Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms, and the Expanded Frame, 1960-2000

Innovative textile—based artwork exploded across the Canadian Prairies in the second half of the twentieth century. Melding craft traditions with modern and modernist movements in art and theory, a diverse body of creators opened a beautiful new chapter in textile art.

Prairie Interlace brings together some of the most important scholars of art and craft in Canada to examine the work of forty—eight artists working with textiles from the 1960s to 2000. Recapturing and recording lost historie...