Event Details
Front cover of exhibition catalogue: 'Queremos Democracia / We want democracy', Anon. (Photo: Martin Melaugh) |
| Exhibition and associated activities: | Transforming threads of resistance: political arpilleras and textiles by women from Chile and around the world |
| Description: | This collection, specially curated for the University of Massachusetts, Amherst epitomizes some of the worst irruptions of state violence and human rights violations in everyday life and in civil society, both current and historical. It also focuses on the various ways women have responded to that violence by giving a sense of normality to life.
More information on this physical and on-line exhibition can be viewed at: http://blogs.umass.edu/conflictart/
as well as related activities:
http://blogs.umass.edu/conflictart/announcements-and-upcoming-events |
| Commissioned by: | University of Massachusetts/Amherst, USA |
| Date(s): | 27th February 2012 - 9th March 2012 |
| Venue: | Student Union Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts/Amherst, USA and the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution |
| Curator: | Roberta Bacic |
| Facilitator: | Leah Wing, Director, Art of Conflict Transformation Event Series, UMASS |
| Outcome: | Participants at the exhibition workshops produced artistic responses. These pieces, together with some textiles from the original exhibition, were part of the exhibition "Artistic Responses to the Political Textiles Art Exhibition", which ran from the 12th-16th March in the Student Union Gallery. |
| Photographs: | Photographs on Flickr of the exhibition by Julianne Pizzi - View Here |
