Our Tiny Friends and Foes February 5, 2011

This community fiber arts project will be concurrent with the show, 'Handmade Meaning: The Value of Craft in Victorian and Contemporary Culture,' in the Watrous Gallery of the Overture Center. Building on the themes of that show, 'Our Tiny Friends and Foes' will be a celebration of the social aspects of fiber arts as embodied in the traditions of quilting bees, knitting circles and the modern resurgence of community crafting. Since the invention of the microscope artists have been inspired by the beauty of life at the cellular level. Microorganisms live in our bodies, our food and all around us. We need some to survive; others we do better without. This show creates an opportunity to explore the beauty of natural forms not visible to the naked eye, how we imagine microorganisms, and how we fit into the whole spectrum of life through fiber arts materials.