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Catherine Heard

The Angel of History Sews with Red Thread

Thursday March 28, 2024   5:00 P.M.

SoCA Armouries Performance Hall    37 University Ave East

 
More than five years in the making, Redwork:  the Emperor of Atlantis is a community textile installation that integrates embroideries by over two hundred and fifty individuals led by artist, professor, and 2023-24 HRG Fellow Catherine Heard.  In her talk, heard will reflect upon the evolution of the piece, providing insights into the histories of redwork embroidery, craftivism, collaborative textile traditions, and the ties between textiles, protest, and revolution.  As AI rises, Heard will explain why the work of the hand becomes even more important. 
 
2023-24 HRG Fellow Catherine Heard is an Assistant Professor in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Windsor.   Her practice utilizes fine craft as a foil for abject subject matter, delving into contested imagery and primal anxieties of the human psyche.  Her current project, Redwork invites the public to collaborate in creating a textile installation using traditional redwork embroidery techniques to catalogue histories of injustice.  Her work has been exhibited internationally and is in many permanent collections across the country.  She is represented by Birch Contemporary Gallery in Toronto. 
 
 

 

The Humanities Research Group (HRG) is committed to engaging our community on campus, in the city, our region, and online across the country, with interdisciplinary ideas and perspectives of complexity and weight that are central to our understanding of ourselves and our place in the world. Our goal is to bring people together to challenge, inspire, and stimulate, in a space of open dialogue, sharing and exchange.

About the Humanities Research Group (HRG)

The Humanities Research Group is an interdisciplinary council comprised of University of Windsor faculty, students, staff, and community members, who support humanities research and facilitate events where thinkers and audience members grapple with issues relating to the human condition.

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