Virtual “Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women” Lecture with Mary Savig

Online, Renwick Gallery

Join Mary Savig, the Lloyd Herman Curator of Craft, for a lecture about the exhibition “Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women”, now on view at SAAM’s Renwick Gallery. The artists featured mastered everyday materials, subverted conventions, and transformed humble threads into sublime creations. In this virtual program, Savig shares how the exhibition came together […]

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Virtual Artist Conversation: Erica Lord & Maggie Thompson

Online, Renwick Gallery

Join Sharing Honors and Burdens: Renwick Invitational 2023 artists Erica Lord (Athabaskan/ Iñupiat) and Maggie Thompson (Fond du Lac Ojibwe) in conversation with guest curator, Lara Evans (Cherokee Nation). Thompson, a fiber artist and designer who derives inspiration from her Ojibwe heritage, explores family history and broader themes relating to her Native American experience in her work. Lord […]

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Virtual Studio Tour with Artist Katie Hudnall

Online, Renwick Gallery

Join artist Katie Hudnall virtually as she provides a behind-the-scenes look at her woodworking studio in Madison, Wisconsin, while bringing new purpose to salvaged materials, crafting works of differing sizes and shapes and creating harmony from imperfections.  Participants will see the tools Hudnall regularly uses in her work, learn about her creative process, and ask her […]

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