Fiber Artist Bhakti Zeik

Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz Saturday, January 24 from 11 a.m. – Noon

The Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild invited Bhakti Ziek to give the annual fiber artist presentation at the MAH.  She is known internationally for weavings that have covered the full spectrum of loom technology and will share the journey that took her from hand-manipulated backstrap woven brocading to the 16-foot high digital jacquard panels she recently installed at Princeton University.  http://www.bhaktiziek.com/

Her extensive exhibition record includes work in the permanent collection of the Museum of Arts and Design.  She has lectured and taught workshops in The Netherlands, Great Britain, Mexico and Canada as well as across the United States.  Her writings on contemporary fiber have been published in many journals including American Craft, Surface Design Journal and Fiberarts.  Bhakti is the co-author of two books, The Woven Pixel: Designing for Jacquard and Dobby Looms Using Photoshop©, written with Alice Schlein, and Weaving on a Backstrap Loom, with Nona Ziek.

A former college professor (Arizona State University, University of Kansas, Philadelphia University), she currently lives in Randolph, Vermont where she has her weaving studio and offers tutorial teaching. Ziek has a B.A. from SUNY at Stony Brook, NY; a B.F.A. from the University of Kansas; and an M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art.

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The pictures shown are from a work in progress called Aspire. The completed piece will have seven panels each measuring 92″h x 28″w