Exhibition celebrating America’s knitting doyenne to open
UW-Madison News - October 17 2006
All knitters seem to agree: Knitting is so much more than the dropping of stitches.Molly Greenfield learned to knit from her mother. Now a master's candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the history of costume and textiles, Greenfield says that a long broad swath of American history can be seen through this craft.
"Knitting was and is a pervasive form of creative expression for women, and also an area in which women could be designers. This exhibition is not only about the history of knitting, craft and design, but also about women's history, the rise of the women's movement in the United States, the history of immigration in America and the migration of highly educated Europeans to America during and after World War II," she says.
The exhibition to which Greenfield refers is the one she is curating on the doyenne of American knitting, Wisconsinite Elizabeth Zimmermann. [more]
New School Knitting: The Influence of Elizabeth Zimmermann and Schoolhouse Press
The Design Gallery - on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus
October 27 - December 17, 2006
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