August 11 - October 3, 2021
Contemporary Textile spans a wide range of fiber art based practices which include quilting, thread painting, lace-working, beading, and weaving. Weaving, and our basic understanding of loom, warp, and weft are stretched to cover such divergent applications as computer generated Jacquard, tapestry, and even sculpture. Artists in this group exhibition challenge our conventional understanding of thread, fiber, cloth, and embroidery.
Characteristics of these fiber works are equally as varying, exploring opposing forces between the figurative and abstract, patterned and random, as well as formal and intuitive. While this medium speaks to a large audience, it is sometimes relegated to craft and even assigned a gendered stereotype. Like the humans who work with these practices, fiber and textile based practices are non-binary. Contemporary Textile will feature both contemporary artists along with several members of the Salina community who create quilts. In fact, quilting extends beyond many socio-economic, language, and ethnic boundaries and are produced by both formally educated and self-taught practitioners.
Artists
Shawn Marie Delker
Leadell Ediger
Kim Eichler-Messmer
Rachelle Gardner-Roe
Jean Hamilton
kg
Ellie Murphy
Jovencio de la Paz
Kathryne Perney
Jason Pollen
Casey Whittier
Kristy Yenkey
Jillian Youngbird
Jovencio de la Paz | Bionumeric Organisms 2.0 | 2021 | TC2 handwoven textiles and canvas
kg | Malutka Chmura | 2018 | tapestry weaving
Kristy Yenkey | Caliente | 2019 | cloth, thread, and batting
Kim Eichler-Messmer | Daybreak | 2020 | cotton, silk, and linen, hand dyed using natural dyes
Shawn Marie Delker | The Eye of the Storm | 2015 | thread painting
Special Programming
lunch and learn with local quilters
Wednesday, August 18
@ Salina Art Center
12-1pm
FREE
rag rug weaving Workshop with artist kg
Canceled
sharing patterns, sharing lives | Lecture by Deborah Divine
Thursday, September 9
@ Salina Art Center
6-7pm
FREE
Lunch and learn with jovencio de la paz
Wednesday, September 15
@ Salina Art Center
12-1pm
FREE
Comfort stitch workshop with artist shawn marie delker
Saturday, October 2
@ Warehouse Education Studio, 149 S 4th St. Salina, KS
10am-3pm
$25
Lunch provided and all art materials provided
Adults 15 and Up, parent/guardians may bring 1 child per adult for free to participate.
Simple and no mistakes, just stitching. Artist,Shawn Delker finds comfort in hand-stitching in her contemporary textile art. Hand-stitch two comfort stones with fabric, paper, thread, and beads.
Press for Contemporary Textile
NARM Association
KC Studio
Contemporary Textile is funded in part by the Horizons Grants Program of the Salina Arts and Humanities Foundation. Funding is provided by Horizons, a private donor group.
