Saturday, February 8, 10am – 12pm
Location: Textile Arts Center of Madison, 2436 Pennsylvania Ave, Madison, WI, Gallery Hours Thursdays, 12-4pm & Saturdays, 10am-2pm
Attend the Butterfly Folding Activity with artist and MFA Candidate Mariah Moneda this Saturday, February 8th from 10am to 12pm at the Textile Arts Center of Madison, in conjunction with the Convergence exhibition now on display through March 1st.
Moneda invites the community to join her in creating folded paper butterflies as part of her Messengers for the Living artwork—a symbol in Filipino folklore for transformation, rebirth, and the eternal cycle of life and death—as an act to pause and consider the reoccurring cycle of change that comes with life.
Participants will learn how to fold butterflies from upcycled newsprint, photos, and posters from the Madison area. The butterflies are be added to a growing sculpture in TAC’s Convergence exhibition, as an honorarium to our community’s past and a message for today. This event is free and open to all.
Curated by alumna Annmarie Suglio, Convergence is an exhibition providing a meeting place for fiber, textile, and paper works created by current students and alumni of the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Hannah Bennett, Autumn Brown, Danielle Burke, Ian Danner, Kate Flake, Kate Goodvin, Nika McKagen, Mariah Moneda, Jackelin Espinosa Moyoti, Cate O’Connell-Richards, Maia Rauh, Noa Rickey, Roberto Torres Mata, Lars Shimabukuro, Eli Song, Carolyn Spears, and Kelsey Vickman.
The artists explore themes of materiality, the passage of time, and sense of self, conveying these timeless themes with selected innovative works employing traditional textile or fiber art techniques such as hand weaving, sewing, embroidery, felting, and papermaking combined through a contemporary lens. Convergence brings together celebrated artists of diverse backgrounds and areas of study from Madison’s community.