I’ve done many small (mostly 5 x 7”) quilts while travelling. These have often included found objects from those places. I combined some in a piece entitled “From the Other side of the Wall,” which is currently travelling with Quilt National 2019. For the last two and a half years I have been working on […]
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[This is the fourth in a series I am posting on the SAQA –Studio Art Quilts Associates– members only Facebook page. It follows my journey as an art quilter.] After stumbling for a bit, I realized that what actually inspires me is that which surrounds me. And in rural Eastern PA, that means hills and
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My husband and I retired from our Pittsburgh jobs and moved to the house we’d built near Hamburg, PA, in 2014. I floundered at first, both in my imagery and in the use of found objects. Thinking at first that I should continue with the industrial images associated with the work I’d done in Pittsburgh,
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I started transitioning from painting to art quilts while living in Pittsburgh. I was greatly influenced by The Fiber Arts Guild of Pittsburgh and the Fiber Arts International which the Guild organizes. I took my first art quilt classes from Sandy Kephart and Tina Williams Brewer in 2008-2010, and I was immediately off and running.
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Day 1.5 I also want to show you my studio. The entire space is 500 square feet in the walk-out basement of our home near Hamburg, PA. We built the house in 2010, and designed it with the studio in mind. My husband is an artist too, and occupies half of the work space. I
I was asked to be the Artist of the week for SAQA (Studio Art Quilts Associates), and will be posting on their members only facebook page every day this week. I will share the posts here on my blog as well. Day one: I ask myself each time: “Why create this artwork using fabric?” What
I was invited to join an exhibition organized by the Women’s Caucus for Art, Philadelphia entitled Black Lives Matter. The piece I entered is Harriet Tubman as a Superhero. Last night a Zoom panel discussion took place among the artists in the show. Here are my comments: Harriet Tubman has long been my most revered
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I’m always pleased to sell a piece of art, but this latest experience was one of the best. Here are some of the elements that went into it (besides creating the artwork that is!) I recreated my website. It was an intensive project last winter that I approached with dread. Once I got going, it
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Here’s a sneak peak at my weekly update from Fine Art America. This is a website that allows artists to upload images of their art so that they can sell reproductions of them. They have many varieties of these: from gallery wrapped canvases to shower curtains to duvet covers (I don’t sign up for all
I have a major showing of my art quilts at Clay on Main in Oley PA, where it is entombed — no one can enter the space as per shut down orders by Governor Wolf. So, I thought I’d bring it to you! This is a YouTube link to a brief walk through of the
