Bio:
Ruth Scheuing explores how textiles communicate through patterns and stories and how new technologies such as Jacquard weaving, GPS and Satellite mapping impact society. Recent exhibitions include: I Was Invited to a Space Walk, But Had Nothing to Wear in 2022 at CityScape, North Vancouver, Ancient Women in Textiles: The Jacquard Weavings of Ruth Scheuing in 2019 and Women’s Work in 2018, both at the Italian Culture Center in Vancouver, Connecting Threads in 2018 and ‘Silkroads’, in 2010, both at the Surrey Art Gallery, ‘Andante’ at Richmond Art Gallery and ‘Dreamland: Textile and the Canadian Landscape’, organized as a touring exhibitions by the Textile Museum of Canada 2012-14 and in 2017 participated at the Canadian Craft Biennial in Burlington.. She has published essays, reviews and conference proceedings and was co-editor with Ingrid Bachmann of Material Matters: The Art and Culture of Contemporary Textiles, published in 1999 by YYZ, Toronto; she has been an active member of TSA (Textile Society of America). In 2010, she received the Vancouver Mayor’s Award and in 1996 the Chalmers Award in Crafts and taught Textile Arts at Capilano University from 1994-2014. She is part of TAD (The Textile Arts Department, founded with Mary Lou Trinkwon), and currently works on a AVL Jacq 3G Jacquard loom in her studio at MakerLabs in Vancouver |