Travels in Alaska – There were Bears!
I’m just back from an amazing week with my family in Alaska visiting two remote National Parks. Twenty two years ago, my husband and I began a quest to visit all of the US National Parks with our sons. They were 5 and 3 at the time. The boys are 27 and 24 now, and…
“Inspired by the National Parks” Book Out!
I had a lovely surprise in my mailbox yesterday–my copy of Inspired by the National Parks: Their Landscapes and Wildlife in Fabric Perspectives, by my friend Donna Marcinkowski DeSoto. Published to coincide with the 100th Anniversary of the National Parks, the book includes 177 quilts depicting the landscape, animals and plants of each of the…
Thoughts from the SAQA Conference in Philly
It’s taken me a while to get my thoughts together, but I had a great weekend at the Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) annual conference in Philadelphia earlier this month–full of meeting new people, reconnecting with artists I already knew, and getting lots of new ideas and inspiration! Definitely one of the highlights of the…
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…
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…
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