Current Exhibition:
Story Cloths and the Book:
Work by New Image Artists
June 11, 2026 – July 26, 2026
Artists’ Reception: Sunday, June 14, 4 – 6 pm
Curator's Statement
In Story Cloths and the Book, New Image Artists explore their
relationship with reading, writing, meaning and process by pairing
narrative textiles and mixed media with unique artist’s books. A story
cloth is a textile that contains a narrative that is community oriented,
personal or historical in nature. The history of narrative textiles predates
the invention of the printing press and books as we think of them today.
The broad range of subjects interpreted in this exhibition includes an
author of a classic mystery series, individual identity, family histories,
the joy of summer and memories of well-loved books.
- Mary Welch Higgins
Featuring Works by:
B.J. Adams
Mary Beth Bellah
Linda Colsh
Joan Dreyer
Candace Edgerley
Catherine Kleeman
Verena Levine
Dominie Nash
Ginny Smith
Andrea Uravitch
Saaraliisa Ylitalo
Summer Reading (detail); Andrea Uravitch
The Athenaeum Visual Arts Program is supported, in part, by an Arts Program grant from the City of Alexandria.
