An interactive, multi-medium collaborative art installation by xocean alexandre dumas & elliot eLm mittens.
August 8 – 23, 2025
• Opening reception 6 – 8 p.m., Artist Talk, 6:45 p.m., Friday, August 8
• Community Collaboration Event 12 – 4 p.m., Saturday, August 16
• Closing gathering 4 – 6 p.m., Saturday, August 23
Studio 116 is excited to host ‘Rooted and Sewn: an Intuitive Passage’ an interactive, multi-medium collaborative fiber art installation by creators xocean alexandre dumas and elliot eLm mittens. The exhibit opens on August 8, a date also known since ancient times as the Lion’s Gate, a portal connecting the Earth with the Pleiades.
Visitors to ‘Rooted and Sewn’ are welcome to get inspired and add to a collaborative weaving and a communally-written poem, and then sit within a lace-covered tent depicting the Blue Ridge Mountains at sunrise.
‘Rooted & Sewn’ asks, “What do we carry with us and how does it change us?” Focused on themes of grief, ritual, adornment, safety and liminal space, all tied together through a deep honoring of the Blue Ridge mountains, dumas and mittens invite viewers/collaborators on a passage spanning time and traditions. This new body of work is comprised of interactive fiber arts, sewn tapestries, block prints, weaving, costumery, and ritual.
