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Exhibition

Jan Myers-Newbury: A Touch of Kismet

Quilts, Color, Pattern, Chance

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Time:
8:30 am – 4:00 pm
Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery Room: 231
1650 North 35th Street
Home Economics Building
Lincoln NE 68583-0802
Additional Info: Free and open to the public Monday - Friday. Closed university holidays
Contact:
Michael James, (402) 472-2911, mjames2@unl.edu
From June 1 through September 4, 2015, the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery presents Jan Myers-Newbury: A Touch of Kismet – Quilts, Color, Pattern, Chance, an exhibition of recent work by one of the widely acknowledged leaders of the art quilt movement.

For more than thirty-five years, Jan Myers-Newbury has explored the interface between hand-dyeing and the pieced quilt. Her lyrical and sensuous quilt surfaces have set a high standard of color artistry in the studio quilt domain, of which she has been one of the acknowledged leaders. This exhibition brings together a collection of works that exploit the pole wrapping shibori technique that Myers-Newbury has helped to popularize among non-traditional quilt makers and surface designers.

“You would think that, as many times as I have unwrapped a pole after dyeing, I would become ho-hum about the results. But it never fails: I can’t wait to see how each piece turns out. I guess that’s because I’ve realized I only have a certain amount of control and the rest is kismet.”

Additional Public Info:
Free and open to the public.

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