Mary E. Black Gallery Makes Connections

More than 17,500 people from all over the world visited and made a connection with the Mary E. Black Gallery in Halifax in 1999. Now an exhibit on architecture and fibre arts will explore connections of another sort.

The exhibition entitled Connection reConnection interConnection runs in the gallery, located in the Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design, from Feb. 17 to April 15.

"At the start of a new millennium, it seems appropriate to rethink and revisit traditional boundaries, to look at origins and underlying connections," said curator Ilona Hay. "For this exhibition the boundaries between fibre arts and architecture were questioned. The result is a collection of work which pushes boundaries and creates new links for the future."

The exhibit includes the works of artists and architects including Philip Beesley, Stacey Cornelius, Lorella Di Cintio, Heather Dubbeldam, Filum Ltd., Richard Kroeker, Dawn MacNutt, Ruth Scheuing, Kay Stanfield, Suzanne Swannie, Marc West, and Jane Whitten.

Previous exhibitions at the Mary E Black Gallery, such as Nature's Tailor in 1998, Shifting Boundaries in 1999 and even The Knot Exhibition in 1997, have addressed the relationship between object and architecture. However, this exhibit is perhaps the first to choose a specific medium as the means for discovering more about this relationship.

Connection reConnection interConnection offers many perceptions into the most fundamental activities of the design of structures and the use of fibre.

The Mary E. Black Gallery is located in the Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design, 1683 Barrington St., Halifax. The gallery is open to the public from Monday to Friday, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., and on Saturdays, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is by donation. For further information call 902-424-4062.