A "Tapestry Interest Group Meeting" was
so well attended we could have used a room twice the size - over 80
people squeezed into the room which had been set up for 50! Edit
Andras, one of the curators of the Hungarian Karpit exhibit, gave an
excellent talk and slide presentation on the history
of tapestry in Hungary. We were very fortunate to
have a portion of the Hungarian work from this exhibit travel to
Vancouver and be exhibited at the gallery as an adjunct exhibit to
ATB4.
Edit was accompanied by three Hungarian tapestry
weavers. It was a great pleasure to meet Judit Baranyi, Ildiko
Dobranyi, and Ibolya Hegyi -- all of whom had tapestries at the
Richmond Gallery. ATA past president, Judy Schuster, spoke about the
changes to the organization as we start preparing for future
endeavours.
Two of the jurors for ATB 4 were present,
Christine Laffer and Marcel Marois. Peter Horn, the third juror, had
attended the opening of ATB 4 on July 4th. Christine gave a brief talk
on the jurying process for selecting the tapestries and showed slides
and commented on a few of the pieces. (Christine will give an expanded
version of her talk on October 13th, the day after the opening of ATB 4
at the William D. Cannon Art Gallery in Carlsbad California. ATB 4 will
run from October 12 through December 1, giving tapestry weavers and the
general public a special opportunity to see this fine exhibition.
The discussion continued that evening at an Open
House at Barbara Heller's home. The rooms were abuzz with tapestry talk
as we got to know each other and discussed our current projects. It was
wonderful to meet so many people whose work we had long enjoyed in the
pages of catalogues and to see work by tapestries weavers from around
the world.
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