Catherine Reinhart
Mended I, 2020
Abandoned Quilt: Mending, Hand stitching, string painting Quilt: 75" w x 98" h
Mended I is the first quilt completed for The Collective Mending Sessions. Created during these sessions from 2018 - 2020, this quilt contains stitches from 100+ contributors.
Catherine Reinhart
Mended 1 – detail, 2020
Abandoned Quilt: Mending, Hand stitching, string painting 75 w x 98 h
Mended I is the first quilt completed for The Collective Mending Sessions. Created during these sessions from 2018 - 2020, this quilt contains stitches from 100+ contributors.
Catherine Reinhart
home[maker], 2014
Installation: found quilt blocks, thread paintings, tape 7' x 7' x 12'h
Catherine Reinhart
The Collective Mending Sessions, 2018
Social Practice - Mending & hand stitching on abandoned quilts. Quilt: 75" w x 98" h
The Collective Mending Sessions is a social practice work centered around collaboratively mending abandoned quilts. Started in 2018, these workshops are led by artist Catherine Reinhart and teach basic textile care and mending. Discussion and community building is developed around the question of, "How do you MEND your community?"
Catherine Reinhart
E.V.R. 03.13.2020 | M.R.R 03.13.2020, 2020
Sculpture: plexi, thread EVR 50" h 5" w x 5" d MRR 35.75"h 5" w x 5" deep
Diptych sculpture made from plexiglass and filled with bright layers of thread referencing sedimentary layers of earth and the state of my laundry pile. These works are the heights of my two young children, my artist equivalent to the practice of marking heights upon the doorjams of a family home.
Catherine Reinhart
Home Labours, 2020
Sculpture: plexi, cloth mask scraps 5 foot 4inches h x 6.8 w x 6.8 d inches (Height and hand width of Average US Female)
Home Labours is a pillar filled with cloth mask scraps collected from home sewers across the nation. It stands the height of the average US female, whose unseen labours have made thousands of masks for the COVID-19 pandemic. This work is a relic, standing as evidence to the labour and care of this domestic army of artists, mothers, and makers.
Catherine Reinhart
Artifact: leggings, 2020
Free motion stitching, trapunto quilting 16" w x 20" h x 1" d
Neon pink wall mounted fiber work created by tracing my daughter's dirty laundry, in this case her leggings . The discarded item is the genesis for sewn marks mimicking topographical maps.
Catherine Reinhart
Artifact: undies, 2020
Free motion stitching, trapunto quilting 15.5" w x 19"h
Day-Glo Orange wall mounted fiber work created by tracing my son's dirty laundry, in this case his Finding Nemo training undies. The discarded item is the genesis for sewn mark mimicking topographical maps.
Catherine Reinhart
Artifact: shirt, 2020
Free motion stitching, trapunto quilting 18" w x 15.5"h
Electric Green wall mounted fiber work created by tracing my son's dirty laundry, in this case his beloved flannel. The discarded item is the genesis for sewn marks mimicking topographical maps.
Catherine Reinhart
Sketch XV, 2015
Found quilt block, string painting 30" x 22"
