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Margo Duvall
Stitch Along Broken Line
The Batesville Area Arts Council presents Stitch Along Broken Line, an exhibition by Margo Duvall, from January 20 to March 6, 2026. Please join us Friday, February 20, from 5 to 7 p.m. for a reception and brief artist talk at 6 p.m. This exhibition is sponsored by Batesville Printing.
Stitch Along Broken Line
Dart here. Cut two. Place on fold. Take a little in, let a little out.
The work in this show represents fragments of personal and collective histories. I use both found and family photographs as a way to dive into themes of memory, narrative, and the archive. I am interested in the way we collect and define our lives through images. The photographs hold the evidence of our existence. They carry the weight of nostalgia, identity, and loss, but simultaneously serve as the proof that we were here. The pattern pieces are the blueprint, quite literally, for what we choose to connect to and carry with us. We follow instructions, we make our own rules. We cut a little here and gain a little there. By enlarging, overlaying, and mixing patterns with new and old photographs, the individual memories they hold blend, blur, and become new stories in their arrangements.
These are the instructions on how to make... how to be made... how to stitch along the broken line to build something new.
Biography
Margo Duvall is an artist and educator currently living in Little Rock, AR. She earned her MFA in Photography from San Jose State University (2009) and her BA in Studio Art from Humboldt State University (2006). She currently teaches at University of the Ozarks in Clarksville, AR. Duvall’s artwork investigates photography's role in the development of memory and identity through film, mixed media and installation based pieces. She has received recognition as an artist with numerous solo and group exhibitions including the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts annual Delta Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Council's Small Works on Paper, Ft. Smith’s Regional Art Museum, and many more.
