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Vic De La Rosa is an artist who explores the convergence and boundaries of technology, art, and design in the realm of textiles. His current specialty and studio practice centers on computer interfaced weaving and printing technology utilizing jacquard power looms and digital fabric printers.
As a textile futurist, De La Rosa surveys the current climate and coming trends of textile art and design in practice, concept and theory. He considers the aesthetic and emotional qualities of cloth and craft as a touchstone in how creative work is informed and contextualized in our current 21st century textile revolution.
De La Rosa works in and across a variety of media real and virtual – fiber, film, digital – and has been exhibited internationally. His work has been covered in leading field publications such as Fiberarts and the Surface Design Journal as well as consumer publications from The New York Times to Rolling Stone Magazine.
Before deciding to pursue a path to the professorate De La Rosa spent 15 successful years as an apparel, product and textile designer. He recently joined the art faculty at San Francisco State University after teaching on the east coast at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, Philadelphia University and the Rhode Island School of Design, where as a graduate student he was a President’s Scholar and received honors including the Award of Excellence.
Education
- M.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design
- M.F.A. University of California, Davis
- B.A., San Francisco State University
