11/19/2009 Artist's lecture: Lia Cook - Technology and Craft

Date

11/19/2009 7:00 pm

Location

Eagle Student Services Center, Room 255.

Description

Lia Cook pioneered the use of the electronic Jacquard handloom. Using photographic and weave software to design her work she now produces weavings on a loom with 2,640 independently programmable warp threads.
Cook is a professor of art at the California College of Arts in Oakland, where she has dedicated herself as a teacher since 1976.