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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[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’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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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 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
I’ve had some hits and some misses using found objects.
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Every now and then I get an update from William Reker, the director of traveling art quilts for SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates.) This one is notable because it is the final venue for Turmoil and Tranquility: ” The International Museum of Art and Science in McAllen, Texas will be hosting portions of both exhibitions
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As Going Rural is about to come down at Art Plus Gallery in West Reading, I’m preparing two new shows. “Eastern Europe in Stitches” pieces that haven’t shown yet will be on display in the main outside case at Reading Hospital, 6th and Spruce Street, West Reading, during the month of July. And newly framed
