Cotton Road Gallery will manage ‘Seed to Vogue’
Posted at 11:00 am Might 22, 2025
- A water shade of Roger Powell. (Picture supplied)
The cotton thematic exhibition will open to the general public on September four
As of September four, the Cotton Road gallery will manage “Seed to Vogue: then and now”, an exhibition that explores the chronology of cotton, the function it has performed within the south and its particular relevance for Covington County.
Cotton is without doubt one of the largest cultivated crops in southern Alabama, and the wealthy historical past of Covington County displays its affect. The county has been the house of the principle textile corporations that used many native individuals, resembling Opp Cotton Mill, Micolas Cotton Mill, Alatex and Andala.
Cotton exhibition is a creation of Rhett Johnson, emeritus director of the SOLON DIXON DIXON Forestry Heart of the College of Auburn’s college. Johnson, the retired decide and historian Frank “Trippy” McGuare, Covington County Extension Director, Charles “Chuck” Simon, Henderson’s CEO Stitching Machine Co. Frank Henderson, Crimson Founder Land Cotton Mark Yeager and the Covington County farmer, Tommy Thompson, are between the Consultants who will assist give life to the historical past of Cotton’s historical past and its function in textiles within the south via southern Varedetets.
“‘Seed to Vogue’ will inform the historical past of a very powerful fiber within the south,” Sue Wiggins, founder and director of the Cotton Road gallery. “We’ll present murals with cotton themes of a earlier time and objects and instruments used within the crop, harvest and cotton processing.”
Henderson and Yeager will speak in regards to the present state of the cotton trade and its future, together with the brand new expertise and the several types of fibers which are utilized in textile manufacturing. The Wilson Faculty of Textiles of the State College of North Carolina is sharing a group of fibers that goes past cotton and silk, together with hemp, bamboo and coconut leaves.
With the assistance of Chuck Simon and the scholars of 4h, the gallery will plant 9 to 10 totally different cotton varieties in pots outdoors the gallery. Cotton vegetation may have distinctive colours, resembling yellow and pink, which have turn into uncommon because of the reputation and flexibility of white cotton.
“Seed to Vogue: Then and now” it opens on Thursday, September four and can run till the top of the 12 months. The gallery is open to the general public from Thursday to Saturday, from 10 am to four pm
Cotton Road Gallery, positioned in 104 N. Cotton St. in Andalusia, celebrates artwork and textile artists of the South and affords lessons and demonstrations associated to textiles for adults and kids all year long, in addition to particular cultural exhibitions. The revenue of the Profit Air Artists gallery, Inc., a corporation 501 (c) (three).
For extra details about Cotton Road Gallery, go to https://cottartgallery.com/. For extra info, Air Artists, INC, go to https://airartists.org/.