Remarks at 5:30 pm

Wexner Center Director Sherri Geldin introduces the exhibitions and special guests including artists Jockum Nordstrom and Mindy Shapero from Diptych.


Tour at 5:45 pm (approx.)

Matilda McQuaid, the curator of Extreme Textiles and the head of the Textiles Department at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, shares her insights during a tour of the exhibition.


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Bioimplantable device for reconstructive shoulder surgery (from Extreme Textiles)
Designed by Prof. Simon Frostick and Dr. Alan McLeod
Textile designed by Peter Butcher
Developed by Ellis Developments Ltd.
Manufactured by Pearsalls Ltd.
England, designed 2003, manufactured 2004
Machine-embroidered polyester (base cloth dissolved)
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Gift of Ellis Developments Ltd., 2004-15-1
Photo: Matt Flynn

Ropes (from Extreme Textiles)
Manufactured by Edelrid, Germany, 2004
Braided and woven Kernmantel construction
Courtesy of Edelrid
Photo: Matt Flynn

William Kentridge making Fragments for Georges Melies, 2003
Image courtesy the artist

Mindy Shapero
Fading in and out of the collapsing worlds repeating the same things over and over trying to forget everything and trying to remember everything, as though it were the first time and the last time and through the stones and water and dirt and mud it is the same as when you were there before, only now there are no such things as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, 2005
Paper, foam, wire, epoxy, acrylic, and paint
31 x 40 x 39 in. (78.7 x 101.6 x 99.1 cm)
Courtesy of Drs. Paul and Sara Monroe, Richmond, Virginia
Photo courtesy of CRG Gallery, New York

Jockum Nordstrom
For Once Playing Guitar, 2001
Collage on paper
35 7/8 x 27 7/8 inches (88.9 x 69.9 cm)
Collection of Diane Wallace, New York Photo courtesy of David Zwirner, New York and Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm