Tag: Art Exhibitions

Exhibition: Fibre Art Exhibition at the Renwick Gallery – Washington, DC USA

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The artists featured in ‘Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women’ transformed everyday materials like cotton, felt, and wool into deeply expressive, personal creations. This exhibition offers an alternative perspective on twentieth-century American art, spotlighting the work of artists including Adela Akers, Neda Al-Hilali, Emma Amos, Lia Cook, Olga de Amaral, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Sheila Hicks, Agueda Martínez, Faith Ringgold, Miriam Schapiro, Joyce Scott, Judith Scott, Kay Sekimachi, Lenore Tawney, Katherine Westphal, Claire Zeisler, and Marguerite Zorach. These artists express their visions through sewn quilts, woven tapestries and rugs, intricate beadwork and embroidery, twisted and bound sculptures, and mixed-media assemblages.

If one cannot travel to the show, an accompanying audio program on the website delves into ten powerful backstories, enriching the experience of the displayed artworks. In addition, there is an online gallery, which links to over thirty pieces, and a short accompanying bio for each artist.

Where: The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, USA.

When: The exhibition runs until the 5th of January, 2025.

For more information, visit the museum’s website – https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/fiber-art-by-women

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Exhibition: Marjolein Dallinga – Group Textile Art Show – NYC

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L’space Gallery, located in New York City, has a group exhibition, ‘Fibration: poking back‘, which shows the art of sixteen artists with fresh and compelling approaches to fibre and textile art. Artist and feltmaker Marjolein Dallinga has work in the show.

Here is a list of all of the artists with artwork in the exhibition: Holly Ballard Martz | Mona Bozorgi | Martin Casuso | Marjolein Dallinga | Marina Font | Lauren Gregory | Marik Lechner | Tasha Lewis | Kayla Mattes | Nico Mazza | Rosemary Meza-DesPlas | Elisa Ortega Montilla | Jennifer Pettus | Katarina Riesing | Erin M. Riley | Alicia Ross

The show runs until the 26th of October.

To learn more about the show and see photographs, visit the gallery’s website – https://www.lspacegallery.com/fibration-poking-back-2024.html

There is a video from the show on the gallery’s Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/p/DABnZBZPoht/

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Of Interest: New York Textile Month – Events and Exhibitions

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September is New York Textile Month. Many exhibitions and events, including openings, workshops, and talks, are scheduled during September and beyond!

For more information on exhibitions, visit this link – https://www.textilemonth.nyc/nytm-exhibitions-2024

For more information on events, visit this link – https://www.textilemonth.nyc/nytm-events-2024

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News: Deirdre Crofts – Awards and Exhibition

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Feltmakers Ireland committee member Deirdre Crofts, who tirelessly organises our Sunday Sessions, has been awarded an Agility Award from the Arts Council of Ireland to further her multi-faceted practice. Besides feltmaking and weaving, she works with clay and automata. In addition, she has won an EU workshop and the opportunity for an international exhibition in Italy or Spain.

Moreover, she has a vessel displayed in the juried Ceramics Ireland Selected Members Exhibition, which is at Rathfarnham Castle and runs until the 8th of September.

Deirdre’s piece

For more information about the exhibition, visit the Rathfarnham Castle website – https://www.rathfarnhamcastle.ie/exhibitions/

Image: Grainne Watts Vortex Vessel

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Event: Galway Wool Coop Exhibition -Celebration of Indigenous Breeds – Bunratty Heritage and Folk Park

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Vessels by Feltmakers Ireland guild member Astrid Tomrop-Hofmann – includes Galway wool fibre

The Irish Native Rare Breed Society (INRBS) will display a selection of rare breeds in Bunratty Heritage and Folk Park in Co Clare on August 18th from 10 AM to 5 PM.

Furthermore, as part of this Heritage Week event, an art exhibition will highlight the wonders of native Irish Galway Wool and its pivotal role in our textile cultural heritage. If you missed the Galway Wool Co-op’s Meitheal in Athenry, this event is an excellent opportunity to see some of the work. Plus, there will new pieces made from Irish wool. At least three of Feltmakers Ireland guild members will have felted art in the show: Astrid Tomrop-Hofmann, Karena Ryan, and Juliane Gorman.

