Notes
1. www.nmwa.org.
2. www.nmwa.org. Quote from Chief Curator Kathryn Wat in press release for REVIVAL.
3. Louise Bourgeois (b. 1911, Paris; d. 2010, New York City); Sonya Clark (b. 1967, Washington DC); Petah Coyne (b. 1953, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma); Cathy de Monchaux (b. 1960, London); Lalla Essaydi (b. 1956, Marrakech); Anna Gaskell (b. 1969, Des Moines, Iowa); Sonia Gomes (b. 1948, Caetanόpolis, Brazil); Charlotte Gyllenhammar (b. 1963, Gothenburg, Sweden); Maria Marshall (b. 1966, Bombay, India); Polly Morgan (b. 1972, Banbury, England); Deborah Paauwe (b. 1972, West Chester, Pennsylvania); Patricia Piccinini (b. 1965, Freetown, Sierra Leone); Alison Saar (b.1956, Los Angles, California); Beverly Semmes (b. 1958,Washington, DC); Joana Vasconcelos (b. 1971, Paris); Bettina von Zwehl (b. 1971, Munich).
4. www.nmwa.org.
5. Kathryn Wat, REVIVAL, catalogue of the exhibition of the same title, 24.
6. Ibid., 24.
7. Ibid., 18
8. Ibid., 44.
9. Introductory wall text for REVIVAL.
10. Email exchange between Kathryn Wat and Rebecca Stevens, November 14, 2017.
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Rebecca A. T. Stevens
Rebecca A. T. Stevens is the retired Consulting Curator, Contemporary Textiles at the George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum, Washington, DC. A position she held for over 3 decades. Before retirement she was co-curator of “Stories of Migration: Contemporary Artists Interpret Diaspora”. Stevens is currently a Research Associate at the Museum and continues to write, lecture and jury national and international art exhibitions. [email protected]