Pop-up Shop: Our Woven Community - Saturday, February 11 at 2 p.m.

Come by the Bellarmine Hall Galleries for a pop-up shop featuring Our Woven Community!

Join us in the Bellarmine Hall Galleries’ museum classroom (LL105) for a special pop-up shop featuring Our Woven Community. Since 2015, Our Woven Community has brought together refugee women living in nearby Bridgeport through their love of sewing bags and other accessories. Each purchase directly supports the program and each artist. Click here to learn more about OWC!

This event is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Norma Minkowitz, Body to Soul on view in the Bellarmine Hall Galleries (lower level of Bellarmine Hall) from January 27 – April 6, 2023.

About the exhibition:

Norma Minkowitz: Body to Soul is a solo exhibition surveying the artist’s four-decade engagement with the physical and symbolic properties of thread. Minkowitz reinvents traditional needlework by crocheting fantastical forms, coating them in resin and shellac to create rigid sculptures and hangings. The delicate, mesh-like surfaces of her artworks break down oppositions between soft and hard, inside and outside, body and soul.

The poetic title Body to Soul is borrowed from just one of the sculptures that will be on view, but it is a broader theme that reverberates across the exhibition’s selection of over thirty vessels, sculptures, wall hangings, wearables, and works on paper – including never-before-seen examples coming from the artist’s studio.

Norma Minkowitz lives and works in Connecticut. Her work is represented in private and public collections across the United States and internationally. She is unique among fiber artists creating hard sculptures from soft materials, and for using thread to invoke universal themes of mortality, memory, nature, and writing. The exhibition is guest curated by Sarah Parrish PhD., Assistant Professor of Art History at Plymouth State University, New Hampshire.

https://www.fairfield.edu/museum/norma-minkowitz/