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0 Typographic Collage,<br />
assembled from 500 swatches of<br />
colorful printed paper. 30"x 40:'<br />
Photo: David Colvin.<br />
0 Universal Alphabet weaving,<br />
combines letters A to Z from<br />
diverse alphabets in natural fibers<br />
and colors. 30" x 60!' Photo:<br />
White Light Corp.<br />
0 Teacher's sweater, a knitted<br />
piece, features a scarlet A on a<br />
blackboard-black ground. Other<br />
letters appear on the back.<br />
Photo: Jan Baker.<br />
A more recent influence on her work has come<br />
from a series of journeys to India, Nepal, Pakistan,<br />
Bhutan and Tibet, where she lectured and traveled.<br />
In the textile center Ahmedabad, in India, she participated<br />
as a visiting designer at the National Institute<br />
of Design. Soon, a travel grant from the Rhode<br />
Island State Council on the Arts will take her back<br />
to Ahmedabad as an artist-in-residence, where she<br />
will concentrate on designing patchwork quilts with<br />
Hindi letterforms and weaving on a jacquard loom.<br />
To be sure, her immersion in the Asian scene has<br />
filled her head with exotic color and design ideas<br />
for current and future projects.<br />
Jan Baker has an enviable list of credentials and<br />
accomplishments as an exhibitor, award-winner,<br />
professor and visiting lecturer. She has made herself<br />
felt, seen and heard, from Yale and the Rhode<br />
Island School of Design on the east coast, to the<br />
University of Southern California at Santa Cruz on<br />
the west coast, and across the Pacific in Japan and<br />
Asian lands. Although she bears the designation<br />
"fiber artist;' her commitment to typography makes<br />
us feel a special kinship with her.<br />
Marion Muller
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