Pictures from 14th Triennale Exhibition the Central Museum of Textiles

 

Thoma is standing outside the entrance to Waivel Castle in Cracow on May 5th. Thoma and Krystyna visited Waivel Castel and saw tapestries in the Story of Noah series, part of the famous 16th century tapestry collection belonging to King Sigismund Auguste of Poland.

After the vernissage, Thoma and Helga Berry quietly look at the works in the 14th Triennale Exhibition the Central Museum of Textiles, Lodz, May 6, 2013.

 

A beautiful tapestry by Polish tapestry artist Wlodzimierz Cygan

 

 

 

At the May 6th vernissage at the Central Museum of Textiles in Lodz, on the left is Professor Ewa Latkowska-Zychska, of the Textile and Fashion Faculty of the Strzeminski Academy of Art in Lodz,  a member of the jury of the 14th Lodz Triennial, in the centre is Thoma Ewen,  Artistic Director of Moon Rain Centre, and on the right is Carol Russell, the author of the well-loved books, “The Tapestry Handbook”, and more recently, “The Tapestry Handbook: The Next Generation”.  Carol is writing an article on the Triennale in Lodz for Fibre Arts Now Magazine,  and also researching her newest book on contemporary fibre art. Thoma’s tapestry “Offering at Spider Rock” is included in Carol’s “The Tapestry Handbook: The Next Generation”.

 

Photos by Krystyna Sadej

14th Lodz Triennale in the Central Museum of Textiles

Helga Berry, Monique Lehman, Thoma Ewen

 

 

Photo Krystyna Sadej

This picture is from the14th Lodz Triennale in the Central Museum of Textiles
Helga Berry, from Anchorage Alaska is on the left, Monique Lehman from California is in the middle and Thoma Ewen on the right.
Helga Berry was the founder and director of The International Tapestry Network called ITNET. She published an amazing journal, issues of which Thoma still has 30 years later.
This was the first time Thoma met Helga in person, though her activities were inspiring for many years.  Helga brought the international tapestry world together in the 80’s, before the American Tapestry Alliance and the Canadian Tapestry Network were formed.”
This was also the first time Thoma met Monique Lehman in person, although their works have been exhibited in WOVEN BRIDGES exhibitions in the City of Ottawa art galleries and in Almonte at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum. What a delight to travel and work with this very talented, deeply intelligent and capable artist, truly a contemporary international figure in textile art, who is at home anywhere in the world.