Inez Harwood breaks the world record for longest tie-dye as her BFA capstone project.

Inez Harwood, a student of Utah Valley University in Orem Utah, breaks the world record for the longest single piece of “Tie-Died cloth.

Vibrant Prtotest, by Inez Harwood

THere is a lot of artistic talent coming out of uvu

“UVU is fast becoming the best University in Utah valley for to learn art and illustration”, says artist Wayne Andreason of FolioAcademy. The program is constantly improving, as well as the staff. The program tries to attract faculty that are not just teachers but professionals with teaching skills, who mentor students for the art business market. Harwood’s project required cooperation from several departments at Utah Valley University a few shall be listed: Art and Visual Communications Painting and Drawing, Theater Arts, Musical Arts, Center for the Advancement of Leadership, School of Business, Academic Emergence Services, Grants Office. Community Assistance from the City of Orem, Wolverine Crossing and Dharma Trading Company.

Student Inez Harwood is a Traumatic Brain Injury survivor who faces ongoing health challenges and disability, she found a strong support community at Utah Valley University. Inez is a new genre artist which requires considerable leadership, and organizational skills. She began her journey more than one year before the art happening, when she proposed her idea to the Center for the Advancement of Leadership. Inez and C.A.L. began meeting regularly to coach her on how to develop the project. A process that helped Harwood learn how to write a public art grant and business proposal. Months before the physical work of the project began Harwood would have to develop the bureaucratic and financial development aspects of the project, including environmental study of the effects of dye and municipal water usage policies, gaining access to public works resources, finding a donated studio location, finding sponsors, hiring a studio staff, project manager, business manager, secretary, publicist, janitor, and community volunteer coordinator. Then once the team had been trained, the real work began.
In January 2013 Harwood moved into the donated studio at Wolverine Crossing with a 850 pound roll of fabric and began the tie process. Three months later, on March 7, 2013 Inez and over 200 volunteers rinsed and stretch the brightly colored fabric around the two retaining ponds west of U.V.U’s Hall of Flags.
This world record art work stretches 2945 feet 7 inches in length, breaking the previous world record held by Japan by 200 feet. This beautiful masterpiece was woven in South Carolina by Inman Mills with 100 percent domestically grown cotton, the approximately 970 pound tie-dye cloth by American artist Inez Harwood, 36, was made of using 120 pounds of dye and 8,000 zip-ties; originally measuring 3,153 feet long, it sets the new world record for the longest tie-dye cloth, to be published after verification process later this year in the Guinness World Records.

Record breaking piece of art is 2945 feet 7 inches long

This world record piece of art work stretches 3153 feet in length. Naturally I wonder what the previous record was. Probably 3152 feet. (or less) This beautiful masterpiece was

Woven in South Carolina’s Inman Mills with 100 percent domestically grown cotton, the approximately 950 pounds heavy tie-and-dye cloth by American artist Inez Harwood, 36, was made of using 120 pounds of dye and 8,000 zip-ties; measuring 3,153 feet long, it sets the new world record for the Longest tie-and-die cloth, according to the World Record Academy:

You can see the colorful record breaking Tie-Died piece, Vibrant Protest: Liberty, at the Woodbury Art Museum in Orem, Utah until April 27th 2013.

Cool Huh? If you could hold a world record, what would you want it to be for?