Jonestown Carpet

October 1 – 26, 1991
Exhibition, Installation

About the Program

In 1981, Laura Baird started work on Jonestown Carpet—an installation incorporating a spotlight, a rocking chair, and a hand-made tapestry rug depicting the Jonestown carnage. An installation of the carpet-making work in progress was presented by the Contemporary Art Gallery in November 1988. Requiring more than a million stitches to complete, the finished work debuted at grunt.

An artist talk was presented on October 3, 1991.

Artist

Laura Baird

Identifier

1991.1001 JON

Collection

grunt gallery Programming Archive

Location

grunt gallery (first location)
209 E. 6th Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 1J8
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations

In copyright. For uses beyond Fair Dealing, research requests, corrections, takedown requests, or other inquiries, please contact grunt gallery: archives@grunt.ca