Philadelphia and New York Guilds Monthly Movie Night- We’ve been invited to their March movie night, including “time for lively discussion”.

Saturday March 12 at 7pm; see newsletter for Zoom link.

Our March movies highlight two amazing weavers.

Olga de Amaral (born 1932) is a Colombian textile and visual artist known for her large-scale abstract artworks. She transforms two dimensional textiles into sculptural installations that seamlessly blend art, craft, and design. Her works are called ‘off stretcher’ allowing for 360 degree viewing of the weaving process. The themes of architecture, mathematics, landscape, and socio-cultural dichotomies of Columbia are woven into her work with each strand of fiber.

Cynthia Schira was born in 1934 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. She was an early adopter of computer weaving programs and the Jacquard loom and has folded brilliant hues, patterns, and emotions into her work over the years. Yet it isn’t uncommon to also see geometry, equations, and codes within her later woven abstractions, reflections of her form’s mathematical roots. It’s this rare blend of right-brain/left-brain consideration that sets her work apart. It also has guided Schira, a 2000 American Craft Council Gold Medalist, through the increasingly technological world of jacquard weaving.