Stevie Dissinger

Work samples

Time Map 288

Time Map 288, 7.5 x 5 x 4 inches, hand spun cotton (drop spindle) and fabric ink, 2020
Time Map 248

Time Map 248, 10 x 10 x 8 inches, hand spun, dyed cotton thread (spinning wheel), 2020
Time Map 128

Time Map 128, 10 x 5 x 2 inches, hand spun cotton (handmade drop spindle), 2020
Braid Bus

Braid Bus, interactive installation, Artscape 2017, photo credit: Baltimore Magazine

About Stevie

Baltimore City

Stevie Dissinger grew up in Pennsylvania. She graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2012 with a BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture. In 2017 and 2018 Stevie was selected to create interactive sculptures for Artscape. Stevie has shown her work in group shows at Creative Alliance, Baltimore Clayworks, The Maryland Institute College of Art, Notre Dame of Maryland, and The Walters Art Museum. Her parade costumes have been a part of Light City Baltimore and The Great Halloween… more

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Time Maps 100-299

How do cycles create our lives and surroundings? A living thing can break with the order of its own life and decompose. Other living things may come upon it and find nutrients. The atoms that are myself take the form of a human, and I live within a culture that makes sense of these cycles through a structure we call "time." Time is an attempt at understand the vast structures of our existence. Through my work in the series Time Maps, I invite reflection and imagination into the concept of time.

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The cyclical process of crochet accumulates to create the forms in this series. Raw cotton is spun into a thread. A crochet hook pulls a loop of that thread through another loop to create a stitch. Through slight variations in this process of dying, spinning, and crocheting each Time Map is created.

Time Map 248

Time Map 248, 10 x 10 x 8 inches, hand spun, dyed cotton thread (spinning wheel), 2020
Time Map 248 (detail)

10 x 10 x 8 inches, hand spun, dyed cotton thread (spinning wheel), 2020
Time Map 288

7.5 x 5 x 4 inches, hand spun cotton (drop spindle) and fabric ink, 2020
Time Map 128

Time Map 128, 10 x 5 x 2 inches, hand spun cotton (handmade drop spindle), 2020
Time Map 128 (detail)

10 x 5 x 2 inches, hand spun cotton (handmade drop spindle), 2020
Drop Spindle 2

wiffle ball (found in a park), crochet hook, rubber band (from farmer's market kale)

Time Maps 1-99

Time Map 20

Crocheted cotton thread and ink, 8 x 8.5 x 3 inches, 2020
Time Map 82

Crocheted cotton thread and ink, 5 x 8 x 4 inches, 2020
Time Map 82

Crocheted cotton thread and ink, 5 x 8 x 4 inches, 2020
Time Map 32

Crocheted cotton thread and ink, 9.5 x 5 x 3, 2019
Time Map 47

Crocheted cotton thread and ink, 6 x 7 x 2.5 inches, 2019
Time Map 47 (detail)

Crocheted cotton thread and ink, 6 x 7 x 2.5 inches, 2019
Time Map 5

Crocheted cotton thread, 11.5 x 10 x 2 inches, 2019

Braid Bus

A braid binds a single fiber with many fibers into one unified strand, multiplying the fiber’s strength. Inspired by personal events and memories, Braid Bus was an open and inclusive community gesture of intimacy. Artscape festival-goers were invited to join in caregiving and sharing, while building conversation with others about how hair care has become a ritual or tradition in their own lives. Myself and several team members braided hair over the course of three days at Artscape 2017.

Statement created along with The Baltimore Office of Promotion and The Arts for signage at Artscape 2017

Braid Bus

Braid Bus, interactive installation, Artscape 2017, photo credit: Baltimore Magazine
Braid Bus

30 x 10 x 11 foot interactive installation, hair elastics, combs, hand sewn uniforms, bus seats, burlap panels painted and sewn to look like a bus, Artscape 2017
Braid Bus

30 x 10 x 11 foot interactive installation, hair elastics, combs, hand sewn uniforms, bus seats, burlap panels painted and sewn to look like a bus, Artscape 2017
Braid Bus

30 x 10 x 11 foot interactive installation, hair elastics, combs, hand sewn uniforms, bus seats, burlap panels painted and sewn to look like a bus, Artscape 2017
Braid Bus

30 x 10 x 11 foot interactive installation, hair elastics, combs, hand sewn uniforms, bus seats, burlap panels painted and sewn to look like a bus, Artscape 2017

Word Well Mind Travel

Your ticket awaits. Artscape festival goers interacted with this project to collect four parts of a poem. Beginning at well number one, a ticket was taken for recording the words. Words were randomly selected by spinning the bucket at each well. Participants were invited to explore these words as poetry, and to follow the currents of thought created as their mind combines the unlikely paring of words into a question. The artwork happens in your mind, enjoy the journey!

Ticket For Recording Words

Use this ticket to record the four randomly generated words. Together the words make a fresh experience of the words as they interact with each other to create a nonsense sentence.
Ticket, Reverse Side

The back side of the ticket.
Word Well Mind Travel

70 x 30 x 9 foot interactive sculpture, four wishing wells that sit atop water barrels, each well contains a wooden bucket that spins, pencils, printed tickets, Artscape 2018
Bucket 1

The first word of the sentence is generated by spinning this bucket. Point at the bucket until it stops spinning and record the word closest to your finger.
Word Well Mind Travel

70 x 30 x 9 foot interactive sculpture, four wishing wells that sit atop water barrels, each well contains a wooden bucket that spins, pencils, printed tickets, Artscape 2018
Bucket 2

The second word of the sentence is generated by spinning this bucket. Point at the bucket until it stops spinning and record the word closest to your finger.
Word Well Mind Travel

70 x 30 x 9 foot interactive sculpture, four wishing wells that sit atop water barrels, each well contains a wooden bucket that spins, pencils, printed tickets, Artscape 2018
Bucket 3

The third word of the sentence is generated by spinning this bucket. Point at the bucket until it stops spinning and record the word closest to your finger.
Word Well Mind Travel

70 x 30 x 9 foot interactive sculpture, four wishing wells that sit atop water barrels, each well contains a wooden bucket that spins, pencils, printed tickets, Artscape 2018
Bucket 4

The fourth word of the sentence is generated by spinning this bucket. Point at the bucket until it stops spinning and record the word closest to your finger.

Protective Objects, Reflective Objects

Blue Mask-Shield

Hand spun (drop spindle) cotton yarn, dye, hooks, thread, 7 x 14 x 4 inches, 2020 This mask-shield is used to block out light from the screen that contributes to eye strain. The artist covers the screen with the mask-shield during periods of video meetings that require only listening. An opening at the top of the mask-shied allows for continued use of the camera on the computer, and the bottom edge of the piece stops short of covering the mute and un-mute button in the video chat. The artist calls for reflection on our relationship with digital technologies.
Blue Mask-Shield (detail)

Hand spun (drop spindle) cotton yarn, dye, hooks, thread, 7 x 14 x 4 inches, 2020
Blue Mask-Shield

Hand spun (drop spindle) cotton yarn, dye, hooks, thread, 7 x 14 x 4 inches, 2020
Dear, Sweet Gender Role Protest

Cotton fabric and thread, 16 x 13 x 2 inches, 2018