Connecting Threads: Socially Engaged Textiles in Practice, presented by International Quilt Museum

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Online Event
Time
2-3pm EDT (GMT/UTC -4)
Artwork by Lynn Setterington (red and white striped quilt with red embroidery)
Artwork by Lynn Setterington

 

Join the International Quilt Museum for a special Textile Talk with Lynn Setterington!

Setterington is a major British textile artist known for her hand-stitched quilts and embroideries. She creates tactile social history documents working with groups and communities to celebrate the overlooked and interrogate social injustices. Her research draws on popular culture, folk and textile history and she has undertaken many large-scale commissions with museum and galleries. Setterington’s work is in many museum collections including the V&A, Terrance Higgins Trust, Denver Museum of Art and the IQM in the US.

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Textile Talks features weekly presentations and panel discussions from the International Quilt Museum, Quilt Alliance, Studio Art Quilt Associates, and Surface Design Association. The programs are held online at 2 p.m. Eastern (11 a.m. Pacific) each Wednesday.

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