Knit Night - Thursday, March 2 at 7 p.m.

Join us for a hand-on workshop with Kate Wellen, Museum Educator!

Registrants will be guided through relaxing fiber art techniques, inspired by the temporary exhibition Norma Minkowitz: Body to Soul, on view in the Bellarmine Hall Galleries from January 27 – April 6, 2023. This event is designed to be a drop-in beginner’s workshop as well as a chance to visit the Norma Minkowitz exhibition. No prior experience is necessary. Supplies will be provided and light refreshments will be available.

Please note: This event is in-person only. Space is limited! Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/knit-night-tickets-491062419917

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/