Wednesday Sept 28, 2022
4-6pm Showroom Crawl
4-8pm Exhibition Reception

Chicago Textile Week presents Carrying the Thread, an exhibition of contemporary weavings, knitting, furniture, and abstract textile sculpture by Chicago artists. Founded in 2019, Chicago Textile Week aims to connect the city's textile designers, artists, and industry workers (and the enthusiastic public!) to the city's influential textile design history. Presented in the historic Merchandise Mart, Carrying The Thread highlights one aspect of this history by "picking up the thread" of the Mart's legacy as a center of textile commerce. Spread across three floors of the Merchandise Mart, the featured works convey the diversity of materials, techniques, and themes explored by Chicago's textile artists. This partnership highlights the expansive potential of contemporary textile-based practice.

Curated by Amanda Christine Harth, John R. Harness, and Erica Warren on behalf of Chicago Textile Week.

For more info about the Day of Textiles, visit Chicago Textile Week.

Hope Wang featured in Clarus Glass Showroom