January 17 – April 8, 2023 • Joan Mondale, Mary Giles, and Community Galleries
Featuring the work of 2022 McKnight Fiber Artist Fellows Moira Bateman & Blair Treuer
Press and exhibit links to the 2022 Fellows’ exhibitions:
Moira Bateman’s companion exhibition at Form & Content
Blair Treuer’s companion exhibition at Great River Art Center
Botanical Colors Feedback Friday, with Moira Bateman: Water, Sediment, Color- January 9, 2023
MplsArt.com: 2022 McKnight Fiber Artist Exhibition
Paddling Light: Kayaks as Art
MinnPost: Textile Artist Moira Bateman Lets Landscapes Leave Marks on Fabric
Explore Minnesota: Exhibit “Portraits”: Blair Treuer
Ecoartspace: Moira Bateman’s Truly Sustainable Dye and Abstraction Practice
Artist Moira Bateman: Sustainable Silk Artworks
Create Whimsey Spotlight: Blair Treuer Textile Artist
View the virtual exhibition here:
Moira Bateman
Etudes: Watersheds, Bogs, Kayaks
Moira Bateman creates assemblages from waxed silk, stained with waterway sediments of Minnesota rivers, lakes, and bogs. Her companion exhibition, Bog Etudes, will be on view at Form + Content Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, January 5 – February 11, 2023.
moirabateman.com
Blair Treuer
Becoming: The Transition from Childhood to Womanhood
Blair Treuer is a storyteller from rural, northern Minnesota, who paints with fabric and draws with thread. Her companion exhibition, Portraits: An Identity Exploration, will be on view at Great River Arts Center, Little Falls, MN, January 1 – March 1, 2023.
blairtreuer.com
View a recording of 2022 McKnight Fellows Moira Bateman and Blair Treuer, in conversation with special guest Michelle Millar Fisher, Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Funding for this program is provided by the McKnight Foundation.
Textile Center is honored to be a McKnight Artist Fellowships program partner.
(Image: Detail of To Become a Flower by Blair Treuer (left) and Detail of Safe Passage by Moira Bateman (right))