My woven textile artwork will be exhibited at the Mary E. Black Gallery, Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia from Feb. 26th – April 12th, 2009. Contemporary Fibres is a four person exhibition featuring J. Penney Burton, Joanna Close, Margaret Forsey and myself, Rilla Marshall. The four of us graduated from NSCAD University in 2004 where we all studied textiles together. Five years later, we are all practicing textile artists, each exploring our chosen medium in very diverse ways. The opening for the exhibition takes place on Thursday, Feb. 26th at 6pm
I have also recently started an on-line blog – a great way for me to have a (free) on-line home base for my weaving practice, including both my production scarves and my artwork. Feel free to visit at: http://www.marshallarts79.blogspot.com I am updating it daily with thoughts and images about my work, inspirations, the art/craft community, and the business of craft.
submitted by Rilla Marshall
Robyn Love with the help of over fifty volunteers has created The Knitted Mile, a duplicate yellow stripe recently installed along a road in Dallas, Texas as part of the exhibition Gestures of Resistance curated by Shannon Stratton and Judith Leeman. The exhibition at Gray Matters continues until March 20, 2008. Love writes…
“The knit stripe is done in garter stitch and is four inches wide. I also am using a crocheted chain stitch to create words that are sewn on top of the garter stitch stripe. The words are (or will be) quotations and/or other thoughts about how knitting is a gesture of resistance, particularly in the context of our culture of immediate gratification as embodied or evidenced by Dallas and its car culture.The gesture of placing a mile of knitting upon the roadways of Dallas is intended to be an intervention, an interruption of the everyday environment created for cars and trucks (all that they imply) with this lovingly made, handmade element. For me, it is as much a poetic gesture as a political one.”
You can read more about Love’s amazing project on her blog
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