Weaving Real to Reel: Spotlight on ᏲᎾ Bear Allison
The Center for Craft is excited to present a solo exhibition of patchwork textiles and inflatable sculptures by the Ohio-based fiber artist. Adrian’s volumetric, pneumatic work transports viewers into artifice, desire, and worldbuilding. Drawing from rich legacies of queer fiber art & theory, the exhibition features monumentally scaled works that physically respond to viewers presence by filling with air.
You can still sponsor RIPSTOP by contributing before July 12, 2024. Donate today for your opportunity to be recognized during the opening reception on August 15, 2024, and on the exhibition's Title Wall. To underwrite this exhibition, please donate now.
Weaving Real to Reel: Spotlight on ᏲᎾ Bear Allison
Weaving Real to Reel: Spotlight on ᏲᎾ Bear Allison
On view
Mar
14
–
Jul
28
Through
Mar
14
–
Jul
28
When
Mar 14, 2022
–
Jul 28, 2022
Photo credit:
Still from "Weaving Connections" (2022), by ᏲᎾ Bear Allison.
FRONT & CENTER
Front & center
Weaving Real to Reel: Spotlight on ᏲᎾ Bear Allison
Weaving Real to Reel showcases two films by Eastern Band Cherokee filmmaker and photographer ᏲᎾ Bear Allison, Weaving Connections [2022] and A Cherokee Basket Maker [2014]. Each of Allison’s films cast light on the Cherokee artists behind the masterful baskets that are on view in the Center for Craft’s galleries. Allison captures their intensive process of harvesting, processing, dyeing and weaving, and in turn, illuminates the generations of skill and material knowledge compounded into every Cherokee basket through the cinematic format.
Bear Allison made his latest film, Weaving Connections, in conjunction with the exhibition ᎢᏛᏍᎦ ᏫᏥᏤᎢ ᎠᎵᏰᎵᏒ Weaving Across Time. It features the artists ᏚᏍᏓᏯᎫᎾᏱ Gabriel Crow, Lucille Lossiah, Ramona Lossie, ᏗᎳᏂ Dylan Morgan, and ᎺᎵ ᏔᎻᏏᏂ Mary W. Thompson, who speak about their deep-rooted relationships with the land and the natural materials they weave with as well as their motivations for making.
A Cherokee Basket Maker features second-generation basket maker, Louise Goings, whose white oak baskets are on view in the alcove display. Goings learned her craft by watching her mother, celebrated basket maker Emma Taylor. In the film, she speaks about the distinction between identifying as a “basket weaver” and a “basket maker,” who knows how to harvest, process and dye all of their materials before they even begin to weave.
Bear Allison (Cherokee, NC; United States) Weaving Connections,2022. Digital video; 17:48 minutes. Commissioned by the Center for Craft. Courtesy of the Artist.
The Center for Craft is excited to present a solo exhibition of patchwork textiles and inflatable sculptures by the Ohio-based fiber artist. Adrian’s volumetric, pneumatic work transports viewers into artifice, desire, and worldbuilding. Drawing from rich legacies of queer fiber art & theory, the exhibition features monumentally scaled works that physically respond to viewers presence by filling with air.
You can still sponsor RIPSTOP by contributing before July 12, 2024. Donate today for your opportunity to be recognized during the opening reception on July 26, 2024, and on the exhibition's Title Wall. To underwrite this exhibition, please donate now.
The 2023 Curatorial Fellowship is supported, in part, by the Stoney Lamar Craft Endowment Fund. Thank you to Phillips, the leading auction house in art and design, for sponsoring the Curatorial Fellowship show.
The 2023 Curatorial Fellowship is supported, in part, by the Stoney Lamar Craft Endowment Fund. Thank you to Phillips, the leading auction house in art and design, for sponsoring the Curatorial Fellowship show.
RIPSTOP is supported, in part, by Arrowmont School of Arts and Craft.
The 2023 Curatorial Fellowship is supported, in part, by the Stoney Lamar Craft Endowment Fund. Thank you to Phillips, the leading auction house in art and design, for sponsoring the Curatorial Fellowship show.
The 2023 Curatorial Fellowship is supported, in part, by the Stoney Lamar Craft Endowment Fund. Thank you to Phillips, the leading auction house in art and design, for sponsoring the Curatorial Fellowship show.
The 2023 Curatorial Fellowship is supported, in part, by the Stoney Lamar Craft Endowment Fund. Thank you to Phillips, the leading auction house in art and design, for sponsoring the Curatorial Fellowship show.
Preservers, Innovators, and Rescuers of Culture in Chiapas is supported, in part by,
Aram Han Sifuentes is a recipient of the Center for Craft’s 2022 Craft Research Fund Artist Fellowship. This substantial mid-career grant is awarded to two artists to support research projects that advance, expand, and support the creation of new research and knowledge through craft practice.
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