Faculty Exhibitions at UForge Gallery

Ifé Franklin: The Indigo Project

UFORGE Gallery, 767 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain MA

Exhibition May 16–June 9, 2013
Artist's Talk Thursday, May 23, 7pm

Reception Thursday, June 6, 2013 – 6–8pm

Ifé Franklin’s Indigo Project is a living testament to ancestors who lived and died producing two materials she works with closely: plantation-grown cotton and indigo. Ultimately, an 8-foot wooden structure, resembling a slave cabin, will be completely covered inside and out with Aso Adire indigo-dyed fabric, derived from West African Yoruba culture. This exhibition includes drawings, textiles and installation elements that will be part of the final project.

Ifé teaches drawing and fiber arts classes at the Eliot School. Her next offering is Adire West African Dyeing, June 22 & 23, 2013.

Robert Worth: Sculpting Furniture

February 14–March 10, 2013
UFORGE Gallery, 767 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain MA

Reception

Thursday, March 7, 2013 – 6–8pm

Robert Worth creates furniture that is comfortable and elegant, modernist and modest, appreciated as much by touch as by the eye. His work embraces line and structure, testing wood's strengths and weaknesses and reacting to the subtle curves of its grain. He says, “I think of my furniture as not being the first thing you see when you enter a room (not showy or flashy), but perhaps what you remember once you have left.”

Robert teaches our Teen Woodworking classes. This summer, he will also teach a one-week adult woodworking intensive, Maloof-Inspired Bench July 29–August 2.