Stories are Made, Loop by Loop Exhibit Closing
Using the rhythmic process of rug hooking, artists in this exhibition tell personal stories of motherhood, healing, and environmentalism. The artists use a variety of materials, from traditional wool fabric to recycled plastics, pulling strips through an open weave fabric to create a decorative surface design with loops, pile, and texture. Rug hooking is steeped in generations of resourceful, creative, and out-spoken makers. These artists work the technique’s simple, repetitive motions by hand, one loop at a time. Through this exhibit we invite you to explore a unique form of storytelling.
This traveling exhibition is organized by guest curator, Susan Feller.
The Stories are Made, Loop by Loop exhibit and related programming is supported by Fund for the Arts, The Elliot Family Foundation, Daywood Foundation, Herscher Foundation, Inc., Bernard H. Blanche E. Jacobson Foundation, and Charles & Mary Fayne Glotfelty Foundation.
The Clay Center’s performing and visual arts offerings are presented with financial assistance from the West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture, and History, and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.
