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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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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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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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 started a new series of small quilts. They are based on the 72 municipalities of Berks County. The local paper is doing a series – one of them a week, alphabetically. So far I’ve done four: Albany, Alsace, Amity and Bally. I drove to each place, and picked something to draw. Then drew it
We recently returned from a vacation in the Caribbean. It was a cruise on a Viking ocean going ship. They have recently added ocean cruises to their well known line-up of river cruises. I didn’t know if I’d like it. 900 plus people sounded like a lot for a ship, but that turned out to
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I’m finally getting around to blogging my 2019 art resolutions. Hey, it’s still January, right? That’s not so bad. First, I’m going to make 2019 my the year of Instagram. I’ve learned just enough from listening to the blog Artists Helping Artists by Leslie Saeta to get me psyched. I plan to post every day:
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I’ve had some hits and some misses using found objects.
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