Art Institute of Chicago

Summer 2018 - Guest Teaching Artist

We hear music on a daily basis, but how do we express it in our clothes and garments? Learn a silkscreen printmaking process to create patterns, motifs, and rhythms on wearable fabric. Wear your art and see what moves it can make!

Students will learn how to screen print on abstract garments to create textiles, repeats, motifs and rhythms that express the way they engage with music and sound. Students can later wear fabrics as “wearables” of their own art work, either choosing to interact with it through dance or performance.

Students will learn about and draw inspiration from the Music and Movement: Rhythm in Textile Design show currently up at the AIC. Through learning how other textile artists created patterns based off of current music and movement of their time, music that they listen to should form inspiration to pull together patterns, shapes and lines in a way that best describes it. They can later wear their fabric and interact with it by maybe dancing with the music which they were inspired by or gestures.