Through a generous donation from The Laffer Curatorial Program, we are able to offer TEx@ATA (Tapestry E-xhibit at American Tapestry Alliance.) Several exhibitions are curated each year for this online gallery. Shows vary in content; some are based on a theme, others present the work of a single artist. The curator for each show develops the concept and works closely with the artists who are featured.
With this opportunity, we are able to provide a stipend to outstanding curators interested in designing an exhibition of the highest caliber. Such shows are characterized by a tight cohesive theme and highlight artists who not only exhibit technical and aesthetic excellence in the tapestry medium, but also work in a more conceptual manner, or stretch the definition of tapestry. An essay written by the curator interprets the work within a broad artistic context. For more information about Laffer curatorship, contact Barbara Burns at newsletter@americantapestryalliance.org.
Links to the current and past exhibits are found below.
Newest Exhibition
Mariana Ortega: Destiny of a Tapestry Weaver
Curated by Barbara Burns
Mariana Ortega shares her story of how she came to the process of tapestry as a form of visual expression. This exhibition is also in Spanish (following the English text). Thank you to Barbara Burns for curating such an inspirational exhibition.
TEx@ATA Exhibitions
2021 Mariana Ortega: Destiny of a Tapestry Weaver
2019 Seizing the Moment: Three Emerging Millennial Artists
2019 Pat Williams Has Stories to Tell
2018 Breaking Through Tradition – Contemporary Tapestry in France
2018 Tapiserije: The Art of Atelje 61 in Vojvodina, Serbia
2018 Katherine Lavocat
2017 Maximo Laura
2017 Belinda Ramson
2017 Elements: earth, air, fire, water
2016 ARTAPESTRY4
2016 Marcel Marois: The Weave of History
2015 Threads of Life
2015 From Back to Front
2015 Over the Sea, Under the Sky: Contemporary Danish Tapestry
2014 Dorothy Clews: All is in Flux
2014 In the Heart of Europe: Hungarian Tapestry Art
2013 Down South: Tapestry in Australia
2013 The Rhythms of Julia Mitchell’s Tapestries
2013 The Power of Slow
2012 Erin Riley – Public/Private Moments
2012 Dancing Color – Audrey Moore’s Tapestries
2012 A Penelopean Space – the artwork of Linda Wallace
2011 Maiz
2011 Transformed Traditions in Ikat II: Contemporary interpretations of a traditional technique
2010 Archie Brennan
2010 Inyul Heo
2009 Jean Pierre Larochette & Yael Lurie: A study in national treasures
2009 Land
2008 Inspiration & Creativity
2007 Christine Laffer: Lines of Inquiry
2007 Barbara Heller
2007 Tapestry on the Edge
2006 Fractured Landscapes: Tapestries and Paper Weavings by Suzanne Pretty
2006 Between Two Worlds: Valerie Kirk and Sara Lindsay
2005 FindingHome @ tapestry.ca/au
