‘How They Felt’ At Brookfield Craft Center

BROOKFIELD — Chris White, a noted fiber artist, author and authority on feltmaking, was the guest curator of Brookfield Craft Center’s newest exhibition, “How They Felt: Contemporary Feltmaking.” The show is on view until May 22. It features work by America’s top feltmaking artists plus work by a talented group of emerging feltmakers.

Work on display includes sculpture, high-end home furnishings and high fashion, artist-designed apparel, all made from felt.  The exhibition showcases new ways fiber artists are interpreting this colorful durable and natural material.

Artists participating in “How They Felt” are Beth Beede, Sharon Costello, Carol Cypher, Alexa Ginsberg, Chad Alice Hagen, Linda Brooks Hirschman, Thomas Horst, Jorie Johnson, Camille Ludlow, Gail Crosman Moore, Theresa May O’Brien, Karen Page, Cathy Rogers, Roz Spier, Pat Spark, Nicole Chazaud Telaar, Jeannie Thomma, Linda VanAlstyne, Chris White, and Lucy Zercher.

The exhibition been made possible by the Lynn Tendler Bignell Foundation with support from the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism, a state agency.

Regular gallery hours are Monday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm, and Sunday from noon to 5 pm. The Lynn Tendler Bignell Gallery at Brookfield Craft Center is at 286 Whisconier Road (Route 25) in the center’s historic mill building, just east of the “four corners” intersection with Route 7/202.

For further information call 775-4526 or visit www.BrookfieldCraftCenter.org.