“Time in Every Stitch,” a Starkville Area Arts Council exhibit featuring the work of Rowan Haug, will be on display from Tuesday through March 27 in the Greater Starkville Development Partnership lobby.
An opening reception will be held from 5:30-7 p.m. Tuesday at the lobby. The exhibit is hybrid, meaning it can be viewed in-person at the downtown Starkville facility or at the SAAC website, http://www.starkvillearts.net .
Haug, who has been a Mississippi State instructor since 2010, has a master of fine arts degree from Florida State University and a bachelor’s degree from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. She specializes in quilting, textiles and fiber arts.
The exhibit will feature a sample of Haug’s abstract quilt pieces.
“My work … looks at traditional modes of quilt-making and what we traditionally think of as ‘women’s work,’” writes Haug.
“Women’s work is a labor of love, it marks time in its every stitch. These stitches and seams tether me in time and place.”
In an online description of one of her pieces, “All My Quiet Minutes,” Haug said her work “balances on the thread-thin line between art and craft — that seam line that holds our desires together rather than a space where hierarchy within expression feels necessary. Quilts are, to me, often a physical manifestation of our desire for order and repetition. My work often lives within the tension of our reach for perfection within human manual imprecision and embraces the beauty in letting go of our preconceived notions of perfection.”
The reception will be catered by a local restaurant and wine is provided by SAAC and Scotty’s Wine and Spirits.
Works may be for sale. SAAC provides reception and publicity, handles the collecting and reporting of MS State Sales Taxes on behalf of the artist for any works sold while taking a 20 percent commission. The artist keeps 80 percent of the proceeds.
For information, visit the SAAC website, http://www.starkvillearts.net/creativeeconomy.html.
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