Thank you Katy for your fun book I bought just after its release.
I went to Art school in Edmonton, Canada beside a Fibre Artists class, a three year study program, and all you can imagine
with weaving on huge computerized looms to tiny knotting and knitting. I would run down to their Art rooms every chance I had to see what they were spinning that day. One day a indigenous Artist asked me if I would help her wrap a TiPi in
burlap, that she’d washed and buried in the soil and then washed and buried again! After this taking place for many sessions,
I couldn’t help smile as I lifted the softest fabric I had ever touched, and we wrapped the wooden poles to the very top. She set up an altar for prayers to her grandfather inside the soft light.
Wonderful to read this chapter on fiber artists. Mrinalini Mukherjee's work especially speaks to me, as she gives permanent form to presences that are live unseen among us.
My copy of the book arrived today. You have me hooked with the introduction. I was at the re-opening of the SFMOMA several years ago, and after 2 floors of art realized I had seen hardly any women. And this was MODERN art!!! Looking forward to reading it over the holiday break. Thank you for this important writing.
A great artist working in Fiber Arts is Melissa Joseph! She has been getting great press recently and had a wonderful show here in NYC at Margot Samel gallery.
Katy, Such an uplifting post. Our small art museum in Manchester Vermont frequently features text title arts. If you have not seen The Red Dress Project is another extraordinary example of what you have written about.
Thank you Katy for your fun book I bought just after its release.
I went to Art school in Edmonton, Canada beside a Fibre Artists class, a three year study program, and all you can imagine
with weaving on huge computerized looms to tiny knotting and knitting. I would run down to their Art rooms every chance I had to see what they were spinning that day. One day a indigenous Artist asked me if I would help her wrap a TiPi in
burlap, that she’d washed and buried in the soil and then washed and buried again! After this taking place for many sessions,
I couldn’t help smile as I lifted the softest fabric I had ever touched, and we wrapped the wooden poles to the very top. She set up an altar for prayers to her grandfather inside the soft light.
Wonderful to read this chapter on fiber artists. Mrinalini Mukherjee's work especially speaks to me, as she gives permanent form to presences that are live unseen among us.
My copy of the book arrived today. You have me hooked with the introduction. I was at the re-opening of the SFMOMA several years ago, and after 2 floors of art realized I had seen hardly any women. And this was MODERN art!!! Looking forward to reading it over the holiday break. Thank you for this important writing.
A great artist working in Fiber Arts is Melissa Joseph! She has been getting great press recently and had a wonderful show here in NYC at Margot Samel gallery.
https://www.margotsamel.com/exhibition/irish-exit/.
Katy, Such an uplifting post. Our small art museum in Manchester Vermont frequently features text title arts. If you have not seen The Red Dress Project is another extraordinary example of what you have written about.
https://reddressembroidery.com
Thank you for writing these stories of amazing pioneer textile artists...thank you, thank you!
An suimúil / very interesting