SVS Faculty Featured in SDA's 2023 Member Exhibition
Held in partnership with 108|Contemporary, "Safekeeping" is the Surface Design Association's (SDA) 2023 member exhibition which celebrates diverse works that push the evolution of textiles through the use of color, design, process, material, and concept. Juror Anita Fields selected 42 artworks from more than 375 submissions. From zip ties to native prairie grasses, the exhibition incorporates a stunning range of materials to explore the concept of “safekeeping.”
There are 40 artists included in the exhibition representing 26 states across the U.S. including Mizzou's School of Visual Studies faculty members Jo Stealey and Pazia Mannella – their work can be seen below.
"Balcony Mirage" 2021, 40"x90", cotton and linen yarn chemically and naturally dyed and hand woven on Thread Controller 2 (TC2) digital Jacquard loom
C. Pazia Mannella
C. Pazia Mannella received an MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University and a BFA from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Mannella's creative research in weaving features architecture with symbolic flowers, laurels, and cornucopias symbolic motifs that culturally represent wealth, prestige, and power. She hand weaves on a Thread Controller 2 (TC2) digital Jacquard loom.
"Infestation" 2018, 48"x15"x1", overlapping paper leaves that are free-motion embroidering and free motion embroidered flies that comprised the band of the apron
Jo Stealey
Jo Stealey, Ph.D. is the head of the fiber program and was awarded the endowed Middlebush Chair for Arts & Humanities (2010-15) for creative research. She currently serves as a board member for the National Basketry Organization (NBO) and writes regularly for the NBO Review Magazine on basketry. She often teaches workshops, lectures on contemporary fiber and exhibits her work nationally and internationally.