Hi everyone,

Barbara Matthews was in Cleveland recently and she took the time to document our Layers show at Praxis Fiber Workshop Gallery. She edited the video and sent it on to me. I added some music and beginning and ending slides and uploaded it to our YouTube channel. Barbara also wrote the text for the YouTube description box, including links.Thank you Barbara!

 

https://youtu.be/Q1d2S5rY8wM?si=Ugh-E8WIpHZTERgt

Share this link to the video as you see fit. I would like to suggest  that when you promote this video that you include a Call to Action: an invitation to contact us about exhibiting any of our shows. Point out the link to our website in the YouTube description. You don't have to be too specific about how to navigate our website. Curators are pretty savvy since this is how they learn about artists--but they do respond to an invitation to look at more artwork. They might want to hear that we have three shows available and ready to go! 

Lines and Numbers Exhibition

Detail of Bebob, Dianne Koppisch Hricko

Photos of the work in the Lines and Numbers exhibition are now available for viewing online. This exhibition represents 26 pieces of artcloth by thirteen artists in the ArtCloth Network. If you are in Philadelphia this month, we invite you to view the works in person, so you can see all the luscious detail. And if you are there for the closing reception on March 31, you will have an opportunity to meet some of the artists. Exhibition information is posted below.

View the Lines and Numbers portfolio.

Art Cloth Network : Lines and Numbers
White Space, Crane Arts' Old School
March 3 - April 1, 2012
Reception: Sat, March 31, 5 - 8pm
1417 N. 2nd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122

Sat & Sun, 12 - 5pm
Wed – Fri by appointment only, call 215-913-7957
Open Thurs, March 8, 5 - 8pm

XXI: An exhibit of cloth by Carla Veliz

Artcloth is not only that which we make "pretty".  Sometimes we use destructive processes to make a statement or create meaning on the cloth.  A powerful example of this is an installation by artist Carla Veliz, titled XXI: Who We Are and Who We Could Become.  The exhibit was shown at Gallery Nord in San Antonio this past September. In an effort to represent the abuse humans have inflicted on the planet, each other and themselves over the past 21 centuries, Veliz spent 21 days ripping, burning, burying, cutting and destroying a 16-foot long piece of silk. Then she spent 21 days repairing the damage.

 
She documented this process in a 21 minute video.  Watching the video is an emotional experience - seeing the cloth tattered and damaged and then lovingly cared for and mended. The exhibit included still photos from the video and several assemblages created from the tools she used on her journey with the cloth. 


Read more about Veliz on her website.

View the following links to read more about the exhibit:

http://utsa.edu/today/2011/09/artistsofmo.html

http://glasstire.com/2011/09/09/gallery-nord-21-abusive-centuries-earthly-bodies/

http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/visual_arts/article/Tortured-silk-nudes-in-nature-on-exhibit-2161531.php#photo-1594072