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Fiber artist Liz Burgess will show her new work in the Ginko Gallery and Studio new exhibition space. PHOTOGRAPH BY LINDA GRASHOFF
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Two Art Exhibits with Alumni Connections to Open Sunday in Oberlin
Acacia Reed, O.H.I.O. museum
fellow, helped curate the FAVA Gallery show.
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF O.H.I.O.
MAY 11, 2001--Two Main Street galleries in the town of Oberlin will hold opening receptions Sunday afternoon from 2:00 to 4:00 P.M. Both of the shows being celebrated are explorations of social and political issues, and both have connections to Oberlin people.
Threads of Freedom: The Underground Railroad Story in Quilts is an exhibit at the FAVA (Firelands Association for the Visual Arts) Gallery in the New Union Center for the Arts. Ricky Clark '54, nationally known quilt historian, and Acacia Reed '99, O.H.I.O. (Oberlin Historical and Improvement Organization) museum fellow, are two of four people forming the Curatorial Committee for Threads of Freedom.
"Because the visibility of the Underground Railroad coincides with the largest quilt revival in history, it is not surprising that many quilters choose the Underground Railroad and the events that led up to it as the subjects of their quilts," writes Clark, author of Quilts in Community: Ohio's Traditions, in the brochure that accompanies the exhibit.
The quilts will be on display through August 26. On June 23 a related public symposium with the same name as the exhibit will involve as speakers two members of the Oberlin College faculty and staff: Carol Lasser, professor of history, and Sharon Patton, Cowles Director of the Allen Memorial Art Museum. Later that day Ricky Clark will lead a talk at the FAVA Gallery.
Vocal Threads is the exhibit a few doors away, at the Ginko Gallery and Studio. Liz Burgess '73, one of the co-owners of the gallery, is one of the four fiber artists whose work will be shown in Vocal Threads. The show inaugurates a new exhibition space within the gallery. The other three showing their work are nationally recognized Ohio artists Elizabeth Kuhn, Jo Ann Giordano, and Kathleen Van Meter. Van Meter is the gallery's other owner. Three of the works in the show have never before been exhibited.
"While the FAVA show looks at the historical issue of American slavery," says Burgess, "the Ginko show investigates contemporary social and political issues, including environmental degradation, sexual politics, and global economics. But all the artists are using fiber as their medium."
The Curatorial Committee for Threads of Freedom is one of six sponsors of Threads of Freedom: The Underground Railroad Story in Quilts. The other members of the committee are Thelma Quinn Smith, O.H.I.O. trustee, and Gayle Pritchard, FAVA representative. The other sponsoring or supporting organizations are FAVA, O.H.I.O., the Ohio Humanities Council, the Ohio Arts Council, the Oberlin Chamber of Commerce and Main Street Program, and the Richard R. Hallock Foundation. The late Richard Hallock was a member of the Class of 1941.
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Quilt historian Ricky Clark helped curate Threads of Freedom, wrote about the exhibition in the accompanying brochure, and will lead a gallery talk about the show. PHOTOGRAPH BY LINDA GRASHOFF |
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