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 August 11 - October 3, 2021

Contemporary Textile spans a wide range of fiber art based practices which include quilting, thread painting, lace-working, beading, and weaving. Weaving, and our basic understanding of loom, warp, and weft are stretched to cover such divergent applications as computer generated Jacquard, tapestry, and even sculpture. Artists in this group exhibition challenge our conventional understanding of thread, fiber, cloth, and embroidery.

Characteristics of these fiber works are equally as varying, exploring opposing forces between the figurative and abstract, patterned and random, as well as formal and intuitive. While this medium speaks to a large audience, it is sometimes relegated to craft and even assigned a gendered stereotype. Like the humans who work with these practices, fiber and textile based practices are non-binary. Contemporary Textile will feature both contemporary artists along with several members of the Salina community who create quilts. In fact, quilting extends beyond many socio-economic, language, and ethnic boundaries and are produced by both formally educated and self-taught practitioners.

Artists

Shawn Marie Delker

Leadell Ediger

Kim Eichler-Messmer

Rachelle Gardner-Roe

Jean Hamilton

kg

Ellie Murphy

Jovencio de la Paz

Kathryne Perney

Jason Pollen

Casey Whittier

Kristy Yenkey

Jillian Youngbird

Jovencio de la Paz | Bionumeric Organisms 2.0 | 2021 | TC2 handwoven textiles and canvas

Jovencio de la Paz | Bionumeric Organisms 2.0 | 2021 | TC2 handwoven textiles and canvas

kg | Malutka Chmura | 2018 | tapestry weaving

kg | Malutka Chmura | 2018 | tapestry weaving

Kristy Yenkey | Caliente | 2019 | cloth, thread, and batting

Kristy Yenkey | Caliente | 2019 | cloth, thread, and batting

 
Kim Eichler-Messmer | Daybreak | 2020 | cotton, silk, and linen, hand dyed using natural dyes

Kim Eichler-Messmer | Daybreak | 2020 | cotton, silk, and linen, hand dyed using natural dyes

Shawn Marie Delker | The Eye of the Storm | 2015 | thread painting

Shawn Marie Delker | The Eye of the Storm | 2015 | thread painting

Special Programming

lunch and learn with local quilters

Wednesday, August 18

@ Salina Art Center

12-1pm

FREE

rag rug weaving Workshop with artist kg

Canceled

sharing patterns, sharing lives | Lecture by Deborah Divine

Thursday, September 9

@ Salina Art Center

6-7pm

FREE

Lunch and learn with jovencio de la paz

Wednesday, September 15

@ Salina Art Center

12-1pm

FREE

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Comfort stitch workshop with artist shawn marie delker

Saturday, October 2

@ Warehouse Education Studio, 149 S 4th St. Salina, KS

10am-3pm

$25

Lunch provided and all art materials provided

Adults 15 and Up, parent/guardians may bring 1 child per adult for free to participate.

Simple and no mistakes, just stitching. Artist,Shawn Delker finds comfort in hand-stitching in her contemporary textile art. Hand-stitch two comfort stones with fabric, paper, thread, and beads.

Press for Contemporary Textile

NARM Association

KC Studio

Contemporary Textile is funded in part by the Horizons Grants Program of the Salina Arts and Humanities Foundation. Funding is provided by Horizons, a private donor group.