Open Studio From Home:
Lenore Tawney
Sat, Apr 17, 2021
11–11:40 am
Lenore G. Tawney, Four Petaled Flower II, 1974. Woven linen and steel rods, overall: 87 1/2 × 85 1/4 × 1 1/4 in. (222.3 × 216.5 × 3.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the Lenore G. Tawney Foundation 2014.298. © Lenore G. Tawney Foundation
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You are invited to Open Studio From Home, free weekly online art classes with Whitney educators! Participants will experiment, create, and learn together with at-home art materials.
Lenore Tawney created Four Petaled Flower II using a technique she developed herself called “open warp.” A warp is the name for vertical strands that provide support in a woven textile. Working between these strands, Tawney wove in such a way to reveal the otherwise invisible structure of the textile and to allow light to peek through.
Together, we will make our own looms with materials we have at home. Then, we will weave our own tiny tapestries!
Materials:
- Cardboard
- Scissors
- Tape
- Colorful yarn or thin strips of cloth
- Big plastic needle or small piece of stiff wire