ANETTE MILLINGTON

MATERIAL REASONING OPENS AT CENTER FOR CRAFT

Introducing Solar Simplex- a build of the modular textile system developed with Travis Fitch. Combining photosensitive silkscreen panels and 3D printed nodes, this piece is a culmination of our Center for Craft Materials Based Research Grant. Material Reasoning is on view from Sept 30 2022 - Jan 27 2023. 

Material Reasoning is a group exhibition of Center for Craft Materials-Based Research Grant recipients from 2017-2020. From woven computer displays and robot-felted sculptures to thermal printed textile structures and bone china formulations, the works on view showcase the immense potential of collaboration between craft artists and practitioners in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and the summits of creative output that could only be reached by breaking through disciplinary boundaries.

Ornamental: Works Exploring Aesthetics of Decoration

NAUTILUS on view at Manifest Gallery, details here.

To mark something as notable, we decorate it.

We nest special things in beauty.

Ornamental is an exhibit of works that explore the aesthetics of decoration, glamour, patterns, and surfaces.

DOMESTIC LOGIC: HOME AS SITE OF KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION

Collaborating with New School & Parsons Colleagues Fabiola Hanna, Katherine Moriwaki, and Xin Xin, to design the symposium “Domestic Logic” which is generously funded by the Innovations in Education Fund administered by the New School’s Provost’s Office of Research Support. The project begins with the collection of "domestic logic recipes", proceeds to a one-day online gathering with lightning talks and workshops and then culminates in the free and open-source distribution of the Domestic Logic Cookbook. We seek to facilitate dialogues between parallel value systems to expand the definitions of teaching and learning. With the goal of integrating spaces between academia and the home, we hope to offer approaches that can be used in online / hybrid learning curricula across the university and at home.

Domestic Logic will bring together people from a wide range of backgrounds to celebrate the home as a site to produce knowledge. We are inviting artists, homemakers, hobbyists, philosophers, activists, and storytellers to consider the depth of the essential, yet trivialized procedures such as food preparation, waste-processing, caregiving, knitting, and storytelling as a form of knowledge production that activates pathways towards critical methodologies.

Announcing a call for participation: Review here!

MATERIALISTIC AT MANA CONTEMPORARY

Pleased to present a new sewn structure and explorations from the Response Patterns project in the exhibition Materialistic. Highlighting the work of Parsons MFA Textile Students, Graduates and Faculty at Mana Contemporary!

Parsons Textiles MFA is proud to be celebrating New York Textile Month with Materialistic—an exhibition of textile art at Mana Contemporary. The exhibition, created by students, graduates and faculty in the Parsons School of Fashion MFA Textiles program, examines the power of materials to hold meaning. The works include a vast array of inventions in hybrid textiles that reconsider the effect of materials on our environment, in pieces that relate to natural materials and biomaterials.

Materialistic demonstrates a commitment to reciprocal relationships with material sources, as well as the power of fiber and cloth to hold and transform stories, valuing humanity and the environment through conscious making and innovation. We understand the power of textiles to raise awareness and transform art and industry.

And sharing incredible experimentations in 3D Printed Textile from the Response Patterns Project with Travis Fitch, @fitchwork. Five radial patterns 3D printed directly on fabric by Stratasys.

New york textile month

Response Patterns: Research & Methods Presentation

Response Patterns is a project undertaken with the support of the Center for Craft's Materials-Based Research Grant, to invent environmentally responsive embellishment methods for textile. The team includes three faculty from the Parsons MFA Textiles program and leverages interdisciplinary experience—Yuchen Zhang’s knowledge in material science and interactive technology, Travis Fitch’s methodical study of geometry and digital fabrication, and Anette Millington’s expertise in textile art and embellishment. Join us to review our research in process- primary questions, initial prototypes, and our methods for interdisciplinary collaboration.

