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This presentation contextualizes the work of Olga de Amaral through an exploration of the overlapping art worlds she engaged from 1955 to the early 1980s. It highlights the important role she played in the transformation of weaving from a design-based or applied practice into a medium recognized as fine art.
Elissa Auther is the Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and the William and Mildred Lasden Chief Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. In this role she provides the strategic direction and creative oversight for exhibitions, acquisitions, publications, and exhibition-related programming. She is the author of the groundbreaking study String, Felt, Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art (2010) and has published widely on diverse topics, including the history of modernism and its relationship to craft and the decorative, the material culture of the American counterculture, and feminist art. She has organized the exhibitions “Surface/Depth: The Decorative After Miriam Schapiro” (2018) and “Queer Maximalism x Machine Dazzle” (2022). She previously taught at the University of Colorado and is an affiliate faculty member at the Bard Graduate Center.
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This presentation contextualizes the work of Olga de Amaral through an exploration of the overlapping art worlds she engaged from 1955 to the early 1980s. It highlights the important role she played in the transformation of weaving from a design-based or applied practice into a medium recognized as fine art.
Elissa Auther is the Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and the William and Mildred Lasden Chief Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. In this role she provides the strategic direction and creative oversight for exhibitions, acquisitions, publications, and exhibition-related programming. She is the author of the groundbreaking study String, Felt, Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art (2010) and has published widely on diverse topics, including the history of modernism and its relationship to craft and the decorative, the material culture of the American counterculture, and feminist art. She has organized the exhibitions “Surface/Depth: The Decorative After Miriam Schapiro” (2018) and “Queer Maximalism x Machine Dazzle” (2022). She previously taught at the University of Colorado and is an affiliate faculty member at the Bard Graduate Center.
#icamiami #olgadeamaral #textile #art
