Gender and Weaving on the Northwest Coast
A Public Program with Textile Artist, William White
Saturday December 4, 2010 1:00 – 2:30pm
Included with regular Gallery Admission
Adults $10, Seniors/Students $7, Youth/Child $5
Members FREE
Among the many art forms on the Northwest Coast, weaving has been marginalized and viewed as “women’s work”, implying purely decorative and without meaning. This session, led by textile artist, William White, will explore how perceptions of gender contributed to the exclusion of textiles within Northwest Coast art forms.
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This public program is presented as part of the Gallery’s featured exhibition, Time Warp: Contemporary Textiles of the Northwest Coast. Time Warp celebrates the textile and fibre art of 20 emerging, mid-career and internationally recognized Aboriginal artists from Alaska, Yukon, BC, and Washington State. The exhibition runs through January 16, 2011.