The Contemporary Art Modern Project announces the third edition of Women Pulling at The Threads of Social Discourse, an annual exhibition that centers female voices in the textile arts and listens to what they have to say about the world in which we all find ourselves. Featuring artists from The CAMP Gallery, Fiber Artists Miami Association, and others, the pieces that comment on our goals, our struggles, and our lives, culminating in one large work made up of a myriad of realities. FAMA & Guests Quilts’ goal is to stimulate a democratization of the visual arts in participation, inviting artists at any point in their careers to submit a piece, and in viewership.
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Featured Artists
Abbey Chase, Aida Tejada, Alicia Rodriguez, Alina Rodriguez Rojo, Alissa Alfonso, Alyson Vega, Amy Gelb, Andrea Lumbroso, Angela Bolaños, Anna Weiss, Aurora Molina, Benedicte Blanc-Fontenille, Brian Larson, Carola Bravo, Colette Mello, Danie Gomez-Ortigoza, Debora Rosental, Ellen Pestili, Evelyn Politzer, Fernanda Frangetto, Gabriela Garza, German Molina, Jennifer D. Printz, Jenny Llewellyn-Jones, Juliana Torres, Karla Kantorovich, Karla Mogna, Laetitia Adam-Rabel, Lana Duchene, Laura Marsh, Laura Villarreal, Leslie McKinlley, Leslie Sheryll, Linda Mangual, Lisa Rockford, Luis Alonzo Salvador, Mabelin Castellanos, Maitejosune Urrechaga, Maria Lino, Maria Patiño, Marlene Kohn, Maru Ulivi, Michael Morrigan, Mirele C C Volkart, Nancy Billings, Natalia Schonowski, Natasha Middagh, Nathalie Alfonso, Nicoletta Sacchetti, Patricia Cooke, Regina Jestrow, Rochi Llaneza, Rosana Machado Rodriguez, Rosario Camacho Salazar, Sandra Onetti, Sharon Berebichez, Shelly McCoy, Silvana Soriano, Silvia Yapur, Star Trauth, Stella Vandermey, Valeria Montag, Valerie Lustgarten, Viviana Romero, Yelitza Barrios, Yolanda Sanchez, Zaida Ruiz, and special guest Stella Resnick
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The Intentions Behind Quilting
Historically, the practice of quilting evolved from a material need—warmth—as well as an emotional need to tell
stories and, to a certain degree, to obtain a sense of immortality through remembrance. As Aunt Jane says: today, the
material need really no longer drives the artist toward this practice, but the need to tell stories is still very much the
force behind the quilt. The process of quilting involves taking many different fabric and thread segments, arranging
and making them into one complete whole, so it becomes the epitome of harmoniously unifying the different
elements of life. As quilts become a platform on which to preach about what is happening in our world, and in so
doing become the lesson board from which we should learn, they come to reflect a place of warmth and protection
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Regina Jestrow
Americana Quilt #58, 2021
Hand-dyed cotton, new and secondhand fabrics, thread, batting
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Regina Jestrow
Americana Quilt #57, 2021
Hand-dyed cotton, new and secondhand fabrics, thread, batting
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Regina Jestrow
Americana Quilt #60, 2021
Hand-dyed cotton, new and secondhand fabrics, thread, batting
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Linda Mangual
Untitled, 2021
Fiber, applique, stitching, airbrush, embroidery, embedded natural twigs on heirloom napkin
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Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse has always focused on a practice known as “femmage,” which refers to creative spheres historically associated with femininity: scrap-booking, sewing, knitting, patching, embroidery, and quilting. While men are participants in these crafts, it is the presumed silence and femininity of these activities that allows the works to take on a subversive tone. She may sew in private, but Her words and stitches are keys to exploring what underlying qualities hold or break apart the social fabric.
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Evelyn Politzer
Threads of Social Discourse, 2021
Embroidery on handmade muslin cloth
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2020’s edition of Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse was made possible by a
collaboration with Fiber Artists Miami Association (FAMA), founded by artists Aurora Molina, Evelyn
Politzer, and Alina Rodriguez Rojo, and expanded to include 40 artists of varied racial, ethnic, and
linguistic backgrounds. 40 Women Pulling at the Thread of Social Discourse saw a celebration of the
Women’s Suffrage centennial in an election year, ultimately unifying fiber art with the complex
intersections of femininity, race and history, and feminist sociopolitics. Arte al Día wrote that "the
marriage of the female artist to the textile medium, both outwardly and socially expected to be weak,
are in fact, in the hands of these artists, affirming that strength lies in durability, pliability and resolve,''
best embodied by works such as Laetitia Adam-Rabel's Red, White, and Pink: The Colors of
Politics, Alissa Alfonso's Earth Can't Vote, Laura Marsh's Resistance Isn't Enough, and Silvana
Soriano's widely publicized figurative collage, We (are) The People. -
Aurora Molina
New Normal, 2021
Thread on cotton
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Abbey Chase
Be the Light, 2021
Assorted fabrics, felt buttons, transfer images, wool needle-felted sun by Janet Stollnitz, Virginia
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To learn more about Fiber Artists Miami Assiociation vist their website. To learn more about the artists in this exhibition, you can check out the conversation in our editorial section.