Challenges and Solutions. Young Talents in Lithuanian Textile Design
During the design week, the latest innovative materials, technologies and forms of the students’ textile design works created during their studies at the VAA Department of Textile Art and Design are presented. Audience are invited to view textile design works in the authentic spaces of the Department of Textile Art and Design and Textile Laboratories, where they were created and implemented.
“Where do the boundaries of textiles begin and end? Today, they are difficult to define, because textiles have a lot of charm and involve a wide range of possibilities and are quite an interdisciplinary field. VAA Textile Art and Design study programs are created based on a modern approach to textiles, which is why technology, tradition, creativity and innovation meet here.
The archaic nature of textiles dates back thousands of years, but today textiles are a very changing and dynamic field, which opens up many opportunities not only to be a part of contemporary art processes, but also to successfully engage in other industries and create solutions that will be relevant in the future.” (Art researcher Karolina Tomkevičiūtė)