Michele Hardy – författare

Innovative textile-based artwork exploded across the Canadian Prairies in the second half of the twentieth century. Melding craft traditions with modern and modernist movements in art and theory a diverse body of creators opened a beautiful new chapter in textile art.Prairie Interlace brings together some of the most important scholars of craft in Canada to examine the work of forty-eight artists working with textiles from the 1960s to the 2000s. Recapturing and recording lost histories, this book explores both artists working with textiles and centres of textile study and production, paying special attention to the contexts in which artworks were produced. Indigenous scholars, experts in textile techniques, and experts on the Canadian Prairies provide fascinating insight into an artistic movement which, until now, has been nearly undocumented.Featuring beautiful full-colour images of textile works, many of which have never before been photographed for print, Prairie Interlace provides an opportunity to discover a fascinating movement which has not received the attention it deserves and invites further investigation of this rich period in Canadian art history.Developing from the travelling exhibition of the same name, Prairie Interlace is a collaboration between Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary in Calgary, AB and the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK.

Innovative textile-based artwork exploded across the Canadian Prairies in the second half of the twentieth century. Melding craft traditions with modern and modernist movements in art and theory a diverse body of creators opened a beautiful new chapter in textile art.Prairie Interlace brings together some of the most important scholars of craft in Canada to examine the work of forty-eight artists working with textiles from the 1960s to the 2000s. Recapturing and recording lost histories, this book explores both artists working with textiles and centres of textile study and production, paying special attention to the contexts in which artworks were produced. Indigenous scholars, experts in textile techniques, and experts on the Canadian Prairies provide fascinating insight into an artistic movement which, until now, has been nearly undocumented.Featuring beautiful full-colour images of textile works, many of which have never before been photographed for print, Prairie Interlace provides an opportunity to discover a fascinating movement which has not received the attention it deserves and invites further investigation of this rich period in Canadian art history.Developing from the travelling exhibition of the same name, Prairie Interlace is a collaboration between Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary in Calgary, AB and the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK.

Au cours de la deuxième moitié du vingtième siècle, un foisonnement remarquable d'œuvres textiles novatrices s'est produit dans les Prairies canadiennes. Mêlant traditions artisanales, mouvements de l'art moderne et moderniste et approches théoriques, un groupe de créateurs d'origines diverses ouvrent alors un magnifique chapitre de l'art du textile. Prairies entrelacées, qui réunit certains des chercheurs les plus importants dans le domaine de l'artisanat au Canada, étudie les œuvres créées par quarante-huit artistes entre les années 1960 et 2000. Ayant retrouvé et catalogué cette histoire oubliée, cet ouvrage s'intéresse tant aux artistes de la fibre qu'aux divers centres d'études et de production textiles, s'attardant en particulier aux contextes de création de ces œuvres. Chercheurs autochtones, experts des techniques textiles et des Prairies canadiennes proposent une plongée fascinante dans un mouvement artistique qui n'a pratiquement pas été documenté jusqu'à présent. Avec plus de soixante magnifiques illustrations couleurs d'œuvres textiles, dont un grand nombre n'a jamais été photographié, Prairies entrelacées ouvre une fenêtre sur un mouvement fascinant qui, n'ayant jamais reçu l'attention qu'il mérite, encourage la recherche dans cette riche période de l'histoire de l'art au Canada. Poursuivant le succès de l'exposition itinérante du même nom, l'ouvrage Prairies entrelacées est une collaboration entre les Nickle Galleries de l'Université de Calgary (Alberta) et la MacKenzie Art Gallery de Regina (Saskatchewan).