< Return to All Publications Annet Couwenberg: Sewing Circles Introduction by Symmes Gardner. Text by Caroline Kipp, Mary Savig, Lori Rubeling 2023 Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture, UMBC 111 pages Purchase Nowexternal link The origami-and-lace-inspired practice of a longtime MICA professor and fiber artist. Dutch artist Annet Couwenberg (born 1950) makes textiles and sculptural objects inspired by Elizabethan collars using lace as a primary material. This is Couwenberg’s first major English-language monograph and presents a wide range of her projects from the past decade.