WEFT: Women Empowering Fiber Traditions

A warp and weft are considered the two basic components used in a weaving to turn thread and/or yarn into fabric. As one of the core supporting structures throughout all textiles, the horizontal supporting threads interlaced through the weaving are called the weft.   Irregular stitches, wrapped fibers, gushing forms, woven strands, inked surfaces, soaked parchment, and the manipulation of the ‘everyday’ will be crucial and visible components within WEFT. The scope of mediums represented within this exhibition will encompass various approaches to fiber traditions. These practices are usually associated with ‘women work’ as they were consider to be in the domestic sphere. Knowledge of empowerment through these craft-based practices and acknowledgment of these forgotten/discarded domestic traditions will be seen. For all of the conceptual underpinning that inspired their creation and interpretation, these works from an all female group of artists, will remain committed to an intriguing physicality that comes from palpable material usage and technique.

The Council on Culture & Arts curated the exhibition on behalf of the City of Tallahassee as part of the Art in Public Places program.

Artists on Display
Sarah Black Sadler
Kelly Boehmer
Denise Bookwalter
Mona Bozorgi
Kiley Brandt
Jillian Browning
Lisa Co
Laura De Valencia
Liz DiDonna
Leah Gossett
Linda Hall
Holly Hanessian
Tenee’ Hart
Cynthia Hollis
Celeste Ivory
Amanda Kleinhans
Judy Rushin-Knopf
Anne Stagg
Brittany Watkins
April Webb

Featured at COCA are Cynthia Hollis’ Pussy Monster series. To see the full exhibition, visit the TLH City Hall Gallery at 300 S Adams Street during regular business hours.

Special thanks to guest curator Tenee Hart.