Mark your calendars for a virtual event this spring!
WMS-US VIRTUAL EVENT: “From Seams to Stripes: Textiles and Abstraction,” by Cora Chalaby
Wednesday, May 21, 3:00 – 4:00 pm 1:30-2:30pm Eastern Time – NOTE TIME CHANGE!
Join us for a talk on textiles and abstraction by Cora Chalaby (University College London), the winner of the William Morris Society in the United States Conference Travel Grant.
This talk explores the intersections of textiles and painting in the work of the Washington Color School painter Alma Thomas. It addresses themes of craft and art, abstraction and the everyday, and considers the role of textiles in bridging Alma Thomas’s life and work.
The Society’s Travel Grant supported Cora’s participation in the WMS-US-sponsored session at the 2025 CAA conference on “Women Artists in Modern Movements,” chaired by Lauren M. McCardel.
Cora Chalaby is a PhD Candidate in History of Art at University College London. Her research explores American late modernist painting by women artists focussing on the work of Helen Frankenthaler, Alma Thomas and Joan Mitchell. Cora holds a BA in History of Art from the University of Cambridge and MA in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art and she was a 2023 Visiting Scholar at Yale University. Cora’s research has been published in the Journal of Contemporary Painting and the Burlington and she has article forthcoming in The Archives of American Art Journal.
This event is free to attend. Join via this Zoom link.
