Tonight, tonight, tonight!!!!!

work by Sheila Klein

Cutting Edge: A Celebration of Fiber

SEPTEMBER 17, 8-11PM
505 CARROLL STREET (BETWEEN 3RD + 4TH AVE)

There will be food, drinks, live music, raffle prizes and, of course, fiber arts:

Cutting Edge: A Celebration of Fiber

Curated by: Joetta Maue
Exhibting Artists: Heidi Field-Alvarez, Sarah Bahr, Emily Barletta, Jamie Bertsch, Andrea Donnelly, Erin Endicott, Mallory Feltz, Virginia Fitzgerald, Sierra Furtwangler, Meredith Grimsley, LUKE Haynes, Tod Hensley, Jennifer Hunold, Janice Jakielski, Sheila Klein, Julie Kornblum, Lucia LaVilla-Havelin, Clayborn Jackson Lohmann, Alisha McCurdy, Margarita Mileva, John Paul Morabito, Suyeon Na, Erin M. Riley, Rebecca Ringquist, Leslie Schomp, Lou Trigg, Cayce Zavaglia, Amanda Tiller

Live Music: Raya Brass Band

Entry is FREE but we suggest a donation of $20 to support our programming (and it buys your raffle tickets!)

Thanks to our Sponsors: Bencotto, BK Craft Central, Fire Island Beer Company

Raffle Prizes by: Keds, Little Candy Cake Company, Trois Pommes Patisserie, Enlightenment Wines, M2 Jewelry, Two Lovers, Olga's On Smith, plus Textile Arts Center classes!

Teaser.

Okay installation has been crazy, my schedule has been crazy, weird things with walls have occurred but the show LOOKS AMAZING. I have not been able to take many pictures yet but I promise many, many of them VERY soon. But until then see this awesome little teaser of a post over at the Textile Arts Center Blog.

Hope to see you tonight!!!!!

be inspired.

I forgot to mention last week that on my curatorial blog here you can now find links to all the artists included in the exhibit at the Textile Center. There is some super amazing work and artists included so take a click over there and get inspired.

You can also find all the details for the exhibit.

above work by cutting edge artist Suyeon Na

install mania is beginning.

Agh, after a being a bridesmaid in a whirlwind weekend of a wonderful friends gorgeous wedding I am preparing to go crazy installing over the next 2 days. There is a ton of work in the show and a few pieces are HUGE so I am a little nervous and stressed.
But I always get this way before the installation of an exhibit that I have curated, more so then my own solo shows. I just sincerely want all the artists involved to be so happy with it. I know that it will come together and am excited to meet many artists tomorrow as a handful are coming to install their own piece, yay.

But the nerves have begun.... Cannot wait to show yo some install pictures tomorrow.

above work by cutting edge artist Virginia Fitzgerald

Disposable

Perhaps you can check out this opening that sounds great- sadly I cannot....

Disposable: Ciudad Juarez and the War on Women
September 10-21, 2010
opening of a group show this Friday, September 10th from 6pm-8pm
at the Gallatin Galleries in NY.


Featured Artists:
Peggy Adam, Lina Palotta, Patricia Yossen, Hayden Dunham, Keith Miller, Tali Weinberg, Chris Nolan, Amia Yokoyama

"Since 1994 hundreds of women and young girls have been brutally raped and murdered in Ciudad Juarez and still hundreds more are missing. In the past three years the border city has also seen a brutal escalation of the drug war, with the cartels taking on the army and police and leaving more dead than in any other city in the world.
In Disposable: Ciudad Juarez and the War on Women, the artists have looked at these conditions with a close eye and through the lens of the femicide of the past 16 years, trying to make sense of the situation, call attention to global connections, and express the rage, frustration and pain along with solidarity for those working for justice and peace."
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The piece below that is being contributed by the weaver Tali Weinberg is described...
--"The males have wings while it is the females whose bodies are crushed to extract their red dye. But red is also the color of the sun."-- is an interactive installation/performance referencing the maquiladoras (sweatshops), the violence against women they have fueled, and alternative modes of production and exchange. In addition to the opening, I will be at the gallery additiotnal hours weaving a blanket with yarn that I hand-dyed with cochineal (an insect-derived, natural red dye).

thanks.

Need to send a few thanks out for mentions here and here.

playing with anger.

I featured Maggy Rozycki Hiltner a long time ago and loved the new work that I have recently seen. She is combining embroideries of children with wacky angry "fluffy animals" to make interesting commentary on the relationships in our lives.


Similar to Rebecca Ringquist she gorgeously cuts apart old found linens and collages them to make incredibly gorgeous textures and backgrounds for her work. Often her characters are built out if this same process.


She also has made a series of comic book like narrative works that explore how you navigate friendships and frienemies. They are both hilarious and poignant at the same time.


Her new "landscape" works remind me a bit of Orly Cogan's work from a few years back, in the way the figures unexpectedly peek out and engage with the found work, but are done with much more simplicity and playfulness.


I cannot wait to work with Maggy in the spring when her work is in an exhibit that I am curating. See more of her gorgeous stuff here.

Did ya know ...

that I am teaching another awesome class at the Textile Arts Center in conjunction with the exhibit?

Here are the details- it starts next week.

The Embroidered Journal w/ Joetta Maue

Wednesdays, 6-8:30 Sept 15, 22, 29, Oct 6

Working autobiographically, we will create a daily embroidered journal. Students will create simple samplers, learning traditional stitches, then move on to creating a daily response journal through stitching. When we see embroidery as "drawing" with thread, how does the medium change? Use a combination of traditional stitches, or try your hand at free-form stitching, where recognizable image and text are not necessary in representing personal thoughts, emotions, & events

Price: $150, + $25 materials fee

Joetta Maue is a local working fiber artist specializing in embroidery.
From her artists statement:
"I am not an extraordinary woman. I do not live under extraordinary circumstances. I am a woman who has both flaws and fears and also strengths and hopes. Through the depiction of these characteristics, I invite the viewer to relate to and connect with the work the artist, and the subject of human experience."

CONTACT: info@textileartscenter.com or 718-369-0222 to sign up.

Future Heirlooms

Check out my interview with Caroline Kirton over at Mr. X Stitch here.

Forgive the wonky formatting I think they have a stitch demon in their blog that always wonks up my posts.

mama pajama

I am a bad friend as this is posted late. But it sounds like it was a great success anyway. You also have plenty of time to make it and see:

Mama Pajama Rolled Out of Bed by Marcie Paper

September 3 - October 9, 2010

First Friday Closing Reception: October 8, 2010 7-10pm.

at 1708 Gallery

Marcie is a good friend of mine from graduate school who makes some incredibly lovely work. Mostly paintings, I am lucky enough to own 2 of them, but also some very interesting stop motion animations. You can see all of her amazing work on her very fancy and uber gorgeous new website, Go Marcie.



The press release for her solo exhibit states:

Through stop-animation and paintings, Marcie Paper records visual abstractions of her experiences in the current moment. As she layers these images on the paper, they become a collection of short-term memories that help her, “hold on to a little longer, understand a little better, and have physical evidence of, (her) existence.”

The paintings and animations on display in Mama Pajama Rolled Out of Bed were created during a two year period in which Paper listened exclusively to one side of a Paul Simon album. She notes that this particular album brought her back to a former time and place in her life, and “began to wonder how much “memory-time” one album or song could hold.” The images that comprise this exhibition represent and capture specific moments in time and explore questions that arise as the artist investigates memory, experience and nostalgia.