Past Exhibitions

Wall with panels of the stitched artwork showing volcanic plumes, mushroom clouds, emissions from factories and puffs rising from the cooling towers of nuclear reactors

Maggy Rozycki Hiltner: Vantage Point

Monday October 7, 2019 to Friday February 14, 2020

In April 2014, Hiltner was selected to create an installation for the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum’s Dr. Ruth Tan Lim Project Room. As an embroidery artist, filling 72 linear feet of wall space with hand-stitched imagery would be her largest project to date. She began by designing an idealized landscape with a big blue sky, green grass and puffy white clouds. Researching ways of depicting cloud forms led her to think about clouds as water vapor and then water vapor as greenhouse gas.


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