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Quilts for Kids

featuring artist

Nika Feldman

 

     

 

 

opens August 6th on the lower level of Riverviews

   

 

opening reception: August 6th, 5:30-8:00pm

This exhibition features the story of a quilt adventure: the integration of a traveling contemporary textile artist into an Indian beggar's community in Katmandu, Nepal. 

 The quilts displayed are original works from individual women of the camp, as well as several quilts that were made as a collaborative effort of this union. In addition, a collection of photographs from the quilt-making women and families of the begging camp will accompany the quilts. A short documentary film produced by Paul MacGowan following the progress of the making of a "rag quilt" by textile artist, Nika Feldman and the community, will also be screened.

 The joining of these forces around this community of quilting women came to be through a small non-profit organization founded by James Hopkins called Quilts for Kids Nepal.  This grass roots project, based in Kathmandu, aims to provide sustainable income to the families of this camp while also funding the schooling of their children.  All proceeds from the sale of the quilts at this exhibition go to supporting that project.

 

Nika Feldman: Artist Statement

From openness, with the heart, through the hands, is the simplest way to define my practice.  Determined by a search for the sacred and a discovery of the infinite existing within the world of the finite, a daily art practice developed as one of learning how to reversely use the world of the finite to recognize the existence of the infinite.  Choosing to leave behind the confinement and segregation of a studio practice meant also choosing to leave behind an accumulation of “things” and “ideas” that accompany a lifetime in the world of fine arts, craft and design.  This surrender allowed for me to freely integrate my art with my life, and my life with the world.  I am now living my work, continuing as before, to work only from "rag" sources while exploring concepts of human and cultural identity in clothing.  The difference is that now the methodology for this research and work is interactive and personal, naturally connecting to a deeper experience and understanding than in the past.  My work has become an act of ritual that accompanies me throughout different countries.  Traveling with a needle and thread, and a pair of scissors as my tools, I initiate a dialog with the world.