Arthur Wesley Dow
Untitled, accompanying the poem "To A. W. D.," in the book By Salt Marshes by Everett Stanley Hubbard (Publisher and location unknown, 1908)
Woodcut (color) on laid paper
1908
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Textile Museum: A Calligrapher's Art: Inscribed Cotton Ikat from Yemen
Adjustments in the placement of
the warps enabled the weavers to engage in the play of patterns
created by several colors and the arrangement of abstract forms.
This exhibition will explore these textiles as an art of weavers
and dyers and wel...
City Gallery Wellington: Shane Cotton: Works from the Last Fifteen Years
Shane Cotton, curated by Lara Strongman, Senior Curator at City Gallery,
will be presented in three of City Gallery's four exhibition spaces and
spans the period 1993 to 2003. The exhibition will include images that
have been considered by many...
Fuller Museum of Art: Quilt National 2001
Quilt National 2001 is the twelfth in the series of international, juried, biennial competitions dedicated to promoting the contemporary quilt as an art form. For over 20 years, Quilt National has showcased the most exciting and innovative trends ...
Portland Museum of Art: Calico & Chintz: Early American Quilts from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
These fabrics were used by affluent quiltmakers along the Eastern Seaboard and on Southern plantations for the sumptuous bedcovers that were an important decorative element in prosperous homes.
"These rare and beautiful quilts will come as a...
BAT Centre: Stitches and Clay
Their fine embroidery is done on 100% cotton fabric. Penguin and Fiestas
no 5 crochet cotton is used as the yarn to make a very fine product, said
Bayside Gallery curator Sue Greenberg.
She said the clay component of this multi-media exhi...
Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History: Through These Eyes: The Photography of P.H. Polk
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Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts: Through These Eyes: The Photographs of P.H. Polk
He photographed
dignitaries who visited the school, the middle-class African Americans who
sought out his studio, and the farmers and laborers who worked the cotton
fields of surrounding Macon County. His portraits show the inherent dignity ...
Museum of Craft and Folk Art: Ragged Beauty: Repair and Reuse, Past and Present, Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada, Guest Curator
The exhibition consists of three sections. In the first, visitors have a unique opportunity to view boro, Japanese bedding covers and other functional textiles created in the 19th and early 20th centuries from recycled indigo-dyed cotton rags and ...
Textile Museum: Messages from Minus Time:
Revolutionary Textiles of the Chavín Culture of Peru
In addition to being great artists, the creators of the textiles were incredibly technically inventive and produced the first use of many textile structures and designs in the Americas: tapestry, painting of images, warp wrapping, and weft-loop pi...
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: The Arts Guy's SUITS: The Clothes Make The Man
Inspired by the increasing visibility of corporate sponsors at athletic competitions and well aware that public support for the arts is dwindling, The Art Guys decided to sell advertising space on their own bodies. That's how the Suits project was...
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art: Call for Aritsts: The Cooper Union School of Art Summer Residency Program
Application deadline
Friday, March 4, 2005
For more information and an application please visit our website:
www.cooper.edu/artsummer
On campus housing is available.
Financial ...
Cantor Arts Center Stanford University: Flaming Red Cloth: Color and Design in the Weavings of the Iban of Borneo
Masteller, who has researched Indonesian textile arts for 20 years, explained, "A talented Iban woman would gain the highest social rank if she showed the ability to dye cotton thread in a deep, saturated red color 'like the flames of fire.' She ...
Orange Regional Art Gallery: The Enduring Glance: 20th Century Photography from the Pat Corrigan Collection
Orange Regional Gallery was opened in April 1986, and has since developed a reputation as one of the finest regional art museums in Australia.
The Gallery is set in landscaped gardens in the middle of the Civic Square, a complex bordered by ...
Artery - Artist Cooperative of Davis: Fabric Art: On and Off the Wall - Marjan Kluepfel and Connie Taxiera
Marjan has lived around the world (the Netherlands, Australia, Hawaii, and Southern US). The natural wonders of these locations inspire her art quilts. Using many techniques including fabric dyeing, painting, printing, pleating, and machine embroi...
University of South Australia, Art Museum: Home is Where the Heart Is
These issues are at the heart of contemporary Australia's continuing quest to renegotiate its relationship with its past and with the place we all call 'home'.
