A glimpse of Dan Daly’s "The Story of Lot's Wife" from joeysims.substack.com
Dan Daly
Assistant Professor Dan Daly, who joined the New Paltz faculty in fall 2024, was the subject of a recent feature published on Substack's "Transitions. In "The Theater Maker Who Just Wants to Keep Going Smaller," author Joey Sims explores Daly's "The Story of Lot’s Wife," a performer-less installation featured at Nancy Manocherian’s the cell theatre in NYC this past summer.
"'Lot’s Wife' guides a single audience member through a series of shrines placed along a circular path lined by blue-velvet curtains," wrote Sims. "Daly’s text explains the significance of each object – a decanter filled with water from San Francisco Bay, a crumpled bar napkin from Stonewall Inn — and suggests a modest ritual tied to each shrine."
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Andrea Varga
Associate Professor Andrea Varga has been invited to be a resident instructor during the summer 2025 season at the Pocosin Arts School of Fine Craft in Columbia, NC, teaching "Slow Stitch Textile Collage." Tierney O'Brien, a visual arts (sculpture) major with a minor in theatre design, will be accompanying Varga as her studio assistant.
Focusing on slow stitch practice, Sashiko style embroidery and visible mending, Varga's students will learn to repurpose or repair beloved, unused, worn out, or simply interesting textiles and small found objects into artwork. Topics will additionally include incorporating photographs and text into textiles and understanding fibers. Slow stitch collage is a mindful, simple practice that engages hands, heart, and memory into a tactile experience creating dynamic, beautiful, personal artwork.
Varga has previously taught textile collage, slow stitch, and mending classes at yhe Studio of Key West in Florida, and has an upcoming workshop there in January 2025.
