti or other forms of popular culture; the relationship between traditional hand techniques, which lend unique qualities to each individual piece of artwork, and digitally printed images, with which multiple editions and repeat patterns are designed and printed with ease. http://www.teresapaschke.com
- BFA, Fine Arts, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
- MFA, Textile Design, University of Kansas
Professor, Art and Visual Culture (Textiles) at Iowa State University https://www.iastate.edu
tpaschke@iastate.edu
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