Sharon Cohen was commissioned by the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C. to do five embroideries as part of the Textile Learning Center's Activity Gallery Permanent Exhibition. It was an interesting commission in which a quilter, a printmaker, a weaver, and an embroiderer (Sharon) were each given 5 photos (a portrait, a landscape, a floral, a pattern, and an abstract) to interpret in their own medium in the same size as the original photographs. The exhibit displays all versions of each image in a five by five array so that the viewer can compare how various techniques yield very different results of the same imagery.
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					The following was copied with permission from The Textile Museum's website: The Textile Learning Center's Activity Gallery provides opportunities for Museum visitors of all ages to learn about how textiles are made and the ways in which cultural traditions, the environment and even the economy influence the character of handmade textiles. Visitors are encouraged to learn by touching, looking and doing. Touchable textiles ranging from a pile carpet to bark cloth, illustrate the structures, techniques and processes used to create traditional textiles. Samples of fibers in various stages of processing (from silk worm cocoons to silk thread) and examples of dyestuffs (including crushed bugs!) are used to explain how natural fibers are prepared for weaving and how color has been imparted to fiber for thousands of years.