Bridgeport Art Center

Faceted Fiber

Faceted Fiber, a group show curated by Marci Rubin, will open at the Bridgeport Art Center this Friday Nov 21tst 2025, 4th floor gallery, 7-10pm.

Faceted Fiber showcases art involving diverse discourse and techniques of fiber or textile-based artworks. Focusing on the materials and process as part of the artworks’ significance, this exhibition emphasizes the artistic and aesthetic value of a fiber-based project over its utility.

By reclaiming and celebrating textile arts in the 1970’s, feminist artists challenged the established art/craft binary. These inspiring artists employed techniques and actions such as sewing, quilting, macrame, crocheting, knitting, embroidery, rug-making, and basket weaving into their work, thrusting them into the realm of fine art. Artists such as Sheila Hicks, Bisa Butler, Judy Chicago, Faith Ringold, and Magdalena Abakanowicz, paved the way for the acceptance of non-traditional artistic practices and perspectives.

Hyde Park Art Center

Center Program Residency 2025 - “Mutuality”

Mutuality: The Center Program Biennial Exhibition

Gallery 1, Gallery 2 & Cleve Carney Gallery
December 13, 2025 – March 22, 2026

Opening December 13, 1-4pm

The Center Program offers artists who are ready to raise their practice to the next level the opportunity to develop new work, receive feedback from art professionals, and work towards an exhibition at the Art Center over the course of a year. For this edition of the program, the cohort focuses on Mutuality as the guiding principle for discussion and discourse toward new works. Defining mutuality as “demonstrating mutual care and interest as artists and people.” This core value of mutuality challenges Center Program artists, as people living in the United States, to think about how intentions, works, and practices impact our world. This eleventh iteration of the program will be guest curated by Teresa Silva, an independent curator based in Chicago and feature the work of nineteen artists: Bethany Cordero, Amethyst Davis, Caitlyn Doran, Josué Esaú, Richard Gessert, Jalen Hamilton, Juan Molina Hernández, Amay Kataria, Millicent Kennedy, Deborah Kraft, Dawn Liddicoatt, Charlotte Mays, Kelly McKaig, Gabriel Moreno, Vida Sačić, Carlos Salazar-Lermont, Carina Vargas-Nuñez, Frank Vega, and Katie Vota.