Art that you look at—then get lost in.
Visual artist Janet Echelman—who creates experiential sculptures at the scale of buildings that transform with wind and light—takes the stage to discuss “Radical Softness,” a striking compendium of her oeuvre, including detailed project documentation, archival source materials, and a fascinating illustrated chronology. She’ll be joined in conversation by Riley Reed, Godmothers’ head of live and digital storytelling.
Over the past 25 years, Janet has created monumentally scaled public sculptures using unlikely materials, from atomized water particles to engineered fiber fifteen times stronger than steel. She weaves ancient craft and computational modeling software into an utterly unique art form.
“Radical Softness” is a comprehensive sourcebook that unpacks her vital practice and her ongoing commitment to “Taking Imagination Seriously,” the title of her TED talk, which has been translated into 35 languages and has more than two million views. It features mesmerizing color photographs, a foreword by fellow creative Swizz Beatz, and contributions from a diverse range of internationally recognized scholars, engineers, designers, architects, and curators contextualizing the interdisciplinary impact of Janet’s work within the fields of global art history, architecture, computation, and landscape architecture.
A recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, Harvard Loeb Fellowship, Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellowship, and Fulbright Lectureship, Janet was named an Architectural Digest Innovator for “changing the very essence of urban spaces.” Oprah ranked Janet’s work No. 1 on her List of 50 Things That Make You Say Wow!, and she recently received the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award in Visual Arts, honoring “the greatest innovators in America today.”
This event will be hosted in our third-floor loft space, which is only accessible by stairs.
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This is a ticketed event.
TICKET OPTIONS INCLUDE:
// TICKET + BOOK includes one entry + one copy of the book, which will be handed out at check-in the night of the event.
// TICKET ONLY includes one entry.
// OPENING ACT tickets are lower-priced spots for early birds. They’re limited in number, and when they’re gone, they’re gone, so get them while they last.
Additional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.
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Art that you look at—then get lost in.
Visual artist Janet Echelman—who creates experiential sculptures at the scale of buildings that transform with wind and light—takes the stage to discuss “Radical Softness,” a striking compendium of her oeuvre, including detailed project documentation, archival source materials, and a fascinating illustrated chronology. She’ll be joined in conversation by Riley Reed, Godmothers’ head of live and digital storytelling.
Over the past 25 years, Janet has created monumentally scaled public sculptures using unlikely materials, from atomized water particles to engineered fiber fifteen times stronger than steel. She weaves ancient craft and computational modeling software into an utterly unique art form.
“Radical Softness” is a comprehensive sourcebook that unpacks her vital practice and her ongoing commitment to “Taking Imagination Seriously,” the title of her TED talk, which has been translated into 35 languages and has more than two million views. It features mesmerizing color photographs, a foreword by fellow creative Swizz Beatz, and contributions from a diverse range of internationally recognized scholars, engineers, designers, architects, and curators contextualizing the interdisciplinary impact of Janet’s work within the fields of global art history, architecture, computation, and landscape architecture.
A recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, Harvard Loeb Fellowship, Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellowship, and Fulbright Lectureship, Janet was named an Architectural Digest Innovator for “changing the very essence of urban spaces.” Oprah ranked Janet’s work No. 1 on her List of 50 Things That Make You Say Wow!, and she recently received the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award in Visual Arts, honoring “the greatest innovators in America today.”
This event will be hosted in our third-floor loft space, which is only accessible by stairs.
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This is a ticketed event.
TICKET OPTIONS INCLUDE:
// TICKET + BOOK includes one entry + one copy of the book, which will be handed out at check-in the night of the event.
// TICKET ONLY includes one entry.
// OPENING ACT tickets are lower-priced spots for early birds. They’re limited in number, and when they’re gone, they’re gone, so get them while they last.
Additional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.
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Godmothers
2280 Lillie Avenue
Summerland, CA 93067
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