April Evening Meeting and Program – Finding my Voice through Tapestry with Mary Lane

Mary will share her career as a tapestry weaver, writer, teacher and arts administrator. Starting in the mid 1970s, her trajectory has taken her from awe struck in Mexico City, through her experiences as a founding member of the Scheuer Tapestry Workshop in New York City, many years of teaching at colleges, art centers and guilds, executing both private and public commission work and her position as the Executive Director of the American Tapestry Alliance. These experiences will be discussed through the lens of the changes that have taken place in her art practice through the years. 

About the Speaker

Mary Lane is an artist and art historian. She began weaving tapestry in 1976 and in 1982 became a founding member of the Scheuer Tapestry Studio in New York City. Her tapestries have been published and exhibited internationally and have been collected by both private and corporate art collections, including the IBM Corporation, the State of Maine, the City of Seattle, the Regional Arts and Culture Council, the Northland Investment Corporation, Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital and the Tacoma Art Museum. Her teaching experience includes Parsons School of Design, the University of Maine and The Evergreen State College. Lane’s writing on contemporary textiles has been published widely. Speaking of her work she says, “My work in tapestry is both large and small scale. I enjoy the monumental work for its historical reference and its embracing warmth. Miniature work attracts me with its intimacy and relative freedom. Both kinds of work offer an expressive medium to develop my ideas.” She is retired from the position of Executive Director with the American Tapestry Alliance.

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