Ram Horns and Scorpion Tails: Textiles from Uzbekistan in Calgary

The double cloth

Nickle Galleries was warm and vibrant last week as we celebrated the unveiling of a new public art installation and a number of exhibition openings, including Ram Horns and Scorpion Tails: Textiles from Uzbekistan. This exhibition is the first major textile exhibition to be mounted in the new Nickle Galleries.

Highlights from the Textile Society of America’s Symposium

A lively marketplace accompanied the symposium and featured new and old textiles, books and more! (Photograph by  Ann Svenson).

Organized by Chris Martens, the panel Central Asian Textiles: Politics and Process was particularly stimulating with papers by Elmira Gyul, Irina Bogoslovskaya, Stephanie Bunn, and David and Sue Richardson. The panel was well conceived and resulted in a standing-room-only crowd!