BSA Artists Dowling, Fuller, Mead Represented in Inaugural Fiber Exhibition at ACWC

The Arts Council for Wyoming County (ACWC) invites the public to view the Juried Fiber Art exhibition "Different Fibers" at the opening reception to be held on Friday, April 12, 2024.

Buffalo Society of Artists Members Gerald Mead, Tami Fuller, Audrey K Dowling and Friend of the BSA Ellen Owens are included in this show. This show was juried by BSA Exhibiting Artist and Curator Tami Fuller.

Other Artists in show include:

Liz Birardi, Amanda Brown, LuAnne Brubaker, Melissa Majchrzak Buckley, Robbin Dillon, Josephine Konvinse, Ellen Knapp, Jessica Krueger, Suzanne O'Brien, Barbara Park Leggett, Polly Stapley, Susan Swanson, Fileve Tlaloc and Elzi Volk.

Visitors to the exhibition can expect to see a diverse representation of handmade fiber art pieces from local artists curated around the ACWC's 2024 theme of "Different." Art and handmade fiber art from the following three categories will be displayed: "Handmade Useful, For Art's Sake, and For the love of Fiber."

The public will be invited to help select the People's Choice award in the weeks ahead; one of the sixteen awards to be presented at the show's closing.

"Different Fibers" opens with an opening reception on Friday, April 12 from 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. and will be on display through the last weekend in April and will culminate with the presentation of awards at the end of the Fiber Flurry Festival, the council's annual celebration of the fiber art community, on Saturday, April 27.

Image: Gerald Mead, Homage to Nancy Belfer, fiber and found objects, 13 x 8 x 8 inches. An homage to noted WNY fiber artist Nancy Belfer and Mead's former professor at SUNY Buffalo State combines fibers used by Belfer in her fabric assemblages and a slide transparency of one of her works from the 1990s from the Collection of Gerald Mead. Mead studied under at SUNY Buffalo State while completing an undergraduate degree in Textile Design. This piece is one of 25 works of fiber and fiber-related art on exhibit from April 12m - April 27, 2024 at the Arts Council for Wyoming County.