March 2020, Image Credit: Zachary Reinhart
Kansas City, MO, June 14, 2023: Charlotte Street will be a series host for The Collective Mending Sessions led by Catherine Reinhart from July 12 through July 23. The sessions will be held in the Kemper Library at Charlotte Street’s Campus, located at 3333 Wyoming, and are free and open to the public.
This social practice project is a series of workshops centered on collectively mending abandoned quilts. From 2018 – present, over 250 participants at 40+ workshops have repaired quilts together. These sessions resemble a quilting bee, cultivating care for cloth and the community through mending together and discussions centered around the value of repair. The resulting quilts are transformed from unwanted textile objects into contemporary fiber artworks through the work of many hands, moving toward a more egalitarian model of work.
Schedule
Collective Mending Session 1
In-Person with Catherine Reinhart (Materials provided)
Wed July 12, 5 PM – 8 PM
Charlotte Street Kemper Library, 3333 Wyoming KCMO 64111
RSVP – https://bit.ly/TheCollectiveMendingSessions
Open Hours
Free time when anyone can come to mend the quilts in the space. (Materials provided)
July 13 to July 23, Tuesday – Friday 12 PM to 5 PM and Saturday 11 AM to 5 PM
Charlotte Street Kemper Library, 3333 Wyoming KCMO 64111
Walk-Ins welcome
Collective Mending Session 2
In-Person with Catherine Reinhart (Materials provided)
Sun July 23, 11 AM – 2 PM
Charlotte Street Kemper Library, 3333 Wyoming KCMO 64111
RSVP – https://bit.ly/TheCollectiveMendingSessions
ABOUT CATHERINE REINHART
Catherine Reinhart is an interdisciplinary artist from Ames, IA. Reinhart creates fiber work and conducts social practice with abandoned textiles around themes of domestic labor, connection, and care. She received her MFA – Textiles from the University of Kansas and a BFA – Integrated Studio Arts at Iowa State University. Reinhart exhibits locally, nationally, and internationally. She has exhibited at the Department of Land Economy, Cambridge University and Cambridge Artworks, Cambridge, UK, and the Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS. Reinhart has been selected as a presenter at “Mending and Making Workshop” organized by the Endangered Material Knowledge Programme at the British Museum.
Her works are in collections at the University of Mississippi and Kyoto Keika University, Kyoto, Japan. Reinhart is the recipient of numerous grants and residencies, including the Iowa Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts, and Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts. Reinhart was recently honored as an Iowa Artist Fellow (2020), a Terrain Exhibitions Artist-in-Residence in Springfield, IL (2021), a recipient of the Alex Brown Foundation’s Artist-in-Residence in Des Moines, IA (2022), and an Artist-in-Residence at the West Cork Arts Center in Ireland (2023/2024).
Website – www.collectivemendingsessions.com
Instagram – @collectivemendingsessions
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/collectivemendingsessions
ABOUT CHARLOTTE STREET
Charlotte Street centers Kansas City’s most forward-thinking visual artists, writers, and performers—acting as the primary incubator, provocateur, and connector for the region’s contemporary arts community and its leading advocate on the national stage. Since 1997, Charlotte Street has distributed over $2 million in awards and grants to artists and their innovative projects and connected individual artists to each other and to the greater Kansas City community. For more information about Charlotte Street, its awards, programs, and initiatives, visit www.charlottestreet.org.
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