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Margaret Bruzelius & Nanci Worthington

Exhibition Dates: Saturday, October 11 – Friday, November 14
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 11, 3-5pm
Artists' Presentations: Saturday, November 1 at 11:00am

Artists Margaret Bruzelius & Nanci Worthington, more than peripherally related, are excellent craftspeople in their respective mediums. One is rooted in nature, and the other in a world of myth and fantasy.

Margaret Bruzelius has worked in the fashion business as a designer for hand knits for magazines such as Vogue Knitting and McCall's Craft and Needlework. After deciding to completely change her direction, she earned a PhD in Comparative Literature at Yale. She then worked as a Lecturer and a Dean, teaching in the Literature Programs at both Harvard and Smith College. Now that she is retired she spends her time rug hooking, gardening and travelling. She works in textile - specifically in woven rugs.

Nanci Worthington has an MFA-IA in art and ecology from Goddard College,and has kept nature journals in New Marlborough, MA for almost 50 years. Drawn mostly to botanical subjects, Nanci became interested in what a plant’s role was in its host ecology. Who eats it? Was it used by indigenous and colonists as a healing remedy? Is it a solo host plant for some insect or critter? Recently she has added mycorrhizal networking to the curiosity list. Straddling nature, science and art, she uses pen, pencil, paint, paper and measuring tools (even if it’s a stick). Ecological agency is critical in this time of climate change and for Nanci, working as a natural scientific illustrator, art has become a quiet form of activism.

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