Community Cloth (2022)- Commissioned for Northern Spark
Community Cloth is an interactive artwork that asks participants to share stories about cloth while helping to create a woven tapestry. Over the course of the festival, visitors have the chance to explore an array of materials and contribute to a growing piece of fabric, finding connection in the process. Just as weaving transforms many threads into cloth, conversation and sharing interlaces individuals into a community. Community Cloth is a space for empathy, where strangers can connect over ribbons from last year’s gifts, hems of cropped tee shirts, scraps of precious silks, mismatched shoelaces, long-forgotten stashes of yarn, and so much more. After exploring the menagerie of materials, take a spot in front of a loom and weave a section of cloth, sharing a memory made physical. Come weave with us, and find connection to cloth and community in the process.
Photos by Drew Arrieta