19 Kasım: Aslı Smith - Heliotropic Studio ile İndigo Shibori
19 Kasım Pazar, 2017 14.00 pm. - 17.00 pm.
SHIBORI
Heliotropic Studio, Aslı Smith ve Begüm Cana Özgür tarafından kuruldu. İsmini “Güneşe Bakan Bitkiler” anlamına gelen Latin kökenli Heliotrope kelimesinden alan Heliotropic Studio, tekstil alanında doğal süreçleri inceleyen çalışmalar yapar ve atölyeler düzenler.
Asli Smith is a designer and illustrator based in Istanbul and New York. Asli set up her own design studio in 2008. Her illustrations have appeared in various magazines (American Illustration, Communication Arts and Print), book publications, window displays, and textiles. She holds masters degrees in Communications Design from Pratt Institute and on Media studies from the New School in NYC. She has also completed the Foundation Fine Arts program at the Parsons School of Design. Her current work spans different aspects of printmaking from screenprinting and blockprinting to the fairly new processes of ecoprinting and the world of natural dyes.
Heliotropic Studio is a natural dye studio which started as a creative collaboration between Asli Smith and Begüm Cana Özgür. Taking its name from the Latin word Heliotrope which means the directional growth of a plant in response to sunlight, the studio creates works and organizes workshops on natural processes in textile art and design.