Travel Inspiration in San Antonio and Boston
I did some traveling earlier this month to two very different cities–San Antonio, Texas, and Boston. San Antonio was first, where I attended the Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) annual conference. I’ve been going to these conferences each year for almost ten years, and it’s always a treat to spend the weekend in a new…
Inspiration in New Mexico
I’ve been in New Mexico for nearly two weeks, participating in the Rio Grande Balloon Fiesta Show, which ends today. It’s been an amazing trip! The show ran for two weekends in Albuquerque, and in between my husband and I spent a few days in Santa Fe. Plus I did a trunk show and book…
Inspiration at the Textile Museum
I went downtown yesterday to see the “Stories of Migration: Contemporary Artists Interpret Diaspora” exhibit at the Textile Museum and was absolutely blown away! There was such an incredible variety of stellar work it was hard to decide what to look at next. The term “diaspora” reflects “the dispersion of people from an established ancestral…
Inspiration Day at the Renwick Museum
I took a break from shows last weekend and visited the newly renovated Renwick Museum in Washington, DC with some friends. The new exhibit is called “Wonder” and it’s certainly aptly named. All of the art is made from ordinary materials–thread, tires, index cards, willow branches, marbles, even bugs. The image at left is by…
Artist Inspiration Day in LA
We’re in LA this weekend to visit our son, and we spent most of yesterday at the LA County Museum of Art. I’d never been to this museum before, and it was eye-opening! We were lucky to get a docent led tour of the highlights of the eclectic museum collection–ranging from Assyrian wall reliefs to…
Adding Texture to A New Quilt
I’ve been working this week on a quilt for a project that has to be kept under wraps for right now, so it’s been difficult to find something to post about. I’m at the point now where I can share some of the texture I’m creating though. This piece is an abstracted landscape inspired by a…
Alaska, and “Cairns” Ready at Art in the High Desert Show
Wow–it’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks! After I shipped my work and my display setup out to Oregon last week (which always takes longer and involves more hair pulling than I anticipate), our boys met us in Alaska for a long awaited family vacation in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. It’s a wilderness park that…
“City Streets” in Process; Craftboston This Weekend!
I’ve been working on a new idea in preparation for the Craftboston Spring show this weekend–here’s a sneak peak of City Streets in process. City Streets will be a triptych of three pieces mounted on 20″ x 20″ canvas. The composition and the quilting will flow from one to the other. It’s based on a…
New Small Works Inspired by a Scarf
I’m working on some new small pieces to exhibit at the Craftboston Spring show coming up the weekend after next, April 4-6. These are just the quilt tops–I’ll add stitching to them for texture and mount them on painted black canvas for the show so they’ll be 8″x 8″ square. I really like the colors–they…