The museum exhibits the world's largest collection of anatomically correct fabric brain art, inspired by research from neuroscience, dissection and neuroeconomics. Our current exhibition features three quilts with functional images from PET and fMRI scanning, a knitted brain, and two fabric pieces interpreting single neuron recording.
The artists are Marjorie Taylor , Karen Norberg, and Patricia Jauch.
Techniques used include quilting, applique, embroidery, beadwork, knitting, and crotcheting. Materials include fabric, yarn, metallic threads, electronic components such as magnetic core memory, wire, zippers, and beads.
This is amazing work! Great colour, I really like it. The brain is rarely a 'warm, fuzzy,' rather it's diagramed and sliced up and represents the ultimate in logic. Yours is whimsical, actually fun even, it's really nice.
Posted by: jeff in Chicago | October 12, 2006 at 06:02 AM
An absolutely amazing piece of work! The detail fascinates me, so realistic.
Posted by: Woolly Wormhead | November 09, 2006 at 03:02 PM
As a quilter and knitter, I certainly appreciate your wonderful unique art...beautifully done!
Posted by: nancy | November 26, 2006 at 04:17 PM
Marvelous! I love it that the corpus callosum is a zipper, and the frontal lobes made of more complex variegated yarn.
Posted by: Karen | January 02, 2007 at 04:42 PM
Unbelievable. I stand in awe.
Posted by: rineke | January 11, 2007 at 06:00 AM
Oh PLEASE--give us a pattern!
Posted by: j nereim | January 24, 2007 at 01:56 PM
I second the request for a pattern. You rock!!!!
Posted by: pat herschman | March 01, 2007 at 04:52 AM
Wow that is amazing!
Posted by: anne | March 20, 2007 at 12:41 PM
Wow! Love the colours and the jellyfish bit. Brilliant.
Posted by: Lucy | April 15, 2007 at 02:37 PM
It's gorgeous. I'm not much of a knitter, but I've got my own embroidered and appliqued brains on stabbed.wordpress.com.
Posted by: Mary Yaeger | April 15, 2007 at 10:51 PM
This is awesome. I really want one.
Posted by: Graham Mackie | April 21, 2007 at 12:42 PM
OMG! Fantastic beyond words. A pattern would be so appreciated. I would love to try to make this for my brother's med school graduation.
Posted by: Amy | March 16, 2008 at 10:19 AM
To me, the best part is the corpus callosum... represented as a zipper!
Posted by: Silent 3 | April 04, 2008 at 05:22 AM
Please PLEASE PLEASE send me the pattern. My 12yo daughter has just gotten a tumor removed (successfully--YES!!!!) and I want to knit this for the doctors.
Posted by: Louise | September 14, 2008 at 09:43 AM
I have admired this piece of work since the moment I saw it, which must have been two years ago. I am sure people are clamoring the pattern. I can't knit, but if you release the secret, please sign me up.
By the way, for a coupe of years, I have featured this piece on my rotating gallery at http://www.brainmapping.org with other interesting brain related artworks.
Posted by: Mark Cohen | September 24, 2008 at 12:08 PM
Hello Matie Trewe
By strolling on the website Dark Roasted Blend I read and saw your knitted brain and the knitted digestive system of Matie Trewe. It made me laugh loudly. It must be hard to imitate the colors and the forms of the human body. For the Dutch newspaper the NRC Handelsblad (the third biggest of the country) I would like to write an article about it. It would be great if I could ask you a few questions about this project somewhere next week. Maybe you can also help me to find Trewe. On her website it says that she lives in Eugene, Oregon too. Do you know her? kind regards Jan Maarten Deurvorst, Amsterdam
tel: +31 20 6230269 email: [email protected]
Posted by: karen norberg | October 22, 2008 at 04:58 AM
This pic was in the UK's Daily Telegraph today. See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4245919/Psychiatrist-knits-anatomically-correct-woolly-brain.html
Posted by: Matt | January 16, 2009 at 12:36 PM
This is incredibly cool How on earth did you figure out how to create such a complex pattern. Love to have a copy. I had brain surgery (successful) about 12 years ago and this would be a great explanation tool. Also a challenge as a knitter.
Posted by: Kathy | January 19, 2009 at 07:04 AM
Dr. Karen Norbert, are you a member of Ravelry? If not, please join us! http://ravelry.com/
Posted by: Julie | February 02, 2009 at 06:52 AM
did you know you've just been features on bbc's QI!
Posted by: Lanajay | March 07, 2009 at 03:08 PM
That is so cool. I would LOVE to get a copy of the pattern!! My hubby would love it.
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I am doing a study of "Faith and Reason" written by Pope John Paul II. Tonight we were talking about objectivity and subjectivity. Art was the example used to discuss one's own perception of good art and bad art and the universal perception of it. I am confused by the subject of art. I personally think good and bad art is subject to one's own personal opinion.
Can anyone explain to me what is 'good art'? Like Michelango, Picaso & Van Gogh versus modern art? And by whose standards is 'good art' classified as such?
I've never taken an art class, I only draw privately once in a while but I don't consider myself an artist. What books or websites can I go to to learn about art?
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