Crafts: Lenore Tawney
Patricia Malarcher, The New York Times
October 1982
Under the deceptively unassuming title of ”Fiber 82,” the Hunterdon Art Center has mounted an exhibition of works by seven women representing three generations of significant contemporary textiles. The exhibitors include Lenore Tawney, the pioneer whose shaped woven forms in the 60’s revolutionized weaving; Adela Akers, who became prominent in the 70’s both as a weaver of architectural fiber structures and as a teacher at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and Akiko Kotani, a former student of Miss Akers, who in the 80’s is emerging as a tapestry artist with an identifiable personal vision. […]