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8th annual GFR lecture at GFR Center for Tapestry Studies
29 Nov '05
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The Gloria F. Ross Center for Tapestry Studies announced that the tapestry center will arrange The Eighth Annual GFR Lecture.
Details:
Friday, May 19, 2006, 5:30 pm
St. Francis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts
107 West Palace Avenue, just off the Plaza
Santa Fe, New Mexico
The lecture is co-presented by the GFR Center for Tapestry Studies and the Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe.
The lecture is free and open to the public. The Museum is free to the public every Friday night from 5 until 8 pm.
Abstract
Sue Walker, founding director of the Victorian Tapestry Workshop (VTW), will tell the remarkable story of the Workshop, an enterprise that grew from the imaginations of artists and enlightened community leaders to become the largest provider of public art in Australia. Today the VTW is an impressive large-scale atelier in the grand tapestry tradition, working globally in the contemporary art world.
Having no exact parallels today in scale, ambition or philosophy, the VTW attributes part of its extraordinary and rapid success not only to Australia's clear light and fine quality wool, but also to the decision to employ weavers who are themselves trained as artists and are thus able to interact with designer artists in a rich and lively collaboration.
Ms. Walker will illustrate her talk with many examples of the 350 tapestries woven under her leadership and ranging in size from exquisite miniatures to monumental wall pieces. Her particular focus will be the fascinating process of artistic interaction through which an artist's image is reinvented in tapestry as a new and vital form while retaining truth to the artist's intention.
Details:
Friday, May 19, 2006, 5:30 pm
St. Francis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts
107 West Palace Avenue, just off the Plaza
Santa Fe, New Mexico
The lecture is co-presented by the GFR Center for Tapestry Studies and the Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe.
The lecture is free and open to the public. The Museum is free to the public every Friday night from 5 until 8 pm.
Abstract
Sue Walker, founding director of the Victorian Tapestry Workshop (VTW), will tell the remarkable story of the Workshop, an enterprise that grew from the imaginations of artists and enlightened community leaders to become the largest provider of public art in Australia. Today the VTW is an impressive large-scale atelier in the grand tapestry tradition, working globally in the contemporary art world.
Having no exact parallels today in scale, ambition or philosophy, the VTW attributes part of its extraordinary and rapid success not only to Australia's clear light and fine quality wool, but also to the decision to employ weavers who are themselves trained as artists and are thus able to interact with designer artists in a rich and lively collaboration.
Ms. Walker will illustrate her talk with many examples of the 350 tapestries woven under her leadership and ranging in size from exquisite miniatures to monumental wall pieces. Her particular focus will be the fascinating process of artistic interaction through which an artist's image is reinvented in tapestry as a new and vital form while retaining truth to the artist's intention.
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