This incredible display, curated by artist Michelle Hickey Legge, showcases how our Native Irish wool-growing heritage can once again become the sustainable strength behind a revived—REAL and 100% Irish-grown woollen Sector, the communities it could support, and its ecological footprint.

For ticket information, visit the Bunratty Castle and Folk Park website – https://www.bunrattycastle.ie/events/irishnativerarebreeds/

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Exhibition: Threads of Empowerment: Conflict Textiles’ International Journey – Ulster Museum – Belfast

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The Ulster Museum has an exhibition, ‘Threads of Empowerment: Conflict Textiles’ International Journey’, which explores the different experiences of conflict, oppression, and human rights violations worldwide through the medium of textiles. It is part of the Belfast International Arts Festival.

The show runs until the 27th of April, 2025.

For more information, visit their website – https://www.ulstermuseum.org/whats-on/threads-empowerment-conflict-textiles-international-journey

Featured artwork: Detail of ‘Vida en Nuestra Población / Life in Our Poor Neighborhood’, © Conflict Textiles

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Exhibition: Final Week of the RHA Annual Show

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Now in its 194th year, the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts (RHA) Annual Exhibition is Ireland’s largest and longest-running open submission exhibition.

Excitingly, one of Feltmakers Ireland’s members, Leiko Uchiyama, has a piece in the exhibition!

  • Leiko Uchiyama – ‘Memories 64.20’

A video installation by Asha Murray has tufting in it! According to Tufting Shop: “Tufting is a modern technique in textile art that involves using a specialized tool called a tufting gun. This tool helps to weave yarn into a base fabric, creating intricate and textured designs.”

Asha Murray – ‘Are You Domestic Enough?”

Anna Macleod‘s sculpture, ‘Behold the Wind’ won the ESB Moran Award and Silver Medal for an outstanding sculpture. Her piece is made from Poplar wood, Harris tweed thread, and Lead.

Lastly, Abigail O’Brien‘s ‘Mentation I + II’ is a photographic print of two pieces of cross-stitch needlework: The photos show the stitching of the front and back of a colourful brain.

Abigail O’Brien – ‘Mentation I + II’

Overall, not many pieces in this year’s RHA Annual exhibition would be considered ‘textile art’.

However, for next year, members of Feltmakers Ireland and other fibre artists can hopefully increase the number of textile-related pieces by submitting our work under the ‘Mixed Media’ category. (The Open Call for this exhibition stated the following: “Submissions of work are invited from visual artists working in paint, photography, sculpture, architecture, print, drawing and mixed media. Works outside these categories are not accepted.“

Several high-profile, textile-related art exhibitions have recently taken place in the US, UK, and Europe, so there may be more opportunities for fibre-related work in future RHA shows.

The show ends this Sunday, 4th of August. 

Visit the RHA website for more information on the exhibition – https://rhagallery.viewingrooms.com/viewing-room/2-194th-rha-annual-exhibition/

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Exhibition: Stephanie Metz in Group Show – Fully Tactile – San Francisco

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Note: This photograph is from one of Stephanie Metz’s previous exhibitions.

Artist Stephanie Metz, who creates fascinating biomorphic sculptures (often using the technique of needlefelting), has several pieces in an upcoming group show. The premise of the exhibition, ‘Fully Tactile’, is that it is art to be touched!

Curated by Ian Buchanan, Ben Warner, and Jerry Kuns, this special five-day event invites visitors to actively engage with the exhibits: Feel the dance of the wood grain of a Douglas fir sculpture, run their fingers through the fibres of textiles, let their hands ‘see’ the intricacies of ceramic works, hug their way through a forest of felt, and immerse themselves in the sounds and the emotions of poetry.

In addition to Stephanie Metz’s works, Sadé Cole, Susan Roemer, Justin Kiene, Spike Milliken, and Diane Komater have pieces in the exhibition.

The show runs from the 24th through the 28th of July.

