Through powerful stitches, blanketing layers, archival photographs, and ancestral threads, This Summer Too: Conversations With Makers group exhibition weaves together a group of artists whose works guide us down our memories and connectivity to imagery, textiles, and fabric. 

This Summer Too: Conversations With Makers featured the work of Miki Spielers, Barbara Garvine, Robertha Blatt, Lauren Austin, Joy Johnson, Yossi Peled, Alida Martinez, and Evelyn Politzer. Each body of work within this exhibition contains pathways between imagery, textiles, and symbols that bridge the artificial boundaries between art, craft, design, and artisanship, from works that address one’s relationship to their country to works that speak to the labor endured with the material and works that collectively are in conversations concerning our collective memory with photographs and fiber.

This Summer Too: Conversations With Makers reimagines the joy the summer season envelops. Each artist within this exhibition reflects on the complexities of joy and craftsmanship. We invite viewers to join in the multiplicities of conversations and indulge in the unique way each artist has nurtured their work and engaged with healing and memory work methods.

We ask that viewers consider the questions of what we take for granted and how we define art. We hope the answer percolates and comes to the surface through the navigation of the This Summer Too: Conversations with Makers group exhibition.