We are interested in how 2D graphics, raised textural surfaces and modular appliqué can be used to design reactive behaviors in modular textiles. Behaviors we are exploring are transformations in color and shape, produced in response to UV light, heat and moisture. Processes include silk screening with photochromic pigment, and the hybridization of materials with different mechanical properties through 3D printing and molding. We see this use of technology as a natural progression in textile craft- which has historically imbued place into both it’s materiality and imagination.

Materials-Based Research Grant/ Center for Craft

Very excited to receive a 2020 Materials-Based Research Grant from the Center for Craft with collaborators Travis Fitch and Yuchen Zhang.

Response Patterns will invent environmentally responsive embellishment methods for textile. Processes will include silk screening with photochromic pigment, and the hybridization of materials with different mechanical properties through 3D printing and molding. We see this use of technology as a natural progression in textile craft - which has historically imbued place into both it’s materiality and imagination.

Believing you at sva chelsea gallery

Link here for exhibition details.

Surface Design Association Annual Juried Exhibition

Thrilled to be included in the 2019 exhibition Beyond the Surface.

Juried work includes 48 artists continually pushing the evolution of textiles from their long history of utilitarian use through the use of color, design, processes, and meanings. Selected works demonstrate unique, well-developed artistic vision, and innovation. Whether commentary on social issues, meditations on the natural world, humor, storytelling, abstraction, influenced by science, or other areas of focus, this exhibition includes the best of contemporary work by SDA members. Juried by Jo Stealey and Jim Arendt.

Digitally Engaged Learning conference 2019

Pleased to present on the Coded Textile Project at DEL 19.

The Material and Immaterial: Holistic Approaches to Integrating Craft and Technology with Anette Millington and Gregory Climer

Teaching Futures is a quest that challenges us to not only anticipate, but shape the unknown. This must involve not only forward speculation, but deep consideration of past methods of developing knowledge. We are artists whose creative practice involves a back and forth between textile tradition and digital imaging and computation. In this panel we will consider, discuss and engage participants in a conversation around the links of haptic knowledge and digital experimentation.

The Tech Nomad Trend Space at Playtime New York 2019

Looking forward to my installation for “The Tech Nomad” Trend Space at Playtime New York 2019. Below is the paper prototype and material.

Anette Millington’s design for Playtime continues her series 'Synthetic Flight', employing a mimicry of nature’s patterns to connect the natural world with our contemporary digital gaze. Fragments of butterfly wings inspire her unique textile sculptures, with geometric angles and a multiplicity of viewpoints creating a flicker of movement and directional flight. The work probes the line of the natural and digital, the real and fantastic.

Come and visit! February 10 - 12, 2019 at the Metropolitan Pavilion & Altman Building New York, NY

https://www.iloveplaytime.com/newyork/events

Using Visual Thinking

An excellent group of Parsons Faculty gathered for my workshop on Visual Thinking Strategies and Visual Inquiry to support non-native english speakers and engage the whole class. Thanks to the Language Support Initiative for inviting me to facilitate!

Parsons MFA Textiles Program

Beyond thrilled to be teaching in Parsons newly launched MFA Textiles program. Under the incredible director Preethi Gopinath and with our inspiring students and faculty team, innovation in textiles is unfolding and unlimited. Founded with the vision of Lidewij Edelkoort and connected to New York Textile Month, the program will “enable students to explore creatively and reflectively, dissolving the boundaries between technology and craft.”

NEW LEGACIES @ LINCOLN CENTER, FORT COLLINS CO

Pleased to have "Nocturne Series: Blanket" included in this exhibition of quilts that "push the limits of the medium". 

Surface Design Association Online Members Gallery

Pleased to be included in the inaugural Online Member Gallery exhibition, Pattern. 

“Patterns shape every nuance of our lives, from the geometric repetitions of fractal geometry on a microscopic level, to the broad physical iterations of our daily lives, a repeating cycle of monotonous activity from dusk until dawn. Pattern soothes: makes order of chaos, gently underlaying the fabric of reality, and reminds us of the grand connectivity of all things.” -curator Danielle Kelly, Executive Director, Surface Design Association

Gallery link here. 

inForming Opens April 7th

Looking forward to showing with Synthetic Flight: Sky Pillar at the Art Lot in Brooklyn. 

