"Ancient Materials, New Forms" - Panel Discussion
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As the exhibition RugLife comes to its last couple of weeks, please join us for a panel discussion between Johannah Herr, artist and Pratt adjunct professor, whose work is represented in the exhibition; Caroline Kipp, artist, PhD candidate and former Curator of Contemporary Art at The Textile Museum; and moderator, Karyn Zieve, Assistant Dean of Pratt’s School of Liberal Arts and Sciences and faculty member in the History of Art and Design. The discussion will range over topics raised by the exhibition from the language of textiles and pattern to the shifting roles of cultural, political and spatial contexts.
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
6pm
Pratt Manhattan Campus
Room 201
Panelist Biographies:
Johannah Herr (she/her) is an artist, educator and activist whose work explores state-sanctioned violence in the U.S. She holds an MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook and a BFA in Fine Arts from Parsons. She had solo shows at Shirley Fiterman Art Center, Gaa, Geary Contemporary, BRIC, and Elijah Wheat Showroom (all NYC) and Red Ger Gallery (Mongolia). She is a Fulbright Scholar (Mongolia) and participated in group shows at Museum of Craft and Design (San Francisco, CA), Museum Angewandte Kunst (Frankfurt, Germany), Weatherspoon Museum of Art (Greensboro, NC) Weisman Museum of Art (Minneapolis, MN) and Pioneer Works (NYC). She attended residencies at Museum of Arts and Design, Dieu Donne, The Arctic Circle, Wassaic Project, IEA Alfred, Oxbow, and Vermont Studio Center. She is the Co-Founder of Daughters Rising, an anti-human trafficking NGO in MaeWang, Thailand.
Caroline Kipp (she/they) is an artist, art historian, and former Curator of Contemporary Art at the GW Textile Museum in Washington, DC. Her research focuses on contemporary art, material culture, phenomenology, and installation art, with a passion for underrecognized and underrepresented artists, especially women, disabled individuals, and those working within expanded craft traditions. Kipp holds a BFA in Fibers from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, an ALM in Museum Studies from Harvard University, and is currently a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Maryland, College Park. She serves on the board of the James Renwick Alliance for Craft (JRA).
Karyn Zieve (she/her) is assistant dean in Pratt’s School of Liberal Arts and Sciences and adjunct faculty in the History of Art and Design. Her work and classes investigate questions of historiography, museums, collecting and display as well as of cross-cultural communications and miscommunications across art, design and material culture in the long nineteenth-century. She received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, completing her dissertation on Eugene Delacroix, Orientalism and Historicism. She is co-organizer/editor of the symposium and publication series, Interior Provocations (along with other Pratt faculty from History of Art and Design and Interior Design).
This event is presented in conjunction with RugLife at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, on view now through May 23, 2026.
RugLife is generously supported in part by The Coby Foundation.
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