As always, this newsletter is a joy. Feeling especially inspired by your colour experimentations. Is the grid in your sketchbook made of cutouts from a magazine?
I, too, saw and loved the Woven Histories exhibit. I saw it at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC last March. I liked it so much that I went back a second time 1in the early summer before it closed. My favorites were the many Anni Albers weavings and her design drawings. I also loved Ruth Asawa’s wire woven baskets. I thought the exhibit did a truly effective job of tracing textile weaving from its roots, through the Industrial Age to becoming artistic pieces, and also in showing how woven textiles have affected those who made them in order to earn a living. The photos of the factory worker whose body & spine were affected by daily hours of weaving was striking.
Like Amanda, I recommend seeing this exhibit if you can. It’s lovely, artistic, & educational. It’s also a good length and has defined purposes in what the designers wanted to convey. I sometimes get saturated when I go to large art museums.
As always, this newsletter is a joy. Feeling especially inspired by your colour experimentations. Is the grid in your sketchbook made of cutouts from a magazine?
That's so kind to say, thank you!! Glad my little colour experiments are inspiring to you too - and good eye, they are cutouts from magazines!
I, too, saw and loved the Woven Histories exhibit. I saw it at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC last March. I liked it so much that I went back a second time 1in the early summer before it closed. My favorites were the many Anni Albers weavings and her design drawings. I also loved Ruth Asawa’s wire woven baskets. I thought the exhibit did a truly effective job of tracing textile weaving from its roots, through the Industrial Age to becoming artistic pieces, and also in showing how woven textiles have affected those who made them in order to earn a living. The photos of the factory worker whose body & spine were affected by daily hours of weaving was striking.
Like Amanda, I recommend seeing this exhibit if you can. It’s lovely, artistic, & educational. It’s also a good length and has defined purposes in what the designers wanted to convey. I sometimes get saturated when I go to large art museums.