TAPESTRY WEAVERS in NEW ENGLAND

An invitational exhibition curated by Priscilla May Alden and Barbara Burns. Featuring 30+ tapestries by New England's top weavers. Down East Gallery, 146 Boothbay Rd, Edgecomb, Maine.  August 6-31, 2019. Opening reception Friday, August 9, 5-7 pm You can preview the tapestries at the gallery's BLOG

Hello TWiNE blog readers! As I was updating our list of blog links, I thought why not feature some of them right here? I just added a link to Minna Rothman's  website, so go take a look at it now. Here is a preview: This tapestry "We Are All Like a Thread," was included in the recent exhibit at the Fuller Craft Museum: Context: Language, Media, and Meaning from the Surface Design Association Click here to visit her website, learn more about her tapestries and enjoy the photo gallery.

Sara Warren - Season's Pathway III Until October 31, 2018 you can see a wonderful tapestry exhibit at Highfield Hall and Gardens in Falmouth, (Cape Cod) Massachusetts.  This elegant mansion is the venue for Tapestry in New England and Beyond, an exhibit featuring many TWiNE members, and many of our friends from New England and beyond. Highfield Hall and Gardens, a stick-style Queen Anne building, was built by the Beebe family of Boston in 1878, as a summer mansion.  After the last family member died in 1932, the building was used by many groups for many purposes, but eventually was abandoned. Martha May In 1994, after 20 years of neglect, the building was on the verge on demolition when a group of citizens formed Historic Highfield, a non-profit organization to save the mansion.  It was 2007 before the restoration was complete.  Barbara Heller - detail The opening reception was on September 9th, and there was a great turnout of art...

Cilla Alden's new tapestry, "Spirit Woman" (26 x 18") was selected for the statewide ART in ME 2017 exhibit, hosted by the Boothbay Region Art Foundation , Oct 14 - Nov 12.  The juror was Chris Crossman, former director of the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, ME.  The tapestry is woven on a wool warp with silk yarns, is full of slits, and hangs out from the wall on a curved brass hanger. Barbara Burns will be teaching 3 tapestry classes in the area: Port Fiber in Portland, ME, Nov. 11-12, 2017 Halcyon Yarn in Bath, ME Jan. 26-28, 2018   Vavstuga Weaving School in Shelburne Falls, MA. June 6-8, 2018 Check her blog for details. Barbara has also produced some fascinating short videos about her newest tapestry project, "The Little Devil Corset."   You can watch the videos by clicking here and here .

Loominations -  TWiNE 2017   will run from February 3 through April 8, 2017 at Emporium Framing and Gallery in South Berwick, Maine.  This TWiNE  exhibit features 34 tapestries by 12 tapestry artists:  Lou Abbott, Priscilla May Alden ,  Janet Austin ,  Barbara Burns , Ann LeRoyer, Beth, Minear,  Minna Rothman , Linda Rhynard,  Sue Pretty ,  Tamar Shadur ,  Micala Sidore , Betsy Wing.   (NOTE: click on an image to see it bigger)   CONGRATULATIONS to Minna Rothman and Barbara Burns for having their tapestries accepted into Heallreaf 2 , which will show at 2 UK venues in April and June 2017.  (left) Minna Rothman Innocence Lost (below) Barbara Burns -  Pas de Deux

Two TWiNE members have tapestries included in this juried exhibit of the Massachusetts / Rhode Island chapter of Surface Design Association. The juror is Marcia Young, Editor of Fiber Art Now Magazine. The show is at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, in Watertown, MA, until November 3, 2016. Minna Rothman "Migration 2015: The Wall." Janet Austin "Chaos: After the Storm"

Check out some of our members' shows this summer. Barbara Burns tapestries will be featured at Stable on Front Gallery, 110 Front St, Bath, Maine. (Left: Ingrid, Belly Dancer in Repose) Priscilla and Richard Alden have created a new body of work inspired by explorations and memories of ancient cultures. Join them for the opening reception on Friday, August 5, 5-8 pm. Ancient Flow will be on exhibit August 1-28 at Studio 53 Fine Art Gallery, 53 Townsend Ave, Boothbay Harbor, ME. Sara Hotchkiss's beautiful rugs can be seen at her gallery: Old Point Comfort,  28 Pitcher Road,  Waldoboro, ME 04572      207-832-8133   Call ahead to make sure she's there. She is also participating in the following shows: July 29 thru July 31     Maine Craft Guild Show  at 
the Atlantic Oceanside Event Center, 119 Eden St.,  Bar Harbor. Please note new location   mainecraftsguild.com August 13 thru 14 ...