Details from CWG May meeting and presentation.
JoEllen’s presentation triggered interest in the artists she shared.
Here is a PDF with the works and artists listed:
meeting
CWG Meeting is Thursday, May 15, 2025. JoEllen presents her visit to Renwick Gallery.
Thursday,May 15, 2025
11:30 for social time
12:00 for program
Meeting to follow
Cuyahoga County Library Warrensville Branch
Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women was a recent exhibition at the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery. It features 33 works of fiber art during the period of 1918-2004. It was organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum with the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art. JoEllen was fortunate to view this exhibit in January, and has created a presentation to share photos of this exhibit and more.
Business Meeting
CWG April meeting is a field trip–Hildur Asgeirsdottir Jonsson exhibition
CWG April meeting is a field trip to Kent State Fashion Museum.
Thursday, April 17 at 12:00 for a guided tour of:
EXHIBITION: “HILDUR ÁSGEIRSDÓTTIR JÓNSSON: MICRO/MACRO”
The Kent State University Museum is pleased to announce its winter exhibition, “Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson: Micro/Macro,” a solo exhibition by Ohio-based artist, Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson. Consistent with the museum’s mission to showcase exceptional textile art and to inspire the next generation of artists, the exhibition includes over 30 large-scale works by Kent State alumna Jónsson.
Admission fee is $5 – $7
Parking: There are visitor spaces in the lot in front of the museum. Please register your car with the museum when you arrive.
Please consider joining us for a late lunch after the tour at the nearby Wild Goat Cafe. https://wildgoatscafe.com/
https://wildgoatscafe.com/location-%26-hours
MUSEUM INFO:
https://www.kent.edu/museum/event/exhibition-hildur-asgeirsdottir-jonsson-micromacro
515 Hilltop Drive Kent, Ohio 44242-0001
330-672-3450
CWG Meeting is February 20 2025. Artist Priscilla Roggenkamp speaks.
Thursday, February 20, 2025
11:30 for social time
12:00 for program
Meeting to follow
Cuyahoga County Library Warrensville Branch
Priscilla Roggenkamp: Now and Then
Local artist, talks about her body of work starting with her current piece and what came before.
More info at
Priscilla Roggenkamp.com
CWG January meeting is Thursday, January 16. Bring your CWG dues
Nancy Kilkenny will be presenting on “Turned Drafts”. This is a reenactment of the October program when the library’s power failed
We meet at 11:30 for social time. Bring your brown bag lunch.
Program begins at 12:00. We will meet in person. Additionally ZOOM details are provided below.
Meeting to follow the program.
Meet us at Warrensville Heights Library
4415 Northfield Road, Warrensville Heights, Ohio 44128
Bring your CWG dues.
Topic: Cuyahoga Weavers – Nancy Kilkenny Presentation
Time: Jan 16, 2025 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Meeting ID: 832 2262 8232
Passcode: CWG
CWG Holiday Potluck Luncheon is Thursday, December 19
Our Holiday party is again at Jessie’s at 12:00.
Please bring something to share: salad, dessert, entree, or whatever.
RSVP to Joan: 216-536 5242. Or email: jrhorwich@gmail.com
Looking forward to getting together again
Find Jesse’s address on the members roster or email Nancy at newsletter@cuyahogaweaversguild.com
CWG Programs for February and March
Add these programs to your CWG calendar. A tip of the hat to Joan H for scheduling these programs. Bravo!
Feb 20. Priscilla Roggepnkamp
Local artist, painting warps
More info at
Priscilla Roggenkamp.com
Mar 20. Cally Booker
via Zoom from Dundee UK
Topic: Double cloth
More info at
CWG October meeting is Thursday, October 17
Nancy Kilkenny will be presenting on “Turned Drafts”.
We meet at 11:30 for social time. Bring your brown bag lunch.
Program begins at 12:00.
Meeting to follow the program.
Meet us at Warrensville Heights Library
4415 Northfield Road, Warrensville Heights, Ohio 44128
CWG Korean Couture follow up resources
This comes from Laura Martin:
A follow up with resources mention during her talk or in conversation at lunch afterwards.
Hi!
It was so great to spend time with everyone yesterday. Thanks for inviting me and for giving me lunch! Here are a few follow-up items from some of the things we talked about. I hope you will be able to share this info with the group that was there.
Books
Silk: A World History by Aarathi Prasad (William Morrow, 2024). “Worms’ Work” a review by Jenny Uglow is in The New York Review of Books, 19 September 2024 issue, pp 54-55.
Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years — Women, Cloth and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber (Norton 1994) and Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages with Special Reference to the Aegean, also by Barber (Princeton U Press, 1992)
Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia Postrel (Basic Books, 2021)
Sheila Hicks
The Ford Foundation textile installation IS made of linen! Read about it here: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/arts/sheila-hickss-tapestries-to-again-hang-at-ford-foundation.html
Aimee Lee
Website: https://aimeelee.net/;
Several of us were talking about this recent publication about a Wari textile: The Royal Inca Tunic: A Biography of an Andean Masterpiece by Andrew James Hamilton (Princeton U Press, 2024)
And continuing with one more:
And I now remember that someone asked me for the name of the detective series set in Paris and featuring a detective who is always wearing thrift store vintage couture! It’s the Aimee Leduc series by novelist Cara Black. There are now 21 books in the series and they are best read in order. The list is available at one of my favorite websites: Stop, You’re Killing Me!: http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/
Happy Equinox and I look forward to seeing you again soon.
Laura
CWG Meeting/Field trip to Cleveland Museum of Art is Thursday, September 19
Thursday, September 19
Korean Couture exhibit at CMA.
This year we have scheduled our private tour at the Cleveland Museum of Art earlier that in the past so we will be able to see the Korean Couture exhibit as well as other textile related exhibits, all led by Laura Martin. Thursday 19 September at 10:30
Meet at the Information Desk in the Atrium at 10:15. Member Laura Martin leads us for a tour of this fascinating (plus fashionable) exhibit.
https://www.clevelandart.org/exhibitions/korean-couture-generations-revolution
