Alcatraz II

This is the second art quilt created from a photo I took at Alcatraz.  Cracked and rusty drips on walls.  It is printed on canvas which I heavily embroidered - tough on the fingers - and appliqued with hand dyed threads and ripped fabric strips.  It is part of the  Incarceration series.

 

Brown - Needle Lace

Thrilled that I could get all these bits to become a strong, durable 48" fabric panel.  And the piece was just juried into Art Cloth Network's 2017 exhibit to tour for a couple of years.

Encircled/Ensnared

Hand dyed fabric, scads of colorful fabric bits hand stitched over the surface, then the whole covered with hand dyed, somewhat unwoven cheesecloth.  Add French knots and surface stitching galore and there you have it!

 

Receding Figures I and II

RF I is an art quilt, and RF II is an installation and collaboration with my long time woodworker friend Steve Mandell. The pair reference the global refugee crisis, and how lost people are when forced from their homes.  These are tattered figures adrift in a landscape of the unknown: displaced, faceless to most, unsafe and without a place to rest and rejoin a community.    Human identity is deeply tied to place and without its anchor we are untethered.

Because the figures appear to be floating across the terrain we cannot know where they’ve come from, from what tribe, family, not even their age or gender.   We don’t know their aspirations, their strengths, what contributions they may make to the place where they land.

One more piece in the Prisons series

Mark This - detail:

 

All 19 of the Prison Cells are done!

I have added to my Prison series - 19 mixed media textiles.    There is a sampling here but my Behance Portfolio has the whole set with some detail shots as well.    Please take a look at   https://www.behance.net/FiberFly

Slide Show of Art Quilt Australia 2017

Check out this fabulous eye candy!!

https://www.ozquiltnetwork.org.au/exhibitions/art-quilt-australia/

My piece Joos is near the end as it's in ABC order by artist last name.

 

July 2011 - August, 2017

We celebrated the removal of The Tapestry from the loom with a small party and lots of bubbly.  Jessica Brunnenmeyer, my assistant since 2009, and I have spent 6 years on this baby.  There is still lots more to do for the finishing, but here's the fun of cutting it off the loom and a hint of what it will look like when complete next spring:

 

 

 

Scraping Away

This quilt is touring with the Quilts on the Wall show Drips and Splatters through 2018.   I made the very large piece of needle lace and ice dyed the underlying fabric.  Took a bit of engineering but this is my Year of Needle Lace so I've been mastering the process.

6 Pieces of Mine Delivered to Newport Beach, CA

 Come to the opening for the wearables fashion show/music and fun.  And/or come by during the run to spend more time with the 2D and 3D installations.  VERY cool work.  A gorgeous venue above the Pacific

Art Cloth Network at the Miami International Airport

That's my piece Smolder on the left in the center photo - part of my art cloth ON FIRE series.  It's dyed in the bright oranges and reds and then thickened dye painted for the black areas.  It has bits of dyed gauze representing ash.

Here's the postcard/announcement for the Oz Quilt Network exhibit

Please share with anyone you know who might want a reason to go to Tassie this fall (their spring!).  Yup, that's Jools in the photo!

On Its Way to Tasmania

My piece Jools will be up at the Queen Victoria Art Gallery in Launceston, Tasmania, (that's Australia, y'all!) through October as part of the OzQuilt Network's Art Quilt Australia biannual juried exhibit.   So pleased to be included!

 

My Alaska Workshop

My workshop on July 5 was a great success.  The small town (250 permanent residents) of Cooper Landing, Alaska, welcomed me with 20 creative and energetic ladies signed on for the session.  We did dye transfer onto silk scarves (shown), the crazy wonderful Eternal Scarf which can be turned and turned to show its various sides, and I included a needle lace demo.  Great fun!

More Great Pix From My Opening at the Branch Gallery

Thank you BETH SHIBATA for these terrific photographs!   Not only has my show been a wonderful experience and huge success, but the gallery itself just won the award for Best Art Gallery in Inglewood, CA.    Kudos!!

Walk Through and Demos at Elemental at the Branch Gallery

Great turn out of interested and interesting visitors who learned how to do needle lace and to make an Eternal scarf.  We walked around and talked about all of the pieces in the exhibit.  2 hours of fun!!