Fiber Art: Following the Thread

July 3 to September 13, 2002
Exhibited in the Archives’ New York Research Center

This exhibition celebrates fiber art in its myriad forms from hooked rugs and jute sculpture to wearable art and weaving. Through this selection of letters, writings, photographs, and oral history interviews from the collections of the Archives of American Art, we invite you to follow the threads of conversations and relationships that give meaning to fiber.

The exhibition was organized in concert with Six Continents of Quilts: The American Craft Museum Collection at the UBS Paine Webber Gallery in New York.

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Joan Lintault to Claire Zeisler

Red wrapped and twisted stick samples

Sketch for Hirise on graph paper

Sheila Pachoski to Claire Zeisler

Randall Morgan to Gloria Finn

Easton Pribble to Gloria Finn

Gloria Finn to I. Rice (Irene Rice) Pereira

Sydney Butchkes to Gloria Finn

Sydney Butches to Gloria Finn

Sydney Butchkes to Gloria Finn

Notes and reflections on making The Joker

Photo reproduction of a woven image of Lenin

Photo reproduction of design for Red king in a black suit

Joyce Marquess Carey letter to Sue Pierce

Joyce Marquess Carey, Madison, Wis. letter to Sue Pierce, Rockville, Md.

Melissa Holzinger's studio notes for the Eight of Diamonds

Journal from Barbara Mortenson's work on the 10 of Hearts

Karen Felicity Berkenfeld to Sue Pierce

Garnette T. Johnson to Francis Merritt

'The Weaver as Artist' in Craft Horizons

Allen Fannin to Francis Merritt

Nike Olenike and Printmaker Twins Seven-Seven at Haystack

Diane Itter to Francis Sumner Merritt

Beth Gutcheon to Francis Sumner Merritt

Alma Lesch to Francis Sumner Merritt

Walter Nottingham to Francis Sumner Merritt

'Modern Textile Design' by Marianne Strengell in Art Education Today

Announcement Card for exhibit

Dorothy Liebes memoir of her friendship with Frank Lloyd Wright

Marianne Strengell to Dorothy Liebes

Karl Laurell to Dorothy Liebes

Citation of the Institute for Craftmanship medal to Dorothy Liebes

Dorothy Liebes to John McPhee

Marianne Strengell to Dorothy Liebes

Eliel Saarinen to Marianne Strengell

Gloria Finn Dale at her Sermoneta Workshop, Italy

Photocopy of Susan Shie and James Acord notes on making The joker, a quilt for the exhibit Full deck art quilts

Marianne Strengell in her studio

Walter Nottingham to Francis Sumner Merritt

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