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Connections in the Making

The Center for Craft is excited to present a solo exhibition of patchwork textiles and inflatable sculptures by the Ohio-based fiber artist. Adrian’s volumetric, pneumatic work transports viewers into artifice, desire, and worldbuilding. Drawing from rich legacies of queer fiber art & theory, the exhibition features monumentally scaled works that physically respond to viewers presence by filling with air.

You can still sponsor RIPSTOP by contributing before July 12, 2024. Donate today for your opportunity to be recognized during the opening reception on August 15, 2024, and on the exhibition's Title Wall. To underwrite this exhibition, please donate now.

Connections in the Making

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Photo credit:

Rachel Meginnes, I Traverse Daily (detail), 2021; Courtesy of the Artist. Erika Diamond, 40% (detail), 2022; Photo by Echard Wheeler, Courtesy of the Artist. James Vester Miller portrait; Courtesy of Andrea Clark. Potter Matt Jones digging clay; Courtesy of the Artist. Gabe Crow, Eye of the Sacred Bird, 2020; Courtesy Center for Craft. Graphic by Drum Machine Editions.

*This exhibition will be on view through October 31, 2026.

Craft has the capacity to connect people to one another, to ground us in a specific place, and to bridge generations across time. Connections in the Making includes works by regional artists, craftspeople, and entrepreneurs that tell many different stories about ways craft connects us.

Blacksmith Rachel David hosts skill-building workshops that demonstrate how craft brings people together. Over the past six years she has hosted free forging demonstrations and workshops for predominantly BIPOC and LGBTQIA++ individuals. David makes craft approachable for a wider and more diverse group of people.

Craft can also connect us to a place. Basketmakers Gabriel Crow, Lucille Lossiah, and Ramona Lossie (Eastern Band Cherokee) use materials and dyes native to Western North Carolina to create exquisite baskets that highlight the inseparable relationship between land and the Cherokee people.

Finally, craft connects our cultural pasts to the present. Artist Rachel Meginnes sees herself as a collaborator with makers whose names were once known. She deconstructs old quits and weaves them into new compositions. “The hands and minds that made these heirlooms are gone,” Megennis explains, “my own choices respond to the material that remains and the choices of past makers that I study.”

Come discover your own ties to craft and why making matters today by exploring the eleven stories that form Connections in the Making.

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Levi West

Gabriel Crow

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Matt Jones

Lucille Lossiah

Ramona Lossie

Rachel Meginnes

James Vester Miller

Marilyn Zapf

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ᏚᏍᏓᏯᎫᎾᏱ Gabriel Crow

Cherokee, NC

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Faye Junaluska

Cherokee, NC

Lucille Lossiah

Ramon Lose

Cullowhee, NC

ᏯᏗ ᎺᏂ Betty Maney

Cherokee, NC

ᏗᎳᏂ Dylan Morgan

Cherokee, NC

ᎺᎵ ᏔᎻᏏᏂ Mary W. Thompson

ᏎᎳᏂ ᏔᎻᏏᏂ Sarah Thompson

Patricia Welch

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Robell Awake

Lives and works in Atlanta, GA

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Gabriel Crow

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Rachel David

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Erika Diamond

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Vicki Essig

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East Fork

Made in Asheville, NC

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Matt Jones

Lives and works in Leicester, NC

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Lucille Lossiah

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Ramona Lossie

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Rachel Meginnes

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James Vester Miller

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Levi West

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rhiannon ‘skye’ tafoya

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About RIPSTOP

The Center for Craft is excited to present a solo exhibition of patchwork textiles and inflatable sculptures by the Ohio-based fiber artist. Adrian’s volumetric, pneumatic work transports viewers into artifice, desire, and worldbuilding. Drawing from rich legacies of queer fiber art & theory, the exhibition features monumentally scaled works that physically respond to viewers presence by filling with air.

