2024 McKnight Fiber Artist Fellowship Exhibition
Artist reception: Tuesday, January 21 at 5 pm
Artist talks: Art Speaks • Celebrating the 2024 McKnight Fiber Artist Fellows: 6 – 7:30, following reception
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Ceremony Blankets, Rick Kagigebi
January 14 – February 15, 2025 • Textile Center
February 21 – March 21, 2025 • Gizhiigin Arts Incubator
Rick Kagigebi (Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe) is a blanket maker whose mural blankets, created as ceremonial gifts, are shaped by every aspect — from the sketch to the fabric selections, sewing, and tying — to hold storytelling significance.
Artist Reception for Rick Kagigebi at Gizhiigin Arts Incubator: Tuesday, March 18, 5 – 7 pm, 701 East Jefferson Ave, Mahnomen, MN
A History of the Heart, Amber Jensen
January 14 – April 5, 2025 • Textile Center
Amber Jensen combines the labor-intensive processes of handloom weaving with her own improvisations to alter surface and form, drawing stories out of thread and cloth in an ongoing search for sense of place, self, and belonging.
Founded on the belief that Minnesota thrives when its artists and culture bearers thrive, the McKnight Foundation’s arts and culture program is one of the oldest and largest of its kind in the country. Support for individual working Minnesota artists and culture bearers has been a cornerstone of the program since it began in 1982. The McKnight Artist & Culture Bearer Fellowships Program provides annual, unrestricted cash awards to outstanding mid-career Minnesota artists in 15 different creative disciplines. Program partner organizations administer the fellowships and structure them to respond to the unique challenges of different disciplines. Currently, the foundation contributes about $2.8 million per year to its statewide fellowships. For more information, visit mcknight.org/artistfellowships.
