Philosophy of 'Making'

FIBER ART ON VIEW - 2013 and 2014

"TRUE ROMANCE: WILD WEST DREAM", 2012. This 8" x 8"collage of textile/found object won the Golden Artists Color Award for best materials, National Collage Society's 28th Annual Juried Show (see below), and now selected for TWO Fall-2013 shows.  

Fiber in the Present Tense-2014. NorthEast Surface Design juried show. ArtWorks Gallery, New Bedford MA Feb-Mar 2014.
MINNEAPOLIS TEXTILE CENTER. Members Show. 
Minneapolis MN. Jan10 - Mar3 2014.
WESTERN TRAPPINGS ON THE LLANO. Exhibition of Thematic Western Art,CustomTrappings and Gear. Llano County Historic Museum Llano TX. Oct18 2013-Jan4 2014.
MIXED MEDIA SHOW Women's Caucus for Art-Colorado. Annex@Core Gallery. Santa Fe Art District, Denver CO. 
Sept12-29 2013.

PAGE TURNER. Juried Exhibition of Fine Art Textiles with Text. April5-May18 2013. SomeThingsLooming Gallery. Reading PA  www.somethingslooming.com  3s pieces selected for exhibition including True Romance (above).

THE ART OF LETTERS. Invitational exhibition. Highfield Hall Historic Site. Falmouth MA. Aug - Sep 2012. Catherine Hunter, curator. 10 pieces shown.

NATIONAL COLLAGE SOCIETY 28TH ANNUAL JURIED EXHIBIT.  Berman Museum. Ursinus College PA. June9-Aug12  www.nationalcollage.com  Exhibit will also be global online for one year.

GLITTER, GLAMOUR, GLITZ. Juried exhibition of woven home furnishing pieces. Hellada Gallery, Long Beach C. and Kaplan Gallery VisArts Center, Rockville MD, Sept-Oct 2012. Complex Weavers. www.complexweavers.org/

SEDUCTIVE SURFACES. Juried Exhibition of Fine Art Fiber. Gallery Seven. Maynard MA. June5-July21 2012.   www.gallerysevenmaynard.com 

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Installation views

Installation views
ARC Gallery. Chicago. ORDINARY WORDS Series (unframed pieces). SOUVENIR HANKIE Series (framed pieces). click image for CANTV interview link

NOTES FROM YOU Series. Artworks Gallery. New Bedford, MA

ORDINARY WORDS SERIES

ORDINARY WORDS SERIES
ANCESTRY-ADDRESS BOOK 1. Unframed. Size: 41” x 29.5”. One of five in series. Jacquard woven panel. Digitally altered address book image. Hand-embroidered embellishments. Digitally printed fabric “snapshots” of a 1950s school photo image and altered map sewn to surface.

SOUVENIR HANKIE Series. Four of eight pieces in series. Fuller Craft Museum. Brockton MA.

WRITING LESSONS Series

WRITING LESSONS Series
WRITIING LESSONS - SEAT OF GOVERNMENT. Framed size 22" x 22". layers of vintage handkerchiefs. Page from 19thc. penmanship practice book. Beads. Embroidery.

HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE LESSONS-RUDE.HUM.BED.

HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE LESSONS-RUDE.HUM.BED.
6" x 6" miniature. Six pieces in HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE LESSONS Series. Found text. Vintage handkerchief fragment. Hawaiian dictionary cuts. Beads and embroidery embellishments.

SOUVENIR HANKIE SERIES

SOUVENIR HANKIE SERIES
SOUVENIR HANKIE SERIES-GOTHIC QUARTER. One of 7 pieces in series. Found lace hankie, digitally printed map fragment, embroidery

SOUVENIR HANKIE SERIES - CAUTION. digitally manipulated printed image, vintage embroidered hankie. Framed size: 18" x 18".

WRITING LESSONS - SEAT OF GOVERNMENT. detail. Silk handkerchief. Pearl beads. Penmanship book practice page.