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Woven Work Grunt Gallery
Jovencio de la Paz
As in the summer, so too the winter,

In conjunction with the Textile Society of America conference being held in Vancouver this September, grunt gallery presents an exhibition of work curated by Assistant Professor Emily Hermant and T’ai Smith.

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Opening Reception | September 6, 2018, 7-9pm

Curator's Tour | September 29, 2018, 2pm

In conjunction with the Textile Society of America conference being held this September in Vancouver, grunt gallery presents Woven Work From Near Here, a group show curated by Assistant Professor Emily Hermant and T’ai Smith. Inspired by traditional practices—including Indigenous methods for weaving blankets and baskets alongside structures and patterns that come from elsewhere—the exhibition presents recent experiments by eight artists who live and work near here. Using materials and methods that stretch what it means to be a woven textile, the works in the show signal the potential of this practice to realign political protocols and alter cultural values.

Featuring work by: Debra Sparrow or θəliχʷəlʷət, Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill, Hank Bull, Jovencio de la Paz, Kerri Reid, Matt Browning, Melvin Williams, and sessional faculty member Merritt Johnson.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication featuring an essay by the exhibition curators.

Emily Hermant is an interdisciplinary artist whose large-scale sculptures and installations explore themes of communication, gender, labor, and the spatial experiences of the body. She received her BFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University, Montréal, in 2004 and her MFA as a Trustee Merit Scholar in Fiber & Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010. Her work has been exhibited in museums, galleries, and festivals in Canada, the United States, South America, and Europe, and has been featured in LVL3 Media, ArtSlant, Espace Sculpture, The Washington Post, and TimeOut Chicago. Hermant has been awarded grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec, and residencies at ACRE, Ox-Bow School of Art, The Ragdale Foundation, Nordic Artists’ Centre in Norway, and the Vermont Studio Center. Hermant has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Virginia Commonwealth University, Concordia University in Montréal, and was formerly Assistant Professor and Head of Sculpture in the Newcomb Art Department at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. Hermant is currently based in Vancouver, BC, Canada where she is an Assistant Professor in the Audain Faculty of Visual Art and Material Practice at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.