Lunch & Learn: With Guest Speaker Marilyn Henrion

Marilyn will discuss the body of work (93 of her original hand-quilted and mixed-media textile works. included in the exhibition in Marilyn Henrion: 93 at 93, Selected Works Part II currently on view in the Carpenter Lobby Gallery through February 28. The exhibition highlights the extraordinary breadth of Henrion’s creative journey—from geometric abstraction to digitally manipulated photographs—capturing nearly a century of vision, experimentation, and mastery.

Henrion’s innovative fusion of traditional hand quilting and contemporary digital technology reflects a lifelong passion for both craft and concept. Her works are grounded in photography—urban landscapes, architectural forms, and the natural world—which are then digitally manipulated and transformed into evocative quilted artworks. Whether abstract or representational, each piece is a tactile meditation on memory, place, and perception.

MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST

Henrion’s work is included in prestigious museum collections including the Museum of Arts & Design in New York, the International Quilt Museum, the Central Museum of Textiles in Poland and Newark Art Museum in Newark, New Jersey. She is also represented in the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art. She was a member of the original Manhattan Quilters’ Guild of the 1970s and a lifelong New Yorker, her influence has shaped the discourse on fiber as fine art for more than five decades.

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