"Regarding Nebraska," a solo exhibition of work by Elizabeth Ingraham, associate professor of art, opens Friday, June 2 at the International Quilt Study Center & Museum. On display will be Ingraham's hand drawn map of the state, quilted reliefs of the Nebraska terrain and a large scale textile construction, "Prairie Skin." The exhibition coincides with the sesquicentennial of Nebraska statehood and will run through September 17, 2017.
Ingraham has been documenting the state since 2009 and has traveled over 9000 miles as part of her "Mapping Nebraska" project. "I work with cloth and with processes of piecing and quilting because of their reference to human scale, human touch and human occupation," says the artist. "I want to communicate the beauty and diversity of the state, revealed over time and across distance and to value what is lost as well as what persists."
First Friday hours at the Museum will be 4:30 to 7:00 PM on June 2. On Saturday June 3 at 11:00 AM, Ingraham will give a special gallery talk, "Behind the Stitches: the Fabric of Nebraska."
More details at: http://www.quiltstudy.org/exhibitions/nowshowing/regarding-nebraska.html