Every Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 5pm through December 18, 2022, visit Brooklyn Lace Guild members in the Lacemakers’ Studio on the 4th floor of the Bard Graduate Center Gallery in conjunction with their exhibition Threads of Power: Lace from the Textilmuseum St Gallen!

While the names of the lacemakers whose handmade creations appear in Threads of Power were rarely recorded, we can still honor their art and labor. As practitioners of a living art, contemporary lacemakers carry forward the design knowledge and hand skills developed over five hundred years of lacemaking. Subverting the historical power dynamic of the invisible lacemaker and the wealthy patron, many contemporary lacemakers use the medium to assert their identity, exploring issues of gender, community, and ritual that bridge the past and present. This Lacemakers’ Studio—a collaboration between Bard Graduate Center and Brooklyn Lace Guild—celebrates this history of tradition and innovation.