Textile Study Group: Tabby: A Starting Point

The Textile Study Group is back by popular demand!

The Textile Study Group met monthly for more than six years when Local Cloth was just getting started. It was a chance to get together and share the studies, rabbit holes, obsessions, curiosities, techniques, research,  and explorations by members with occasional guest presenters.

This month, join Kimberly English at Local Cloth for "Tabby: A Starting Point."

Local fiber artist, Kimberly English, will share about her approach to launching Tabby, an experimental weaving residency out of her studio in Canton, which will host its inaugural pilot season this spring + summer. Kimberly will also share about her current work, which synthesizes stories of myth (often informed by the American south), survival, and relationships that explore the nuance of interdependence - real and imagined - between land, machines, people, and the objects that we create. Through woven and quilted textile forms that emphasize and obfuscate found material, her work considers notions of labor, ritual, and perception.