Exhibitions include sculpture, wood carving, painting, drawing, photography, wearable art, textile art, mixed media and ceramics.

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Other famous artist-residents include Park Yuna, in whose studio visitors find pottery and textile art.

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Paducah is also home to the National Quilt Museum, with its impressive collection of textile art.

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Now, after two-and-a-half years of planning and seven months of stitching the coat, Mrs O'Connell is considering a career in textile art.

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Hired away from the University of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, where she was textile curator in its department of Eastern art, Ms. Barnes has researched how textile techniques and designs spread, often disseminated by merchants plying the sea-lanes.

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And not just his home: Puig i Cadafalch's Casaramona textile plant - now the CaixaForum museum of contemporary art - looks more like some extravagant fortified palace.

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