Special Events with Featured Artist Nancy Hayes

 

Gallery Opening and Artist Presentation

In-Person Event with Nancy Hayes

Saturday June 29 from 4 pm to 8 pm

Artist Presentation begins at 7 pm

Please join us for our gallery openning and Artist Talk, for the new show by our Featured Artist Nancy Hayes, called "Motif - Hidden and Revealed". We look forward to seeing you!

 

Full Day Creative Workshop

Saturday July 27 from 10 am - 5 pm

In-Person creative exploration

with Nancy Hayes and Adrian Burke

Please join us for a day of pattern play with a special focus on wall-treatments.  We will collectively explore illustration and design methods and new concepts for home and apparel decor.

During this full-day creative workshop we will learn how to create repeating pattern designs for wall treatments and other surfaces and develop a small collection of color and print inspirations.

Space is limited to 8 participants

The workshop fee is $225. Please contact us directly to inquire about our Artist Scholarship Fund. An optional workshop supplies kit is available for $35, or feel free to bring your own supplies.

Click here to register and pay for workshop

 

Artist Presentation Part 2 and show closing celebration

In-Person Event with Nancy Hayes

September 21 from 4 pm to 8 pm

Artist Presentation begins at 7 pm

Please join us to view the exhibit in the gallery and new creations developed during this Featured Artist collaboration. This event will be a closing celebration for this show and possibly there could be purchasing opportunities of creations developed during this collaboration.

Past Events

Past Events for Featured Artist Kiyomi Yatsuhashi Sunday October 8, 2023 from 3 pm to 6 pm Show Closing Celebration In-Person Event with Kiyomi Yatsuhashi No registration required A chance to view the wonderful exhibit in the gallery and celebrate with our Featured Artist Kiyomi Yatsuhashi. Stop in anytime between 3 pm to 6 pm. We look forward to seeing you!   July 15, 2023 from 2 pm to 5 pm Artist Demonstration Rozome Japanese Batik Demonstrating wax-resist dyeing   June 17, 2023 from 4 pm to 7 pm Artist Presentation Contemporary Expressions in Japanese Traditional Dress Presenting methods and practices for kimono and yukata creation Artist Presentation starts at 6 pm Open Studio from 4 pm to 7 pm About our Featured Artist Kiyomi Yatsuhashi Kiyomi Yatsuhashi has been working with Japanese textile techniques including Rozome, Shibori and Indigo Dyeing for more than 20 years. Her work includes traditional crafts as well as large scale mixed media installations, and collaborations with visual and performing artists. Yatsuhashi studied Fine Art History at Tufts University, Studio Arts (printmaking, ceramics and mixed media) at the Museum School (SMFA), and Japanese Textile Dyeing at Kyoto City University. She has exhibited and collaborated extensively in Japan, Korea, Germany and the United States.

Past Events for Featured Artist

Agusta Agustusson

Sew4Rights.org

The project, as envisioned by Textile Artist Agusta Agustsson, is to make many crowd-sourced community quilts to support women’s health and reproductive rights. The “Courthouse Steps” pattern is a reference to the Supreme Court’s decision on Roe v. Wade in June 2022. Quilt Blocks continue to be made and are being assembled into many  large community quilts for display.

Featured Artist Event

July 30, 2022

Two events:

Sew4Rights.org Square-Making Event 12 pm - 3 pm

Augusta Agustusson Artist Talk -  5 pm

Videos of these events with be posted as we continue to support for Augusta's project. Please contact Augusta directly to participate.

 

Artist Statement

The Courthouse Steps and Sew4Rights Rage Squares

"I organized the Courthouse Steps and Rage Squares in response to the Supreme Court’s reconsideration of Roe v Wade. I didn’t want to create a solo piece. I wanted to amplify the voices of many women. The form was inspired by quilts in the Museum of Fine Arts exhibition, “Fabric of a Nation”. One was a signature quilt in support of women’s suffrage and another was a Gee’s Bend quilt of the courthouse steps pattern.

I also had a quilt in the exhibition, “Blanket of Red Flowers”. It was made in the Seventies, a heady time for women’s right. As I read about the Justice’s deliberations about Roe last December I knew that today’s young women would not have the rights and experiences I had as a young woman. I knew I had to show women’s voices and feelings. Rather than signatures as in the suffrage quilt there are words from women’s hearts. The courthouse steps pattern was the perfect vehicle for presenting these feelings.

When Alito’s opinion was leaked even though I was expecting it, I was enraged. The formality of the courthouse steps no longer seemed adequate to express the rage. Other women felt the same. The idea of Rage Squares was born. Women responded immediately.

The quilts have already been to protests. I expect them to go to many more as we work to undo the damage from this Supreme Court."

Past Events for Featured Artist Clare Tattersall ThunderLily We had a great time hosting Clare Tattersall of ThunderLily, a digital Fashion Designer from the UK currently living in NYC. Clare creates wearable technology and applied components to animate her Fashions. We highly recommend anyone interested in tech, fashion and music, to follow Thunderlily and please view videos from our past events by clicking events tiles below.    Closing Event and Artist Talk Saturday September 25 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm In-person event and then heading over to RI Fashion Week!   Select event name below to view video!   Virtual Panel Discussion Thursday September 9 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm "The Relationship between  Music and Fashion"   Opening Night Artist Talk & Demonstration Thursday September 9 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm "The Relationship between  Music and Fashion"