Katherine Soucie Exploration in textiles, print media and digital technology

I am awaiting to hear from Helene Day- Fraser as to the status of the embroidered logos that we worked on for some prototypes her company was sending out to the two conglomerates. I produced these samples quite some time ago but forgot to post….so sorry to all the eager embroidery beavers out there.

Interwoven exhibit: Concourse gallery, Emily Carr

Well, this posting is a little past due but its better late than never. My intention was to post earlier but as the end of the semester looms the final assignments, essays, etc have been more time consuming than I originally factored into my schedule…..but I must say proudly that I am on top of everything!!! I guess everything except my blog

Okay now I digress….

We recently had an exhibition at Emily Carr in the Concourse Gallery titled INTERWOVEN that ran from March 13-21st, 2009.   I did have an installation in the show of a series of printed yardages that I produced in a previous semester’s Advanced Print Media course.  An image of this series will be included in the grad show book that will available this May. In the meantime, for those who cannot wait to see an image or have forgotten what piece I am referring to than I will include in my gallery of images for this section.

Although, the piece in this show was not embroidered, I was asked by the organizers of the show to embroider the sign for the exhibit.  After 8.5 hours at high speed I was able to produce a banner that was approx. 9 ft. long x 1 ft. I still have a hard time believing it took that long but yes it did and I hope I don’t have to do it again!!!  I mean I have no problem sitting and working on my own projects for hours on end….sometimes 16 hours…but for some reason watching it embroider during this session and dealing with all the set up felt a bit like I was working on an assembly line.

Anyway, I am not going to give a personal critique of the show but I do think there were some strong pieces in the show, especially that of Allison Barr.  I am curious to see what she will produce for the grad show this year.

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Well, I am in full swing or I should say in full production on my grad project. I will be combining print and embroidery using a variety of processes that will enable me to execute this fairly large scale piece. I am not going to go into too many details yet but plan to unveil my thoughts as well as my process in the coming weeks.  I am really excited about this new work and am anticipating its installation in late April. At any rate though some of the techniques I am using have begun to influence designs in my upcoming collection. I haven’t been this excited in a long time so you are going to have to wait just a little bit longer to get a sneak preview.

In the meantime, though I was able to finish working on the latest project with Helene Day- Fraser embroidering sample logos for Google and Apple for some prototypes that her company will be sending. I am hoping that it is a successful venture for them as it is a pretty cool concept.  I will be posting some images on this session shortly.

There is also an exhibition opening this week ( March 12-19) in the Concourse gallery at Emily Carr titled Interwoven: the matrix of textiles. Please come and check it out if you can, the opening will be on Friday March 13, 2009 from 7-9.  I will be installing some non embroidery work in the exhibition. Trust me you won’t miss it!