Travis Joseph Meinolf, public textile artist and teacher in San Francisco
travismeinolf{at}yahoo{dot}com
(415) 948-8197
Education
2008 MFA, Textiles/Social Practice, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California
2005 BA, Industrial Arts, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California.
Awards
2008 Barclay Simpson Award, California College of the Arts
2008 Finalist, Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship
Upcoming
"Weaving Place", an installation at the Vancouver Art Gallery opening November 9th. Looms, materials and instructions will be provided for patrons to produce wool cloth in the gallery, and possibly to take and continue to weave a home!
Select Group Shows
2008 "Open For Business" Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco
2008 "First [Inter]Act" 18 Reasons Gallery, San Francisco
2008 "Give Up" Guertin's Graphics, Chicago
2007 "'C' Change: Craft in our Future" Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco
2007 "Nuit Blanche" Infinite Exchange Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2007 "Supermarket 2007" Koh-i-noor, Copenhagen, Denmark
2007 "Optimism: a natural vector" Hardware Store Gallery, San Francisco
2006 "Made In: California College of the Arts Textile Exhibit" North/South galleries, Oakland
2005 "Larvae and the Lamb" Red Dot Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Panels/Events
2008 Notecard Loom Workshops, Curiosity Shoppe, San Francisco
2008 Cardboard Loom Workshops, 18 Reasons Gallery, San Francisco
2008 Subversive Symbols: Crafting Workshops; Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, California
2008 Tandem Laser Loom Demonstration; SubZero at the 01SJ Festival, San Jose
2008 Cardboard Loom Presentation; Maker Faire San Mateo
2007 "C" Change, Craft in our Future, panel discussion; Museum of Craft and Folk Art/West Coast Design Project
2007 Junior Review Critique Panel, California College of the Arts
2007 “Notion Nanny: a day of demonstrations” Craft event organized by Alison Smith at the Berkeley Art Museum, California
Teaching/Guest Presentations
2008 Guest Artist Program, Los gatos Elementary Schools; invited by the Art Docents of Los Gatos, California
2008 Graduate Assistant, Intermediate Textiles: Sculptural Weaving with Carole Beadle, California College of the Arts
2008 Graduate Assistant, Zeros and Ones: Digital Jacquard Weaving with Cathy Bolding and Jeremy Sanders, California College of the Arts
2007 Graduate Assistant, New Texture, New Material, New Thinking with Yoshiko Wada and Joy Boutrop, California College of the Arts
2007 Teacher’s Assistant, Weaving & Dyeing with Lia Cook, California College of the Arts
Also presented to textile classes taught by Richard Elliot, Angela Hennessy, Lacey Jane Roberts and Anne Wolfe at California College of the Arts, and Jeremy Sanders at UC Davis.
Publication
2008 Notecard Loom Podcast; Makezine.com, September
2008 Pocket Power; Craft Magazine, August
2007 General Assistant and demonstration sample producer, Shibori Technical/Informational DVD by Yoshiko Wada and Galli Studios
Collections
Private Collection of Kai Althoff
Private Collection of Steven Leiber
Private Collection of Michael Lowe
Permanent Collection of the Eagle Tavern, San Francisco