Member Preview Morning: Threaded Currents
Join us for exclusive member hours during the opening weekend of Threaded Currents, during this special morning preview for members. Explore the exhibition and our other galleries before public hours.
About the Exhibition
Threaded 
Currents brings together the work of recent apprentices from The Fabric Workshop and Museum (FWM) who are also alumni or current students of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. This exhibition explores the dynamic crosscurrents between traditional fine arts training and contemporary, experimental materials-based practices fostered at FWM.
The exhibition highlights the large-scale, three screen, repeat-pattern prints created by all artists participating in the FWM apprenticeship program. Most apprentices find themselves working on a new scale, with new materials, and their results often lead the artists to reconceive and expand their practice. In Threaded Currents, artists were invited to display pieces made prior to the apprenticeship program, as well as work created after their FWM experience. Emphasizing the importance of process in the apprenticeship program, the exhibition also showcases preliminary sketches, drawings completed on mylars used to create the screens, color tests, and objects, such as pillows and soft sculptures created with the printed fabric.
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Featured Image: Heather Raquel Phillips, Nip, Tuck, Paint, Pluck, 2022, multicolored repeat screen print on bleached cotton yardage. Photo credit: Carlos Avendaño, courtesy of The Fabric Workshop and Museum.
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