Artist Residency: Steven Frost, Colorado | fiber arts and performance
The exhibition Vexillologies, features flags, drawings, and weavings created by resident artist Steven Frost and the ArtLab interns as part of their 2021 artist residency. It will also showcase Frost's large-scale weaving, The Mile High Pride Flag, which they designed for the city of Denver's Queer City of the Plains Exhibition in 2020.
Frost is a fiber and interdisciplinary artist based in Boulder, Colorado. They are Instructor in the Department of Media Studies at CU Boulder and currently serve as the Faculty Director for the B2 Center for Media Arts and Performance at the Roser Atlas Institute. They are known for using materials typically designated to the realm of “crafts” and featuring them inhigher browcontemporary art contexts or activist spaces. Community engagement is the primary objective of their practice. As a PlatteForum resident they tailored aspects of their practice to meet the needs of PlatteForum's ArtLab interns. Participants used employed weaving, sewing, embroidery, and appliqué techniques to design flags that represent their vision of PlatteForum's past, present, and future. Using backstrap looms, the interns also made their own woven compositions which when displayed together become a large-scale installation and metaphor for the value of community, skill-sharing, and civic design. During the course of the exhibition, Frost will collaborate with guests to create a woven composition that will become part of the exhibition's archive.
Residency Period: June 7 - July 29, 2021
Exhibition Opening: 6-8pm October 21, 2021, register here
Exhibition available for viewing: October 22- November 1, make an appointment here
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