Leah Evans Gallery Talk

Gallery talk by artist Leah Evans in conjunction with the exhibition Stitched Ground: Four Artists Embroider the Land This event is held in conjunction with the Wisconsin Writers Series, a series of readings by the recipients of the 2009 Council for Wisconsin Writers Awards. At 1:00 pm March 21, writers Jerry Apps & Richard Quinney will read from their award-winning stories in the Wisconsin Studio, third floor, Overture Center. The series is a collaborative partnership between Overture Center for the Arts, Edenfred and the Council for Wisconsin Writers.

Stitched Ground is an exploration of landscape through the painstaking and richly textured medium of embroidery. Artists Terese Agnew, Chris Niver, Leah Evans, and Sarah Gagnon use needle and thread to create work that embodies the contradictions implicit in our relationship to the land.
This exhibition is a collaborative project between the James Watrous Gallery and the Design Gallery, UW–Madison School of Human Ecology.

Friday, February 26, 5:30-7:30 p.m., exhibition reception with gallery talk led by guest curator and Design Gallery director Jody Clowes. Exhibiting artists will be present. Gallery talk begins at 6:30 p.m.

Sunday, March 7, 2:00 p.m., Gallery talk with exhibition artist Terese Agnew

Sunday, March 21, 2:00 p.m., Gallery talk with exhibition artist Leah Evans

Saturday, March 27, 1–3:00 p.m., Children’s tour and workshop with the Madison Children’s Museum and the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art; pre-registration required.

Stitched Ground: Four Artists Embroider The Land is supported by the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts, by a grant from the Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission with additional funds from the Endres Mfg. Company Foundation and the Overture Foundation, by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Anonymous Fund, by Suzanne and Richard R. Pieper Sr., and by Ann Neviaser. Ongoing gallery support comes from DoubleTree Hotel-Madison and Robert & Carroll Heideman. The Wisconsin Academy thanks these sponsors for their generous support.

We would also like to thank the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum for their loans of Terese Agnew’s pieces to the exhibition. Finally, we thank the exhibition artists, Terese Agnew, Leah Evans, Sarah Gagnon, and Chris Niver, for their enthusiastic participation in this project.

Artwork image: Details of artwork from the Stitched Ground artists, (L to R) Chris Niver, Sarah Gagnon, Terese Agnew, Leah Evans.