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PlatteForum’s
Creative Residencies!
TERRIE HANCOCK MANGAT
Terrie Mangat is an internationally
known textile artist from Taos, New Mexico. Ms. Mangat
has been generally credited with pioneering and popularizing
embellishment on contemporary quilts since the early
1970’s. She graduated from the University of
Kentucky in 1970 with a degree in Art, and has exhibited
and taught quilt making both around the US and abroad
for 30 years. Her work has been shown in such venues
as the San Jose Quilt Museum, the Bernice Steinbaum
Gallery in New York, the San Diego Historical Society
and the International Folk Art Museum in Santa Fe.
In 2000, “Dashboard Saints: In Memory of Saint
Christopher, Who Lost His Magnetism” was named
one of the Top 100 American Quilts of the 20th Century.
Ms. Mangat’s quilts are mixed
media and often depict something that she has seen
or observed. Due to mastery of her technique, she
is equally comfortable with pictorial, traditional
or abstract expressions. The subject matter of her
work generally falls into the categories of personal
experience, social and political philosophy, and cultural
and ethnographic appreciation. In addition to being
a world-recognized quilt maker, Ms. Mangat designs
and prints fabric. She has created acclaimed designs
for several commercial fabric houses. She also has
constructed her own screen-printing studio where she
practices the technical aspects of printing her hand
drawn gouache designs on silk and cotton.
Residency Description
Ms Mangat is fascinated by the kinds
of spaces children universally and ritually make for
themselves, from towels draped over lawn chairs to
camps built in the woods. In her residency at PlatteForum,
Ms. Mangat will pursue a pictorial exploration of
childhood personal spaces by the youth who will create
these tents like spaces out of recycled materials.
The youth will use items like recycled wood, painted
canvas, recycled fabric, buttons and wire. The imagery
expressing the kid’s ideas will be painted,
embroidered, printed and built into the proposed configuration.
This will be a special holiday residency
at PlatteForum, a “destination” installation
that will be open to the public from December 19 to
January 3.
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Youth
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Ages 8-14 |
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Get your youth involved in a workshop or schedule
an artist’s talk-open to DPS schools or
after school/mentoring programs |
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Exhibition opening and
reception: |
Tentatively scheduled for December 19 |
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Curricular
tie-ins: |
Graphic Design, Language Arts, Social Studies,
Mathematics |
Portfolio
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Children casket quilt |
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Building a new camp |
Salt and Pepper-1 |
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Lauryn in Baha |
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