Innovative textile-based artwork exploded across the Canadian Prairies in the second half of the twentieth century. Melding craft traditions with modern and modernist movements in art and theory, a diverse body of creators opened a beautiful new chapter in textile art.
Prairie Interlace brings together some of the most important scholars of art and craft in Canada to examine the work of forty-eight artists working with textiles from the 1960s to 2000. Recapturing and recording lost histories, this book explores both artists working with textiles and centres of textile study and production, paying special attention to the contexts in which artworks were produced. Indigenous scholars, experts in textile techniques, and experts in Prairie textile history provide fascinating insight into an artistic movement which, until now, has been largely overlooked.
Featuring over one hundred and fifty beautiful full-colour images of textile works, many of which have never before been photographed for print, Prairie Interlace provides an opportunity to discover a fascinating movement which has not received the attention it deserves and invites further investigation of this rich period in Canadian art history.
Developed from the travelling exhibition of the same name, Prairie Interlace is a collaboration between Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary in Calgary, AB and the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK.
Authors
- Pages
- 248
- Published in
- Calgary, CA
- Series
- Art in Profile
Table of Contents
- Half Title Page 2
- Series Page 3
- Full Title Page 4
- Copyright Page 5
- CONTENTS 6
- MINISTER’S MESSAGE 8
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 10
- EXHIBITION ITINERARY 14
- 1 | Introduction to Prairie Interlace: Recovering“Lost Modernisms” 22
- SECTION 1: Recovering Histories 36
- 2 | Stand Back—Nothing to See—Move Along 38
- 3 | Marginalized Moderns: Co-operatives and Indigenous Textile Arts in Saskatchewan, 1960–1972 58
- 4 | Métis Stories and Women’s Artistic Labour in Margaret Pelletier Harrison’s Margaret’s Rug 76
- 5 | The Gift of Time, The Gift of Freedom: Weaving and Fibre Art at the Banff Centre 86
- 6 | Living and Liveable Spaces: Prairie Textiles and Architecture 100
- SECTION 2: Contextual Encounters 126
- 7 | Curating Prairie Interlace: Encounters, Longings, and Challenges 128
- 8 | Weaving at the Horizon: Encounters with Fibre Arton the Canadian Prairie 144
- 9 | Contextual Bodies: From the Cradle to the Barricade 168
- 10 | Six Ways of Looking at Prairie Interlace 186
- SECTION 3: Expanding the Frame 202
- 11 | Weaving in an Expanded Frame 204
- LIST OF WORKS 237
- CONTRIBUTORS 246
