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Founded in 1977, the Wellington B. Gray Art Gallery is an integral part of the School of Art and Design’s educational mission.  The Gray Gallery provides educational programming for students and the community through six to eight exhibitions each year and numerous symposia and lectures by visiting artists and curators.  The collections that the Gallery and School of Art and Design maintain includes a significant collection of western and central African art, Baltic ceramics, the Dwight M. Holland collection, a major and on-going donation of contemporary ceramics and a suite of Larry Rivers prints.

Current Exhibition:

Conversations: The Southeast Fibers Educators Association
June 8-30, 2009

The Wellington B. Gray Gallery’s current exhibition is Conversations:  The Southeast Fibers Educators Association, featuring the work of nineteen fibers artists.  Included in the show is work by Jeanne Brady, Susan Brandeis, Edwina Bringle, Candace Edgerley, Catharine Ellis, Susan Fecho, Susan Iverson, Jeana Eve Klein, Bethanne Knudson, Carol LeBaron, Patricia Mink, Vita Plume, Amy Putansu, Jennifer Sargent, Tommye McClure Scanlin, Christi Teasley, Jan-Ru Wan, L.M. Wood, and Christine Zoller as well as a collaborative piece incorporating individual 9” x 9” squares by each artist.  The fibers art in the exhibition covers a range of aesthetics and techniques from the traditional to the most contemporary expressions of the textile medium.

As educators in the textile arts, the members of the Southeast Fibers Educators Association (SEFEA) are dedicated to the continuing interchange of knowledge, the exchange of ideas, and the joy of creating unlimited possibilities within the textile medium.  SEFEA is committed to maintaining textile traditions while opening pathways for crossing new boundaries.