{"id":16800,"date":"2017-07-22T17:34:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T15:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=16800"},"modified":"2017-07-22T17:34:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T15:34:48","slug":"rachel-farmer-ancestors-traversing-quilts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/rachel-farmer-ancestors-traversing-quilts\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Farmer: Ancestors Traversing Quilts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/PressPhoto_by_RachelFarmer_2017.jpg\" alt=\"Work by Rachel Farmer\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/PressPhoto_by_RachelFarmer_2017.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/PressPhoto_by_RachelFarmer_2017-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/PressPhoto_by_RachelFarmer_2017-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/PressPhoto_by_RachelFarmer_2017-332x221.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Image: Rachel Farmer, Ancestors Traversing Quilts, 2017. Site-specific installation including ceramic, fabric, batting, and yarn. 77 x 258 x 20 in. Courtesy the artist. Photograph (c) Riya Lerner.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Join us on July 27th for a reception of Rachel Farmer: Ancestors Traversing Quilts<\/h2>\n<p>Please join us Thursday, July 27th from 6-8PM for the opening reception of Rachel Farmer&#8217;s instalation, <em>ANCESTORS TRAVERSING QUILTS<\/em> [at Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York]. During the reception our Director, Gonzalo Casals will give an informal talk about Farmer&#8217;s work and process before giving the stage to Farmer to answer any questions. <\/p>\n<p>We hope you can attend!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy work draws inspiration from a variety of sources: my Mormon pioneer ancestry, childhood play with ceramic figurines, my grandmother\u2019s quilts, historical dioramas, and pop culture\u2019s invented mythologies of the American West. <\/p>\n<p>This installation grew out of pouring over my great-great-grandfather\u2019s diary chronicling his immigrant journey from England to Utah Territory in 1853\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u2014while confronting the absence of information about my great-great-grandmother who made the same journey, as a single woman without family, in 1855.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to acknowledge that these quilts were made possible by the communal efforts of many. In gratitude.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Rachel Farmer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us Thursday, July 27th from 6-8PM for the opening reception of Rachel Farmer&#8217;s instalation, ANCESTORS TRAVERSING QUILTS at Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[510],"tags":[1078],"class_list":["post-16800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-installation","tag-rachel-farmer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}