C o a t p h o to : R e n é e C o m e t /
l i e - U s e , S a c r e d
, a n d
E a r t h
p h o t o s : C o u r t e s y o f t h e a rtists
Top:
Woman’s Jacket,
Persia, 19th century;
silk, cotton, metallic
wrapped cotton
Bottom:
Woman’s Coat,
China, late 19 th
century; silk, ribbon,
metal buttons
Above:
Jane Dunnewold
Sacred Planet: The Pride of.Barbados/Mask,/Pride ofBarbados
, 2009
digitally printed, dyed, screen-printed, stitched cotton
3 . 2 5 x 5 . 8 f t .
Below:
Maggy' Rozycki Hiltner
Hothouse Flowers,
2005
cotton, found textiles
1.5 x 12 ft.
Left:
Joh Ricci
Earth Day
, 2008
rayon, cotton, nylon
5.75 x 6 in. dia.
E s t uary: M o o d s a n d M o d es
(2007)
has been dow nsized in length to
35 feet from its original 53 feet.
Its diagonal arrangement sug-
gests flow and enlargement; the
ripples o f the paper echo water
currents, and the color shifts
gradually from a pale yellow
through green to deep blue,
implying change in depth and
constituent elem ents and beau-
tifully suiting the show ’s theme.
It’s unfortunate that the absence
o f natural light in the w indow -
less galleries eliminates another
source o f visual variability in
the piece.
Images and ideas - o f reuse,
econom y, water, vegetation
- recur in this densely packed
show o f 48 works by artists
from five continents. It’s an
optim istic aggregation o f caring
and beauty, and the historic
examples provide another meta-
phor: Green dye has often been
fugitive, just as “green” is hard
to sustain.
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A n in te ra ctiv e o n lin e catalog is
a v a ila b le a t teoctilem useum . org.
I t also d ocu m en ts the g ro w th o f a
la ce-co v ered a rbor em bedded w ith
g rass seed by M ic h e le B rod y ,
in sta lle d in th e m u seu m s garden.
J a n e t K o p lo s is th e co-a u th or o f
Makers: A History o f American
Studio Craft
(2010, U n iv ersity o f
N o r th C a ro lin a P ress).
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