{"id":166,"date":"2019-01-14T13:51:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T13:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/envisioning-extinctions\/?page_id=166"},"modified":"2019-01-16T17:11:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T17:11:17","slug":"exhibition-guide","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/interwoven\/exhibition-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interwoven\u00a0<\/em>celebrates the fascinating lives and works of fiber and book artist Martha Hall, who passed away from breast cancer in December 2003.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

For many in Maine, Hall\u2019s name alone conjures a landmark\u2014Martha Hall Yarns, a weaving and knitting store located in Yarmouth during the 1980s, which Hall grew into a national mail-order business. Her commercial success lead Hall to pursue an MBA from Dartmouth.\u00a0 Diagnosed with breast cancer a week before graduation, she went on to hold executive positions at American Express and L.L.Bean while battling multiple occurrences of the disease. She returned to the arts as a means of understanding her illness. No longer physically able to weave or knit, Hall discovered artists\u2019 books, works that are inspired but transcend the traditional book form. A gifted writer, Hall created powerful narratives and innovative materials to convey her experience living with, and ultimately, dying from cancer. Hall challenged her doctors, and all readers, to care more, to empathize, and to reflect.<\/p>\n

Featuring Hall’s artist’s books and works from her archival collection<\/a>, a recent gift to the College, this exhibition explores how Hall used physical acts, such as marking, stitching, weaving, and knitting, for creative expressions and built both community and narratives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interwoven\u00a0celebrates the fascinating lives and works of fiber and book artist Martha Hall, who passed away from breast cancer in December 2003. For many in Maine, Hall\u2019s name alone conjures a landmark\u2014Martha Hall Yarns, a weaving and knitting store located in Yarmouth during the 1980s, which Hall grew into a national mail-order business. Her commercial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-166","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry","6":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/interwoven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/interwoven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/interwoven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/interwoven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/interwoven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/interwoven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/interwoven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/166\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/interwoven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}