Rolls of felt six feet wide and a combined eighty yards long are turned into an interior environment that evolves from the inherent qualities of the material—felt rolls, felt folds, felt puckers, felt pleats, felt pads, felt cushions. Conceived as a response to a given environment, an approach familiar to Walter with past design projects and earlier sculptural and installation work, here the gallery presents the physical frame of the white cube and the conceptual frame of experimentation. Repeated forms shaped from six-foot squares populate the walls and finish near ground level to offer provisional seating. It is gathering space, reading room, maker space, conversation platform. We look forward to seeing you.
SPECIAL PROGRAMMING:
Saturday, January 25, 5-7pm
FELT & FORM: A CONVERSATION WITH TOM FOLLAND AND KEN HAYES
Join an informal discussion with Dr. Thomas Folland, a professor of art history at Los Angeles Mission College with a Ph.D. from UCLA. Formerly a curator and art critic based in Toronto, Folland has published on queer modernism and conceptual art, and is a contributing writer to SmartHistory.org, a center for public art history, and Dr. Kenneth Hayes, an architectural historian and contemporary art critic who lives and works in Sudbury. He studied architecture at the University of Waterloo and McGill University, and has a Ph.D. in Architectural History at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. He writes on photography, architecture and material culture. His essay “Felt’s Alterity” was first published by the Textile Museum of Canada in 2000.
Saturday, February 1, 2-5pm
WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A SQUARE? A MAKER SALON
Take on the challenge of making something from a given square using material and tools provided. 14” squares of felt are piled in the gallery, free for the making. Follow designs on display, or design and make your own piece. Not a maker? Join the gathering. A piece of felt is free for the taking.
Saturday, February 8, 2-5pm
CLOSING RECEPTION