131 Figure 5 View of the artist’s first exhibition outside of Colombia in the Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela, 1966. 1967 Entrelazado en blanco y negro (Interlaced in White and Black) (1965) is exhibited at the Third International Biennial of Tapestry in Lausanne, Switzerland, the preeminent exhibition for avant-garde fiber art (fig. 6). 1967 Amaral teaches textiles at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine. She returns to the school to teach again in 1970. 1968 Amaral is appointed as the Colombian representative of the World Crafts Council and attends the Third Biennial Meeting of the General Assembly in Lima, Peru. She is later appointed as the assembly’s Latin American representative in 1970 and completes her service in 1974. 1969 Entrelazado en verde y naranja (Interlaced in Green and Orange) (1966, pp. 42–43) is included in the exhibit Wall Hangings , curated by Mildred Constantine and Jack Lenor Larsen, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The work is published as Orange Weaving in the catalogue accompanying the exhibition. 1969 Amaral’s solo exhibition at Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango in Bogotá features her plastic weavings, including Luz blanca (White Light) (1969/1992/2010, pp. 48–49), and two works from the Muros tejidos (Woven Walls) series, Muro tejido terruño (Woven Wall Plot of Land) (1969, p. 47) and Muro tejido cuadriculado (Woven Gridded Wall) (1970, p. 51).

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