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 Master Dyer
Office: 11 Hopkins Center
Office Phone: (603)646-2729
E-mail: Joan.Morris@Dartmouth.edu
Joan Morris, who has worked for the Theater Department for the past
twenty-one years, is an internationally known textile artist specializing in
Shibori, or shaped-resist dyeing. Her work has been shown in Asia, Europe
and the United States. When not working at Dartmouth, she teaches Shibori
nationally and internationally. Since 1997 she has been creating Shibori
fabric for Julie Taymor’s award winning Broadway production of The Lion
King as well as its international venues and road productions. Joan also
has a textile printing business co-owned with Michele Ratte, D '78, Hesperides
Research LLC. Together they have developed a printing process allowing them to
print precious metals on textiles.
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