Common Threads explores the artistry of everyday fabrics with household items from Arrowmont’s Permanent Collection and items from contemporary weavers.
Textiles are some of the most intimate materials that we interact with on a daily basis. From birth to death, they keep us warm, and handmade fabrics often carry fond memories of family, friends, and the places we hold dear. These locally produced home textiles from Arrowmont’s Permanent Collection, along with items from contemporary local weavers and spinners, show how artistry is expressed through the everyday fabric of family and community, the common threads of our interwoven lives.
Join us for a Reception and Curator talk
Friday March 14, 2025
Sandra J. Blain Galleries 5-7PM
Curator talks begin at 6PM
ABOUT THE KENNETH R. TRAPP FELLOWSHIP
The Kenneth R. Trapp Craft Assistant/Curatorial Fellowship is an 11-month fellowship created to support post-graduate and early-career curators, arts researchers, or art historians. LEARN MORE
ABOUT DR. MATHILDE FRANCES LIND
Mathilde Frances Lind is a textile artist and folklorist who earned her PhD in folklore from Indiana University in 2023. Her dissertation, Entangled Wool: Handwork, Heritage, and Ecology in Estonia, was based on nearly four years of studying traditional wool crafts and sheep husbandry in Estonia through hands-on fieldwork, artistic practice, and museum collections research. Mathilde’s experience in craft education and curatorship includes working with the Viljandi Culture Academy of the University of Tartu, the Estonian National Museum, Traditional Arts in Upstate New York, the Adirondack Folk School, and the former Mathers Museum of World Cultures in Bloomington, Indiana. As a researcher, artist, and educator, Mathilde focuses on working with heritage sheep breeds and antique textile equipment, and she loves to process raw wool and restore old spinning wheels to a new lifetime of use.
