Amanda Curreri
For A Future Now: Digital Weaving, Collective Futures
with visiting artist Amanda Curreri
Curreri will spend three-weeks in residence at SAI. She will be weaving artworks on the TC2 digital Jacquard loom as part of her ongoing inquiry into the intersections of material studies, visual culture, and collective futurity. She will host a participatory reading as a workshop and window into her practice on Friday Oct 18 and she invites the Stanford community to join her in building a collaborative textile talisman. See below for more details.
For a Future Now
Participatory Script Reading
Friday, October 18
Noon - 1PM
Lathrop 282
Open to Stanford students, faculty and staff
Curreri makes the script for For a Future Now in the spirit of a cento – an Italian poetic structure translating to “patchwork.” The cast of characters are based on real and fictional people, as well as contemporary and historical figures, including Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, Italian-American anarchist Bartolomeo Vanzetti, and Katya Zamolodchikova of RuPaul’s Drag Race fame.
Textile Talisman
A collaborative weaving project
Orientation meeting on
Monday, October 21: Noon - 1PM
lunch provided
Roble Arts Gym
375 Santa Teresa St
Open to Stanford Undergraduates, Grad Students & Postdocs in any department
Interested students are welcome to join Curreri in working on a collaborative “textile talisman.” You'll be able to participate in a few different ways - contribute a photograph, help weave the textile, and/or learn more about the TC2 file set-up and weaving methodology towards your own future work on the loom.
Curreri plans to include this collaborative weaving as part of their exhibition in January at Romer Young Gallery in San Francisco, In Bocca al Lupo, as part of their ongoing inquiry into the intersections of material studies, visual culture, and collective futurity. Student participants will be credited at the gallery and gifted with an editioned print related to the work.
Interested? Attend an in-person orientation on Monday, October 21, noon-1PM at the Roble Arts Gym (375 Santa Teresa Street). Lunch provided.
Can’t make the meeting but still want to participate? Email artsinstitute@stanford.edu.
About the Artist
Amanda Curreri (she/they) is an artist and educator. Her artwork is situated between textiles, painting, and performance, characterized by an engagement with social histories of resistance. Textiles are key for their ability to invite an experience of collectivity and connection. She lives on the unceded territory of Tiwa and Pueblo Peoples, also known as Albuquerque, NM.
Her artwork has been featured in the New York Times, Artforum, VICE, Hyperallergic, Frieze Art, KQED Arts, San Francisco Chronicle, and more. Curreri will be a 2025 Artist in Residence at Os Icelandic Textile Center and was a 2023 Artist in Residence at Praxis Digital Weaving Lab. Her artwork was recently commissioned by Facebook Open Arts, the University of New Mexico Art Museum, and the Cincinnati Art Museum. Her work has been exhibited at the Oakland Museum of California (Queer California), Cincinnati Art Museum (Women Breaking Boundaries), Contemporary Arts Center (Archive as Action), Asian Art Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Ortega y Gasset Projects, and the Incheon Women’s Biennale, Korea. Curreri holds an MFA from the California College of the Arts, a BFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and a BA from Tufts University in Sociology and Peace & Justice Studies. She is a faculty member in the Department of Art at the University of New Mexico. Her work is represented by Romer Young Gallery in San Francisco, California where she will present a new solo exhibition in January 2025.
This artist residency is sponsored by the Stanford Arts Institute (SAI). The TC2 Loom was purchased with Making@Stanford funds and lives in the Product Realization Lab.
Contact:
Stanford Arts Institute
artsinstitute@stanford.edu
