WASHINGTON, DC — The work presented at the Renwick Gallery was always a perfect counterpoint to the artifacts and antiquities, modernist painting, and contemporary sculpture and film on view at the various museums on the National Mall.
Author Archives: Aaron McIntosh
Aaron McIntosh is a cross-disciplinary artist who works in textiles, sculpture, drawing, collage, and photography. His work has been exhibited nationally, internationally, and most recently in Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community at the Leslie-Lohman Museum in NYC and Man-Made: Contemporary Male Quilters at the Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum. He lives and works in Baltimore, MD, where he is a Fiber professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Revamped Textile Museum in DC Weaves Together Historic and Contemporary Fabrics
WASHINGTON, DC — When you think of textiles in museums, you inevitably imagine old things: musty rooms, faded colors, grandiose tapestries or thread-bare fragments, and fussy, protective installations.