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The Transcendent, Spiritual Fiber Art of Lenore Tawney
More than 40 textile works dating from the 1950s to her death in 2007, at age 100, float in the artist’s retrospective at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center.
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In Northern New Mexico, Weaving Is a Way of Life
The Española Valley Fiber Arts Center is working in support of a generative, living tradition of storytelling through textiles.
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Knitting Together the Experiences of Immigrants
The Immigrant Yarn Project, a fiber arts collective, crafts and sells knitted totems to benefit immigration aid organizations.
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Exploring Sexuality and Myth Through Fiber and Other Types of Sculpture
While Mrinalini Mukherjee radically used textiles to negotiate the deep roots of symbolic Indian art and craft, her visual vocabulary sought independence from traditional roles within her culture.
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A Chronicle of 100 Contemporary Artists Who Use Textiles
With artists spanning all corners of the globe, Vitamin T is a timely contribution to dismantling the division between art and craft.
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Knitting Together the Beginnings of a Queer, Feminine Future
Studio Views: Craft in the Expanded Field reimagines the Museum of Arts and Design's third floor gallery space as an artist’s studio for two, both demystifying the process of fiber art making and allowing the artists to dialogue with a curious public.
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The Wartime Quilts Made by Men from Military Uniforms
The American Folk Art Museum in New York is exhibiting wartime quilts made by British soldiers from their uniforms in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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A 10-Year Project to Crochet Our Dying Coral Reefs
The Museum of Arts and Design marks 10 years of Margaret and Christine Wertheim's "Crochet Coral Reef" project, a vibrant response to the destruction of our ocean life.
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Unraveling the Lost Inca Language of Knots
The ancient Inca had no known written language, but they may have used an intricate language of knots.
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Finding a Voice in Fiber, Judith Scott Was an Artist, Not an Outsider
In the first major retrospective of her sculptural bundles of yarn and found objects, the late Judith Scott is celebrated not just for having found a way to creatively express herself late in life, after being institutionalized with Down syndrome and undiagnosed deafness; instead, the Brooklyn Museu
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Weaving a Bridge Back to Fiber Sculpture's Unraveling History
Despite being a craft dating back over 30,000 years, fiber work only started to get sculpturally experimental in a serious way in the 1960s and 70s.