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Looking forward to talking at the upcoming Enfield Shaker Museum Fiber Weekend, March 28-30, 2025.

I will be speaking on texts textures textiles on Friday evening, but there is lots more happening.

For more info on other speakers and programs. Find it HERE.

My grandmother stacked and stored her quilts in the attic. One of my favorite pastimes was unfolding them and looking at their patterns and fabrics. From this process, I learned color theory.  A discarded box of one inch quilt squares, a lesson using the drop spindle, a goldenrod field turned into dye; these happenstances led me to construct textiles, research historic texts and produce textures in my sculptures and installations.  These interwoven occurrences will be discussed in my evening slideshow talk. 

Early American Literature just released the podcast about our project and performance meetinghouse. Miriam Cantor-Stone and I enjoyed talking with editor Autumn Hall and hope you will as well.  Listen to the podcast here.

meetinghouse was published in EAL Issue 59.3 in their Inventions section: "An “Invention” features imaginative writing that can inform and become part of the trajectory of early American literature. Whether poetry, prose, personal narrative, creative nonfiction, drama, or any combination of the above, the journal invites submissions that reframe how readers apprehend early America broadly conceived. Ultimately, an “Invention” represents new ways of understanding past lives and literature."

More information about meetinghouse.

Women Walking to Water

Suzi Banks Baum, Brece Honeycutt, Melanie Mowinski, Sarah Pike, Lori Spencer, Jessica Yurkofsky
Organized by Melanie Mowinski, MCLA Professor of Art

February 7- March 28, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday February 7, 5-7pm

MCLA Gallery 51, 51 Main Street, North Adams, MA

Hours:  Wednesday to Sunday 12:00pm to 5:00pm

Please note MCLA's spring break hours:
Saturday 3/15: 12-5 pm
Wednesday 3/19: 12-5pm
Thursday 3/20: 12-5pm
Sunday 3/23: 12-5pm

Katharine Abbot reviews the exhibition in the The Berkshire Eagle, February 12, 2025

Thrilled to be in the group exhibition, I SAY: Women Artists and the Words They Use, on view at The Hotchkiss School (Lakeville, CT) from January 7 until March 7, 2025.

Exhibiting artists include: Fern Apfel, Lesley Dill, Louise Eastman and the Victory Garden Collective, Madge Evers, Guerilla Girls, Jenny Holzer, Brece Honeycutt, Corita Kent, Melanie Mowinski, Leslie Roberts, Linda Stein, Tiny Pricks Project with related historical objects.  Curated by Joan Baldwin, Curator of Special Collections.

On Sunday October 13, 2024, Brece Honeycutt will have a skyday artist residency at Bascom Lodge on Mt. Greylock, Adams, MA. For information on Bascom Lodge, click HERE.

Honeycutt continues to be fascinated by clouds and the ever-changing sky.  Seconds compounded into minutes often bring quick sky changes.  Contrasted with lingering, long lasting blues punctuated with wisps of white clouds.  And yet, grey upon yellowgrey upon orangegrey into pinkgrey can be both grim and great, depending.

Whilst on top of Mt. Greylock, she will observe and translate onto paper with words and watercolor the skyday.  At 4pm, she will read prose and poetry related to clouds, including poems from her forthcoming chapbook, pink grey blue sky cloud.

Strolling down Spring or Latham Streets in Williamstown this autumn? Look up at the banners making up Eyes on Art Town

Opening reception from 3-5pm, Sunday October 6, 2024, Spring Street Market, (66 Spring Street, Williamstown, MA).

Banners on view 24/7, rain or shine!

Eyes on Art Town banner exhibition is a collaborative project of The Town of Williamstown, Williamstown Cultural District, Williamstown Chamber of Commerce, and all the creative community members who submitted images for consideration.

The jurors of the 2024 exhibition are Devon Nowlin, Museum Project Director for Williams College Museum of Art and mixed-media artist (Williamstown), George LeMaitre, Sculptor and owner of 13.5 Grove Art Works (Adams), Jill Gustavis, Watercolor artist and instructor (Pittsfield), and Reuben Lara, Comic artist and Illustrator (Dalton).

