Links of Interest


An interview with Diane Weymar, the woman behind the Tiny Pricks project:

https://www.thejealouscurator.com/blog/2020/11/06/time-capsule-within-a-time-capsule/


A coral reef project by Vanessa Barragao:

https://www.thejealouscurator.com/blog/2020/11/05/vanessa-barragao-2/


An interview with Ali Ferguson, who  replicates handwriting taken from old letters and postcards, by meticulously hand stitching them onto scraps of fragile and discarded old textiles.

 https://www.textileartist.org/ali-ferguson-from-conception-to-creation?


Sophia Narrett traces her embroideries to “playing with dolls”. In the artist’s works from this year, you might see a hallucinatory experience of isolation, or a fairly run-of-the-mill orgy.

https://hyperallergic.com/600489/sophia-narrett-traces-her-embroideries-to-playing-with-dolls/


Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announces that Windgate Foundation has provided a $17.5 million gift to advance the field of craft through a dedicated position, research, programmatic support, as well as an acquisitions fund to bring craft objects into the museum’s permanent collection.

https://crystalbridges.org/blog/crystal-bridges-museum-of-american-art-announces-17-5m-from-windgate-foundation-to-champion-american-craft/


The threads of Ivorian artist Joana Choumali’s body of work intricately weave together emotions, memories, thoughts, and dreams.

 https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-joana-choumalis-vividly-embroidered-photographs-expressions-hope?


Silvia Levenson’s “Strange Little Girls” mixed media series: “I refuse thinking to the childhood as the “Golden Age” to be looked back with nostalgia … Here, my Strange Little Girls, living in an era where the edge between dreams and reality is very evanescent. ”

https://www.thejealouscurator.com/blog/2020/11/18/silvia-levenson/


In her fiber-based reliefs, Malaysian artist Anne Samat disrupts classic woven patterns with unusual objects: toy soldiers, rakes, and plastic swords are intertwined in the multi-color threads that fan outward and billow down onto the floor.

 https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/anne-samat-follow-your-heart-wholeheartedly/


San Antonio Museum of Art acquires first works by contemporary Native American artists.  The museum’s collection now includes a mixed-media garment by Jeffrey Gibson (Choctaw and Cherokee) that combines Indigenous weaving techniques with pop cultural and queer iconography.

https://hyperallergic.com/602076/san-antonio-museum-of-art-acquires-first-works-by-contemporary-native-american-artists/


The Singular Practice of Sonya Clark will be showcased for the first time with a full-scale survey at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, D.C. A textile and social practice artist, Clark explores issues of race, identity, visibility, and Blackness, expressing herself in a variety of mediums, from mixed-media and installation to sculpture and performance.

https://www.culturetype.com/2020/11/21/national-museum-of-women-in-the-arts-is-presenting-first-survey-of-textile-and-social-practice-artist-sonya-clark-in-march-2021/