CROWDSOURCING THE COLLECTIVE: a survey of textile and mixed media art
Opening and Artists Reception | Saturday, May 7th 11AM - 6PM
browngrotta arts presents their Spring 2022 Art in the Barn exhibition this May. Crowdsourcing will be documented in a full-color catalog (our 51st). Join us on Saturday, May 7th for the Opening and Artists Reception or during the rest of the week, May 8 - 15.
The 42 artists from 12 countries included in Crowdsourcing the Collective: a survey of textile and mixed media art illustrate the vitality of art textiles, ceramics and mixed media. The new prominence of these art forms finds them the subject of exhibitions in major museums, intermixed with paintings and traditional sculpture in ways unthinkable a decade ago. Many of the artists in Crowdsourcing began working in the ‘80s and '90s, when craft and fiber art were not well recognized; some have been working since fiber art’s first heyday in the ‘60s and '70s. The exhibition reflects an astonishing range of materials and techniques, tapestries of silk and agave, sculptures of seaweed, seagrass and willow, wall works made of sandpaper, hemp and horsehair and ceramics of Shigaraki clay will all be included. The scope of these artists’ preoccupations are on view here, too — from environmental concerns, to questions of the cosmos and identity, to explorations of material and process. It includes new work, work from earlier periods, and work from artists we have invited specifically for this exhibition. Forty-two artists from 12 different countries.
7 – 15 MAY 2022
Opening: Saturday 7 May, 11am – 6pm
Exhibition Hours: 8 – 15 May, 10am – 5pm daily, and 11am - 6pm Sundays
Browngrotta Arts
276 Ridgefield Road, Wilton, Connecticut 06897