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From October 1st- 15th, 2020 SJMQT celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month by inviting Museums, Cultural organizations, Artists, and Enthusiasts to share a textile piece made by LatinX artists! The purpose of this campaign is to celebrate the diverse and unique takes on material and the history of textiles by LatinX artists.

 
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Today’s #TextileTuesday features this gorgeous wedding huipil currently being researched by HLATC Graduate Collection Assistant Addison Nace. · The Aztec-style design of this Mayan wedding huipil can be traced back to lively trade between Mayan and Aztec people; multiple examples of feathers being woven into textiles can be found in the Florentine Codex. This huipil is unique because the weaver has spun the feathers into the threads by carding them with cotton -- a technique that was incorrectly thought to be lost but has lived on in the municipality of Zinacantán. The weaving of huipils like this will take a bride about 3 months to complete. · #LatinXTextiles #TextilesHispanos #IndigenousWeaving #HLATC #MayanTextiles #IndigenousTextiles #materialculture · Wedding Huipil; Zinacantán, Chiapas, Mexico; 1960-1972; Cotton, chicken feathers; 32 x 41 in; 2004.06.001, Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection; Gift of Kay Houston in honor of Miriam Houston. · Image description: Color photographs of a woven tunic. Cream-colored textile background with colorful embroidery and woven designs of triangles, lines, and blocks of color on the cream background. White feathers accentuate the design in various places: a square at the center, lining the bottom and accentuating lines in some of the designs throughout. Detail images highlight the ways the white feathers are woven around thread and through the textile. Images courtesy of HLATC and Addison Nace.

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From our friends @craftinamerica — in case you missed it there: "In celebration of the exhibition Democracy 2020: Craft & the Election, the Craft in America Center invites you to create and share your own artistic vision of the future in the form of a flag that represents the character, aspirations, and ideals of your community. ⠀ ⠀ This special project is inspired by the work of one of Democracy 2020’s artists, Victor De La Rosa and his Future Flags of America. Flag submissions will be collected in a virtual gallery on Craft in America’s website and presented in a live Flag Share event on October 27th. ⠀ ⠀ To register for the event, and for info on how to participate please visit the link in our (craft in america’s) bio. ⠀ ⠀ 📷: 1. Victor De La Rosa, Future Flags of America: Study for 2050 U.S. Flag, 2013. 2. Victor De La Rosa, We’re All Mexican, 2020.⠀ ⠀ #craft #artist #fiber #latinxartist #victordelarosa #democracy2020 #election2020 #vote2020 #textileartsla #latinxtextiles

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This piece was the first collaboration between my sister and I. So of course it is one of my favorites! I was excited to see her artistic style and how our individual perspectives on memory, domestic spaces, and family would translate into our work. Because she was juggling with work and having to homeschool, she was the last writer to submit her work. So to save time I started making a weaving that I felt encompassed her and our family. When she finally sent her writing and I laughed because we had managed to make two pieces of work that spoke perfectly to one another without knowing what the other one was making. And if that didn’t explain our relationship perfectly I don’t know what does. The process of making this piece was intuitive. The weaving has her hair that she cut after she completed a promesa and then sent it to me with no context only a label saying “Magical Hair”. Again, explains our relationship perfectly! In her writing, she explains our mother’s spiritual rituals that she has passed down to us. But more than that it explained a bond between a mother and her daughters, and the power of intuition and healing. We always laugh that the women in our family are witches and their witchy powers were passed down to us, but in reality, those “powers” are just a strong connection created by these women trying to navigate different parts of our lives. #textileshispanos #latinxtextiles

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Ever wonder what my work is all about? Read on!✨ As a product of an American father and a Mexican mother, I am influenced by the conflicting expectations I have received as a woman within the two cultures. My studio practice, a ritualization that celebrates and questions my cultural inheritance as a woman, depicts the dichotomies of my heritage through the combination of ceramics and fiber. With a manipulation of traditional processes and materials of domesticity, I begin to bridge the misunderstandings present between the maternal generations of my lineage. The vessel, symbolically tied to the traditions and expectations of womanhood, acts as a canvas for a discussion between materials and processes deeply rooted in the craft traditions of Mexico. The utilization of these processes explores Mexico’s deep history of class and culture within my own heritage. The use of fiber in combination with ceramic speaks powerfully to how we view utilitarian objects and the experiences associated with them. Symbolically, a vessel keeps not only the physical within but the ephemeral memories of life long after they have passed. The vessels in my work are not meant as objects of utility, instead they serve as vehicles for fiber. As the fiber flows from, weaves into, or frames the ceramic, it distorts the functionality but becomes a meaningful component as plate and cloth merge. The vessels contain an expression of femininity and an essence of personal and cultural history. My studio practice engages in the preservation of craft traditions by bringing them to a contemporary space. Continuing the conversations woven into the tapestry of Mexican craft, I pick up the threads of those who came before and add my own voice. Through an introspection of values, I begin to understand how clay and fiber directly relate to my lifestyle, cultures, traditions, and expectations. I simultaneously question and celebrate my identity as a woman across the generational and cultural boundaries in my life. #latinxtextiles #textileshispanos

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The themed exhibition: Women Pulling at The Threads of Social Discourse, revolving around women and their social voices, was first launched in 2019, exploring how women artists utilizing textiles as their medium subvert the social expectation of crafting, and instead take this soft medium and lambast it with political and social awareness. ⠀ Fiber Arts Miami Association (FAMA), formed this year, and during the pandemic, artists Aurora Molina, Evelyn Politzer, and Alina Rodriguez united a group of creatives to organize and present their first exhibition honoring the 2020 Women’s Vote Centennial and create awareness about our duty to vote. Works have been assembled using mixed media and the fiber arts to ignite positive social change. The exhibited works will be only flags, as the flag or banner is used as a metaphor or symbol of solidarity with the women of the suffrage movement in this exhibition.⠀ Find more with Contemporary Art Modern Project and online at Artsy.⠀ ⠀ Sonia Baez Hernandez, The Suffrage and Inter-Sectionality, 2020⠀ Shelly McCoy, Allegory of Sisterhood, 2020 #textileartsla #latinxtextiles #textileshispanos #sjmqt

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