This week the Denver Art Museum (DAM) will unveil a new gallery space, Cover Story, which will display over sixty artefacts from the museum's textile collection. The objects explore the ways in which textiles have been used by different cultures across centuries of time.
This new gallery takes its place alongside ten new museum-wide exhibitions (see below) arranged under the catch-all title, Spun: Adventures in Textiles, which will exhibit a wide range of textiles, from pre-Columbian and Native American weavings to contemporary textile art, drawn from collections throughout the museum as well as loans and on-site creations.
It has been a goal of the DAM to expand the previously underrepresented textile art department and tell the story of textiles as triggers of cultural exchange and creative expression from around the world.
