Arachne Web Mistress, Avital: I have not trimmed this message, because it is being sent as a bcc to many individuals who are not Arachne members, as well as to Arachne, to give Lace, not Lace: Contemporary Fiber Art from Lacemaking Techniques additional publicity. Jeri Dear Devon and people everywhere who are interested in lace, A lace exhibition in an American museum is exceedingly rare and to be frequently acknowledged as a special destination for a lace pilgrimage. The Hunterdon Art Museum in NJ sent detailed information to financial donors who covered the costs of presenting Lace, not Lace. Hopefully, the museum has greatly underestimated how many lace lovers will be attending the opening of Lace, not Lace. Please, dear friends, overwhelm the museum and the town of Clinton NJ with your presence. Join us and send a great message to many that women create art in all mediums and, in this case, use rare or newly-developed techniques and unusual materials to make 20th to 21st C. lace. (Please wear lace on this occasion.) Information sent by the museum states that Devon Thein will be leading 2 additional exhibition tours - at 11:00 a.m.-12:00 noon on Saturday November 3 and on Sunday November 11. Registration required. Phone: 908 + 735-8415. Museum is closed Mondays. There will be a Drop-in Lacemaking Program at 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. on Sunday November 11 and on Sunday December 9. Also, Elena Kanagy-Loux will be teaching a Beginner Bobbin Lace Workshop at 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. on Sunday November 4. Registration required. Phone: 908 + 735-8415 Suggestion: Search each person's name associated with this exhibition. To locate the right one, add ", Lace".  Examples: Devon Thein, Lace or Manca Ahlin, Lace Jeri Ames in Maine USALace and Embroidery Resource Center In a message dated 9/15/2018 10:43:24 AM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: The opening is a week from Sunday, and it is getting very excitinghere. Lieve Jerger arrived last Sunday and spent Monday, Tuesday andWednesday installing the Carriage of Lost Love, the life size copperwire bobbin lace carriage that she has been working on since 1977. Itis even more spectacular in person than in a photograph. I amimpressed with the Hunterdon Art Museum and the talent they can callupon for installing art work. Once it had been installed by Lieve, themuseum called in a Marco Antonio Hernandez ofhttps://www.creativelabconsulting.com/ to hang the largest of the fourwheels, and to work on the lighting. He has done a fantastic job oflighting the carriage. It was a bit of a conundrum because when youlight the carriage from the outside, the light makes the wire sparklemagically. But when you light the carriage from the inside, it has theeffect of projecting the designs of the carriage windows on the wallwhere they are enlarged like a shadow show. In fact, you can see thehalf stitch better when it is enlarged and projected on the wall bythe lighting, than you can even see it by looking directly at thecarriage. However, Marco came in and managed to achieve both effectssimultaneously. Bravo! I took a little film of the effect and postedit on the International Organization of Lace's facebook page. However,it is hard to really convey how magical it looks in photographs.The rest of the art is unpacked and laid out where it will beinstalled. Yesterday Alex Goldberg installed her invisible lace,called Invisible Place. When you approach it from across the room youreally can't see it, but as you get closer you begin to see theshadows on the wall. I am looking forward to seeing what Marco and theother installer, Seth will do with lighting this.Manca Ahlin is due to install her two pieces, one of them the neverbefore seen, Mani Lace Wall. This piece is based on her recent travelsto Tibet where the Mani stones piled up into prayer walls reminded herof lace.The museum opens at 11 am. Due to the party like aspect of the openingreception, people might like to come a little early to really look atthe art. The reception is 3-5. I will speak briefly at 4. At 5 o'clockwe will go out to the terrace where Choi + Shine will speak about theUrchins, the two large reticella style crocheted Urchins that will beon display until Oct. 7. There will be music and a food truck on theterrace. At 6:50, sundown, the Urchins will be lit for the first time.People are able to stand inside the Urchins while they floatethereally. I am hoping to have my picture taken inside one.Afterward, people who are staying over, or who just want to congregateare encouraged to go over to the Holiday Inn for a drink. If you thinkyou might do this, let me know so that I can give the Holiday Inn arough number of people, so they are properly staffed.Devon
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