The exhibition and historical material presented in the catalogue show that Austr...
Warren M. Robbins Center Gallery, University of Michigan: The Playground Show: Krista Hoefle, Jason Lahr, Leslie Raymond
Established in 1995 and named in honor of the founder of The National Museum of African Art and advisory board member of the School of Art & Design, the Warren M Robbins Gallery, part of the Warren Robbins Graduate Center at the University of Mich...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Fabric of Enchantment: Indonesian Batik from the North Coast of Java
These cloths not only are tours de force in technical achievement, but also are incredibly beautiful symbols of status,
notes Louise W. Mackie, CMA’s curator of textiles and Islamic art. It is a great pleasure to bring t...
National Museum of African Art: Hats Off! A Salute to Africa Headwear
Modifying or adorning the body is a means
through which African peoples express their
collective and individual pride, ideals, aesthetics
and identity. Many African cultures throughout
the continent have long considered the head the
center ...
Textile Museum of Canada: Dark Cloth: Catherine Heard, Barb Hunt, Marcel Marois and Carl Stewart
Dark Cloth reflects the Textile Museum's ongoing commitment to contemporary art programming and exemplifies the institution's dedication to Canadian artists and their work. A wide range of programs and lectures has been developed for the exhibiti...
Cambridge Galleries: Catherine Heard: Effigies
Carefully sewn together and with great attention to detail, these figures recall to us the craft tradition of handmade rag dolls. And yet, to call these objects dolls seems very inappropriate. These figures contradict everything we know or assoc...
globalARTfund: Artflames: Adri A.C. de Fluiter
Of course the latest works are also based on the idea of the table. The table is a most important piece of furniture where human interaction takes place. Sitting around it, eating, talking and dealing. But these tables are not stable, they are wob...
Dublin Arts Council: Danièle Schiffmann: Works of Paper
Schiffmann writes, “Water creates slippery shades, layers and pleats. Water flows in sinuous branches and quiet ponds. In its strongest form, water erodes away the earth…. Water dictates its energy in every piece of art that I create.”
Schif...
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art: Decelerate AND foldoverfold: Marcie Miller Gross
Decelerate (December 16–February 19)
Decelerate presents works by ten artists who explore the concept of slowing down in a time-crunched culture in a variety of ways. Sometimes this slowness emerges as a contemplative, creative process, i...
Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre: Pathways: A Walk Through the Australian Landscape
Jenny Bowker’s quilts take the viewer on a walk through Australia’s forest and beaches, and uses pathways and tracks through the landscape as a metaphor for moving through life.
Beth and Trevor Reid work together to depict Australian rivers an...
Powerhouse Museum: Shanghai Childhood: Herta's Story
Herta Rosenzweig and her family, like thousands of other European Jews, escaped Nazi–occupied Vienna for the sanctuary of Shanghai China in 1939. As a major international trading port for over a century, Shanghai's open-door immigration policy pro...
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts: Mirage: A Group Show Curated by Bec Dean
Mirage transforms perception through a combination of atmosphere and heat. It creates an illusion interpreted not only through our sensory perceptions but possibly conditioned by our psychological states. Is Mirage an optical illusion that plays b...
City Gallery Wellington, 360-Michael Hirschfeld Gallery: Good Work: The Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection
It takes a bold collector to buy artworks that have no permanent existence
as physical objects. But Wellington couple Jim Barr and Mary Barr have never
shied away from challenging or contentious works.From its origins in the early 1970s, the ...
Judah L. Magnes Museum: Richard Nagler Photography Competition for 2000
They began
the competition in order to support and address the needs of
the many photographers of merit, worldwide, for whom they
...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Winslow Homer and the Critics: Forging a National Art in th 1870s
One of the most visible artists in New York City, Homer exhibited frequently at
national and international venues including the National Academy of Design and
the American Society of Painters in Water Color, and at prestigious private cl...
Center on Contemporary Art: Emotional Rescue: The ContemporaryArtProject Collection
ContemporaryArtProject LLC, founded in August 1999 by curator Linda Farris, collects cutting edge international art toeventually be gifted to museums. In the interim, individual works rotate between members' homes and are available for museum loan...
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