Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting" presents an array of works that reflect the energy vitality & innovation demonstrated by a diverse group of contemporary artists who apply traditional knitting & lacemaking techniques to unusual materials or new techniques & technologies to traditional materials. The works brought together here are by artists from many different countries. Individually these works peak to the pervasive & persuasive cultural social & political issues with which art intersects today. The role of hand work as a symbol of community & communication is highlighted in many of these pieces & the artists personal commitment to collaborative experiments is the focus of others. The works are also barometers of change in the visual arts of our time signaling the dissolving of the categories of art craft & design that have fragmented the world of aesthetic & functional objects for more than a century."