{"id":70163,"date":"2024-06-27T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/?p=70163"},"modified":"2024-06-25T21:54:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T01:54:33","slug":"feature-artist-rachel-meginnes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/arts\/feature-artist-rachel-meginnes\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature Artist: Rachel Meginnes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_70166\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70166\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70166\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Feature-Artist-Rachel-Meginnes-Frolic.-Rachel-Meginnes-artist-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"847\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Feature-Artist-Rachel-Meginnes-Frolic.-Rachel-Meginnes-artist-copy.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Feature-Artist-Rachel-Meginnes-Frolic.-Rachel-Meginnes-artist-copy-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Feature-Artist-Rachel-Meginnes-Frolic.-Rachel-Meginnes-artist-copy-1024x723.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Feature-Artist-Rachel-Meginnes-Frolic.-Rachel-Meginnes-artist-copy-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Feature-Artist-Rachel-Meginnes-Frolic.-Rachel-Meginnes-artist-copy-810x572.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Feature-Artist-Rachel-Meginnes-Frolic.-Rachel-Meginnes-artist-copy-1140x805.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-70166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frolic. Rachel Meginnes, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Gina Malone<\/p>\n<p>When she discovered handweaving in high school, Rachel Meginnes found it \u201cthe perfect mix of logic and creativity.\u201d Captivated by the art and with her parents\u2019 unwavering support, she studied weaving at Earlham College in IN, then earned her MFA at the University of Washington in Seattle. In between degrees, she studied rug weaving as an apprentice in Maine and traditional ikat weaving and indigo dyeing in Japan. \u201cUpon graduation, with my MFA, I cofounded a rug company producing Tibetan rugs out of Nepal and India,\u201d she says. By 2010, she began shifting away from the rug business to focus, once again, on her own artwork.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_70167\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70167\" class=\"wp-image-70167\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Feature-Artist-Rachel-Meginnes-Like-Dew-In-The-Sun.-Rachel-Meginnes-artist-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Feature-Artist-Rachel-Meginnes-Like-Dew-In-The-Sun.-Rachel-Meginnes-artist-copy.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Feature-Artist-Rachel-Meginnes-Like-Dew-In-The-Sun.-Rachel-Meginnes-artist-copy-144x300.jpg 144w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Feature-Artist-Rachel-Meginnes-Like-Dew-In-The-Sun.-Rachel-Meginnes-artist-copy-492x1024.jpg 492w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Feature-Artist-Rachel-Meginnes-Like-Dew-In-The-Sun.-Rachel-Meginnes-artist-copy-737x1536.jpg 737w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-70167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Like Dew in the Sun. Rachel Meginnes, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIn 2012, I received a three-year artist residency at Penland School of Craft, where I explored textiles and painting and the deconstruction of old quilts,\u201d she says. Afterwards, she began working on the loom, incorporating traditional techniques as she continued to explore old quilts and textiles. \u201cIn 2020, I was fortunate to be able to purchase a hand-me-down digital loom from one of my weaving mentors, and I have been weaving on it ever since,\u201d she says, adding that pandemic travel restrictions put her at the top of the list for the purchase and helped her to experience a creative rebirth. \u201cI had time to slow down, create space. I found great solace in the studio.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She begins a piece by gathering images of the idea she has and the materials to bring it to fruition. \u201cThis stage takes time,\u201d she says, \u201ccollecting and deconstructing them from their original source. I\u2019m interested in seeing how ideas and materials can be transformed and I\u2019m always playing with possibility. I weave many pieces around the same theme or idea. Some are complete when they come off the loom and some are stops and starts and fragments that I later collage together once I\u2019ve had more time to spend with them. With time comes an appreciation for these pieces and a welcome shift in my perception.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her work, <em>Mother\u2019s Keeper<\/em>, is an early deconstructed quilt piece. \u201cI made it from a quilt my mom sent to me that she\u2019d held onto for years,\u201d Meginnes says. \u201cBefore she sent it to me, she asked if she could cut out some pieces to make pillows. This is a common practice that\u2019s done with old quilts, where the crafter cuts out the \u2018good parts\u2019 to make teddy bears and stockings. When I received the quilt, its shape was notched out from where my mom had cut it, and I chose to keep this shape in the finished work.