The exhibition period is over and I just got my work, No Signal, Mauve back from Evanstone Arts Center Illinois in good shape.
American Tapestry Alliance (ATA) writes about the Exhibition:
Thinking Through Tapestry is a juried exhibition featuring work that celebrates, explores, and builds upon specialized techniques often associated with tapestry. Thinking Through Tapestry invites artists to submit work exploring discontinuous weft-faced woven processes rooted in tapestry techniques, such as wedge weave, pulled tapestry, the use of hachures, or other structures, including the H.V. (Handarbetets Vänner) technique, also known as the Theo Moorman technique. The exhibition seeks to highlight work illustrating the close relationship between tapestry weaving*, drawing, painting, and sculpture. Experimentation and inclusion of additional materials (such as clay, steel, or wood) are encouraged and welcome; however, the majority of the submitted work must incorporate mostly handwoven work.
The jurors for the exhibition were Emily Silver and Erin M. Riley. Emily lives and works in Los Angeles and is on the faculty at Santa Monica College in the Sculpture Department and the Director/Curator of the Pete and Susan Barrett Gallery. Emily holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City and an MFA from Penn State University. She is also the co-founder of L.A. Tactile Lab, along with Svetlana Shigroff and Liv Aanrud. Erin M. Riley is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work focuses on women and women’s issues primarily in hand-woven, hand-dyed wool tapestries. Riley’s work challenges society’s comfort level by displaying shocking images, including nudity, drugs, violence, self-harm, sexuality, and menstruation. A catalog will accompany the exhibition. Artists do not have to be members of the American Tapestry Alliance to submit work.
*The American Tapestry Alliance defines tapestry for this exhibition as any work created through a woven process on any loom resulting in a weft-faced structure utilizing a discontinuous weft.