Jean Cacicedo
{{short description|American clothing designer, textile artist (b. 1948)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Jean Williams Cacicedo
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1948}}
| birth_place = Orange, New Jersey, United States
| education = Pratt Institute (BFA)
| occupation = Visual artist, clothing designer, educator
| known_for = Coat design, appliqués, fiber art, collage, papermaking
| movement = Art to wear
| website = {{URL|https://jeancacicedo.com/}}
}}
Jean Williams Cacicedo (born 1948) is an American clothing designer, visual artist and educator. She is known for her crocheted and mixed media coats, and is a notable figure in the art to wear movement in the 1970s and 1980s. Cacicedo is also recognized in the fiber arts community for her decorative wall pieces that are crafted from wool, linen, and other fibers,{{Cite journal|last=Davis|first=Virginia|date=2010|title=Jean Williams Cacicedo: New Adventures in Old Techniques.|url=https://www.surfacedesign.org/journal/digital-journal-new/|journal=Surface Design Journal|volume=34|issue=2|pages=30–35|via=EBSCOhost}} and she also works in collage, and paper making. Cacicedo lives in Berkeley, California.
Biography
Jean Williams Cacicedo was born in 1948, in Orange, New Jersey.{{Cite journal |date=2014-01-01 |title=Abstracts and Presenter Biographies from 14th Biennial; Jean Cacicedo |url=https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1936&context=tsaconf |journal=Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings |pages=18–19}} She received a B.F.A. degree in 1970 from Pratt Institute. One of her classmates at Pratt Institute was Janet Lipkin.{{Cite web |title=Janet Lipkin |url=https://www.craftinamerica.org/artist/janet-lipkin/ |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=Craft in America}}
Cacicedo has been involved in the art to wear movement since college.{{cite web |date=May 30, 2012 |title=Edgy 1970s Crochet Designers: Jean Williams Cacicedo |url=http://www.crochetconcupiscence.com/2012/05/edgy-1970s-crochet-designers-jean-williams-cacicedo/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120626185544/http://www.crochetconcupiscence.com/2012/05/edgy-1970s-crochet-designers-jean-williams-cacicedo/ |archive-date=2012-06-26 |website=Crochet Concupiscence}} She is known for her crocheted and mixed media coats, with designs inspired by myths, symbolic imagery, and spiritual journeys. She teaches out of her studio, and has been a visiting artist at California College of Arts, Penland School of Craft, and Split Rock Arts Program at the University of Minnesota.
Cacicedo's work is held by the de Young Museum in San Francisco;{{Cite web |title=Jean Williams Cacicedo |url=https://www.famsf.org/art-finder?artist=6243 |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=FAMSF |language=en}} the Oakland Museum of California; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston;{{Cite web |title=Coat |url=https://collections.mfa.org/objects/611898/coat?ctx=2477894b-586f-4128-a454-53c70406b32d&idx=0 |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |language=en}} the Philadelphia Museum of Art;{{Cite web |title=Tee Pee Coat |url=https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/336562 |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=Philadelphia Museum of Art |language=en}} and the Museum of Arts and Design
References
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Further reading
- {{Cite book |title=Jean Williams Cacicedo: Explorations in cloth |first=Jean Williams |last=Cacicedo |publisher=Museum of Craft & Folk Art |date=2000 |isbn=978-1877742088}}
External links
- {{Official website|https://jeancacicedo.com/}}
- Video: [https://www.pbs.org/video/julie-schafler-dale-jean-cacicedo-vcvejw/ Julie Schafler Dale on Jean Cacicedo] (2020), from PBS
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Category:20th-century American women artists
Category:21st-century American women artists
Category:American collage artists
Category:American women fashion designers
Category:American fashion designers
Category:Artists from Berkeley, California
Category:Artists from Orange, New Jersey