\u201d When she took the quilt top off of the piece, she found the thinnest batting she had ever seen. Like a web, \u201cit required a very careful touch and then hand-stitching to hold it together,\u201d she says. \u201cI ended up gold-leafing the entire surface of the work as a means for honoring this fragile material, my mom\u2019s keeping of the quilt over the years and the delicate nature of our relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_70168\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70168\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70168\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Feature-Artist-Rachel-Meginnes_7909-Rachel-Meginnes.-Photo-by-Mercedes-Jelinek-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Feature-Artist-Rachel-Meginnes_7909-Rachel-Meginnes.-Photo-by-Mercedes-Jelinek-copy.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Feature-Artist-Rachel-Meginnes_7909-Rachel-Meginnes.-Photo-by-Mercedes-Jelinek-copy-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Feature-Artist-Rachel-Meginnes_7909-Rachel-Meginnes.-Photo-by-Mercedes-Jelinek-copy-1024x569.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Feature-Artist-Rachel-Meginnes_7909-Rachel-Meginnes.-Photo-by-Mercedes-Jelinek-copy-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Feature-Artist-Rachel-Meginnes_7909-Rachel-Meginnes.-Photo-by-Mercedes-Jelinek-copy-810x450.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Feature-Artist-Rachel-Meginnes_7909-Rachel-Meginnes.-Photo-by-Mercedes-Jelinek-copy-1140x634.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-70168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel-Meginnes. Photo by Mercedes Jelinek<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Meginnes is one of 10 artists, all Penland School-affiliated, whose work makes up the exhibition <em>THE WEIGHT OF WONDER: Materiality and the Poetics of Craft<\/em> running through August 31 at Penland Gallery. Kathryn Gremley, the gallery\u2019s curator, says that Meginnes\u2019 skill and experimentation with her materials speak to the theme of the exhibition. \u201cFragments of printed and time-worn cloth, internal batting from deconstructed quilts and the structural threads from the loom are an unpretentious initial introduction to a much deeper complexity in her work,\u201d Gremley says. \u201cOn a technical level, Rachel is creating woven systems that allow for disparate structures to coexist, generating a new visual language.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_70165\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70165\" class=\"wp-image-70165\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Feature-Artist-Rachel-Meginnes-Amulet.-Rachel-Meginnes-artist-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Feature-Artist-Rachel-Meginnes-Amulet.-Rachel-Meginnes-artist-copy.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Feature-Artist-Rachel-Meginnes-Amulet.-Rachel-Meginnes-artist-copy-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Feature-Artist-Rachel-Meginnes-Amulet.-Rachel-Meginnes-artist-copy-1024x1008.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Feature-Artist-Rachel-Meginnes-Amulet.-Rachel-Meginnes-artist-copy-768x756.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Feature-Artist-Rachel-Meginnes-Amulet.-Rachel-Meginnes-artist-copy-65x65.jpg 65w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Feature-Artist-Rachel-Meginnes-Amulet.-Rachel-Meginnes-artist-copy-810x797.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Feature-Artist-Rachel-Meginnes-Amulet.-Rachel-Meginnes-artist-copy-1140x1122.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-70165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amulet. Rachel Meginnes, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Meginnes knows that she is done working on a piece when she feels intrigue alongside a sense of wholeness. \u201cIt\u2019s important for me that there be a sense of rawness left in the work,\u201d she says. \u201cI want the work to feel alive, like a movie that\u2019s kept you wondering how it ended.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Rachel Meginnes\u2019 studio, at Treats Studios, in Spruce Pine, is open by appointment. Find her work at Tracey Morgan Gallery, in Asheville, and at Penland Gallery at Penland School of Craft, where THE WEIGHT OF WONDER: Materiality and the Poetics of Craft is on display now through August 31. Beginning September 30 and running through October 23, Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TN, will host a solo show of Meginnes\u2019 work. Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/RachelMeginnes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RachelMeginnes.com<\/a> and on Instagram @rachelmeginnes.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When she discovered handweaving in high school, Rachel Meginnes found it \u201cthe perfect mix of logic and creativity.\u201d She studied weaving at Earlham College in IN, then earned her MFA at the University of Washington in Seattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":70166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-craft-arts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Feature Artist: Rachel Meginnes - The Laurel of Asheville<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When she discovered handweaving in high school, Rachel Meginnes found it \u201cthe perfect mix of logic and creativity.\u201d She studied weaving at Earlham College in IN, then earned her MFA at the University of Washington in Seattle.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/arts\/feature-artist-rachel-meginnes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Feature Artist: Rachel Meginnes - 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