Practice+Bomber+Range+in+the+Mississippi+Flyway

Date: 1999-2002
 * [[image:http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=http://americanart.si.edu/images/2003/2003.49_2a.jpg&max=460 width="316" height="280" link="@http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=71897"]] || Title: **Practice Bomber Range in the Mississippi Flyway**

Artist: **Terese Agnew** Born: Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1959

Medium: cottons, bridal tulle, and denim Dimensions: 80 x 95 in. (203.2 x 241.3 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of S & R Pieper Family © 2002, Terese Agnew

Accession: 2003.49 || Agnew’s quilts have many details and embroidered embellishments. Agnew uses a process she refers to as “drawing with thread” to embroider the fabrics. //Practice Bomber Range in the Mississippi Flyway// features a central digitally illustrated photo on canvas by Tom Bamberger and Peter DiAntoni. The term “Mississippi Flyway” may reference the flight path of migratory birds.
 * About the Artwork: **

Agnew first worked as a public sculptor. In 1990 she began making quilts. Through her work Agnew considers relationships between people and built as well as natural environments. She is further interested in workers’ issues and the passage of time. Elements of playfulness and humor are also common to Agnew’s quilts. One of her best known quilts is, //Portrait of a Textile Worker// (2005), a piece made of designer clothing labels that shows a Bangladeshi textile worker.
 * About the Artist: **

Craft in America, http://www.craftinamerica.org/artists/terese-agnew/

Mississippi Flyway, @http://mississippi.flyways.us/

Museum of Wisconsin Art, @http://www.wisconsinart.org/archives/artist/terese-agnew/profile-3685.aspx

Practice Bomber Range in the Mississippi Flyway info and about the artist, http://www.tardart.com/html/terese_agnew.php


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SAAM Collections Page
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