Panelists include: Sarah Boink, Artist and Owner of Sizz Handmade Susan Martin Maffei, Artist Tegan Frisino, Professional Weaver and Owner of Comfortcloth Weaving Cecilia Tkaczyk, Owner of CeCe's Wool Farm Store
Using needle and thread, warp and weft, 28 artists mend and explore the meaning and self-expression behind textile creation and envision a future of textiles and “slow fashion” that brings storytelling back into the conversation and back into our own relationship with the textiles in our lives. Threading the Needle: Weaving Traditions into Contemporary Textile Art features the following artists: Yasmeen Abdallah Jennifer Bantz Susan Berger Sarah Boink Isabel Padilla Bonelli Heewon Chung Mae Colburn Melissa Conroy Polly Giragosian Sarah Gotowka Mimi Graminski Samara Elán Huggins Ianthe Jackson Vandana Jain Jan Kather Magdalen Lindenberg Julia K. Luff Susan Martin Maffei Stacie Mann Piotr Pandrya Katrina Rodabaugh Kari Roslund Linda Friedman Schmidt Hilla Shapira Stitch Buffalo Cameron Taylor-Brown Laura Wasserman Mallory Zondag Curated by Jenny Leijonhufvud, Gallery and Outreach Spaces Coordinator at Mann Library and Marcie Farwell, Gordon and Marjorie Osborne Textile Industry Curator at the Kheel Center
