New England Sculptors Association will be showing at the Spaulding R. Aldrich Heritage Gallery 1/13,2023 - 2/24, 2023

Menino Art Center presents Quilts and Fibers--Challenging the Boundaries from November 14, 2022-January 16, 2023. A Walk in the Park will be exhibited.

Exploring the World of Fibers! celebrates the recent transformation of the LexArt Weavers Guild into the Weaving & Fibers Arts Guild. this juried exhibition features fiber artists from across New England. The work will be displayed and for sale in the new Molly Harding Nye Gallery and on line at LexArt.org

Collected Breath at the Art Ramble 2021, Something in the Air

Outdoor environmental art show September 28-November 1, 2020 at the Concord Hapgood Wright Forest. Row Row Row your boat #2

This year the auction is going virtual. Open until April 25. Please consider going on line and donating to the student scholarships.

This piece is gelatin printing, hand embroidered and embellished.


SOLD

#studioswithoutwalls.org Summer 2020: See Change

VHS tape and plastic slide holders. Crocheted. 4' x 6' with 5 foot extentions

The work has moved to the Newton Upper Falls Greenway from the Riverway in Brookline. It will be up from June 13-September 3; opening reception on June 13 from 4:30-7

Studios Without Walls is a Brookline-based collaborative group of sculptors and conceptual artists who produce exhibitions of art in outdoor and public settings. We emphasize our community ties in both our exhibitions and programs of educational outreach. Our purpose is to expand and educate audiences to appreciate, participate in, and become enriched by site-responsive sculpture, installation, and conceptual art.

We have been producing exhibitions together – originally at Allandale Farm in conjunction with Brookline Artists Open Studios – and consistently adding additional exhibitions and venues. All members all share in the annual determination of priorities and planning of the exhibits and receive feedback and stimulation from one another throughout the year.

We seek to project a full and lively presence, increasing public visibility of creative thinking at work. We emphasize creative dialogue with the community-at-large, continuing to investigate opportunities for public art and elevating public discourse on the arts.

I am pleased to have been included in this book.

Sculpture
Nearly 500 photos of artwork with personal insights from 76 of today's most noteworthy artists show the tremendously broad range of possibilities that working in three dimensions can offer. In conjunction with the other two books in this acclaimed series, it invites readers to re-examine fiber art through a multifaceted contemporary lens. Both established artists and emerging artists whose work is attracting notice are gathered here. Carol Milne's knitted glass and Peter Gentenaar's technique of vacuum forming and air-drying paper fibers are but a few examples of artists using new materials with traditional methods.

My series of "Homes" is on view at the Cary Library in Lexington MA from Sept 4-October 30, 2019. Hope you can stop by and see it. I will be giving two workshops in conjunction with the show. See the dates below.

Fiber Art
An Artist Demonstration with Janet Kawada
Made possible by the Lowell Institute





Art by Janet Kawada






• Observe how an everyday object can be brilliantly transformed through fiber art

• Form, color and texture will be explored with dazzling materials and a variety of techniques

• Visitors are invited to join in and create a small piece of fiber art to take home


Sunday, January 13, 2019
Noon to 3 PM- A Drop-in Activity
Druker Family Pavilion, Community Room 159


The Artist:

A life-long artist whose main medium is fiber, Janet Kawada shows her work internationally. Ms. Kawada taught at MassArt for over 20 years. Currently she is part of Studio Without Walls, a group of artists from Brookline who work in the environment. Ms. Kawada was a member of the Kingston Gallery for 14 years and its past director. She is included in the book, Artistry in Fiber, Sculpture, Vol. 2. You can visit her website at www.janetkawada.com for more information.

Upcoming Artist Demonstrations:

Fiber Art with Janet Kawada
Wednesday, January 16: 5:30 PM to 8 PM

Mixed Media Painting with Gerri Rachins
Sunday, February 10: noon to 3 PM & Wednesday, February 13: 5:30 PM to 8 PM

Migration has become a recurrent theme for our artist community in transition as we witness the migrations of people and other living creatures in this current social, environmental and political climate. As we watch thousands immigrate across continents and risk their lives, or entire species' patterns shift or decimate entirely, we turn to a tactile and historic tradition of meaningful utility.

We contemplate 'migrations' within shifting and fluid ways of being and defining our own cultural, gendered and embodied identities. With the our physical gallery space in transition as the container, we have invited artists working with fiber arts from diverse contemporary and craft traditions, to engage with this theme and our community.


Fiber is a rich tactile medium embedded with stories that reflect its connection to origin place and materials. The exhibit will pull together a collection of objects that store and carry, those that inscribe personal and family histories and traditions of place and new narratives on migration as journey. An evolving exhibition in its installation and opportunities for engagement are acts of moving from one place to another in and of themselves.

We are excited to partner with Dignity in Asylum, a local non-profit with the mission to provide safe transitional housing and support for asylum seekers, refugees, people who have been granted asylum and unaccompanied minors at risk of homelessness on this exhibition. A portion of funds raised during this exhibition will be donated to support their work.

My piece, Steel Wool "12, created in conjunction with Matthew Stone, is up for sale at the AIDS Auction.

When: October 27th 2018 7:30pm
Where: The Castle at Park Plaza 130 Columbus Avenue Boston, MA

This piece is still available. If you are interested, please contact scaplan@fenwayhealth.org

A Binding Thread: an exhibition in fibers: Exhibiting Artists: Chelsea Revelle, Janet Kawada, Sarah Meyers Brent, Michele Fandel Bonner, Stacey Piwinski, Shayna Fratini

Lincoln Arts Project, 289 Moody Street, Waltham MA
September 27-November 8, 2018

Opening Reception, September 27, 6-9 p.m.
Participating in Waltham Open Studios, November 3/4, 2018

THE ART OF LABOR, SDA MEMBERS JURIED EXHIBITION 2018
JULY 22, 2018 - OCTOBER 14, 2018
TURNER AND GILLILAND GALLERIES

Using the word “Labor” as a point of departure, jurors Carole Frances Lung (Frau Fiber) and Amy DiPlacido selected fiber-based, or textile-inspired work by artists exploring the many possible definitions of the term and its relationship to art.

Interview by Elizabeth Michelman on the show, Is This Something, at the Wedeman Gallery, Lasell College, in Artscope Magazine, 2016

In 2019 Jay Sugarman interviewed Bette Ann Libby and Janet Kawada about the exhibition of Studios Without Walls work on the Brookline Riveway

This is a virtual exhibition shown through the Boston City Hall Galleries