Peace and Thread

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  Jennifer Frye

  

  This Artist Adorns Tree Scars with Embroidery

  Apartment Therapy - Kenya Foy

  One of the many amazing qualities about trees is their resilience. When bark suffers damage, the tree forms callused edges around the impacted area …

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  Jennifer Frye

  

  Depth, History, and Reverence: The Intricacies of Bisa Butler’s Quilted Portraits

  VOGUE.COM - By Grace Edquist

  Bisa Butler thought her life as an artist was over. It was 1995, her final year at Howard University, and the fine art major, pregnant with her first daughter, found herself overcome with unbearable nausea at the smell of paint. With a thesis project left to complete, Butler turned to fabrics as a …

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  Jennifer Frye

  

  These Artists Are Changing Our Expectations of What Tapestry Can Be

  artsy.net - Julia Fiore

  Jun 13, 2019 4:41PM “Along with cave paintings, threads were among the earliest transmitters of meaning,” Anni Albers wrote in her canonical 1965 tome …

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  Jennifer Frye

  

  Diedrick Brackens Weaves 21st-Century Concerns into Moving Tapestries

  artsy.net - Alina Cohen

  Feb 19, 2020 11:13PM In order to enhance his thread-based practice, the artist Diedrick Brackens recently enrolled in a poetry course at UCLA. The …

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  Jennifer Frye

  

  4 Curators on the Artists They’re Celebrating This Black History Month

  artsy.net - Artsy Editorial

  Feb 20, 2020 5:59PM In honor of Black History Month, we asked four curators to tell us about the artists of Africa and the African diaspora who …

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  Jennifer Frye

  

  From the Bauhaus to the Venice Biennale: How textiles became art

  artbasel.com - Art Basel

  Anni Albers, Sheila Hicks, and Pacita Abad have revolutionized yarns