Capitol Arts Network, the Washington area’s fastest-growing organization for professional and emerging artists, has announced its November show, a juried exhibition titled “small wonders.”
The show will highlight works measuring 12 x 12 inches or smaller from juried metro-area artists, and an amazing collection of 21 pieces by invited artist Page Turner from Roanoke.
“A Stitch In Time Saves Nine,” is an exhibit of 21 miniature assemblage sculptures – women’s dress forms and garments hand sewn from antique sugar, flour and salt sacks, personal objects, and domestic tools – housed under antique bell jars and glass domes.
The figures are delicately clothed in day dresses, gowns, intimate attire, outerwear and aprons, from a variety of historical eras. Turner grew up in the Appalachian mountains of Virginia in a devout Mormon household. She was taught domestic traditions and skills from women in the family and community. Each sculpture is a totem of a specific woman who forged part of Turner’s identity as a woman.
The opening reception for “small wonders” is set for 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday, November 1st. The exhibition runs through Nov. 25th.