Ismini Samanidou Exhibit "TOPOGRAPHY" Opens this month at The Center for Craft, Creativity and Design

January 18,  5-7 PM at The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design, 1181 Broyles Rd. in Hendersonville NC - "Topography" Exhibit Opening and Lecture with Ismini Samanidou. Textile artist and designer Ismini Samanidou seeks to understand her encounters with beauty through crafting woven surfaces and installations. Utilizing both mechanical jacquard looms and hand weaving techniques, her creative process becomes a way to document her own story. She often photographs her travels and reinterprets them with thread. Themes of transience, decay, and history emerge through her poetic textiles.

Ismini Samanidou was born in Athens and trained at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art, London. Her work involves designing and making textiles for exhibitions, commissions, and collaborations, focusing on the use of digital weaving technology and designer maker methods, touching on the boundaries of craft, art and design.

This exhibition is a partnership project between The Crafts Study Centre, University for the Creative Arts and The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design. A catalog to accompany the exhibition is published by the Crafts Study Centre.

January 16, 5:30 PM - WNC Textile Study Group Lecture by Ismini Samanidou: at  HandMade in America
125 S. Lexington Ave., Suite 101, Asheville NC.  Ismini Samanidou will discuss her practice and developing work, including her approach to and influences of travel experiences. Samanidou will include information on her exhibition, Topography.