Lyza Baum is an artist residing in Providence, RI. Her textile and interdisciplinary work is dependent on the context of the place and community that surrounds her, often addressing the personal and collective relationships with our built and natural environment. Through community-engaged collaborations, textiles, photography, video and performance, she investigates the trauma, tension and complex symbiotic connections between the body and land we occupy. She earned a BFA in textiles at RISD and has participated in Land Arts of American West Program at Texas Tech University. Her book Dye Trying: Field Notes from a Textile Residency in the Philippines, published by Hardworking Goodlooking, has been on display at the MOMA Collective Imagination Room and the BARD Reading Room, and is currently archived in the SAIC Flaxman Library Special Collection. In 2020, she was awarded a public art grant from the City of Providence Department of Art, Culture and Tourism. Her collaborative public art weaving INTERLINKED is currently installed on the Woonasquatucket Greenway in Olneyville, RI.
Courses
Fall 2024 Courses
TEXT 4801-01 - FIBERS AND DYEING
LevelUndergraduate
UnitTextiles
Subject Textiles
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
TEXT 4801-01
FIBERS AND DYEING
LevelUndergraduate
UnitTextiles
Subject Textiles
PeriodFall 2024
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: W | 11:20 AM - 4:20 PMInstructor(s): Lyza BaumLocation(s): College Building, Room 331Enrolled / Capacity: 12Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course introduces the student to a wide variety of materials and processes involved in the production of both hand and industrially produced textiles. Topics include fiber properties and identification, spinning and yarn construction, natural and synthetic dyeing, traditional textile constructions and new technologies. Both historical and contemporary examples are studied, ranging from textiles in design to fine arts textiles. Class time is divided between lecture and lab work. Lectures are supplemented with readings, workshops and museum visits. Students conduct research on a class related topic of their choice and give presentations about their subject. Each student also prepares spinning and dyeing samples to be presented in an individual archive.
This course is a requirement for Sophomore Textiles Students.
Major Requirement | BFA Textiles
TEXT 4801-02 - FIBERS AND DYEING
LevelUndergraduate
UnitTextiles
Subject Textiles
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
TEXT 4801-02
FIBERS AND DYEING
LevelUndergraduate
UnitTextiles
Subject Textiles
PeriodFall 2024
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: TH | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Lyza BaumLocation(s): College Building, Room 331Enrolled / Capacity: 12Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course introduces the student to a wide variety of materials and processes involved in the production of both hand and industrially produced textiles. Topics include fiber properties and identification, spinning and yarn construction, natural and synthetic dyeing, traditional textile constructions and new technologies. Both historical and contemporary examples are studied, ranging from textiles in design to fine arts textiles. Class time is divided between lecture and lab work. Lectures are supplemented with readings, workshops and museum visits. Students conduct research on a class related topic of their choice and give presentations about their subject. Each student also prepares spinning and dyeing samples to be presented in an individual archive.
This course is a requirement for Sophomore Textiles Students.
