HGA People's Choice Award

 What a great surprise from the Handweavers' Guild of America:

Dear Deborah,

Congratulations! We are delighted to inform you that your artwork, After L. Drew, has been selected as the People’s Choice Award winner in the HGA Member Showcase 2026.

The Member Showcase celebrates the creativity, technical skill, and artistic vision of HGA members. We are pleased to recognize your outstanding contribution to this year’s exhibition and to celebrate the impact your artwork has made on our audience.

Thank you for sharing your work with the HGA community, and congratulations again on this well-deserved recognition!

Please confirm receipt of this email at your earliest convenience.

Warmly,
Mandy Drumming
Program Coordinator
Handweavers Guild of America

Hanging Together

My piece Hanging Together is in a sweet textile show in Hermosa Beach, CA.   Close enough for me to attend the opening! My big basket is cotton rope wrapped and bound in lots of fabric strips.  Part of a series from a couple of years ago.  Lots of visitors.  Textiles ROCK!!!  Three of us from Textile Arts LA (TALA) had pieces in this juried exhibit.

 

Bombarded

I worked and worked on this piece and finally just painted the whole thing.  And then touched up some of the red, etc. That seemed to do the trick - now it coheres and is more mysterious.    

CASCADES

 There are currently 7 Cascades in the series.  They have been inspired by my large bag of handmade lace from the late 19th and early 20th centuries - passed down in my family.  Each is hand stitched, of course!  They are attached to a rock from my garden with holes drilled by handyman Brian and his new diamond drill bit!  They sit happily on a shelf.

Some New Work

 A couple of new items emerging from the 4 months "underground" getting my show prepped.  More to come...

PHOTOS from my BIG birthday exhibit

     ENJOY!! 

My GREAT BIG EXHIBIT

 

Thrilled to have this opportunity to share a LOT of my recent work with you all.  Please share the announcement with friends and anyone you think would enjoy a visit to my world of textiles.  Please let me know if you wish to bring a group and I will gladly do a walk through.                                                                                   See you there!!

WHEEE!! in Fiber Art Now Spring 2026

 

        WHEEE!! has gotten a lot of attention.  From a photo I took of a rusty         truck by the highway in Big Sur, CA, to gallery walls, this art quilt will         be in the Spring edition of FAN.   Yippee!!!

Maw of Fire

 This piece was featured on the SAQA blast on November 14.   For some reason it won't show up on my Facebook, but here it is!!

Recent Work

        

                                                                     WHEE!!!

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ASHEN

Just finished a new piece in response to continuing fires we have experienced over large swathes of the planet.  I keep wishing I was done with fire-based artwork, but we continue to suffer from its damage.  34" x 18"

See How Artists are Responding to These Times

 The PHES Gallery in Carlsbad, CA, is putting on a juried show called Artists Respond to the Moment.  I had 2 pieces selected, a sort of matched pair, called MOHS 1 and 2.   I thought they were pretty good representatives of how the world feels to me at this moment.  Cut, dug, sliced - the violence before the correction!  The planet feels like there will be an effort to clean the place up,  purge it of evil, fear and negativity.  We can hope that eventually this will lead to a MUCH healthier physical, intellectual and emotional state for us all.  Yea, photos of my surgery last year...   Viewing not recommended for the squeamish!!

MOHS #1

MOHS #2

Hope to see you at the OPENING July 27!!