Building the Essentials: Ferne Jacobs Exhibition Catalog

The Craft in America Center presented the first ever retrospective of Los Angeles artist Ferne Jacobs. Since the 1960s, Ferne Jacobs has been at the forefront of the revolution in fiber art. She has pioneered ways to create a new category of sculpture. Transforming materials and pushing boundaries, she builds solid structures with coiled, twined, and knotted thread. This exhibition is the first to survey more than fifty years of Jacobs’ pivotal and timeless work through the present. Jacobs’ intimate drawings and collage diaries, which have never been publicly displayed before now, provide an additional lens into her vision, inspiration, and philosophical perspective.

Printed copies of this catalog are available on Blurb for $24.



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Craft in America, Ferne Jacobs exhibition
This project is supported by The Lenore G. Tawney Foundation. To find out more about The Lenore G. Tawney Foundation, visit lenoretawney.org
National Endowment for the Arts NEA, SQ, Craft in America
This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.
Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, Craft in America
The Craft in America Center is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture. www.lacountyarts.org