You can still sponsor RIPSTOP by contributing before July 12, 2024. Donate today for your opportunity to be recognized during the opening reception on July 26, 2024, and on the exhibition's Title Wall. To underwrite this exhibition, please donate now.

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The 2023 Curatorial Fellowship is supported, in part, by the Stoney Lamar Craft Endowment Fund.
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The 2023 Curatorial Fellowship is supported, in part, by the Stoney Lamar Craft Endowment Fund.
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Thank you to Phillips, the leading auction house in art and design, for sponsoring the Curatorial Fellowship show.

RIPSTOP is supported, in part, by Arrowmont School of Arts and Craft.

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The 2023 Curatorial Fellowship is supported, in part, by the Stoney Lamar Craft Endowment Fund.
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The 2023 Curatorial Fellowship is supported, in part, by the Stoney Lamar Craft Endowment Fund.
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Thank you to Phillips, the leading auction house in art and design, for sponsoring the Curatorial Fellowship show.

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N.C. Arts Council

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a

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the

Department

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Natural

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Cultural

Resources.

The 2023 Curatorial Fellowship is supported, in part, by the Stoney Lamar Craft Endowment Fund.
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Thank you to Phillips, the leading auction house in art and design, for sponsoring the Curatorial Fellowship show.

Preservers, Innovators, and Rescuers of Culture in Chiapas is supported, in part by,

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Aram Han Sifuentes is a recipient of the Center for Craft’s 2022 Craft Research Fund Artist Fellowship. This substantial mid-career grant is awarded to two artists to support research projects that advance, expand, and support the creation of new research and knowledge through craft practice.

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Max Adrian, “A Fallible Complex,” 2021. Nylon, ripstop, blower, motion sensor. 92 x 136 x 76 inches.

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Robell Awake

Gabriel Crow

Rachel David

Erika Diamond

Vicki Essig

East Fork

Matt Jones

Lucille Lossiah

Ramona Lossie

Rachel Meginnes

James Vester Miller

Levi West

rhiannon ‘skye’ tafoya

About RIPSTOP

Robell Awake

Erika Diamond

rhiannon ‘skye’ tafoya

Levi West

Gabriel Crow

Rachel David

East Fork

Vicki Essig

Matt Jones

Lucille Lossiah

Ramona Lossie

Rachel Meginnes

James Vester Miller

Curatorial

The 2023 Curatorial Fellowship is supported, in part, by the Stoney Lamar Craft Endowment Fund.‍Thank you to Phillips, the leading auction house in art and design, for sponsoring the Curatorial Fellowship show.

Thank

you to the

Virginia A. Groot Foundation

and

Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation

for

makng these residencies possible.

The 2023 Curatorial Fellowship is supported, in part, by the Stoney Lamar Craft Endowment Fund.‍Thank you to Phillips, the leading auction house in art and design, for sponsoring the Curatorial Fellowship show.

RIPSTOP is supported, in part, by Arrowmont School of Arts and Craft.

The

Center

for

Craft

is

supported

in

part

by

the

N.C. Arts Council

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The 2023 Curatorial Fellowship is supported, in part, by the Stoney Lamar Craft Endowment Fund.
‍
Thank you to Phillips, the leading auction house in art and design, for sponsoring the Curatorial Fellowship show.

The 2023 Curatorial Fellowship is supported, in part, by the Stoney Lamar Craft Endowment Fund.
‍
Thank you to Phillips, the leading auction house in art and design, for sponsoring the Curatorial Fellowship show.

The 2023 Curatorial Fellowship is supported, in part, by the Stoney Lamar Craft Endowment Fund.
‍
Thank you to Phillips, the leading auction house in art and design, for sponsoring the Curatorial Fellowship show.

The 2023 Curatorial Fellowship is supported, in part, by the Stoney Lamar Craft Endowment Fund.
‍
Thank you to Phillips, the leading auction house in art and design, for sponsoring the Curatorial Fellowship show.