On display from March 20 – July 28, 2024, this exhibition will feature approximately 200 objects from public and private collections across the country, including a major weaving by Lenore Tawney, referencing Takaezu and Tawney’s important joint exhibitions and their many decades of friendship.
On display from March 5–June 16, 2024 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, explores the striking connections between artists of the ancient Andes and those of the 20th century.
On display from Sep 17th, 2023 – Jan 21st, 2024 at Los Angeles County Museum of Art. An exhibition exploring the intersection of abstract art and woven textiles over the past century.
May 31, 2024 – January 5, 2025 at the Renwick Gallery in Washington, DC. The thirty-four selected artworks piece together an alternative history of American art.
On display from Oct 14th, 2023 – Mar 25th, 2024 at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, showcasing 12 new acquisitions to their collection that tell the story of the remarkable friendship between Takaezu and Tawney.
On display from Wed 14th Feb—Sun 26th May 2024 at the Barbican in London. This show brings together over 100 artworks to examine the ways in which artists have embraced textiles to communicate multi-layered stories about lived experience.
The John Michael Kohler Arts Center worked closely with the Lenore G. Tawney Foundation to acquire hundreds of key components from the artist’s last studio environment in 2019, with assistance from Kohler Foundation, Inc. The 486-piece collection includes artwork, collages, assemblages, furniture, and supplies. An installation of Tawney’s studio environment is on view at the […]
The Milwaukee Film Festival starts Thursday October 15, and this year’s lineup includes the John Michael Kohler Arts Center’s short documentary Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe. The festival is being held virtually this year, so the 197 selected films will be streaming online October 15-29. The documentary features interviews with collaborators from the Mirror […]
The Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) has honored Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe with the 2019 George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award for excellence in art publishing.
This exhibition of over eighty works by more than sixty artists foregrounds how visual artists have experimented with the materials, methods, and strategies of craft over the past seven decades.
Presented on the centenary of this foundational organization, Weaving beyond the Bauhaus traces the diffusion of Bauhaus artists such as Anni Albers and Marli Ehrman, and their reciprocal relationships with fellow artists and students across America.