Thanks to curators Aimee Burg and Natalia Zubko for putting together a great exhibition. _

Press release here. 

installation day

@ Art Lot in Brooklyn

And here is Synthetic Flight: Sky Pillar.

isosceles tetrahedrons are piling up in the studio

Getting closer to install at the Art Lot in Brooklyn!

presenting on reflection in design practice

@ DEL 2017

DEL (Digitally Engaged Learning) is an international conference exploring and evolving digitally engaged teaching and learning in art and design Higher Education. We encourage practitioners and educators from creative disciplines to share, harness and critique digital tools and spaces. Themed ‘Teaching Making / Making Teaching’, this year’s conference seeks to explore creative practices and processes of teaching with digital technology. #DEL17

The Virtual Studio: Strategies for Integrating E-Learning Portfolios at an Art and Design School

Mariah Doren and Anette Millington, Parsons School of Design

This presentation will discuss the development and implementation of an electronic learning portfolio (e-LP) we call “Workspace”. Our goal is to create a process-oriented platform where students reflect, curate, perform inquiry and make connections between individual course work and broader themes in their own learning and development. Using an e-LP to build reflective practices of learning is a well-established approach within text-based, liberal arts programs, but has few precedents in art and design education. This presentation aligns with the conference theme, "Teaching Making/Making Teaching", as it explores the ways in which our visually based “making” becomes part of reflective learning.

The impact of one perspective-shifting day.

STIR at the Guggenheim was an inspiration.  Pleased to have activated art for over two hundred leaders and visionaries in the healthcare industry for the Experience Lab event. Below, I introduce Agnes Martin in a guided art contemplation.

Client:  The Experience Lab

Project: Activate art for attendees at STIR, an event designed to shift healthcare, held in the Guggenheim Museum.

Deliverable: Content design for viewfinders and conversation cards that link viewing art to body-mind contemplation.  Graphic Design- The Experience Lab. 

“A remarkable mix of people and Experiences
STIRRING hearts and minds and STIRRING up
what’s possible in health care.

A place where artists, visionaries, change
seekers, and health care leaders converge.

Uncommon concepts take center stage.
Presenters. Provocateurs. Performers.”

-The Experience Lab STIR 2016

STIR is almost here!

So thrilled to have developed gallery activations for STIR– a gathering of artists, visionaries, change seekers, and health care leaders at the incomparable Guggenheim Museum on Dec. 15th 2016. Looking forward to connecting mind, heart and body to the works of Agnes Martin, Monet and Kandinsky. This project is bringing back memories from my six years teaching in Museums, see the MoMA flashback below. 

This project is bringing back memories from several years as a museum educator in New York City, at the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Art and Design.   It is exciting to be back in the Guggenheim,where I participated in the study and development of museum education practice, as a teaching artist in the museum’s Teaching Literacy Through Art study and as a steering committee member for the  The Art of Problem-Solving Grant.  

Still inspired by the way a conversation can unwrap an object and build critical thinking, problem-solving and meaning! 

Check out the MoMA flashback below. 

Excited to be speaking- Aug 3rd, 2016 in Boston!

The Virtual Studio: Strategies for Integrating E-Learning Portfolios at an Art and Design School Mariah Doren and Anette Millington, Parsons School of Design.

Portfolios have a natural affinity with schools of art and design because the presentation of final work is traditionally delivered in a portfolio format. In introducing the learning portfolio at Parsons, we sought to develop a tool that is internally (building a reflective practice of learning), as opposed to externally (the curation and presentation of finished projects) facing. One of our major goals was to foreground the thinking embedded in the design process. In the two years since launch, we have been pleased by the student success in using the tool as a digital sketchbook and virtual studio visit. Many faculty have found it an invaluable way to support reflective learning. As we build culture around the use of the e-LP there are some interesting hurdles to implementation, including how to manage a tool that follows students across their undergraduate experience, but must “land” in specific courses, and building a reflective component to benchmark for assessment.