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Pacita Abad Wove the Women of the World Together
(Photo by Wig Tysmans / Courtesy of the Pacita Abad Art Estate)
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April 18, 2024
Her art integrated painting, quilting, and the assemblage of Indigenous practices from around the globe to forge solidarity.
At the end of the Pacita Abad retrospective at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis last summer, there hung, unassumingly, her most monumental work: a 17-foot-high trapunto painting titled Marcos and His Cronies (1985). Trapunto, a style of