Stitched Ground: Four Artists Embroider the Land

Stitched Ground: Four Artists Embroider the Land

Terese Agnew, Chris Niver, Leah Evans, and Sarah Gagnon

February 23 – April 11, 2010

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.

This exhibition 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.

The James Watrous Gallery of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters is devoted to Wisconsin artists, Wisconsin art and craft history, works owned by Wisconsin collectors, and exhibitions that bridge the sciences, arts, and humanities. It is a program of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, an independent, nonprofit membership organization that connects people and ideas from all areas of knowledge and all walks of life to advance thought and culture in our state.