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Artist Leslie Pontz will host a workshop called “Contrasting Elements: Metal Crochet Workshop” on Sunday, Jan. 24, at the museum.

by RACHEL MULLEN

This week is the last chance to see the exceptional exhibit, “Knitted, Knotted, Netted,” at the Hunterdon Art Museum, 7 Lower Center Street, Clinton. This is not your typical concept of knitting which includes your usual stylish hand-knit chic design sweaters. Rather, it is an exhibit of contemporary art works, in which artists utilize the ancient techniques of knitting, knotting and netting, which involves the looping of a thread or cord.

Here you will see variety of intriguing and thought-provoking works such as a large netted hanging cage imprisoning a lonely black bird, entitled “lonely,” by Ann Coddington Rast; a thick white woolen hanging with knotted appendages which flow onto the floor by Karen Ciaramella, a figural sculptural bust of mixed media, “My Breath,” in which the breath of stiffened mesh layers literally comes from the mouth of the figure, by Norma Minkowitz; an intricately knotted sculpture (composed of approximately 500 half-hitch knots per square inch) of an ice cream cone by Ed Bing Lee; and the layered netted container which resonates with a sense of its organic origins by well-known fiber artist Pat Hickman, who is currently President of the Textile Society of America......

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