Language Studies: From Paper to Cotton with e bond
Join us for a lecture by e bond : Language Studies: From Paper to Cotton
Description: This artist talk explores the conceptual through lines and process of creating e’s first six collections of fabric as a surface designer. Five of the six collections thus far experiment with and examine aspects of the written word, including language, typography, and letterforms.
Find out more about e on her website.
About e bond:
e bond is a designer + artist + writer + bookbinder & educator. Currently, she teaches art workshops
& creates fabric collections by day, makes handmade books by night, hangs out with trees on weekends
and writes something close to poems in the spaces between. Under the studio name roughdrAftbooks,
she makes one-of-a-kind artists books, printed pieces and abstract drawings that merge and blur the
boundaries of art, craft, surface design and poetry.
e holds a BFA in Graphic Design and Art History from Moore College of Art & Design and an MFA in
Creative Writing and Book Art from Mills College. She has spent years as a professor of Graphic Design
and Book Art in various college and university art departments, and her work is held in library
collections across the US. e’s work has been published in Pressing Matters Magazine, Uppercase
Magazine, Berkeley Poetry Review, 500 Handmade Books, as well as numerous books (about books).
Most recently, her work has moved into the wonderful world of surface design where she designs
colorful, abstract fabric collections in collaboration with Free Spirit Fabrics. You can learn more at
ebondwork.com or on Instagram as @eisroughdraft.
artist statement:
What I love to create is consistently interested in investigating relationality. Whether the final forms are
words, monotypes, book forms, or any combination, my work maps the connections between disparate
thoughts, shapes, and spaces. While questioning each element separately, to uncover new
connections, I am discovering not only what is made when two or more entities share a physical space,
but also the third space that emerges from this sharing. As someone who loves to work with words and
images, my visual interests are closely related to my interests in language structure and meaning.
Again, this third space that appears when two words or ideas are placed together. They emerge not
only as themselves but as something completely new.
This will be a hybrid meeting: in-person at St Anne’s and broadcast via Zoom, link available on the Members Only Page.
Nonmembers may pay a $5 guest fee at the door or email contact@sfquiltersguild.org to purchase a non-member zoom link.
