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Linda LaBelle left a comment for 'Nico Daswani'"Nico - Thank you!
Not sure if my computer will be traveling with me - if it does I will - if not I will certainly write about the experience when I return."
Nico Daswani left a comment for 'Linda LaBelle'"Fantastic news, Linda, congratulations! I hope you will consider blogging from the field on the CultureBlog or at the very least reporting upon your return, I know the community will be so interested to learn about the project."
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Musanze, Rwanda
In 2009 I taught workshops in natural dyeing, spinning and weaving to genocide survivors in Musanze, Rwanda
Linda LaBelle left a comment for 'Nico Daswani'"Hi Nico- thank you for the welcome!
I will try and do a little dispatch on the Create Culture blog when I am in Mexico.
I just won't always have internet.
Also - I will try and find a little time to upload India & Rwanda photos1
Linda"
Nico Daswani left a comment for 'Linda LaBelle'"How nice to learn about your interesting work, Linda! Welcome to Create Culture. I am curious about the upcoming workshop in Oaxaca- I hope you will consider reporting from the field in the form of a dispatch on the CultureBlog:…"
Profile Information
- My Role
- Artist
- My Discipline(s)
- Crafts, Literary Arts, Design
- About Me And My Work
- Costumer designer for Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle
Costumer designer for Keith Edmier's sculptures
I am a weaver, dyer, author, photographer.
- Places I Would Like To Visit
- Taught specially-abled youth in Munnar Kerala, India how to dye with Cochineal, an insect that produces red dye.
Taught natural dyeing and weaving to 10 genocide survivors in Rwanda.
Sept 2010 I will teach an Ikat /Indigo workshop to to native weavers in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Would love to travel to Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.
- Art Forms And Cultures I Would Like To Engage With
- My dream collaboration - to work with Indigo dyers around the world,
producing beautiful fabrics.
- My Creative Influences & Favorite Artists
- India - the fabrics, the colors , the people, the motion....
Matisse - for his representation of fabrics in his paintings
Chrsito- for what he has done with fabric
Aboubakar Fofana - for what he his doing with Indigo dyed fabrics
- My Artistic Affiliations
- Silk Road Connect, guest artist - indigo dyer
- My Web link
- http://www.theyarntree.com
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- At 7:16pm on August 24, 2010, Nico Daswani said…
- Fantastic news, Linda, congratulations! I hope you will consider blogging from the field on the CultureBlog or at the very least reporting upon your return, I know the community will be so interested to learn about the project.
- At 12:05am on August 15, 2010, Nico Daswani said…
- How nice to learn about your interesting work, Linda! Welcome to Create Culture. I am curious about the upcoming workshop in Oaxaca- I hope you will consider reporting from the field in the form of a dispatch on the CultureBlog: http://www.createculture.org/profiles/blog/list
Do you have any photos from your trips to Rwanda and India? Would love to see--
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