Join textile artist and printmaker Stephanie Santana for a discussion considering the history of quiltmaking as an important means of self-expression and documentation. Santana will discuss her artistic practice and use of archival material through this lens, while highlighting the work of quilting luminaries such as Faith Ringgold, Loretta Pettway Bennett, Rosie Lee Tompkins and Harriet Powers.

If you are interested in stitching in person with Stephanie this October, check out Creative Embroidery: Embroidery as Mark Making on Print.

Date
Wednesday, October 9th, 2024

Time
5 pm – 6:30 pm ET

Location
Zoom, a link will be sent to participants the week before the lecture

Cost

Tickets for this event are sold on a sliding scale beginning at $10 with a suggested donation of $25, but if you wish to pay less or more than the suggested donation, you may select a different amount from the drop down menu. As always, we are grateful for your support, which ensures the continuation and preservation of textile knowledge. Thank you for making this series possible. 

Tatter Library is a registered 501(c)3. Our speaker series is part of our community programming and proceeds support the continued success of our talks with artists, scholars, and historians we admire. For this event, all ticket proceeds will go towards keeping this series alive. 

Scholarships

We have two scholarships available for this experience. To be considered for a scholarship please email [email protected] requesting the scholarship application form.

Recording

This lecture will be recorded. A link to the recording will be emailed to all those who register following the live session. This link is live for one month for you to watch at your convenience.

OUR LECTURER
Stephanie Santana

Stephanie Santana constructs mixed media textile works and fine print editions that explore interior worlds, mythologies, navigational tools and resistance strategies of African diasporic origins. Rooted in the responsive encounter with archival material while employing a range of printmaking, quilting and embroidery techniques, her practice spans time and geography with an interest in unearthing useful information and locating alternative spaces of knowledge and self-definition.

Recent exhibitions include solo presentation Ways of Knowing at The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA (2024), The Power of Portraiture: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (2022) and A Contemporary Black Matriarchal Lineage in Printmaking at Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN (2021). Santana is a 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts, a 2023 Kahn/Mason SIP Fellow with EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, and a 2024-25 A.I.R. Gallery Fellow. Santana’s work is held in permanent collections such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Getty Research Institute, Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation. She has served as a visiting artist, panelist and guest lecturer at The bell hooks center, Rhode Island School of Design and SCAD Museum of Art, among others. Santana’s first solo exhibition in New York City will be presented by A.I.R. Gallery (Brooklyn, NY) in May 2025. She lives and works in New York.