#  The Woven Arc 

 



 ![Woven Arc](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/coopergallery/files/wa1.jpg)

 

## Summer 2016

  
  
THE WOVEN ARC explored the visual dialogues between an unusual selection of artworks not usually posed in conversation with each other: figurative and abstract sculptures, paintings, prints, and textiles, along with mixed media and performance-based video. Three artworks from our permanent collection—a Yinka Shonibare Food Faerie, a Nick Cave Soundsuit, and a conceptual piece by Peter Sacks—inspired us to consider other artworks that vibrate and move with sumptuous surfaces, embedded texts, an overt and oblique presence of the black body, and our historical legacies of the African and African American experience.



 



###    Press  expand\_more  

 

##  Press 

 



  [### Arts Fuse: 'Fuse Visual Arts Feature: “The Woven Arc” at the Cooper Gallery'

 ](http://artsfuse.org/146722/fuse-visual-arts-feature-the-woven-arc-at-the-cooper-gallery/) June 17, 2016 

 

   ![Sacks](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/square-six-by-six-peter-sacks-photo-marcus-halevi.jpeg?itok=rEfquIUr) 

 



 

 

   [### Bay State Banner: ‘The Woven Arc’ on exhibit at Cooper Gallery through July 1

 ](https://www.baystatebanner.com/2016/06/17/the-woven-arc-on-exhibit-at-cooper-gallery-through-july-16/) June 17, 2016 

 

   ![Woven Arc](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/horiz-food-fairy-yinka-shonibare-photo-melissa-blackall.jpg?itok=i5PV1ZaK) 

 



 

 

   [### Big Red and Shiny: 'THE WOVEN ARC: Art and Life Converge Through Textiles'

 ](http://bigredandshiny.org/25217/the-woven-arc-art-and-life-converge-through-textiles/) June 02, 2016 

 

   ![Woven Arc](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/horiz-metas-ii-el-anatsui-photo-melissa-blackall-702x336.jpeg?itok=MdKg2YVo) 

 



 

 

   [### Black Boston: 'Black fine art. “THE WOVEN ARC” at Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art – 5/20 – July 16th, Cambridge'

 ](https://blackboston.com/black-fine-art-the-woven-arc-at-ethelbert-cooper-gallery-of-african-african-american-art-520-july-16th-cambridge/) May 19, 2016 

 

   ![Woven Arc](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/art-gates.jpg?itok=y8GkmqYe) 

 



 

 

   [### New Boston Post: 'African art show opens at Harvard's Cooper Gallery'

 ](https://newbostonpost.com/2016/05/20/african-art-show-opens-at-harvards-cooper-gallery/) May 20, 2016 

 

   ![Woven Arc](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/wovenarc-3-780x439.jpg?itok=SvgEe0HG) 

 



 

 

   [### WCVB5 Cityline: 'Summer's Here: THE WOVEN ARC at the Cooper Gallery'

 ](https://www.wcvb.com/article/cityline-summers-here-segment-1/8105209) July 05, 2016 

 

   ![YINKA SHONIBARE. FOOD FAERIE, 2010,](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/cooper_wa_install_melissablackall_-8.jpg?itok=47kx3qXP)