For more information, visit the Jettison Creative website – https://www.jettisoncreative.com/fullytactileartexhibition

Stephanie also offers an online sculptural needlefelting course – https://courses.stephaniemetz.com/

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Events: Feltmakers Ireland – Two Open Days for August Craft Month

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This year, Feltmakers Ireland hosts two Open Days for August Craft Month / Heritage Week.

On the 18th of August from 11 AM to 3 PM at the CIE Hall/Inchicore Sports and Social Club
Library Square, Inchicore, Co. Dublin, D08 PA07

On the 25th of August from 11 AM to 3 PM at St James Hall, Dublin Road, Kilbeggan, Co Westmeath, N91 XA32

Time: Both events run from 11 AM to 3 PM.

This year, we will be teaching how to felt a small round vessel out of wool roving using soapy water and your hands!

Curious about sheep and Irish wool varieties? Explore the unique reactions of different Irish wool types that have been needle and wet felted. There will be an opportunity to browse and purchase our book, ‘Exploring Irish Wool for Feltmaking’, a rich resource on forty breeds of Irish-raised sheep.

There will be a display of felted artworks and wearables crafted by our talented members, showcasing the beauty and versatility of feltmaking.

Come to our two free events, part of our parent organisation, the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland‘s August Craft Month.

More Events to Experience Felt

Several of our members are hosting individual events for August Craft Month:

Karena Ryan has an open studio in Co Galway on the 5th of August – https://augustcraftmonth.org/acm-event/open-studio-and-sale-2/

Tamzen Lundy is offering a workshop in Co Kildare on how to ‘Felt a Funky Feline’– https://augustcraftmonth.org/acm-event/wet-felting-a-funky-feline-full-day-felting/

She also has a children’s felting workshop on the 17th of August, Saturday afternoon, in Kildare Town’s – market square. https://www.tamzenlundydesigns.ie/service-page/kids-feltmaking-taster-workshop

Juliane Gorman has an open studio in Co Dublin on the 25th of August – https://augustcraftmonth.org/acm-event/visit-the-felting-forge-open-studio-of-juliane-gorman-felthappiness-hats/

Joanne Turner will teach a workshop on August 17th at Le Chéile Arts in Dunmanway, Co Cork. More information at this Instagram post – https://www.instagram.com/p/C9kHcndtPwZ/?igsh=bHJiZ3I3NHYxMGc2

Emily Thompson will teach several needlefelting workshops within Co Cork as part of August Craft Month. More information at this Instagram post – https://www.instagram.com/p/C9kMVpfMnt5/?img_index=1

As part of Meath Made Creates, Caoimhe Tuthill of Boann Irish Felt Designs is teaching how to make wet felted flowers on Saturday, the 17th of August, at 2:30 PM – https://swiftculturalcentre.ie/event/meath-made-wet-felt-workshop-with-boann-irish-felt-designs

As part of Meath Made Creates, Lucia Errity will teach how to make a needle-felted landscape on Sunday, the 18th of August, at 10:00 AM. – https://swiftculturalcentre.ie/event/meath-made-felting-the-landscape-with-lucia-errity

If you are a member of Feltmakers Ireland and you are having a felt-related event as part of August Craft Month, please contact us so we can include you in our August Craft Month posts – feltmakersIE@gmail.com

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Exhibition: NCAD Evening Students’ Art Exhibition

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The NCAD Evening Students Art Exhibition will display students’ work from the Continuing Education in Art & Design’s (CEAD) evening courses.

When: The opening is on Thursday, the 4th of July, from 6 PM to 8:45 PM.

  • Friday, 5th of July 2024, 10 AM to 4 PM
  • Saturday, 6th of July 2024, 12 PM to 4 PM
  • Sunday, 7th of July 2024, 12 PM to 4 PM *
  • Monday, 8th of July 2024, 10 AM to 2 PM

Where: Design Building, National College of Art & Design, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8.

* Feltmakers Ireland recommends calling first if you plan to go on Sunday—the NCAD is usually closed on Sundays.

For more information, visit the website – https://www.ncad.ie/continuing-education/cead-apply/

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