Between the threads: Photo embroidery as mending

Using the technique of embroidery on photos, mixed with fabric and mixed media collage, participants are invited to bring a photo or send one in advance of an image that represents something they would like to mend in their life-a memory, relationship or experience. Participants individuals pieces will be become part of a collaborative exhibit presented at Cherry Street Pier in May.

This experience is facilitated by multidisciplinary artist and Senior Hand Embroiderer Duwenavue Sante Johnson. “For Johnson, a master of the needle trade, the artistic process is inseparable from the act of survival. “The process of mending a textile is identical to the process of mending a life,” says Johnson. Her work collapses the distance between vocational expertise and communal storytelling, turning the technical precision of the stitch into a vehicle for social cohesion within a space of her own creation.”

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