I was honored to be invited as a guest on the Reading Berks Craftsmen’s Guild BCTV monthly broadcast, describing the upcoming May 7 Craft Fair at Renninger’s Farmers Market in Kutztown. It was a delightful experience, and I’m so looking forward to the show itself! If you are in the area, it will be May […]
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Martha Ressler is interviewed by Studio B’s Jane Stahl. She explains how she got involved with and inspired by fiber art. The link is above!
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I wanted to learn something new. I chose to learn about improv piecing and took a class from Maria Shell. She was a student of Nancy Crow’s who has taken off in her own direction, and has many students and followers. The idea is to build pieced units and follow your visual instincts in constructing
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Ok, sometimes I repeat myself, I admit. Unless I get tired of making something I might make multiple versions of the same thing? Does anyone else do that? One image has been particularly prone to this repetitive activity. I had silkscreened a two-color image on a piece of satin rescued from an old wedding gown
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Here is a little video of Berks in Stitches, currently on display at Art Plus Gallery in West Reading. And, a link to the show: https://art-plus-gallery.square.site/berks-in-stitches And in case that wasn’t enough to pique your interest, an article in a local paper. https://smartnews.link/w/gcBs It has been really fun to meet friends and visitors to the
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On my last day, I want to give a shout out to my challenge group within SAQA. Karol Kusmaul was our founder and is our leading light and has recruited 11 members from 8 countries. We take turns issuing a prompt and we have two months to finish our quilt. We are in round two
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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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