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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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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[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 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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For the last year or so I’ve been faithfully following a series of articles in the local paper (the Reading Eagle, which has meanwhile become one of the many “ghost newspapers” around the country, but that is another story.) The articles are really re-hashing older stories, the latest being from 2002, of the municipalities and
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I was pleased to open a package the other day from William Reker, Director of Global Exhibitions for SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates). It was the catalog for Upcycle! an exhibition of art quilts which is set to premier at Quilt Festival Houston in Houston, TX from October 31 through Nov. 3, 2019. Here is
I just finished a busy week teaching youngsters at a summer camp. Yes, a distraction from my artwork, but I like watching them grow up. And it helps to ground me to the families in my community and feel a part of it. The week before that, I participated in a Plein Air contest. Luckily
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For a themed show at Studio B in Boyertown entitled Art of Film Exhibition, I decided to combine one of my dearest heroes, Harriet Tubman with Wonder Woman. Harriet was a diminutive enslaved woman who escaped and then made numerous trips South to help more slaves escape. She said, “I freed a thousand slaves I
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