CHESTER SPRINGS/MALVERN: May 16, 2016
Camphill’s World Wide Weave
June 1-July 6, The Lincoln Galleries at Historic Yellow Springs
The Camphill Foundation World Wide Weave Exhibition is coming to the village of Yellow Springs. The exhibit includes 75 wall hangings of weaving, tapestry, felting and other techniques. This extraordinary show will open June 1 and continue through July 6. This is the first time the exhibition will be in the United States and will only be exhibited in Pennsylvania and in New York. The public is invited to an opening reception on Thursday, June 2 from 6-8 p.m.
The Camphill Movement inspires participants to create and maintain communities in which children, youth, and adults with special needs can live, learn, and work with others in healthy social relationships based on mutual care and respect. Camphill is at the forefront of promoting the understanding that people living with developmental disabilities and learning differences have truly extraordinary creative talents and skills of all kinds, practical, social and artistic.
Three Camphill communities are located in Chester County: Camphill Soltane, Camphill Special School, and Camphill Village Kimberton Hills. All three communities are a part of this exhibit and like the incredibly rich mix of people who constantly interweave their lives and destinies in the network of Camphill communities; they all have the same set of core principles at heart. The exhibition expresses all the wonderfully varied and diverse characteristics of single communities coming together in one great artistic panorama of Camphill.
The World Wide Weave, an international textile project and exhibition, originated in the United Kingdom and Ireland to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Camphill Movement from 1940-2015. The pieces have been created by 65 textile workshops in 19 countries worldwide. The program originated to celebrate the creative life in the Camphill locations in the UK and Ireland but also throughout Europe, Canada and the United States. The exhibit has been in 20 locations in public buildings, art galleries and museums in the UK and Ireland and elsewhere in Europe and now, for the first time, will travel to the United States, Switzerland and Norway in 2016.
Historic Yellow Springs, located at 1685 Art School Road, Chester Springs, Pa., is free and open to the public daily from 10 am to 4 pm.
For more information on this exhibit, visit http://camphillfoundation.net/world-wide-weave/world-wide-weave/.
Art and Craft of Camphill Village Kimberton Hills — Works by the Village Residents
June 8 – August 3 at The Henry Gallery at Penn State Great Valley
Camphill Village Kimberton Hills is pleased to be exhibiting the art of its residents at The Henry Gallery at Penn State Great Valley. This unique show will feature artwork in different mediums. The exhibit runs from June 8 to August 3, with an opening reception on Wednesday, July 13 from 6-8 p.m.
The mosaics, paintings, ceramics and fiber arts in this show are made in the various creative workshops and homes at Camphill Village Kimberton Hills, an intentional community including adults with developmental disabilities, located in Kimberton, Pa.
For some residents crafts are seen as a vocation, while others simply create art in their spare time. Some of the pieces are a collaborative effort, for example, between the mosaic studio and the pottery studio, where a craftsperson needs to use multiple skills in order to complete one mosaic. Many of the materials used are recycled.
The creative arts are an avenue for self-expression and for building self-esteem. Camphill Kimberton hopes this show encourages others to take up pencil, paper, paintbrush, clay, fibers, tiles, or other media in a meaningful way to imagine and create a more peaceful world.
The Henry Gallery at Penn State Great Valley is located on the second floor of the Penn State Great Valley Conference Center, 30 East Swedesford Road, Malvern, Pa. The Henry Gallery is free and open to the public Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5p.m. and when the campus is open for evening events.
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Camphill Village Kimberton Hills is an agricultural and handcrafting community that includes adults with developmental disabilities. Over 100 people with and without disabilities live and work together practicing “life-sharing” as expanded families in homes throughout the village on 432 acres. The mission of Camphill Village Kimberton Hills is to create and maintain a land-based community together with adults with special needs. The practice of life sharing creates community together, fostering mutual help and understanding, providing meaningful work and building long-lasting relationships. For more information, visit www.camphillkimberton.org.
