Events and Programs

Friday, November 15, 1:30pm at the ZMA

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The Artistic Practice of Wearable Art: Indigenous dress, Collaboration, and Community 

Inspired by her late Setsuné’s (grandmother) incredible garment making, hide-tanning and adornment, Catherine Blackburn’s work grounds itself in the Indigenous feminine. Join us for an artist talk in which she reflects on her wearable art practice and its intersection between Indigenous dress, collaboration, and community.   
  
Catherine Blackburn was born in Patuanak Saskatchewan and is a member of the English River First Nation (Denesųłiné). She is a multidisciplinary artist and jeweler, whose common themes address Canada's colonial past that are often prompted by personal narratives. Her work grounds itself in the Indigenous feminine and is bound by the ancestral love that stitching suggests. Through stitchwork, she explores Indigenous sovereignty, decolonization, and representation. Her work has been included in renowned national and international exhibitions including Radical Stitch, Àbadakone, Santa Fe Haute Couture Fashion Show, and Toronto Indigenous Fashion Week. She has received numerous awards including the Sobey Art Award longlist (2019/2023), a Forge Residency Fellowship (2022), and an Eiteljorg Fellowship (2021).  

Wednesday, April 2, 3:30pm at the ZMA

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Annet Couwenberg has pursued ongoing conversations between traditional textile production and digital technologies throughout her art and teaching career— from her early work in the fashion industry, to creating sculptural forms and jacquard weavings, to working with fish fossils and skeletons inspired by her study with a fish scientist as a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow at the National Museum of Natural History. Born in the Netherlands, Couwenberg received MFA degrees from Cranbrook Academy of Art and Syracuse University. She has worked internationally including in Korea, Turkey, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Poland and The Netherlands with one-person shows at the Center for Art Design and Visual Culture in MD, Textiel Museum in The Netherlands, Baltimore Museum of Art, Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, American Textile History Museum, Lowell, MA and the City Gallery, Atlanta, GA.