|
State: California
Country: United States
Year at Headlands: 2003
Discipline: visual
Program: project space
An artist who is dedicated to working in the community, Swaine's "Reap What You Sew" Generosity Project involved him pushing an old fashioned ice cream style cart on wheels with a treadle-operated sewing machine on it through the streets of San Francisco. For two weeks he stopped to sew for the homeless, for celebrities and for ordinary people - without distinction - fixing, patching and tailoring any clothing or fabric they wanted him to work on. On the 15th of every month he sews for free at the 509 Cultural Center at Coen Alley and has previously taken his sewing machine to craft classes at the Lighthouse for the Blind to give lessons on the treadle. While in the Project Space, Michael Swaine had people bring him socks with holes in them that needed fixing. He received a BFA from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, School of Art and Design, Alfred, NY and studied Advanced Ceramics and Sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
|
