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Jessica Smith

Fibers professor

Education

  • M.F.A., design, University of Kansas
  • B.F.A., painting, University of Washington

Credentials

  • Fibers professor, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, 2007–present
  • Textile designer, Domestic Element, Savannah, GA, 2004–09
  • Faculty, interior design, Seattle Art Institute, Seattle, WA, 2006–07
  • Professor, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA, 2003–05
  • Instructor, foundations and fibers department, University of Kansas, 1999–2002

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • SCAD Faculty Development Grant, Savannah, Ga., 2015–16
  • Founders President Award Nominee, Textile Society of America, 2012
  • Pasold Research Award, Design History Society, United Kingdom, 2012
  • Invitation to the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Triennial
  • SCAD Presidential Fellowship, 2010 and 2014
  • ICFF Editors Award for Best Design School, 2008
  • WOO Grant, Leeway Foundation, Philadelphia, 2004

Publications and presentations

  • "The Yeoman, the Slave, and the Coverlet," Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts, 2014.
  • "Provenance: The Story of a Textile and Its Journey to the Slave Quarters," Textile Society of America, 2012.
  • "Branding Authenticity, Cambodian Ikat in Transnational Artisan Partnerships (TAPs)," Design History Journal, 2011.
  • "From East to West and all the Bizarre Things that Happen in Between," Textile Society Annual Conference, 2010.
  • "Slo-thenticity: The Slow Movement, Cambodian Textiles and Transnational Artisan Partnerships," SEACAC, 2009.
  • "Good Hands; Transnational Artisan Partnership (TAP's) in Cambodia," Society for Economic Anthropology Conference, 2009.
  • "Weaving Across Time and Space: The Political Economy of Textiles," annual conference, Society for Economic Anthropology, 2009.
  • "Writing Design: Object, Process, Discourse," conference, Design History Society, 2009.
  • "Elevation Through Decoration: The Significance of Printed Textiles/Wall Coverings to the Socially Aspiring Homeowner," 19th Century Studies Association Conference, New Orleans, 2002.

Solo exhibitions

  • Fold Unfold, Lyndon House Art Center, Athens, Ga., 2017
  • Vues de Savannah, 24e, Savannah, Ga., 2009
  • Domestic Element, Appalachia Center for Craft, Smithville, Tenn., 2005
  • Pursuing Leisure, Woven Fiber Art House, West Chester, Pa., 2004
  • American Landscape, Window on Broad, Philadelphia, 2002
  • Princess, Annex Theater, Seattle, 1994

Selected group exhibitions

  • Interwoven, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, Va., 2013
  • On Loan, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery, Philadelphia, 2012
  • New Material Matters: Rethreading Technology, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Neb., 2011
  • The State of Things, The Design Museum Holon, Israel, 2010
  • Dorothy Saxe Invitational, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, 2009
  • Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; and Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, Conn., 2008
  • Material Matters, Albrecht Kemper Museum, St. Joseph, Mo., 2007
  • Design Life Now, Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York, 2006
  • Recursions of Zeros and Ones, Museum of Design, Atlanta, 2005
  • Gathering of Gifts, Woven Gallery, West Chester, Pa., 2004
  • Americana, School of Visual Arts West Side Gallery, New York, 2003

Commissioned works

  • South Beach Toile, wallpaper for Art Basel Miami entrance, Miami, 2005
  • Toilet of Venus, pattern for bookend sheets, Random House, 2005
  • Cars Go Beep, wallpaper in the lounge of 2005 World's Fair, Osaka, Japan