Join us for a special online Art Speaks with Aaron McIntosh as he discusses his most recent exhibitions The Gloaming at Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain in Montreal, and Entanglements at Northeastern University in Boston, with a particular focus on the sculptural and social possibilities of the quilt form. 

This talk gives more insight into Aaron's practice in anticipation of his upcoming workshops at Textile Center, Sculptural Approach to Quilting (June 16 - 18, 2025) and a community-oriented Queer Quilting Bee (June 20 - 21, 2025).

Art Speaks: Sculptural and Social Quilting with Aaron McIntosh
Friday, May 9, 12 - 1 pm
Virtual talk on Zoom
Pricing: Free

About the Artist:

Aaron McIntosh (he/him) is a cross-disciplinary artist and fourth-generation quiltmaker whose work mines the intersections of material culture, family tradition, sexual desire and identity politics. His exhibition record includes numerous solo and group exhibitions, most recently Entanglements at Northeastern University, and Radical Tradition: Quilts and Social Change at the Toledo Museum of Art. Since 2015, McIntosh has managed Invasive Queer Kudzu, a community storytelling and archive project across the LGBTQ+ Southern United States. He is a 2020 United States Artist Fellow in Craft, and other honors include a 2017 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship, and two Windgate Fellowships in 2006 and 2015 from the Center for Craft. His current research-creation project, Hot House/Maison Chaude, has been supported by a 2020-2023 SSHRC Insight Development grant. He has held residencies at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Banff Centre, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. His critical writing has been published in the Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, the Surface Design Journal, and the Journal of Modern Craft. He currently lives and works in Montreal, where he is an Associate Professor and Coordinator in the Fibres & Material Practices program at Concordia University. 

aaronmcintosh.com