Paté Conaway uses everyday materials to explore relationships between life and art. For 12 x 12, Conaway will be in the gallery using handmade three-and-a-half-foot knitting needles and a 500-yard spool of cotton fiber to knit a pair of mittens large enough to cover his body. Conaway learned to knit during his artist residency at a retirement community, and has created several large-scale knitted sculptures-a giant washcloth, a four-feet-wide and six-feet-long baby's cap (with pom-pom), and a five-feet-wide and thirty-three-feet-long scarf. Conaway elevates an everyday activity to engage the viewer in a discussion of art and craft, art and performance, and gender and age. He is a graduate of the Interdisciplinary Arts Graduate Program at Columbia College Chicago.