On October 5, the Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales in Montevideo, Uruguay, will inaugurate the exhibition of works by artists invited to the 7th International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art, a traveling event whose 2017 edition will be presented in the Uruguayan capital. The biennial will feature contemporary works in the field of textile art that incorporate the concept of Diversity. The pieces shown will offer a wide range of forms, approaches and materials. Admission is free. The event will take place in several venues that will present works by artists selected through the call and one venue that will show works by the guest artists. Some of these spaces are: The Centro de Exposiciones Subte, featuring works by artists selected through the call by an international jury. This space in particular has two exhibition halls dedicated to large pieces that can be expanded or collapsed; in other words, works that were conceived to be folded in order to facilitate their assembly and exhibition. The other exhibition hall at Subte will exhibit the video art works. The Teatro Solís presents small size textile works selected by an international jury represented by 24 countries. This space also features a selection of textile images that allows for the observation of the works through photographs. Uruguayan artist Enrique Abal is one among the many artists included in an event that seeks to showcase the multifaceted nature of contemporary textile art. The Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales (MNAV) will exhibit the works by the guest artists. The exhibition is curated by Uruguayan Alicia Haber, who selected a group formed by the following 22 artists from around the world: Manuel Ameztoy (Argentina), Karina Maddoni (Argentina), Eva Soban (Brazil), Amanda McCavour (Canada), Álvaro Diego Gómez-Campuzano (Colombia), Ana Belén-Cantoni (Colombia), María Ortega (Spain), Brigitte Amarger (France), Caroline Barlett (Great Britain), Kari Steihaug (Norway), Cristina Colichon (Peru), Monique Lehman (Poland), Dora Hara (Poland), Fiona Kirkwood (South Africa), Ursula Gerber-Senger (Switzerland), Margaret Whyte (Uruguay), Claudia Anselmi (Uruguay), Beatriz Oggero (Uruguay), Alejandra González-Soca (Uruguay), Olga Bettas (Uruguay), Beatriz Schaaf (Uruguay), and Isabel Cisneros (Venezuela). Created in 1997 by Colombian textile artist Pilar Tobón, the World Textile Art (WTA) organization is based in Miami, Florida. Tobón founded the biennial as a way to promote and encourage this type of artistic manifestation. Six editions of the biennial have been organized thus far: two in the United States, one in Venezuela, one in Costa Rica, one in Argentina, and one in Mexico. More information is available at: http://wta-online.org/uruguay2017/index.html