Junco Sato Pollack presents “Embroidery and Shashiko within the Context of Japanese Textile History (6th-18th C.)”.
Junco Sato Pollack (MFA, Textile Design, Rochester Institute of Technology 1991) is an artist and retired Associate Professor of Textiles at the E. G. Welch School of Art and Design of Georgia State University in Atlanta, Ga., where she served 1992-2012. Native of Japan, and having lived in the United States for over 30 years, Pollack creates Zen-inspired meditative, abstract art textile works, fusing the Eastern aesthetics and sensibility with the kinetic energy of the West, and incorporating chance composition. Junco’s works are installed as architectural accent in atriums, hotels, corporate offices, and private residences in the U.S. and abroad. Her works are housed in the permanent collection of the Museum of Art and Design (MAD), New York, the Francis Loeb Library Materials Collection of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and the Wallace Library Collection of RIT, Rochester, N.Y., and are included in numerous corporate and private collections around the globe. Her works have been exhibited internationally in 25 countries around the globe over the past 20 years.
This event is part of the lecture series accompanying the exhibition Nuido, The Way of Embroidery, on view January 16-March 6, 2016.
General admission is $5; free for OUMA members or with a Petrel Pass.