Catherine Heard’s Redwork: The Emperor of Atlantis opens Friday, March 15 at 7pm. Catherine will be facilitating two embroidery workshops during her exhibition and presenting an artist talk at SoCA Armouries Performance Hall. The exhibition runs from March 15–30, 2024.

Catherine Heard’s Redwork: The Emperor of Atlantis, camouflages scenes of war, injustice, and resistance in a patchwork of antique redwork embroideries. Patriotic imagery, homey domestic scenes and fairy tale characters are juxtaposed with embroideries of traumatic events, raising questions about how history is recorded in the domestic sphere and the stories we tell ourselves as we try to make sense of the world in which we live.

Catherine Heard gratefully acknowledges the support of the University of Windsor Women’s Research Fund, The University of Windsor Ignite Work Study Program for funding studio assistants, and the University of Windsor Humanities Research Group, where she is the 2023-24 HRG Fellow.

→ Reception: March 15, 7–10pm
→ Workshop: March 16, 2–5pm
→ Workshop: March 23, 2–5pm
→ Talk: March 28, 5–6:30pm

The talk is presented by the UWin Humanities Research Group and will take place at SoCA Armouries Performance Hall (37 University Ave E). Artcite will reopen for HRG audience members from 6:30–8pm.

Catherine Heard is an interdisciplinary artist whose works integrate traditional textile techniques into sculpture and installation. Her most recent works invite public participation, engaging the conversational dynamics of the quilting bee. Heard’s work has been exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of the Canada Council Art Bank, The Art Gallery of Hamilton, The Art Gallery of Kamloops and The Robert McLaughlin Gallery. She lives in Windsor, Ontario, and is an Assistant Professor at the School of Creative Arts at the University of Windsor. Catherine Heard is represented by Birch Contemporary Gallery in Toronto.

catherineheard.com
@freudsbride101

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March 15 @ 8:00 am - March 30 @ 5:00 pm

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