FUTURE TRADITIONS: FURNITURE AND TEXTILES EXHIBIT at PAC GALLERY

Forest by Paulette Boucher

Walking Path by Jennifer Fogel

Halifax Clipper by Robert Douglas

FUTURE TRADITIONS: FURNITURE AND TEXTILES

OPENING THURSDAY JANUARY 28th, 5:30 – 7:30 PM

Gallery Hours: Thursday 4 pm – 6 pm, Friday 4 pm – 6 pm, Saturday & Sunday 1 pm – 5 pm

PAC Gallery at Lorraine Mills
560 Mineral Spring Ave, Pawtucket, RI

The Pawtucket Arts Collaborative is proud to announce the opening of “Future Traditions: Furniture and Textiles” on Thursday January 28th, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm.  The first of its kind to be presented at PAC, this dynamic and multi-faceted show is the brainchild of artists and curators Shaun Bullens and Brooke Erin Goldstein.  

Thirty-one innovative works by twenty-five artists from Rhode Island and Massachusetts will be on view.  

Jurors, Goldstein and Bullens, comment, “The ‘Future Traditions’ exhibit allows us to see furniture and textiles as vital forms of artistic expression.  Included are such diverse pieces as Anna Shapiro’s Mother Lode, a sculpture that creates a visual and conceptual balancing act between crochet, wood, cast iron and painted fabric and Brian Skalaski’s Fan Table that explores the use of negative space to re-imagine a familiar form in a traditional material. “

Join us at the opening reception.  There will be live music by Naushon Hale and refreshments.   Exhibit continues through March 3rd, 2016.  

Furniture and Textile Arts, “Future Traditions.”

The Furniture and Textiles industries are deeply rooted in Rhode Island’s past and present.  Central to these traditions is the artistic and technical mastery of materials and functionality.  For the first time, the Pawtucket Arts Collaborative will showcase the wide range of contemporary furniture and textile arts being created by artists, designers and craftspeople throughout New England.  Jurors, Shaun Bullens and Brooke Goldstein will create a visual time line of traditional and nontraditional approaches, techniques and applications, including, but not limited to, all types of functional and conceptual furniture as well as art and design based textile or fiber work and surface design.