Harbingers: Beyond a Silent Spring - Panoramic Textile Birds
This project focuses on the habitats of endangered bird populations native to the area. Yumeshima is home to around 100 bird populations, including the endangered black-winged stilt and little tern. The artists’ team will utilize donated and repurposed textiles from both of our local communities to transform them into cohesive, large-scale panoramic textile fields. Part of the process will be organizing all-ages community fabric workshops and fabric donations for the resulting collaborative textile work. The work will combine abstraction, patterning, color, and figuration and will be installed site specifically within the Osaka Expo site.
Exhibited in the VIP area of the U.S. Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka,Kansai.
Artist
Andrea Myers
Andrea Myers is a multidisciplinary artist focusing on textiles, paper, installation and the space between two and three-dimensionality through abstraction, patterning and saturated color. She received her BFA in Printmedia in 2002 and her MFA in Fiber and Material Studies in 2006 both from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited widely including the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Toledo Museum of Art, Fiber Arts International, the Columbus Museum of Art, Akron Art Museum, and the Springfield Art Museum.
Andrea Myers has participated in artist residencies at Ox-Bow in Saugatuck, MI, A Studio in the Woods, a program of Tulane University (New Orleans), Fortress Man Textile Symposium (Daugavpils, Latvia), the Textile Art Center (New York City), and in 2018 traveled to Dresden, Germany for two months as part of the Greater Columbus Arts Council artist exchange program. Myers was one of five 2011 Efroymson Fellowship recipients and has also been awarded artist’s grants from the City of Chicago, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Greater Columbus Arts Council.
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Collaborator
Mariko Kobayashi
Mariko Kobayashi (b. 1987, Osaka, Japan) graduated MA Fine Art Textile at Tama Art University in 2012. The artist depicts different connections that exist in the world by utilizing textile techniques such as weaving, dyeing, knitting, and stitching. Recent works were shown in FUJI TEXTILE WEEK 2022 (Yamanashi, 2022), Azamino Contemporary vol.13 (Kanagawa, 2022), Powerlong Museum (Shanghai, 2022), Reborn Art Festival (Miyagi, 2021), Solo exhibition at KOTARO NUKAGA (Tokyo, 2021), CADAN Yurakucho (Tokyo, 2020).
