Course Overview
The Craft and Fibers department investigates the expressive possibilities of materials through material exploration. Students engage in making practices, such as clay, jewelry, garment construction, and fabric manipulation. Craft and Fiber students focus on both traditional skills and experimental approaches in order to develop a body of work that has an overall conceptual meaning behind it.
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Wearable Art
Miles Ellis 12th Grade
Crafts and Fibers 2 researched different cultures and how they adorn themselves. Through their research they designed a wearable piece of art that emulated their own chosen culture. From there they created prototypes, tested, and explored different structural techniques in order to execute their final designs.
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Miscellaneous
AhJanae’ Walker 11th Grade
Portfolio chose a medium and social issue they wished to explore. They ideated motifs that communicated their social issue. (Above AhJanae’s mosaic series represents black beauty by illustrating a variety of natural hairstyles.)
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Ms. Taylor Childs
UPAD Alumni, Artist and Detroit native, Taylor Childs personal work explores the representational visual vocabulary and themes of; family, the after effects of the African Diaspora, the perception of people, consumerism, bling culture and how the Diaspora effects African Americans contemporarily. Translating this into a narrative where these themes are applied to explorations of fabric manipulation through textile tradition in order to create a dialogue representing African American life. Childs has received a bachelor's degree from College for Creative Studies in Crafts: Fibers and Textiles, with a minor in Fashion Accessories. Now in her first year at University Prep Art and Design: High School, Ms.Child's goal is to push her students to explore materials and silhouette's in order to begin to narrate their own big ideas as artists. You can check out Childs work at TaylorChildsStudio.com.
UPAD Alumni, Artist and Detroit native, Taylor Childs personal work explores the representational visual vocabulary and themes of; family, the after effects of the African Diaspora, the perception of people, consumerism, bling culture and how the Diaspora effects African Americans contemporarily. Translating this into a narrative where these themes are applied to explorations of fabric manipulation through textile tradition in order to create a dialogue representing African American life. Childs has received a bachelor's degree from College for Creative Studies in Crafts: Fibers and Textiles, with a minor in Fashion Accessories. Now in her first year at University Prep Art and Design: High School, Ms.Child's goal is to push her students to explore materials and silhouette's in order to begin to narrate their own big ideas as artists. You can check out Childs work at TaylorChildsStudio.com.
