High Fiber: Women to Watch 2013

The Arkansas Women to Watch Exhibition begins touring the state on February 1st at the Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas in Pine Bluff through April 13th. The theme this year is "inventive textile-based works" and will feature the work of five artists selected by curator Caroline S. Brown: Louise Halsey of Little Rock, Barbara Cade of Hot Springs, Jennifer Libby Fay (formerly of Rogers), Jane Hartfield of Fort Smith, and Deborah Kuster of Conway.
 
Halsey was chosen by the National Museum of Women in the Arts to show her work in the exhibition High Fiber: Women to Watch 2012 in Washington, D.C. which was on view from November 2, 2012 – January 6, 2013. Halsey graduated with her MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College in VT in 2007, but began studying weaving in 1971. She has traveled and studied weaving extensively in Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Paris and Costa Rica. Halsey creates woven tapestries as small commentaries on life. Artist Barbara Cade is showing felted and mixed media works, Jennifer Libby Fay's "textile paintings' explore the relationship between art, nature and spirituality, Jane Hartfield's hand-dyed and painted quilts explore color relationships, and Deborah Kuster, a Professor of Art at the University of Central Arkansas, creates art quilts whose creation goes beyond the loom.
 
Women to Watch 2013 is a project of the Arkansas State Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, which is a non-profit volunteer organization established as an affiliate of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), located in Washington, D.C. NMWA brings recognition to the achievements of women artists of all periods and nationalities by exhibiting, preserving, acquiring, and researching art by women and by teaching the public about their accomplishments. The Arkansas State Committee is thrilled to bring talent from the state to the forefront, and the national stage.

The Fort Smith Regional Art Museum
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479-784-2787

Thursday-Saturday: 11am-6pm
Sunday: 1pm-5pm

RAM members FREE, general admission $8, seniors and students $6