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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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’ve started a new series, similar to Eastern Europe in Stitches. Recently I asked a good friend fom Tijuana to give me a tour. She was raised there, and holds many happy memories of growing up, especially of her grandmother and her farm. She is also an artist who could readily understand my interest in
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This is another product of the screen printing class I took. I made three passes with the screen: the translucent blue shadows and tracks, a tan color of the weeds, and a darker colors of some of the weeds, as an accent. Then I heavily hand embroidered the piece. I am excited about this one.
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This one is an abstraction of the same hills as Day 1 & 2. I wanted to make one in false color, so chose purple and yellows. Martha Ressler Purple Thought Art Quilt 16 x 20″
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My piece entitled “Body Count” was accepted into the SAQA (Studio Art Quilts Associates) exhibition Guns: A Loaded Conversation. I had just started watching “Game of Thrones,” and was quite shocked by the callous beheading of Ned near the beginning of the famed series. As the episodes unfolded, I became more inured to the violence,
Or a week, more accurately. Here’s a round up of some of what I’ve done this week, after our final art fair of the year last weekend. I responded to Studio Art Quilt Associates call for Juried Artist members to submit a piece to Art Quilt Quarterly on the subject matter of grief. I submitted
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