Small Expressions is an annual juried exhibition showcasing contemporary small-scale works using fiber techniques in any media. Small in scale but visually compelling, HGA’s Small Expressions exhibit features work that speaks to the intricacy of expression, intimacy of design, thoughtful communication, and visual excitement. The artists in this exhibit create a big impact through small pieces. Works juried into Small Expressions do not exceed 15 inches (38 centimeters) in any direction and are of exhibition quality, completed within the last two years, and not previously published. The artists whose works are exhibited skillfully use a variety of textile techniques, incorporating both traditional and nontraditional materials, while paying special attention to the limitations involved in creating small-scale works. Artworks have consisted of diverse fiber techniques such as weaving, interlacing, basket making, bead weaving, embroidery, felting, and mixed media.
July 2, 2024 – August 4, 2024 at the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum in Wichita, Kansas. Exhibition Hours: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, closed Mondays and holidays. Admission to Small Expressions is $5 for adults, $2 for children ages 6-12, and free for children under 6. Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum is located at 204 S. Main St., Wichita, KS, 67202. For parking and directions visit their website, www.WichitaHistory.org, or call (316) 265-9314.
September 3, 2024 – October 19, 2024 at The Little Loomhouse in Louisville, Kentucky. Exhibition Hours: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, closed Sunday and Monday. Admission to Small Expressions is free. Reservations are not required, but are recommended due to limited parking. Reservations can be made on their website. The Little Loomhouse is located at 328 Kenwood Hill Rd., Louisville, KY 40214. Visit their website, www.LittleLoomHouse.org, or call (502) 367-4792 for directions.
November 15, 2024 – December 18, 2024 at The Gallery at Papillon & Company in Metuchen, New Jersey. Exhibition Hours: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday. Admission to Small Expressions is free. The Gallery at Papillon & Company is located at 418 Main St., Metuchen, New Jersey 08840. Visit their website, www.PapillonGifts.com, or call (848) 260-0810 for directions.
January 24, 2025 – May 25, 2025 at the Dennos Museum Center in Traverse City, Michigan. Exhibition Hours: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday, closed Mondays. Admission to Small Expressions is $10 for adults, $5 for children ages 5-17, and free for children under 5. Dennos Museum Center is located at 1701 E. Front St., Traverse City, MI 49686. For parking and directions, visit their website, www.DennosMuseum.org, or call (231) 995-1055.
Loren Batt- 1st prize award for the Small Expressions 2024 touring show
I have two pieces in this online show! Until Jan 18, 2024
Faces and Places, 2022 Dodomu gallery
Lead me into temptation…
Help me to let go…
FORGETME(K)NOT
The Museum of Embroidery and Textiles of Valtopina (Perugia), Italy, opens the international
contemporary art exhibition FORGETME(K)NOT on Saturday 28th October 2023 (4.00 pm), a project
promoted by SCD Textile&Art Studio, under the patronage of the Umbria Region and the Municipality of
Valtopina, curated by Barbara Pavan in collaboration with Erika Lacava, Anna Rita Punzo, Margaret Sgarra
and Maria Chiara Wang.
The handkerchief is a domestic and common object that holds a layering of meanings. If today we associate
the term with a disposable item that – moreover – is banal and environmentally unfriendly, for a long time it
was an accessory that was treated with care and attention in its realisation and to which a plurality of
messages were entrusted depending on its use. From the simplest fabrics to the most refined ones, often
embellished with figures and monograms, handkerchiefs have a long history intertwined with female hands
– that transformed them into small embroidery masterpieces – and with the hearts of women – pledges of
love or vehicles of seduction in times when gestures and objects were dense with meanings. To this
plurality of meanings that oscillate between opposite events, the dimension of memory must be added.
The knot on the handkerchief is in fact the symbol par excellence of the need to remember, a warning not
to forget something important.
