JULIE KORNBLUM
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Julie
Kornblum began “playing” with fabric and making things around the
age of five or six. While growing up, she constantly learned new crafts from
her mother’s women’s magazines. Her sewing class in Jr. High began
a love affair with all things related to fabric. This eventually led to the
fashion design program at Los Angeles Trade Technical College. Julie worked
in the fashion industry in Los Angeles and taught at Otis College of Art and
Design. Some years later she studied the history of textiles and learned to
weave in the Fiber Art studios of the art department at California State University
Northridge, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in art.
Much
of Julie’s work is woven on the loom. She particularly likes 17th and
18th century patterns for household textiles. She uses post-industrial materials
such as surplus telephone wire to reinterpret these everyday designs as artwork.
Julie favors nontraditional, reused and recycled materials while she honors
the traditions of weaving and the needle-arts. Her use of “throw-away” and
surplus materials is propelled by her concerns for the environment. She questions
our culture’s all too prevalent notions of obsolescence and disposability.
For her wearable art & scarves, she chooses cotton, silk, and other yarns
of alluring texture and rich color. Like many hand weavers, Julie promotes
the continuation and preservation of the fiber arts through her active participation
in guilds and organizations.
