Narrative Threads: Fiber Art Today
Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, TX
January 13 – May 13, 2023
Maria Nepomuceno, Little Delilah, 2018, ropes, beads, ceramic, fiberglass and resin
Work by Maria Nepomuceno is featured in the group exhibition Narrative Threads: Fiber Art Today, on view at the Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, TX, through May 13. 2023.
The artists featured in the exhibition speak to contemporary issues of identity, gender, race, sexuality, and power through a medium with deep, multicultural roots that predate written history. Narrative Threads explores this practice, specifically the ways in which fiber-based media can communicate both personal and political issues, through a selection of works that can be read as simultaneously autobiographical and socially critical.
For several featured artists, who identify as women, LGBTQ+, and persons of color, textiles are often seen as carriers of cultural meaning that have the power to expand the breadth of voices represented in art and draw attention to personal experiences and histories of repression.
Bringing together works that are experiential, fragmentary, and fundamentally tactile, Narrative Threads invites viewers to consider new perspectives through diverse lenses.
An opening reception will be held on Friday, January 13, from 6-8 PM. To learn more about Narrative Threads: Fiber Art Today at the Moody Center for the Arts, click here.