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Reluctant NarratorHeidi Kumao2021-03-31T21:01:44-04:00

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Reluctant Narrator, 2020

Thread and fabric on industrial felt.
h12 x w12 inches

Mounted to wood.

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About

Heidi Kumao creates video, machine art, and installations to explore ordinary social interactions and their psychological undercurrents. Emerging from the intersection of sculpture, theater and engineering, her work demonstrates how small gestures, even the most private and poetic, can become political acts. Her work has been exhibited at Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, San Jose Museum of Art, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires and numerous other venues worldwide. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Creative Capital grant and others. She is a Professor in the School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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#pineappleblock ##quilting test Trying something d

#pineappleblock ##quilting test
Trying something different.

#improvquilt #weirdone #appliquequilt Gray front a

#improvquilt #weirdone #appliquequilt Gray front and yellow back. Maybe yellow is the front?…#sideproject
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Continuing to play w/scraps. #fabricsketch #fabric

Continuing to play w/scraps. #fabricsketch #fabricart #100dayfabricbook #textileart

Three Stamps faculty members are recipients of the

Three Stamps faculty members are recipients of the first grants from the Arts Research: Incubation & Acceleration (ARIA) grant program, and two Stamps faculty were selected as fellows in the Creativity Lab (C‑lab) research development program. Both initiatives were created by the Office of the Vice President of Research and the Arts Initiative to support innovative projects that center the arts in research and creative practice.

ARIA Recipients
The ARIA projects were selected through a competitive, multi-step peer-review process. Three Stamps’ faculty arts-centered research projects have been funded through ARIA from a competitive field of 29 submissions. Submissions were received from six schools across the Ann Arbor campus and programs on the Dearborn and Flint campuses.

Too Much and Never Enough: Feminist Animations
Principal investigator: Heidi Kumao, professor of art and design, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

Goal: This project examines the political climate around women’s bodies using a series of experimental stop-motion animations and fabric works.

Variations of Sound
Principal investigator: Pedram Baldari, assistant professor of art and design, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

Goal: This project presents a platform to facilitate a metamorphosis of violence into hopeful possibilities, using objects such as decommissioned weapons acquired from police to produce performances, sound installations, videos, and music albums.

Tethered
Principal investigator: Anne Mondro, associate professor of art and design, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

Goal: This project will create a series of intricately woven wire sculptures that reflect on the complex and often conflicting emotions associated with being a caregiver and care recipient simultaneously.

Couldn’t finish pasting the C-Lab info due to word limit…

#workinprogress #fabricart #100daystitchbook2024 P

#workinprogress #fabricart #100daystitchbook2024 Playing around.
Maybe this will be a children’s book of some sort. #improvsewing

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#fabricsketch #improvsewing #makeitupasigo #100daystitchbook2024

Final version with various drafts (5 days/per fina

Final version with various drafts (5 days/per final page). This one was harder to solve. #fabricsketch #100daystitchbook2024
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#100daystitchbook #improvsewing #fabricbook
Final version w/drafts
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Woman in the waves. A test. Thinking about refugee

Woman in the waves. A test. Thinking about refugees crossing rivers and seas.

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News & Events

“Real and Imagined” is a Finalist for the 20th Annual Best Book Awards
“The Farewell” is featured in “Interpretations 2023” at Visions Museum of Textile Art
Untold Stories, Stamps Gallery features work by Heidi Kumao , Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo, Jim Cogswell, Carlos F. Jackson, and Emilia Yang
“Real and Imagined”, Wins 2023 Midwest Book Awards
Art catalog wins Nautilus Book Award

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