During this online session of Textiles Close Up, you will gain behind-the-scenes insights into significant textile collections and exhibitions while exploring how materials, making traditions, and the dressed body continue to influence contemporary creative practice. The roundtable will also provide opportunities for audience engagement through discussion and questions.
Whether you are an artist, scholar, educator, curator, collector, student, or simply curious about textiles and material culture, this program offers a unique opportunity to connect with leading voices in the field and learn from institutions stewarding important textile histories and innovations.
The session will include time for questions from the audience and interaction with presenters. The roundtable will be recorded and made publicly accessible after the event.
Presenters include:
- Skä•noñh Great Law of Peace Center
- Thousand Islands Arts Center ~ Home of the Handweaving Museum
- Syracuse University’s Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection
- Everson Museum of Art
- Cornell University’s Hybrid Body Lab
- The Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection (CF+TC)
Learn more about the upcoming Textiles Close Up: Virtual Roundtable.
Image: Berta Frey, Woven, 1993, Courtesy of the Thousand Island Art Center – Home of the Handweaving Museum.
