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Title:	RugLife
Date:	10/11/2025 - 12/28/2025
Address:	Weisman Art Museum, 333 E River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455
Location:	Minneapolis, MN
Hours:	10 AM - 5 PM on Wednesdays to Fridays; 11 AM - 5 PM on Saturdays and Sundays
Cost/Cover:	612-625-9494
Web Page:	https://wam.umn.edu/ruglife
Contact Info:	612-625-9494

Details:

Not surprisingly, the words “text” and “textile” share the same Latin root word: the verb texere, meaning to weave. Just as sentences are created by stringing words together to create meaning, cultures throughout time have carefully woven strands of wool or silk into designs rich with meaning. Sentences are stitched together to create anything from a sweeping fictional saga to a dry didactic text. Similarly the rugs in the exhibition, RugLife, range from a formal approach to the subject matter to rich cultural critique and are representative of the unique and vastly different cultures and/or identities that the fourteen artists represent. Rugs and carpets have defined the character of space since animal skins began to warm and adorn cave dwellings; the earliest known Persian rugs are nearly 2500 years old. Given this long history—entwined with religion, culture, and nature—it follows that artists continue to find potential in the form of the rug. It offers artists and designers from around the globe a forum to take on the appropriation of cultural, racial, and gender roles and stereotypes within the framework of a decorative object turned art object.