Mending the Craft: Sustainability in Contemporary Textiles curated by

Cecily Ou

Holly Chang, Leah Defoort, Allie Davis, and Callie Legault

September 15 – November 11, 2023

From local plants to pigments; dye-samples to patchwork garments; and recycled yarn to wearable installations, ‘Mending the Land: Sustainability in Contemporary Textiles’ considers the role of ecology in the life cycle of textiles. With an explicit emphasis on materials, the works of Holly Chang, Leah Defoort, Allie Davis, and Callie Legault respond to— and contend with— expanded processes of contemporary textile art production. The artists in the exhibition imagine a new era of ecologically conscious practices— one stitch at a time.

They ask and begin to answer the following questions: How can textile practitioners respond to the ecological cost of art production? More importantly, how do these practices act as models of sustainability in the arts and beyond?

Documentation by Polina Teif