Come along on a a quick walk through Enchanting Threads: The Art of Salley Mavor, my current exhibition at the Albany Institute of History & Art. The show will be there through March 2, 2025, so, there’s plenty of time to plan a trip to Albany, NY with your friends and family! Many of the pieces on display have been featured on this blog – see a list with links below.
The exhibition has the feeling of a retrospective, with over 100 framed pieces and sculptural objects from the past 45 years, from a modular village I made in art school to the recent four seasons series. There are also over 100 wee folk figures that I made for my how-to book, Felt Wee Folk on display.
The complete series of original bas-relief illustrations from my picture book, MY BED is also included in the show.
The following images show just a portion of what’s on view in the show (click individual images to enlarge). If you’ve followed me for a while, you’ll recognize several of the pieces, including Birds of Beebe Woods, Self Portrait, Displaced, Cover Up, Whiskers, Face Time, Rabbitat, Liberty and Justice, Pocketful of Posies, My Bed, Grate Hall, Lichen Lookout, Summertime, Harvest Time, Mossy Glen, Frosty Morning, Felt Wee Folk.
NEW IN MY SHOP!
I’m pleased to offer 18″ x 24″ frameable posters of Summertime and Harvest Time. These printed reproductions just a little bit smaller than the bas-relief embroidered scenes, so the scale of the wee folk, bird, foliage, roots, fruit, and thousands of stitches is very similar to their actual size. They’re the closest thing to experiencing the original pieces in person!
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This exhibit is sew wonderful. Creative and unique with all your threads! 🧵 wish I lived closer than Indiana from Albany. Your litt
Magical. Thanks for posting the video. ❤️
¡Que hermoso todo lo que haces!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Closed for a year? till Oct 2025?
Sorry about the typo. My shop is open!
Fascinating items and so much detail in every figure. She really is talented. One comment about the video – I would have preferred to stop at each item for a few seconds at a time. The constant panning is ok from a distance, but very bad when close up. You can’t focus when everything is moving. I would love to see this in person.
Thank you, Sandy, for interest in seeing my work at a slower pace, where you can enjoy the detail. The video is intended to be a quick overview of the exhibition, to show what’s included in a general sense, more than offer closeup shots of the artwork. For that kind of thing, I invite you to explore this blog, which has an extensive archive of photos, videos and commentary about just about everything I’ve made.