Raised in the American South, Rodger Blum received a BFA at North Carolina University of the Arts and an MFA in Choreography at UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts, CA. Active in performance, choreography, and design from a young age, Rodger’s passion for movement, color, and composition informs his textile work. That work ranges from improvisational piecing to painted textiles, heavily worked with reactive dyes, and installations merging hand-printed silks and dance video. The boundaries between disciplines of art-making continue to blur: the ideas of composition - whether on the human body, in a two-dimensional artwork, or an installation that combines many ways of making- have coalesced into a unified vision of choreography, a complex sequencing of ideas and gestures in space and time.