On Borrowed Time: Postponing the Inevitable
New Work by Maggie Thompson at the Textile Center
Maggie Thompson's On Borrowed Time: Postponing the Inevitable opens May 12 in Textile Center's Joan Mondale Gallery with a reception from 6 - 8 pm and an artist talk at 7 pm. The exhibition runs through June 26, 2016.
As an Ojibwe woman of mixed heritage, artist Maggie Thompson works with an intuitive hand to bridge cultures and traditions gathered from firsthand experiences. On Borrowed Time is about her experience of losing a parent—namely, her father, in 2014. Mining ideas of loss and memory, she explores how grief is a highly personal experience; every individual’s process is unique and perpetuates a person’s evolving identity.
Thompson utilizes the medium of fiber—in this case with beading, knitting, sewing and weaving—to help her to rebuild a textured past and learn the history of her people through making.
Thompson utilizes the medium of fiber—in this case with beading, knitting, sewing and weaving—to help her to rebuild a textured past and learn the history of her people through making.
Maggie Thompson is a member of the Fond Du Lac Band of Ojibwe. In 2014 she had her first solo exhibition, Where I Fit, at All My Relations Gallery. Her work has been exhibited at the Bloomington Arts Center, Intermedia Arts and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, which acquired her piece “Family Portrait” for their collection. She manages the Two Rivers Gallery.
In addition to the Minnesota State Arts Board Cultural Community Partnership Grant, she was also awarded the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Regional Fellowship to support the new body of work in this exhibition. Through TextileCenter, she garnered a 2016 Jerome Fiber Artist Project Grant for which she will be creating a new line of clothing drawing on traditional Native clothing and bead working.
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