October First Friday
October 4, 2024, 5-8 pm
Join us October 4th, starting at 5:00 for SOWA’s monthly First Friday Open event!
About Material Progress
With selections from the 5,000+ piece public art project Tiny Pricks Project, Diana Weymar’s signature embroidery style places a multitude of hot-button cultural and current events center-stage. Stitching quotes from daily headlines, this community-focused project and Weymar’s collectible works go far beyond the foibles of the Trump era, to reflect and memorialize the ephemeral, digital society in which we live and grapple with ongoing history-making events.
Dina Khorchid’s large hanging textiles also mirror instability as they combine to create an immersive space for visitors. Offering an opportunity to contemplate the instability of a proxy for home, Khorchid’s symbolically rich works are interpreted based on the visitor’s own unique experience.
Mixed media artist Marla McLeod’s works in Material Progress highlight challenging historical truths and re-envision complex cultural dilemmas. Spanning painted hand-stretched leather, hanging textiles, to a mannequin wrapped in an edited version of the US Declaration of Independence, McLeod asks viewers to look closely to enjoy details and nuance.