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Esplanade customer service representative Jackie Rumble looks up at a a weaving display Wednesday at the Esplanade's gallery. The group has two displays starting Saturday called Connected by Long Threads and overandunderandoverandunder...
Medicine Hat News
A couple of new exhibitions in the Art Gallery of the Esplanade have been announced and there’s a common thread involved.
Both exhibitions will have their public reception Friday at 7 p.m., with music by Betty Bischke.
The first exhibition is overandunderandoverandunder … Three Contemporary Tapestry Artists: Murray Gibson, Jane Kidd and Ann Newdigate. The second one is Connected by Long Threads: An Installation Work by Medicine Hat Weavers Marlene Hubbard, Carmen McBride, Phyllis Netolitzky, Katherine Rankin and Susan Siegle.
The exhibition called overandunderandoverandunder … Three Contemporary Tapestry Artists will run from Dec. 1-Jan. 26.
The Esplanade says “the intricate and accomplished tapestry works by Ann Newdigate, Jane Kidd and Murray Gibson in overandunder … raise provocative and pertinent questions about the use of traditional skills, changing perceptions of time, and how tapestry, a seemingly anachronistic practice, is relevant as contemporary art.
Meanwhile, the exhibition Connected by Long Threads: An Installation Work by Medicine Hat Weavers will also run from Dec. 1-Jan. 26
The Explanade’s press release says “weaving is popular in most Canadian communities in its domestic craft form, as it is in Medicine Hat; this group of Medicine Hat’s weavers has created a unique, large-scale collaborative installation work incorporating their own weavings, which have been undertaken in connection with woven artefacts from the Esplanade Museum Collection.The exhibition will feature a hands-on, participatory element with weaving samples and small loom, to offer sensory experiences that increase accessibility for all.
The two exhibitions are guest curated by Deborah Forbes, Medicine Hat artist and art educator.
