The Mariposa Museum and World Culture Center, 26 Main St., Peterborough, will open a new exhibit Friday, Aug. 1, featuring hand-stitched artwork by fiber artist Salley Mavor. The show highlights scenes from “My Bed,” a children’s book by Rebecca Bond that explores how children sleep in different parts of the world.
Mavor, based in Falmouth, Mass., spent two years researching and creating the three-dimensional illustrations, which were photographed for the book. Her stitched tableaux depict different sleeping arrangements around the world. In the Netherlands, some beds rock on water; in Brazil, they might sway in the breeze. The exhibit also includes representations of how children sleep in Canada, Japan, Afghanistan and Norway.
The museum will offer guided art sessions inviting children to draw or paint their own bedrooms in comparison with those in the exhibit.
Additional works by Mavor will be on display, drawn from her collection of hand-constructed miniature scenes that explore themes such as cultural diversity, fashion, nature and migration.
The exhibit runs through Nov. 1. Museum hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. For information, visit mariposamuseum.org.