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New England Quilt Museum - Light and Movement
Light and Movement
Works by Marianne R. Williamson
“Life is always changing in one way or another, and the world around me is always moving, swaying in the breeze, or changed by light.” -- Marianne R. Williamson
Light and movement have been recurring themes in Williamson’s work for nearly 45 years since she embraced textiles as her artistic medium. A classical education in art from L’Ecole des Beaux Arts in Geneva, Switzerland provided a solid foundation for the painterly qualities of her distinctive scenes of sunlit gardens, windswept landscapes, ripples on water and ocean waves.
New England Quilt Museum - Pat Pauly, Unfolding Years
Pat Pauly
Unfolding Years
The NEQM is pleased to feature works by Pat Pauly, whose fiber art exudes a graphic, color-saturated palette using her own hand printed fabric. Featured in major exhibitions and found internationally in public and private collections, Pauly’s work is distinctive for its strong abstraction of natural forms and complex color combinations. With a degree in art and graduate studies in design and fine art, Pauly embraced fiber art as her medium in the early 1980s “as the perfect amalgam of construction, painting and printmaking.”
New England Quilt Museum - It’s Not Easy Getting Green
It’s Not Easy Getting Green
Selections from the Permanent Collection
The quilts exhibited in the Nancy Donahue Gallery range in age from the early 1800s to the 1970s.
This selection demonstrates the remarkable evolution of textile dying techniques used to create the color green--Quercitron was extracted from the bark of the North American Black Oak tree; two-step or overdyed processing involved the use of multiple colors like yellow and blue; and synthetic dyes introduced in the last quarter of the nineteenth century have taken many decades to perfect. For a color so closely associated with the natural world, green has been a notoriously challenging, and often poisonous, color to manufacture.
New England Quilt Museum - Summer Celebration
Summer Celebration
of New England Quilts
A Free Community Festival
During this community event, admission to the NEQM is voluntary.
Summer Celebration of New England Quilts showcases works from the many dynamic quilt guilds located in the New England region. Every two years, the Supporting Guilds of the NEQM are tasked with selecting an exceptional quilt made by one or more of their members to display in the galleries. In hosting this exhibition, the NEQM celebrates many skillful, but lesser-known, quiltmakers and recognizes the important role of quilt guilds in advancing the art.
Hilary Doyle Central Massachusetts Artists Initiative
Hilary Doyle
Central Massachusetts Artists Initiative
Hilary Doyle is an artist, teacher, and curator from Worcester, Massachusetts. Through her art, Doyle explores issues of women’s autonomy, motherhood, and nature—and the potent intersections between them.
For this installation, Doyle will exhibit paintings from her newest series exploring the life of Maria Sibylla Merian (German, 1647–1717). Merian—an artist, mother, and scientist—was a pioneering ecologist and one of the most significant early contributors to entomology (the study of insects). She was among the first to study butterfly metamorphosis, which she documented in exquisitely detailed drawings and self-published books. She is also believed to have been the first European woman to travel to the Americas in the pursuit of science, which she did independently and with her youngest daughter in tow. She taught her daughters to be artists as well, and in the latter years of her life ran a successful studio with them. Doyle reflects, “As an artist and mother of two young children studying an artist/mother of two living three centuries ago, I notice similar struggles working mothers still face today. Each story and myth about Maria is a source of hope and strength as I paint. In an increasingly oppressive world, we can find guidance and inspiration in the stories of women who succeeded against all odds.”
