On Demand: TALKING THREADS: Richard Saja and Susan Weeks
The Embroiderers' Guild presents Talking Threads - an informal chat between Richard Saja and Susan Weeks
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EG Talking Threads - An informal talk between Richard Saja and Susan Weeks
Richard Saja is an American artist based in New York. His interest is in creating ‘interferences’ of the formal patterns of French toile through embroidery. “My intention is to continue the decorative art tradition and be part of its evolution by making functional pieces that convey bigger concepts”.
This will be an informal discussion with Susan Weeks about how historical works can be ‘updated’ to the 21st century without losing any of the original design in order to keep history alive. This promises to be an exciting and very different discussion.
Richard Saja
Richard Saja is an artist making work in Catskill, New York. After first attending the University of the Arts in Philadelphia to study surface design, he devoted his studies to the great books of Western Civilization at St Johns College in Santa Fe, NM and received a BA as a math and philosophy major. After a brief stint working as an art director on Madison Ave., all his interests coalesced and a small design firm, Historically Inaccurate Decorative Arts, was born in the early aughts.
Though he occasionally feels the need to explore avenues of expression beyond that of the needle, the majority of Saja's work focuses on creating "interferences" of the formal patterns of French toile through embroidery.
He has exhibited internationally with shows in New York, Paris, London and Berlin and the National Museum of Embroidery in South Korea and his work has recently been exhibited at the Musee de le Toile de Jouy and is included in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
The recording is not downloadable and will be available for viewing for at least one month after registration.
See more of Richard Saja
See more of Susan Weeks
Podcast - Stitchery Stories | Embroidery & Textile Art Podcast
Stitchery Stories on Apple Podcasts
Susan Weeks podcaster (@stitcherystories_podcast) • Instagram
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