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The Unexpected Synergy Between Anni Albers and Weaving

Anni Albers was a German-American weaver, textile designer, and printmaker, who began her career at the storied Bauhaus school in the 1920s. Exposed to ancient South American weavings in German ethnography museums, it was not until Albers moved to North Carolina to teach at the experimental Black Mountain College that she visited Mexico and Peru for the first time. While there she would purchase fabric samples in order to deconstruct them in an attempt to unravel the secrets of the ancient Andean weavers, who she called “my teachers.”

This talk explores the unexpected synergy between the work of Anni Albers, which was on the cutting edge of modernist design, and the ancient medium of weaving, largely unchanged for millennia.

Free with RSVP at nationalartsclub.eventbrite.com.











When: Mon., Nov. 25, 2019 at 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where: The National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park S.
212-475-3424
Price: Free
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Anni Albers was a German-American weaver, textile designer, and printmaker, who began her career at the storied Bauhaus school in the 1920s. Exposed to ancient South American weavings in German ethnography museums, it was not until Albers moved to North Carolina to teach at the experimental Black Mountain College that she visited Mexico and Peru for the first time. While there she would purchase fabric samples in order to deconstruct them in an attempt to unravel the secrets of the ancient Andean weavers, who she called “my teachers.”

This talk explores the unexpected synergy between the work of Anni Albers, which was on the cutting edge of modernist design, and the ancient medium of weaving, largely unchanged for millennia.

Free with RSVP at nationalartsclub.eventbrite.com.

Buy tickets/get more info now