Towards the Path of Totality features works by the 15th cycle of Textile Arts Center’s Artist In Residence program.

“Over the past nine months of residency, the artists of AIR15 have tended to their personal histories while caring intimately for their present communities.They have honed in on their processes and found them to be unstill, in transition, seasonal, and in many cases, rejecting any singular resolution by which to define their practices.

Towards the Path of Totality situates the artist as maker and mender, amid shifts of time. They follow the remnants of buried knowledge and behold what may only be found through their own explorations. When established knowledge falls short, they bend and distort to illuminate new realities.

Through burning, warping, dyeing, burying, forging, sewing and felting, the artist’s work traverses passages of healing and rebirth, emerging as vessels forged from a shared ground of intimate discovery.

Like dreams and memories ever evolving, these works seek to be understood in new ways. Embrace them fully as they are and ask how they came to be.” – Julie Clapton