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Echoes of Joy and Peril in Leda Catunda’s Textiles 

Avatar photo by Louis Bury December 21, 2022December 21, 2022

The Brazilian artist practices an erasure poetry upon textiles and assembles the results into evocative, semi-sculptural configurations.

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Eco-Feminist Art Collective Protests UN Climate Summit with Textiles

Avatar photo by Billie Anania November 15, 2021November 15, 2021

Founded by Dora Napolitano in 2016, Zurciendo el Planeta planted its “Forest of Hope” international embroidery project in art spaces across Glasgow during COP26.

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The Story of Kunihiko Moriguchi, a Master Kimono Painter

by Nathan Gelgud November 14, 2021November 15, 2021

Moriguchi, who studied in Japan and Paris, took the influence of Op art and applied it to the traditional art of kimono painting.

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Maria Guzmán Capron’s Deliciously Tactile Fabric Figures, or “Hot Aliens”

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford October 12, 2021October 12, 2021

Capron says her creations reflect herself and her immigrant, Latinx community.

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The Transcendent, Spiritual Fiber Art of Lenore Tawney

Avatar photo by Debra Brehmer December 27, 2019December 18, 2019

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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The Sensory Tethers You’ll Find in Textiles

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney July 15, 2019

Woven Walls, a tightly curated summer show at Morgan Lehman Gallery, explores a language between the threads of different textiles.

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Textile Artists Weave 21st-Century Stories

by Dany Chan November 8, 2018November 12, 2018

A new exhibit showcases contemporary takes on the millennia-old art of textile-making, from El Anatsui’s shimmering bottle-cap tapestries to Nevet Yitzhak’s renditions of Afghan war rugs.

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Tapestries that Mend the Divides Between Mexico and the US

by Lorissa Rinehart September 11, 2018September 1, 2021

Tanya Aguiñiga’s work results from a lifetime of creating textile pieces from broken and found threads.

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Anni Albers’s Thoughts on Textiles Loom Large

by Becky Peterson February 21, 2018February 22, 2018

On Weaving offers a model for how to write in a way that incorporates theoretical examination alongside practical content; in it Anni Albers provides valuable — and often overlooked — thoughts on art and creative work.

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After Surviving a Fire, St. John the Divine’s 17th-Century Tapestries Return

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 15, 2017

After a catastrophic 2001 fire, the 17th-century Barberini tapestries have returned to view at Manhattan’s Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine.

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Ann Hamilton Pays Tribute to Philadelphia’s Frayed Textile Industry

by Anne Blood October 10, 2016

PHILADELPHIA — Started around 1907, Municipal Pier 9 was built as part of a comprehensive plan to upgrade the Delaware River as a shipping channel.

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Garments from the Graves of Late Antiquity

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 25, 2016February 28, 2016

Over 50 examples of textile garments and furnishings are on view in Designing Identity: The Power of Textiles in Late Antiquity at New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.

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