Created from reclaimed samples & remnants of upholstery fabrics and stitch, Cary’s meticulously detailed fabric collage Needleprints are brilliant & textured representational depictions of the buildings and iconic streetscapes that make (or perhaps we should say “made”) Raleigh, well, Raleigh.

This series includes a few still-extant landmarks, along with many that have fallen to “progress,” or whose facades have been updated or downgraded: Hillsborough Street’s “bulldozer in the sky,” the doomed “hair curler Holiday Inn,” the Piggly Wiggly that now houses NOFO, and the Planter’s Peanut shop turned used car dealership are just a few of the dozen pieces that will be on view.

“It is wondrous, the way that fabric works to make our beloved buildings become even more sentimental because of the way cloth makes us feel,” says Cary. “Cloth is softness, protection and comfort, and needlework is love passed through hands and into cloth. Needlework is such a vital and time-honored way to capture and hand down history; I just love being a cipher for that.”