STNDRD, Granite City Art District, Granite City, IL

Opening Reception, September 6, 5:30 - 8 pm

Continual Coweaving is built from remnants of past projects and experiments on textiles from Millicent Kennedy’s practice. It includes garment fragments, natural dye samples, and fabric remaining from completed artworks. All these separate parts are hand sewn into cords and rejoined weaving a web reminiscent of the orb weaver spider. Kennedy’s interest in spider webs is related to their impermanence and ongoing need of the spider to return to and repair them. For the spider this is a solo practice, but for people mending and rebuilding is a deeply communal practice if we hope to sustain these repairs. Over the course of this installation visitors are invited to add their own used textiles to the web, and share about the materials history in the QR code provided at the exhibition site.