For Immediate Release 10/10/22:
A great range of textile art exhibitions, installations, and events will thread across Miami from October 2022-January 2023. “Threading the City” is a fusion of the Fiber Artists Miami Association (FAMA) and the accumulated experiences of local and international curators, art historians, and artists. The city-wide events are an investment in economic, cultural, and social platforms that revitalize and showcase the extraordinary talent of local and international textile artists.
Primary Programming and Curators:
- Adriana Herrera, Ph.D., Aluna Art Foundation, funded by the Florida Humanities Council, will lead scholar-led free online and face-to-face programs exploring fiber arts to deepen the understanding of Miami and the burgeoning fiber art movement.
- Laura Marsh from Artnezs, El Portal, Little River, curates a no-walls outdoor exhibition with interactive, site-specific, hands-on artworks.
- The 2022 edition of Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse looks back to Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, written when women were barred from exercising their innate freedom. “There is no gate, lock, or bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” This exhibition, A Room of Our Own, will transform The CAMP Gallery‘s North Miami space into a room made entirely of fiber, becoming the embodiment of personal freedom. –Melanie Prapopoulos, director, The CAMP.
- Carola Bravo, Ph.D., curates Life at Street Level, a provocative exhibit that interweaves fiber with photography, photo collage, and installation works to capture an instant view of Miami at the street level that conveys urban resilience.
- The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas, formerly Kendall Art Center, exhibits Subverting Materials: Fiber and Textile Art by Women Artists curated by Francine Birbragher, Ph.D.
- Rina Gitlin, RT Curated at the Mexican Consulate, explores The Migrant Experience shining a light on our cultural map.
- Threading the City coexists with the World Textile Art (WTA) X Biennial, Doral, and Coral Gables. WTA celebrates 25 years of its WTA Biennials held in the US, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Argentina, Mexico, Uruguay, Spain, and Chile. WTA selected Miami as its X Biennial venue, naming Luis Valenzuela as the hosting Miami director. Pilar Tobon, CEO of WTA, has projected the participation of artists from more than 30 countries for this biennial.
About:
Fiber Artists-Miami Association (FAMA), a nonprofit corporation, its founders Aurora Molina, Evelyn Politzer, and Alina Rodriguez Rojo, announce over twenty programs and events with the mission to educate, advance, and elevate textiles traditions and contemporary fiber arts. The organization was born amidst the Novel CoronaVirus 19 pandemic in July 2020 and has grown from a few members to a community of over 160 artists, art historians, art administrators, and textile enthusiasts.
World Textile Art (WTA) is one of the world’s most respected contemporary textile art organizations. In 2022, during its X Biennial, it will celebrate its twenty-fifth Anniversary. The main objective of the WTA is to support contemporary textile artists from around the world, promoting this vital art form through biennials and special events. In the same way, develop different educational programs that foster their appreciation and practice. This year 2022, WTA celebrates its 25th Anniversary with the X International Biennial “25 YEARS WTA”, from October to December 2022, where more than ten countries will interconnect to celebrate WTA history.