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From Thursday, May 31 2012
To Friday, July 06 2012
Tuesday, Wednesday Thursday Friday - week 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 every month |
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Houston Arts Alliance Folklife + Traditional Arts
Presents
Weaving Home:
Textile Traditions From Houston's Karenni Community
May 16 - July 6, 2012
Opening Reception, Thursday, May 24, 5:30 - 7 PM
Houston is home to refugee communities from around the world. They all bring with them distinctive traditions. Alliance Gallery's latest exhibition, Weaving Home, focuses on the weaving traditions practiced by women from one such community - a collection of Karenni families who now live in the city.
Working with a Houston-based micro-enterprise endeavor called The Community Cloth, a program of the Houston non-profit, Our Global Village, Karenni craftswomen have continued to produce traditional weavings but also to create items that appeal to a Western market. Weaving Home shows examples of both Karenni traditional and market-influenced pieces in an effort to tell the story of an art form at the center of refugee life.
In celebration of this exhibition, craftswomen and community members will be in attendance during the opening reception to demonstrate the backstrap technique used in both their traditional and contemporary weavings.
Alliance Gallery, 3201 Allen Parkway Suite 125, 77019
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Friday 3 - 5 PM or by appointment. Group tours encouraged.
Weaving Home is a project of the Houston Arts Alliance Folklife and Traditional Arts Program. Focused on promoting and presenting the lively cultural traditions of the nation's fourth largest city, the Folklife Program works in the city's diverse neighborhoods and communities to explore and highlight the contemporary traditions that make Houston one of the most vibrant urban landscapes in the United States. Program's goals include research, documentation and public projects that explore the wide variety of established and emerging cultural communities that come together in the greater Houston area.
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