Opening Reception & Panel Discussion | Touchy/Feely: Form, Function & Contemporary Fiber

Art touches you, and sometimes you get to touch it back. Challenging conventional gallery manners, Touchy/Feely encourages visitors to assume the role of participant by handling and manipulating several of the works on view. Contemporary fiber artists disrupt the long-held distinction between art and craft, blending the conceptual with the experiential in a highly tactile medium. In Touchy/Feely curated by Alyssa Miller, artists Jessica Caldas, Saumitra Chandratreya, and Emiliano Settecasi further collapse the space between artist and viewer, exploring themes of labor, motherhood, relationships, conscious choice, and joy through fiber art that both holds and is held.