{"id":15805,"date":"2016-09-06T14:35:21","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T18:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=15805"},"modified":"2016-09-06T14:35:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T18:35:21","slug":"best-in-show-christine-tedesco-82-85-m-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/best-in-show-christine-tedesco-82-85-m-90\/","title":{"rendered":"Best in Show: Christine Tedesco \u201982, \u201985, M \u201990"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Christine<\/a>For Christine Tedesco art and life all bleed into one. Art is life. Life is art.
\nNothing is an imitation. Each building she\u2019s designed as an architect with a team is just as much a piece\u00a0of her as a quilt she\u2019s created alone for the couch at home.
\nHer creative\u00a0pursuits led to a\u00a0\u201cBest in Show\u201d\u00a0at the Anderson\u00a0Arts Center 41st\u00a0Juried Arts Show\u00a0this past spring\u00a0for a quilt named\u00a0\u201cBeige #1.\u201d It was\u00a0one of more than\u00a0500 entries in the\u00a0show. She\u2019s also\u00a0shown pieces at\u00a0the Mint Museum\u00a0in Charlotte,\u00a0N.C., the Ogden\u00a0Museum in New\u00a0Orleans and Art\u00a0Fields in Lake\u00a0City.
\n\u201cI think the\u00a0first thing I made\u00a0was an apron,\u201d said Tedesco. She began sewing when she was age nine, and as she grew, the instructions from\u00a0her mother grew from stitches to life lessons on careers.
\n\u201cMy mother was very adamant that I had to major in something I could do so I didn\u2019t have to depend on\u00a0a man,\u201d said Tedesco. Her love of making things led to a career as an architect, where she now leads at RSCT\u00a0architecture + design.
\nBut she didn\u2019t leave behind her personal creative time just because she was being artistic at her day job.\u00a0Instead she wanted to challenge herself to be innovative. At age 29 she took sewing to the next level and began\u00a0quilting. \u201cI wanted to try something more difficult,\u201d she said. She also took a tailoring class and tackled\u00a0making a man\u2019s suit.
\nEven graduate school was taken as a confrontation to defy daily life. \u201cI just came to the conclusion, there\u2019s\u00a0got to be more to life than this. My mind was cut open and things were poured in. I had such a great time. It\u00a0was probably one of the biggest challenges of my life, but my desire to learn was different.\u201d
\nLike many artists or creative types, Tedesco is driven by desire. \u201cI get an idea in my head and it doesn’t\u00a0leave until I figure out what I\u2019m going to do. I never use a pattern.\u201d Even her use of color isn\u2019t conventional as\u00a0she doesn\u2019t follow traditional color relationships, but instead gut reaction to the ways a red or an orange can\u00a0paint a purple or a blue a different hue. \u201cI don\u2019t follow patterns because colors inform me in a way what to do\u00a0with them.\u201d
\nIn \u201cBeige #1,\u201d the piece wasn\u2019t about color at all, but instead about the relationships of the seams and how\u00a0they intersect. \u201cI just started mapping lines and free form \u2014 it\u2019s a lot less color,\u201d she said.
\nTedesco said she tries to be disciplined about her work. Each piece takes about 40 to 80 hours. A bedroom\u00a0in her Pendleton home serves as a studio.
\nUnlike her work office, which has clean lines and barely a trace of a paper trail from the day\u2019s work, her\u00a0studio showcases years of ideas. Quilting books stacked about 4-feet tall stand by the door. Scraps of a current\u00a0orange, beige and black piece are pinned tall and high on the wall.
\n\u201cWhen you make a piece of art, it\u2019s a solitary activity. \u2026 That\u2019s why I create art. It allows me to do\u00a0something alone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For Christine Tedesco art and life all bleed into one. Art is life. Life is art. Nothing is an imitation. Each building she\u2019s designed as an architect with a team is just as much a piece\u00a0of her as a quilt she\u2019s created alone for the couch at home. Her creative\u00a0pursuits led to a\u00a0\u201cBest in Show\u201d\u00a0at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":15868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[171,230,243,2851,2852],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-15805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumniprofiles","tag-alumni-profile","tag-architecture","tag-art","tag-summer-fall-2016","tag-summer-fall-2016-alumni-profiles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/09\/Christine-Tedesco_022.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15805"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=15805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}