1000 artisan textiles

I will have the great pleasure of seeing some of my work included in the "1000 Artisan Textiles" book due out May 2010 by Rockport Publishers/Quarry Books. I owe thanks to two talented women, Gina M. Brown and Sandra Salamony, editor and wonderful artist in her own right. For more information, click here.

a sense of direction: sightlines

I am lucky and thrilled to be one of the 14 artists asked to participate in "A Sense of Direction: Sightlines." Details are available here.

compositional conversation

I have had the distinct pleasure of being invited to participate in a project called "Compositional Conversation." In the words of its creator, artist Terry Jarrard-Dimond, this is a "project designed to create dialogue between artists and a textile construction, artists to artists and hopefully, artist to audience... The concept is simple: A composition made of fabric is begun and then passed from artist to artist..." Terry goes on to explain the process in detail.

She has set up a blog specifically for this social, textile experiment. I hope you will visit it and follow the process along with the participants and, last but not least, add your thoughts to the conversation by going here.

spoon river 2010 (update)

I am not calling this progress yet, just moving forward and finally having the guts to put paint on the piece. I will photograph each layer as I go ... for better or worse. The piece stands at 40"x56".

I posted some detail shots a while back here and here.

she buried them

every stitch a dream
for every dream a prayer
gently, she buried them all

Details:






This piece is finally, completely done. And buried.

To see its early stages, go here.