2022 McKnight Fiber Artist Fellowship Exhibition

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Textile Center is proud to present the work of our 2022 McKnight Fiber Artist Fellows: Moira Bateman and Blair Treuer, in two solo exhibitions in Textile Center’s Joan Mondale, Mary Giles, and Community Galleries. 

Bateman creates assemblages from waxed silk, stained with waterway sediments of Minnesota rivers, lakes, and bogs. Her work explores numerous interrelated concepts, from wilderness and waterways to toxicity inflected on the earth, to motherhood and nurturing, to growth and caretaking more broadly. With bogs and watersheds as her collaborators, biology and time are used to describe site-specific conditions contained in the mark-making of these abstract works that document place and render the invisible, visible.

Treuer is a storyteller from rural, northern Minnesota, who paints with fabric and draws with thread. Her current work explores intimate and spiritual aspects of life and self-identity in a series of works featuring her daughter. The images and often challenging topics they address, are both a celebration and juxtaposition of her white American culture and her husband and family’s traditional indigenous culture, which has been her means of addressing challenging topics through her studio practice. 

Reception: February 21, 2023 from 5 - 7pm

Blair Treuer - To Become a Flower (detail)

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Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Textile Center
3000 University Ave SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414
United States
612-436-0464