Virtual Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women Lecture with Mary Savig
Thursday, July 11, 7 p.m. ET

Online via Zoom
Free | Registration required

Don’t miss a virtual program exploring the artists featured in the exhibition Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women who mastered everyday materials, subverted conventions, and transformed humble threads into sublime creations. Join Mary Savig, the Lloyd Herman Curator of Craft, as she discusses the themes of the exhibition, including the intersections between fiber arts and domestic work.

In this lecture, Savig shares how the exhibition, now on view at SAAM’s Renwick Gallery, came together as a collaboration between SAAM and the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, combining artworks in SAAM’s collection with archival materials and interviews held by the Archives.

Hear from Select Artists Featured in Subversive, Skilled, Sublime

Backstitch, new podcast from the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art, weaves together audio quotes from oral histories conducted for the Archives to narrate the lives of artists such as Adela Akers, Kay Sekimachi, and Lenore Tawney. 
 
Backstitch looks at the lives of ten women artists who are weavers, sculptors, quilters, and more. Hear the artists in their own words in these short audio explorations. Learn how artists may embrace traditions or subvert expectations to create something beautiful, powerful, and even sublime.

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