May 29

May 29 Interlaced Practices: Creativity and Craft in the Canadian Prairies

Spring / Summer 2024, Reviews

Michele Hardy, Julia Krueger and Timothy Long, the curators of Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms, and the Expanded Frame, 1960-2000, write about their approach and experiences.

*Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms and the Expanded Frame*, 1960-2000 (installation view), Nickle Galleries. Photo: Dave Brown, LCR PhotoServices.

*Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms and the Expanded Frame*, 1960-2000 (installation view), Nickle Galleries. F. Douglas Motter, *This Bright Land*, 1976, City of Calgary Public Art Collection, Gift of the Calgary Allied Arts Foundation, 1983 990072 A-F, Photo: Dave Brown, LCR PhotoServices.

This article is an excerpt and and is available in full in the Spring/Summer 2024 issue of Studio Magazine.

Prairie Interlace

Michele Hardy is an academic curator with Nickle Galleries and an adjunct member of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Calgary.

Julia Krueger is an independent curator, craft historian, and permanent collection registrar with SK Arts. She maintains an active teaching, writing, curatorial, and research practice grounded in material culture and craft theory with a focus on the Canadian Prairies.

Timothy Long has thirty years of curatorial experience at the MacKenzie Art Gallery where he is Head Curator and Adjunct Professor at the University of Regina.