Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms, and the Expanded Frame 1960–2000
4 November 2023 – 18 February 2024
About the Exhibition
Curated By
Michele Hardy, Timothy Long, and Julia Krueger
Organized in collaboration with
Nickle Galleries and the MacKenzie Art Gallery of Regina
Galleries
RHW / Hill / Rawlinson Galleries
Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms, and the Expanded Frame, 1960–2000 looks back to the explosion of innovative textile-based art on the Canadian Prairies during the second half of the twentieth century.
With a focus on weaving and other interlace practices, such as rug hooking and crochet, the exhibition examines how artists of diverse backgrounds wove new histories of fibre during a period of intense energy and collective creativity.
This touring exhibition, a collaboration between Nickle Galleries (Calgary, AB) and the MacKenzie Art Gallery (Regina, SK), features sixty-one artworks by forty-eight artists and draws on public and private collections from across Canada.
This project has been made possible in part by the Government of Canada.
Organized in collaboration with
WORKS IN THE EXHIBITION
Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms and the Expanded Frame, 1960-2000 (installation view), Nickle Galleries. Photo: Dave Brown, LCR PhotoServices.
Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms and the Expanded Frame, 1960-2000 (installation view), Nickle Galleries. Photo: Dave Brown, LCR PhotoServices.
Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms and the Expanded Frame, 1960-2000 (installation view), Nickle Galleries. Photo: Dave Brown, LCR PhotoServices.
Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms and the Expanded Frame, 1960-2000 (installation view), Nickle Galleries Eva Heller, Heat , 1983, Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Photo: Dave Brown, LCR PhotoServices.
Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms and the Expanded Frame, 1960-2000 (installation view), Nickle Galleries. Kaiji Sanelma Harris, Sun Ascending , 1985, Collection of the MacKenzie Art Gallery, gift of Cadillac Fairview Corporation Ltd., Photo: Dave Brown, LCR PhotoServices.
Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms and the Expanded Frame, 1960-2000 (installation view), Nickle Galleries. Photo: Dave Brown, LCR PhotoServices.
Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms and the Expanded Frame, 1960-2000 (installation view), Nickle Galleries. Margaret Harrison, Margaret's Rug , c. 2005, Private Collection. Photo: Dave Brown, LCR PhotoServices.
Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms and the Expanded Frame, 1960-2000 (installation view), Nickle Galleries. L-Charlotte Lindgren, Winter Tree , 1965, Collection of Confederation Centre Art Gallery, CM 67.1.36; R-Whynona Yates, Hanging , 1974, Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Photo: Dave Brown, LCR PhotoServices.
Events
Free Admission Day
Rawlco Radio and the MacKenzie Art Gallery Free Admission Evening
18 January 2024
Free Admission Day
Conversation on Rug hooking in the Qu’Appelle Valley
4 November 2023
Special Programming
American Sign Language (ASL) Tour – Art Engagement Saturday
13 January 2024