Weaving an Address

Start: Monday, April 14, 2025 9:00AM
End: Tuesday, April 29, 2025 9:00PM

Exhibition: April 14 - June 14, 2025
Opening Reception April 14, 6PM

The Umbrella Arts Center in historic Concord Center will commemorate the semiquincentennial of the American Revolution and "the shot heard round the world" with an ambitious outdoor/indoor public and gallery art exhibition, Weaving an Address, curated by artist Marla McLeod.

On view April 14 through June 14 in The Umbrella's Allie Kussin Gallery and Brister's Hill in nearby Walden Woods' through October 7, the exhibition features site-specific work by eight prominent Black artists combining sculpture, fiber art, installation and live performance inspired by little-known experiences of historical Black inhabitants of Concord and its Walden Woods.

Outdoors, large-scale work will be installed on Brister's Hill, named for Brister Freeman, an enslaved man who won his freedom by serving in the Revolutionary War and then bought the property and lived there along with other formerly enslaved. Indoors, inter-related fiber and woven artworks will also be installed in the Kussin Gallery until June.

Featured artists in the exhibition are Ife Franklin, Stephen Hamilton, Whitney Harris, Ekua Holmes, Perla Mabel, Marla McLeod, Kimberly Love Radcliffe, and Anthony Peyton Young.

This exhibition is presented as part of the Concord250 commemoration, in partnership with The Walden Woods Project and The Robbins House, in association with Gather 2025, a month-long exploration and celebration of fiber and textile art in Greater Boston, and with permission of Concord Natural Resources Division.

See https://TheUmbrellaArts.org/Weaving for more information about special engagements, wayfinding, artist bios, and background to the exhibition.

ACCESS: The Umbrella is wheelchair accessible, with ADA parking and marked all-gender bathrooms available. There is assessed parking for visitors to the Brister's Hill site on Walden Street, just north of the intersection with Route 2.

Date and Time: On Mon, 14 Apr 2025 09:00 - Sat, 14 Jun 2025 21:00

Category: Arts | Visual Arts