We are pleased to announce that Elissa Auther will be our Keynote Speaker for the Opening Reception for FiberPhiladelphia 2012.

FiberPhiladelphia Official Opening
Elissa Auther, Keynote Speaker  
Fiber in the 21st Century Art World

Moore College of Art and Design
Friday Afternoon: March 2, 2012 2:30 pm 

Elissa Auther is associate professor of contemporary art at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. She is the author of String, Felt, Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art (Minnesota, 2010) and the co-editor of West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965-1977 (Minnesota 2012). The book accompanies the eponymously titled exhibition co-curated by Auther and Adam Lerner for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver. At the MCA Denver. Auther co-directs the pubic program Feminism & Co.: Art, Sex, Politics.

www.elissaauther.com