Threaded Paths Spring 26 - Rutgers

After a wonderful exhibition at Rutgers University this spring, 2026, the collection has grown to more than 100 pieces and counting. The Rutgers exhibition was so much more than putting work on the walls. It became a teaching opportunity and a way to bring students, alumni, faculty, and staff into the project as makers. New pieces arrived, old stories resurfaced, and the collection continued to grow in ways I could never have predicted when Threaded Paths began.

The exhibition was part of the Mason Gross School of the Arts Theatre Department’s 50th anniversary celebration, which made it especially meaningful. Threaded Paths was shown alongside my own textile work, Tabards of Place, at The Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series Galleries at Mabel Smith Douglas Library , under the supervision of Nicole Ianuzelli, Senior Program Coordinator, Center for Women in the Arts at Douglass.

I am so grateful to Nicole for welcoming the work into the gallery and for all the care she gave to the exhibition. I am also grateful to the many students, alumni, faculty, and staff from across Mason Gross and the university who came to see the work. It was wonderful to have people spend time with the pieces, ask questions, recognize a story, or simply find something that caught their eye.

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Having Threaded Paths and Tabards of Place together was also a chance for me to see how differently the two bodies of work speak about place, memory, and the people who carry those stories with them.

It has been a wonderful year of sharing the work and meeting so many people through it. I am very attached to these pieces and to the stories behind them, so sending them out into the world is both exciting and a little strange.

I’ll write more about Tabards of Place in another post. For now, I’m happy to look back at the Rutgers exhibition and grateful to everyone who helped make it happen.

Tabards of Place will be part of New York Textile Month in September 2027, and Threaded Paths is already on its way to its next home in Pennsylvania ( see next blog post).