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  • Bow

    Bow was commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville as part of their Project Atrium series. September 14, 2023 – January 29, 2024 https://mocajacksonville.unf.edu/exhibitions/project-atrium/rowland-ricketts.html

  • Zurashi / Slipped

    Zurashi/Slipped was commissioned by the Seattle Art Museum for their 2023 exhibition Ikat and was a collaboration with Chinami Ricketts. March 9 – May 29, 2023 https://www.seattleartmuseum.org/exhibitions/ikat

  • Ai-no-Keshiki – Indigo Views (Renwick Gallery)

    Ai-no-keshiki – Indigo Views was included in the Smithsonian American Art Museum Renwick Gallery’s 2020 invitational exhibition Forces of Nature. October 16, 2020 — November 22, 2020 and May 14, 2021 — August 15, 2021 https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/invitational-2020

  • unbound

    Nineteenth-century American coverlets are both an embodiment and expression of our national identity. In red, white, and blue, these textiles visualized the young nation through emblems of state and the Stars and Stripes of independence.  Looking closely, this American imagery was crafted by interweaving cotton—grown by slaves and spun in Northeastern mills—with local wools steeped…

  • Ai no Keshiki – Indigo Views (Tokushima)

    January 20 – 28, 2018

  • Drawings

    Drawings (2016-2019)composted indigo leaves, wood ash, lime, wheat bran, wool feltGrouping of nine – 64″ x 64″ (18″ x 18″ each)

  • 3/29/15 – 1/5/16

    3/29/15 – 1/5/16 is a series of 30 weavings, each of which was placed in a box with a slit or hole cut in the top.  The boxes were then placed in the greenhouse where I start the seedlings and winnow the harvested indigo on the day that I planted seeds this past growing season. The weavings were…

  • Mobile Section

    Crafted: Objects in Flux, MFA Boston, Boston, MAAugust, 2015 – January, 2016 Mood Indigo, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, WAApril 9 – October 9, 2016 Indelible Blue: Indigo Across the Globe, Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, NMJanuary 8 – April 24, 2022 Mobile Section Dried indigo plants, indigo dyed ramie, interactive soundInstallation by Rowland Ricketts, Sound…

  • Work Time

    Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, ORJanuary 29 – April 23, 2016 Work Time Installation comprised of two works:5 minutes x 528 immersions3/29/2015 – 1/5/2016Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR (January – April, 2016) Durango Arts Center, Durango, CO (August – September, 2016) 5 minutes x 528 immersions Hung overhead were 88 lengths of cloth in a grid…

  • Supply and Demand

    Art+Space, Pop-Up Exhibition, Superior Supply, Indianapolis, IN April 24 – May 2, 2015

  • Some Of Its Parts

    Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State UniversityJuly 26 – October 4, 2014 Indigo plants, sukumo, indigo dyed cottonInstallation – Rowland Ricketts, Sound – Norbert Herber Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GAJuly – October, 2014 Some of Its Parts began as an inquiry into the concept of amount. Together with my collaborator, sound…

  • Other Dyed Works

  • Runners

  • Noren Partitions

  • Color of Place

  • As Is

  • Douglas Dawson

  • Keeping On

    Maryland Institute College of Art Meyerhoff Gallery Baltimore, MD February 15 – March 17, 2013

  • I am Ai, We are Ai – Warehouse Installation

    2012 National Cultural Festival Tokushima Japan October 10 – December 16, 2012 www.iamai.jp/en

  • Fields of Indigo

    Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois August 30 – December 30, 2012