ABOUT:
Throughout her career as a design scholar, curator, writer, and educator, Susan Yelavich has been drawn to textiles. The attraction began early. She learned to sew and knit as young girl and in her twenties integrated thread and fabric in her painting and sculpture at Cranbrook Academy of Art. When she pivoted to design, first at Cooper Hewitt Museum and then at Parsons School of Design, textiles became a critical focus of her research along with architecture, literature, and ornament. Recently, she has begun working with thread again, stitching images of her darns—images produced with the artist David Young’s artificial intelligence programs and custom software. She sees her work as an analog translation of the digital that straddles design and art and also provides fertile material for further research and writing in her capacity as Professor Emerita of Design Studies and in her role as a member of Scientific Committee for Design at the Politecnico di Milano. Yelavich is the author of numerous articles and books, including Thinking Design through Literature (2019), Design as Future-Making with Barbara Adams (2014), Contemporary World Interiors (2007), Pentagram/Profile (2004), Inside Design Now (2003), Design for Life (1997), and The Edge of the Millennium (1993). She is a Fellow of the Bogliasco Foundation (2018) and the American Academy in Rome (2004).

Exhibitions:
ECHO CHAMBERS November 5, 2022 - January 7, 2023

Susan Yelavich website