Cook, a fiber artist and educator from California, will be giving a lecture on her work Thursday at The Textile Museum in Northwest Washington. Her piece “Coptic Manga” is on exhibit at the museum. Cook explores expression and reaction within her textiles of human faces. To register for the lecture, go to textilemuseum.org. What is the focus of your lecture?
I’ve been working on collaborative work with neuroscientists, and I am looking into what it is about the woven translation of the face that adds an emotion or different quality to [my work]. I’ve also been working with brain imagery. They’re called fiber tracts. I looked at Coptic faces from around 400 A.D. One is from Syria. I took these little 1-by-1-inch-sized faces, and I’ve woven a whole piece that has a lot of different expressions.
