Material Matters: MCAD Students and Alumni Explore Fiber Arts

This juried exhibition features 29 current MCAD students and alumni who mine the expressive potential of fiber media. As fibers, textiles, and the language of textile patterning have achieved wide currency in contemporary art practice, so too have MCAD students and alumni embraced these possibilities.

From 6 p.m. to midnight join staff and volunteers from The American Swedish Institute and create your own wire project. Wire craft is a type of slöjd, or handcraft, that is experiencing a renaissance in Sweden today. Participants can make a small wire hook, adding their own artistic embellishment.

Please also see The American Swedish Institute's Make Your Own Wire Craft event.

Participating artists:
Christopher Alday, Amelia Biewald, Arlene Birt, Ernest Bryant, Kate Cassanova, David Edgar, Gina Glynn, Tom Gormally, Anne Hand, Sarah Hedlund, Marliss Jensen, Greta McClain, Marc Manke, Cheryle Melander, Jenny Moxley, Niamh Lamb-O’Connor and Danielle Pebbles, Mari Richards, Eric Rieger, Molly Roth, Ariella Schreck and Victoria Martinez, Karen Searle, Brian Severns, Jessica Sowls, Anne Suget, Pam Valfer, Melissa Wagner-Lawler, and Angela Zammarelli. Elissa Auther, associate professor of contemporary art at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and author of String, Felt, Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art, juried the show.