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Red and White Quilts at the New York Park Armory
American Folk Art Museum Presents, Infinite Variety: Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts at the Park Avenue Armory, March 25-30, 2011, Installation view. Photo by Gavin Ashworth
An amazing collection of red and white quilts was recently shown in New York:
Over 650 red and white quilts currently hang from the ceiling of The New York Park Armory. Up for just four days (and closing today), Infinite Variety showcases the vast archive of quilts amassed since 1956 by collector Joanna Rose. It is her 80th birthday wish: “Something I’ve never seen before,” she told her husband Daniel Rose when he asked what she would like to celebrate, and “a gift for New York”. The show is completely free to the public.
Read an interview with co-curator Elizabeth V. Warren
Via Lindsay Joy’s blog “actual size!” (thank you Lindsay!)
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John Cage on silence
Cecilia Vicuna | Cloud Net
Cecilia Vicuna | Cloud Net | wool roving
It snowed last night. It will snow more today. Found myself thinking about this work “Cloud Net” by Cecilia Vicuna.
image credit: Cecilia Vicuna solo exhibition at Hallwalls via Kellner ConsultingPoet and artist, born in Chile, she performs and exhibits her work widely in Europe, Latin America and the US. She is also a political activist and founding member of Artists for Democracy. Since l980 she lives in New York and Chile.
She has been creating “precarious works”, ephemeral installations in nature, cities and museums since l966, as a way of “hearing an ancient silence waiting to be heard.”
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Robyn Love | Spindle 7
Spindle 7 from Susan Forste on Vimeo.
It is a great thrill to be able to share with you the video, Spindle 7, created as part of my project of the same name that took me back and forth on the #7 train with my spindles and wool in 2008, meeting people and teaching spinning between Main Street in Flushing (Queens) and Times Square in Manhattan.
While the project itself lasted most of a year, the video was made over the course of three intense days of filming and riding the train with intrepid cameraperson, Marcia Connolly. She did not allow oncoming trains, urine puddles or irate commuters get in the way of the perfect shot. It was edited into a cogent whole by the sensitive and deft hand of Susan Forste. She also conducted the interview that provided the voice over you hear for much of the film.
Spindle 7 was made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the Queens Council on the Arts.
Many thanks to both Marcia and Susan for their efforts, as well as to the all the spinners who participated in the project and talked to me about their lives, and to the riders of the #7 train who put up with that crazy lady and her spindle.
submitted by Robyn Love
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String Theory at Storefront
BRECE HONEYCUTT "Birch #3" (2010) handspun wool, birch bark 20 x 25 x 4 in.
Brece Honeycutt makes history-based drawings, sculptures and installations. Her installations have been placed in exterior locations including university campuses, historical houses, non-profit spaces, inner-city parks and in office buildings, museums and galleries. She collaborates and works with the National Park Service, students, historians, gardeners, non-profit organizations, poets, dancers, interpreters, government departments, libraries and senior centers. Honeycutt received an undergraduate degree in art history from Skidmore College and a Master’s degree in sculpture from Columbia University. Her work has recently been exhibited at Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, and at Wave Hill, Bronx, NY. She works with Norte Maar, Brooklyn, NY, and Susan Conway Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. She lives in Sheffield, MA and New York, NY.
Read more about other artists participating in String Theory HERE
Visit Brece Honeycutt’s WEBSITE
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Drill Baby Drill (and other Acts of God)!
Emily Auchincloss, Lawrence Bass, Deborah Brown, Dan Ford, Sharon Goldberg, Robyn Love, Christy Rupp, Kimberly Simpson, Marie Ucci, Joanne Ungar, Kathleen Vaccaro, Elizabeth Whalley
September 2 – 12, 2010
Opening party: Thursday September 2, 6-9
Sharon Goldberg Contemporary Art at Gowanus Edge Curatorial Exchange
123 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY Hours: Friday – Sunday 1-5pm
infogowanusedge@gmail.com
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Catching up…
I will be in Japan until May 3oth.In the meantime (Re)Fashioning Fibre, curated by Abigail Doan, has opened in NewYork. Here are two links… (Thank you Abigail!)
http://www.planet-mag.com/2010/events/nika-knight/refashioning-fiber/
http://abigaildoan.blogspot.com/2010/05/refashioning-fiber-friends.html
Lieux de memoire, an exhibition of twelve artists curated by Denis Longchamps, first mounted as part of the Biennale internatinale du lin in Deschambault-Grondines last year, will be opening at La maison de la culture Marie-Uguay June 9, 2010. More on both exhibitions including images coming soon.