Crocheting and Knitting in the News

Show puts knitting, lace at art's cutting edge
from East Valley Tribune

Lace and knitting - hip and avant-garde. Doesn't sound quite right, does it? In "Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting," an exhibit at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art opening Saturday, Sept. 20, the centuries-old worlds of lace and knitting are taken out of your grandmother's attic and thrust into the world of cutting-edge conceptual art. Instead of doilies and ugly sweaters, it's thought-provoking and visually impressive pieces like "The Expanding Club" by Janet Echelman (the Boston-area artist behind "Sky Bloom," the controversial public art being constructed in downtown Phoenix), a giant nylon net reminiscent of a mushroom cloud in which the colors match up with the flags of countries with nuclear capabilities. Not necessarily examples of modern knitting and lace, the exhibit is 39 pieces by 27 artists that reference and comment on the craft forms while utilizing many of their methods.

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