To this small square of cloth, therefore, is entrusted the meaning of this exhibition: to keep alive and
vigilant the attention on an issue that is unfortunately still of great topicality through works that evoke or
use a knotted handkerchief to which is consigned the testimony or memory of discrimination, violence, and
abuse perpetrated against an individual woman or a group of women in the private or public sphere, in any
country in the world. A knot not to forget the (denied) rights of women. The artists selected through an
international call for entries come from different geographical areas, backgrounds and generations and
return a multiplicity of voices that investigate the complexity of this matter down to its most hidden,
ambiguous and deceptive implications. On display the works of: Luciana Aironi, Pietrina Atzori, Loren Batt,
Luciana Bellotti, Manuela Bieri, Paola Calcatelli, Beryl Cameron, Susanna Cati, Michela Cavagna, Meri
Ciuchi, Tiziana Contu, Isabelle Cosnard, Rosita D’Agrosa, Francesca Di Ciaula, Sarah Dochow, Jolanda
Drukker Murray, Rana Feghali, Magdalena Fermina, Patrizia Benedetta Fratus, Irma Frijlink, Donatella
Giagnacovo, Grazia Inserillo, Marisa Iotti, Alisa Kaufman, Monika Kosior, Ada Krenz, Cinzia Li Volsi,
Beatrice Loth, Sara Lovari, Flavia Michelutti, Antonella Muresu, Dimana Nakova, Barbara Pala, Piotr
Pandyra, Giulio Patrizi, Anouchka Perez, Catherine Primot, Beata Prochowska, Céline Ramio, Olga
Teksheva, Chantal Tichit, Patrizia Trevisi, Patrizia Valcarenghi, Nancy Van Dijk, Eliana Vessi Rosell, Asta Lena Volkensfeld.
The exhibition will be open until 3 December 2023, Wednesdays and Saturdays from 3.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.
or by appointment on tel. (+39) 339 340 7299.
Museo del Ricamo e del Tessile, via Gorizia 19/30, Palazzo Comunale,
Valtopina (PG), Italy
Small Expressions is an annual juried exhibition showcasing contemporary small-scale works using fiber techniques in any media. Small in scale but visually compelling, the Handweavers Guild of America, Inc.’s (HGA) Small Expressions exhibit features work that speaks to the intricacy of expression, intimacy of design, thoughtful communication, and visual excitement.
JUROR STATEMENT
“Small Expressions 2022 reflects the vibrant depth and breadth of contemporary textile art. The intimate scale of each work in the exhibit invites close and careful examination by the viewer, who will experience an artist’s intention through a variety of materials and techniques. Fiber is an expressive medium with a rich and complex history, and it is my hope that the pieces selected for this exhibit will inspire contemplation and thoughtful conversation.”
— Cameron Taylor-Brown, Juror, Small Expressions 2022
Couldn’t we have all tried to get along? (Spotted Homoamphibious and Homohirsutae)
Handweaver’s Guild of America Tea + Textiles
https://www.cqjournal.com/gallery/64/batt-loren-81770
The show’s juror was Anastasia Azure who hand-weaves dimensional art, exploring the grace of geometry. She shares her connection with our harmonious universe by creating contemporary wall sculptures and innovative jewelry. Combining metalsmithing with an ancient, Peruvian weaving technique, she uses wire and hand-dyed nylon monofilament on a traditional floor loom. She earned her MFA in Textiles at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2011 and BFA in Jewelry Metal Arts at the California College of the Arts in 2005. She has been an Artist-in Residence at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and the Appalachian Center for Craft. She travels the globe teaching imaginative textile and jewelry workshops.
https://www.cqjournal.com/gallery/gallery49-50/batt-loren-49-0039
http://www.cqjournal.com/gallery/gallery45-46
(site is temporarily down)
Artsy Shark website March 2016
Article in la Gazette de Drouot, June 1996
Article in La Gazette de Drouot Nov.,1995
Article in La Nacion, Costa Rica, March 13, 1995
Artention Magazine #30, Jan 1992
….Not very different from her in process, is the alternative world of Loren Batt at K’Art: the houses are askew and the streets zigzag. It’s strange, but not uninteresting. Acid and disconcerting, because not everything is false, even if everything is caricatured to the extreme.
Le Monde, May 10,1989
