MONTHLY OPEN DAY
The Gentle Arts ‘Textiles’
Saturday 14 November
10.00am—4.00pm
Join us on Saturday 14th November when the Powerhouse Discovery Centre presents an Open Day celebrating the ‘gentle arts’, focused on embroidery, quilting and needlework in the Powerhouse Museum’s collection. Highlights of the Open Day include; a lecture by Powerhouse Museum Conservator, Suzanne Chee, on textile preservation and how to display needlework; displays and demonstrations of fine embroidery and patchwork quilting and a hands-on workshop where visitors can take part in embroidering a convict bonnet as part of the ‘Roses from the Heart’ convict bonnet project, developed by Tasmanian artist, Christina Henri. Visitors can also spend time in the Centre’s Collection Lab to view a selection of quilt panels from the Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt Project and meet some of the Discovery Centre volunteers involved in the conservation of the quilts. The Discovery Centre Open Day in December (Saturday 12th December) will complement the November theme of The Gentle Arts with more displays and demonstrations celebrating creativity and design through porcelain and ceramics.
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