text & conText with artist Clara Wainwright

Perhaps best
known for starting First Night Boston, Clara Wainwright has nurtured countless
creative collaborations in Boston for more than four decades.  A fabric artist as well, she will speak on
her creative process at the next free
text + conText event.  For more information, visit:  www.arsenalarts.org or call 617-923-0100.  

Wainwright has been making
quilts which deal with war, climate change, joy and fantasy for 42 years.  Many of her quilts are collaborations with

community groups, such as the Tibetan community of Somerville, Raising Our

Children’s Children, Entre Familia, Youville House and the Gloucester

Fishermen’s Wives.

She founded the Great Boston Kite Festival with her husband Bill Wainwright, and in 1976 she founded
First Night.  In 2002 The DeCordova

Museum held a retrospective which touched on her personal and collaborative
work and public celebrations.

text + conText brings artists and audience together in an open forum setting,

with a slide show or demonstration, talk and Q&A on craft and the creative

process.