The banner exhibition is made possible with grant funding from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Cultural Council of Northern Berkshire.

[a perfect circle/perfectly round. shaker studies.06, 2021 Indigo on muslin, coreopsis and indigo on found textile, dyed cotton thread]

Thrilled to be presenting at the annual Historic Deerfield Fall Forum:

A Rich and Varied Palette: Coloring New England’s Past, convenes a group of leading researchers and scholars to explore the vast subject of color and its history. Research and publication in the history of color has been growing in recent decades, but few studies have examined color’s impact on specific cultural regions, such as New England. The program’s lectures will focus on the diverse topics of global colorants and textiles, lithoprints in 1840s New England, painted furniture at the Bath Academy, japanned furniture, Shakers’ color use and meanings, New England’s textile bleaching industries, chrome yellow and pink as pigments, and the paints and finishes of the Rockingham (Vermont) meeting house.

September 13 & 14, 2024 at Historic Deerfield.  Full information HERE.

For her presentation Prismatic Utopia, Honeycutt received the annual award for ‘presenter demonstrating the highest standard in new, outstanding scholarship’ at the 2024 Shaker Forum, Enfield Shaker Museum, Enfield NH.

Honored to be presenting my paper “Prismatic Utopia” at the annual Enfield Shaker Forum amongst esteemed Shaker scholars.

19-21 April 2024 at Enfield Shaker site.  Find more info HERE.

Shaker Carpet Weaving during the Fancy Goods Period (1880 – 1920) – Roben Campbell

Shaker Human-Centered User Experience – Daniel Gloyd

The New Emma B. King Library – Jerry Grant

Prismatic Utopia: an exploration of Shaker uses and reasons for color – Brece Honeycutt

Ordinary Humans, Extraordinary Lives: 250 Years of Shakerism in America – Sharon Duane Koomler

Shaker Bodies: Health, Diet and Corporeal Management – Janet Moore Lindman

Shaker Novels: Children in the “ShakerPrison” – Richard M. Marshall

“A Precious Day”: Echoes of Ann Lee’s Birthday – Carol Medlicott

A Reconsideration of the Neal Family – Stephen J. Paterwic

The Gospel According to Thomas: Accounts by Thomas Hammond of Building the Square House – Ned Quist

“Blanche to Church all Alone” Canterbury’s Evolving Religious Praxis – Rebecca Soules

New Light on Polly Reed’s Holy City – Douglas L. Winiarski

The Nomenclature of Colour –  Slade School of Art

Thrilled to take part in the online exhibition as part of their Colour & Poetry Symposium VI 2024.  

See the exhibition by clicking HERE

Colour & Poetry: A Symposium VI, 21st – 22nd March 2024, is a cross- and inter-disciplinary two-day virtual event held by the Slade School of Fine Art, in celebration of International Colour Day, World Poetry Day and World Pigment Day. The symposium hosts a range of speakers representing the arts and humanities, science, and industry, drawing upon knowledge from within and outside of the UCL community.

Symposium Director: Jo Volley

This years confirmed speakers include:
Mataio Austin Dean / Miranda Lynn Barnes & Stephen Paul Wren / Sean Borodale / Jane Bustin / Mark Cann / Egidja Čiricaitė / Sara Choudhrey / Rose Davey / David Dobson / Duncan Greig / Lavinia Harrington / Brece Honeycutt / Andy Leak / Alexandra Loske / Sharon Morris / Stephanie Nebbia / Vanessa Otero / Andy Pankhurst / Poetry Shed / Sarah Pettitt / Vaishali Prazmari / Rachel Reynolds & Jo Volley / Robert Rivers / Rose Shuckbrugh / Kimberly Selvaggi / Ruth Siddall / Henrietta Simson / Kirsty Sinclair Dootson/ Paul Smith / Jessie Stevenson / George Szirtes / Estelle Thompson/ Piers Veness /Edward Winters / Yannis Ziogas

I will be presenting in the afternoon UK time/morning EST on Friday March 22.

Free registration: HERE

Honored and excited to join Dr. Alexandra Loske on International Colour Day 21 March 2024.

Thanks to the German Colour Association for the invitation.