Artist Amy Stacey Curtis rearranges shoe lasts Wednesday morning on the interactive art piece she created at Museum L-A in Lewiston. Visitors are encouraged to create patterns using the pieces that museum volunteers painted using some of the thousands of lasts in the museum’s collection that were once used in local mills to make shoes. It is part of the museum’s latest gallery exhibit, “The Industrial Heart: Enterprise-Innovation-Creativity.” For information on gallery hours, visit museumla.org. For more photos from the exhibit visit sunjournal.com. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
The new Museum L-A exhibit includes a hand-sewing station used to make shoes in many local shops. In the background are silkscreens from the Bates Mill. The museum is in the Bates Mill complex at 39 Canal St. in Lewiston. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
A “piano” punching machine at Museum L-A in Lewiston is one of several machines used in area mills to make textiles. Jacquard cards controlled the weave sequence on a textile loom. It is part of the museum’s latest gallery exhibit, “The Industrial Heart: Enterprise-Innovation-Creativity.” Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
Artist Amy Stacey Curtis reflects on her exhibit Wednesday morning at Museum L-A in Lewiston. Visitors are encouraged to create patterns using the thousands of shoe lasts housed in the museum’s collection and painted by volunteers. It is part of the museum’s latest gallery exhibit, “The Industrial Heart: Enterprise-Innovation-Creativity.” For information on gallery hours visit museumla.org. For more photos from the exhibit visit sunjournal.com. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
Museum L-A in Lewiston includes a design cabinet where artists kept sketched patterns and designs for textiles that would be transformed into blankets, bedspreads and other textiles on the giant looms that once filled the Lewiston mills. It is part of the museum’s latest gallery exhibit, “The Industrial Heart: Enterprise-Innovation-Creativity.” Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
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