ATA Fall Newsletter pg10

A Small Format Unjuried Tapestry Exhibition

By Margaret Moore, Small Format Tapestry Chair

and Rene Evans, Convergence 2002 Exhibits Chair

This years Small Format Tapestry exhibit was held in conjunction with Convergence 2002 Vancouver and was sponsored by Handweavers Guild of America, Inc. The Exhibit was held at the Roundhouse Community Centre

Gallery from July 24 - August 4 2002. The Roundhouse is a restored railway roundhouse for the across Canada railways and sits of the edge of the Vancouver harbour. Celebration of community was the theme of 2002 Small Format Tapestry exhibit and, because of the location, had a sub theme of

connecting communities and peoples.

The prospectus asked people to celebrate their community, whether large or small, near or far. To take a common thread and bind communities together much as highways, railways and airways bind communities within a country and oceans bind countries into the global community that we celebrate as our world. To take a common thread and interweave their community.

And celebrate they did. There were 64 pieces entered from as far away as Japan and England, and as close as Vancouver. The size could not exceed 10 inches by 10 inches and the tapestries ranged from 2 inches square to the

full 10 inches. The techniques, the materials used and the subject matter were as varied as the colours and sizes and made for a very interesting and exciting exhibit. The tapestries were displayed on 6 mounting boards. The

boards were place in a U-shaped mini gallery within the larger gallery space.

The Roundhouse Community Centre Gallery was shared with the British Columbia Society of Tapestry Artists exhibit "If Images Speak A Thousand Words". This was a juried exhibition of contemporary Canadian image-based textiles.