VCS Alums Forrest McGarvey (Class of 2016) and Sienna Freeman (Class of 2016) are guest co-editing the Spring/Summer issue of Feral Fabric, an online periodical journal that highlights radical textile production in art, activism, and counter-cultural movements, started as a collaborative project of Bay Area artists Paulina Berczynski and Amanda Walters.
For the sixth volume of the Feral Fabric Journal we want to consider the radical applications, embodiments, and/or perspectives of Maximalism with a focus or engagement with clothing, textile, and fiber arts. How do Maximalist approaches to textiles (or the bodies and spaces that covet them) allow us to reinterpret and re-imagine the same systems or ideals that would deem it “too much,” especially if one ascribes that too much is never enough? How does engaging with Maximalism or a Maximalist approach give unique, expanded, or nuanced access to notions of personal or collective identity, joy, desire, ornamentalism, and more?
Submit your proposals to feralfabric@gmail.com with a brief description of your proposal by February 21 (200 words or less). The final article should be between 750-2500 words.
