Lecture and Book-signing: Elissa Auther String, Felt, Thread

Please join Through the Flower and the New Mexico Museum of Art for Elissa Auther's lecture and booksigning on May 1, 2010 at 2 p.m. at the Saint Francis Auditorium in Santa Fe, 107 W. Palace Avenue.

This lecture is being presented in conjunction with the Subversive Stitching: Feminist Artists with a Needle exhibition. Admission is free.

Elissa Auther’s 2009 publication String, Felt, Thread (University of Minnesota Press) presents “an unconventional history of the American art world, chronicling the advance of thread, rope, string, felt, and fabric from the "low" world of craft to the "high" world of art in the 1960s and 1970s and the emergence today of a craft counterculture.” In the book and lecture, Auther discusses the work of American artists using fiber, considering provocative questions of material, process, and intention that bridge the art-craft divide. Artists discussed include Eva Hesse, Robert Morris, Claire Zeisler, Judy Chicago, Miriam Schapiro, Faith Ringgold, and many others. Elissa Auther is associate professor of contemporary art at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

For more information about the lecture and booksigning, contact Through the Flower at 505-864-4080 or the New Mexico Museum of Art at 505-476-5059.

Don't miss Through the Flower's exhibition, Subversive Stitching: Feminist Artists with a Needle, in their Belen gallery until May 31. This exhibition highlights art in all needlework and textile media from artistswho reside in New Mexico.

Judy Chicago and Laura Addison, Curator of Contemporary Art at the New Mexico Museum of Art, juried a selection of works from over forty artists. They chose fifteen artists to be a part of the group exhibition. Shirley Klinghoffer won the competition and will receive a cash prize and a solo exhibition to be held in 2011.