Be one of the first people to see Robin Tost’s incredible new show, Robin Tost: Scrap Metal Quilts and meet the artist.

Sculptor Robin Tost creates colorful, whimsical ‘full metal quilts’ out of recycled automobile parts and cast off metal.  The idea for her signature style began during a biking trip across Vermont through a region devastated by factory closings.  She noticed women selling quilts to supplement their family income and was inspired to create sculpture transforming old, hard recycled metal (a ‘man’s material’) into a form associated with women’s fiber work.  Inspired by traditional quilt patterns, Tost cuts the metal, punches it with a drill press, and sews the pieces together with wire. The exhibition includes a dozen of her metal quilts as well as her large scale animal sculptures, Spirit Bear and Phoenix.

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Free to all members of the museum.