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If you like Molas, mark your calendar for Wednesday December 8 at noon.

December 3, 2020 By Nancy Leave a Comment

Follow the Cleveland Museum of Art and its Desktop Dialogue.
Fashion Identity: Mola Textiles of Panama.   
https://www.clevelandart.org/close-looking-at-a-distance

Stitching Complexity

Wednesday, December 9, 12:00 p.m. EST

Join program host Key Jo Lee and CMA research fellow Andrea Vazquez de Arthur for a deep and guided exploration of a single mola, made using appliqué and reverse appliqué techniques. Learn about these processes and their complex associations with the Guna understanding of the universe.

Watch the most recent Desktop Dialogue to learn more about the meaning of molas, the subject of the current exhibition Fashioning Identity: Mola Textiles of Panamá, in Guna culture.

Two Birds Mola Panel (detail), c. 1950–70. Republic of Panamá, Gunayala Comarca, Wissubwala, Guna people. Cotton: reverse appliqué, appliqué, embroidery; 39.5 x 47.5 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. F. Louis Hoover, 1971.213

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