Woven Threads, Woven Lives Exhibiting Hartford Public Library’s community weaving project
January 30 – February 23, 2020
Artist Talk and Reception Sunday, February 9, 1–3 pm.
The Clare Gallery started the new year celebrating community by exhibiting the Hartford Public Library’s (HPL) community weaving project, Woven Threads, Woven Lives. Artist and weaver, Sandy Fromson, began the project in 2016 and completed it in 2018 with contributing artist Charmaine Craig. The culmination of the project produced a beautifully colored twenty-four foot woven banner, with nearly 200 people taking part in its creation. Each weaver choose various yarns, threads, or other material to add to the banner, along with a wish written on a tag. 188 tags flutter and hang providing an additional unique texture to the piece. Along with the banner, a map and photographs help tell the story of who the participants were and where they lived. Artist, Sandy Fromson, and co-creator, Charmaine Craig, spoke about this community art endeavor at the artist talk.
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