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PRAIRIE INTERLACE:
Weaving, Modernisms, and the Expanded Frame
NOW AVAILABLE in French and English FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY PRESS
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Prairie Interlace: Weavings, Modernisms and the Expanded Frame, 1960-2000 fills a major gap in the understanding of late modern and early postmodern fibre practices in Canada.
Growing out of a major travelling exhibition of the same name, organized by Nickle Galleries and the MacKenzie Art Gallery, the publication surveys weaving and off-loom practices and highlights the explosion of innovative textile-based art on the Canadian Prairies during the second half of the twentieth century (1960–2000). In the words of craft historian Tanya Harrod, the goal of this exhibition and publication is to recover and record “lost modernisms” connected with craft processes and the objects made largely by Prairie women, newcomers, and Indigenous artists. Essays by scholars of art history, craft history, weaving, Prairie literature and Indigenous and Métis studies will historically situate and elucidate the unique contributions of Prairie fibre artists to the intersecting narratives of art, craft, feminism, immigration, Indigeneity, regionalism and architectural interior design. Confirmed writers include: exhibition curators/publication editors Dr. Michele Hardy (Nickle Galleries), Timothy Long (MacKenzie Art Gallery) and Dr. Julia Krueger; and invited writers Dr. Alison Calder, Mary-Beth Laviolette, Dr. Susan Surette, Dr. Jennifer Salahub, Mackenzie Kelly-Frère, Dr. Sherry Farrell-Racette, Mireille Perron and Dr. Cheryl Troupe. Illustrations will feature work by approximately 48 craftspeople, designers and artists who were drawn to the materiality, structural potential, aesthetic possibilities, sensorial affect and experimental possibility of fibre. The publication will also include a timeline of important Prairie fibre-related events and exhibitions, a comprehensive bibliography and an index.
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Introduction to Prairie Interlace: Recovering “Lost Modernisms”
Julia Krueger, Michele Hardy, Timothy Long
Stand Back—Nothing to See—Move Along
Jennifer E. Salahub
Marginalized Moderns: Co-operatives and Indigenous Textile Arts in Saskatchewan, 1960-1972
Sherry Farrell-Racette
Métis Stories and Women’s Artistic Labour in Margaret Pelletier Harrison’s “Margaret’s Rug”
Cheryl Troupe
The Gift of Time The Gift of Freedom: Weaving and Fibre Art at the Banff Centre
Mary-Beth Laviolette
Living and Liveable Spaces: Prairie Textiles and Architecture
Susan Surette
Curating Prairie Interlace: Encounters, Longings, and Challenges
Julia Krueger and Michele Hardy
Weaving at the Horizon: Encounters with Fibre Art on the Canadian Prairie
Mackenzie Kelly-Frère
Contextual Bodies: From the Cradle to the Barricade
Mireille Perron
Five Ways of Looking at Prairie Interlace
Alison Calder
Weaving in an Expanded Frame
Timothy Long
