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Art Exhibition

Vox Stellarum at the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery on East Campus

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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
“Vox Stellarum,” or “Voice of the Stars,” is textile artist Elin Noble’s response to an early eighteenth century copperplate engraving from the 1731 book titled “Physica Sacra” by Swiss natural scientist Johann Jakob Scheuchzer. The book, and the particular image that inspired Noble’s installation, reflect the time before the Enlightenment period when ideas about the nature of beauty were evolving, and when conflicts between faith and scientific questioning arose. Using hand dyeing and clamp resist techniques, Noble creates an environment in which the interplay of light, shadow, transparency and cloth allude to the mystical and magical dimensions of a natural world that science has yet to fully explain.

Elin Noble is the award-winning author of Dyes & Paints: A Hands-On Guide to Coloring Fabric. She holds a bachelor of fine arts degree in fiber from the University of Washington. She lives and works in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Elin Noble will be the featured speaker at the annual board meeting of the Friends of the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery on Sunday, June 5, and will return in September 2016 to lead a dyeing workshop under the auspices of the Nebraska Fiberarts Initiative. For more information please phone the department at 402-472-2911 or visit the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery website at http://cehs.unl.edu/textilegallery/.

Vox Stellarum installation view. Courtesy photo.

Additional Public Info:
Free and open to the public.

http://textilegallery.unl.edu

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