Tuesday the 19th, Mark Newport, the head of the Fiber Department at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Detroit, spoke to a space-audience about his work. He is a fiber artist and in particular a knitter. Mark has produced a great series of super-hero inspired knit costumes that have made their way around the country, and blog world. Mark was one of the six artists presented at a recent show at the Space Gallery - Matter (view our post here), an exhibition of sculptural textiles curated by Catherine Draper as part of Space’s annual “Artists Curating Artists” series.

View more of Mark’s work here: Knitty.com and Lyons Wier Gallery