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Anni Albers: Touching Vision october 6, 2017– january 14, 2018 galleries 305, 306, and 307 curated by manuel cirauqui Known primarily for her pioneering role in Fiber Art, her innovations in the treatment of weaving, and her ongoing quest to create different fabric motifs and functions, Anni Albers (b. 1899, Berlin; d. 1994, Orange, CT) was a seminal figure in redefining the role of the artist as designer. Her art was inspired by pre-Columbian cultures and modern industry, but was freed from notions of crafts and gender-specific labor. Albers studied at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany, an avant-garde school where she also met her husband, painter Josef Albers. She moved with him to North Carolina in 1933, where they were both hired as professors at Black Mountain College, an experimental liberal arts college that crucially influenced American modernism. There, and in Connecticut in her later years, Anni Albers continued combining artistic experimentation and teaching, while also producing some of the texts that today are regarded as essential in the development of contemporary Fiber Art.
TALK ON ANNI ALBERS wednesday , october
4, 7 pm Nicholas Fox Weber, Director of The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, will examine several aspects of Anni Albers’s oeuvre. venue :
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Anni Albers Necklace, ca. 1940 Drain strainer and paper clips, length: 40.6 cm; strainer: 7.6 cm in diameter Photo: Tim Nighswander/Imaging4Art © 2017 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, vegap, Bilbao
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