December 1, 2025March 23, 2026 by marylane

Contemporary Handwoven Tapestry

While I was working as the Executive Director of the American Tapestry Alliance I produced a video entitled Contemporary Handwoven Tapestry for The Textile Museum in Washington D.C. Watch it here .

(left) Gabriela Cristu (Romania) Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, 59″x72″
(right) Liev Beuten-Schellekens (Belgium), Imagination, 51″x53.5″

Mary Lane is an artist and art historian. She began weaving tapestry in 1976 and in 1982 became a founding member of the Scheuer Tapestry Studio in New York City. Her tapestries have been exhibited internationally and have been collected by both private and corporate art collections, including the IBM Corporation, the State of Maine, the City of Seattle, the Regional Arts and Culture Council, the Northland Investment Corporation and Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital. Her teaching experience includes Parsons School of Design, the University of Maine and The Evergreen State College. Lane’s writing on contemporary textiles has been published widely. She recently retired from her position as Executive Director of the American Tapestry Alliance.

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