My Thank you Friends and Fans Sale will offer 16 of my wall hangings at steeply discounted prices ONLY available to folks on my mailing list and only for 10 days.
Not yet on my list? Join by using the link on this page (see it there on the right?) I’ll send you the link to access my sale site on Friday morning.
Cellular Dance I
This once a year sale starts Friday, December 2nd and ends Sunday, December 11th.
10 days • 15%-30% off • MANY pieces (including those below)
Only open to those on my mailing list!
Join my mailing list to get in on the sale-click the link near the top right on this page.
Cellular Dance
Map of Memory
I’m planning to launch a limited time sale in the next month. It’s a way of giving back to my supporters! The sale will only be open to folks on my mailing list.
If you’re not yet on it, click the link near the right hand top of this page and join!
I looked forward to my Artist Talk last Thursday evening at the Brattleboro Museum with a mixture of excitement and dread-mostly excitement. The process of creating and organizing a slide show that would best allow me to explain my process was daunting but valuable. Being forced to articulate my somewhat meandering creative process was a healthy exercise and actually gave me some new perspective on my work.
How and why does a series get started and continue? What about cellular imagery fires up my imagination? How do I put these babies together?
Before the talk-me on the right.
It was a full house which made me happy. Once I got started, I relaxed and was able to enjoy the experience! It helped to get a few initial laughs (you’d think I was a stand up comic-but that’s how I was raised…humor is important).
During the talk
Lots of great questions from the audience which included students from a local college fiber arts class!
Viewing the exhibit
So very pleased with the whole experience!
I finally sat down with a calendar to plot out all the upcoming shows and events that my art will be a part of. It was feeling overwhelming and too much for my small brain to keep tabs on but now it all seems doable and exciting.
Fundamental Change IV
Here are some of the highlights:
Gallery in the Woods-I’m part of a 3 person show at this unique Brattleboro, Vermont gallery. Happening now!
got art?-Have you heard of the annual Strolling of the Heifers parade, an event to celebrate Vermont’s dairy tradition? Well it’s grown into a huge all day pun-filled affair with tens of thousands of visitors descending on Brattleboro. My fellow artists at Brattleboro West Arts will present a 3 day only exhibit at a downtown gallery space. Lots of luscious art. All dairy-free! June 3-5
Vermont Quilt Festival-Look for my work as part of a special show of contemporary fiber artists. June 24-26
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center-My solo show!! Ten never before displayed pieces! July-October
So there will be lots of shipping and hanging and de-cathairing and postering and schmoozing with folks in my future! Life’s good.
…on the Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) website! Well, actually I’m joined by my fellow featured artist, Hsin-Chen Lin which is an honor itself. She was the main organizer of the wonderfully successful Taiwan International Quilt Exhibition in 2009 and makes beautiful fiber art. I was invited to send a piece to that show and was happy to be a part of it.
The Spaces Between V
I’ve been a member of SAQA for at least 5 years and it has over 2400 members worldwide. It’s been an ongoing rich source for answers to the many questions that come up for me about art business, career and techniques.
I’m so so glad I was a part of this very successful open studio tour. I really didn’t know what to expect. What I didn’t at all expect was how amazing it was to have the opportunity to talk to the over 150 visitors who came through! They asked interesting questions and shared their own stories. There was also, of course, lots of marketing (mini MOO cards were a big hit) and a number of sales, too. But, honestly, the connections I made with people made all the prep work well worth it.
Seeing so much of my work up at once was wild! Having the opportunity to talk about my art (to an interested audience!) was a bonus-it gave me a chance to reflect about choices I’ve made and paths that I want to explore further.
Here’s what the space I used at my good friend’s newly restored early 19th century house looked like without all the people:
studio tour view 1
I did informal demos of fusing and free motion stitching.
Through the doorway you can see the line of hand dyed silk I was selling.
studio tour view 2
I had made a number of smaller mounted pieces for the studio tour. It was good to have some more affordable art available.
view 3
I will definitely be a part of this again next year!
Less than two weeks away- the upcoming Brattleboro West Arts Open Studio Tour! Twenty innovative artists at 16 locations within 6 miles amid beautiful early autumn Vermont hills.
I’ll have many of my larger pieces up as well as many brand new small mounted (affordable!) pieces on display. There will be yards of hand dyed silk and cotton in saturated luscious colors. All will be for sale! I’ll be showing examples of my process and be available to answer your questions.
Brattleboro West Arts Open Studio Tour
If you will be anywhere near southern Vermont the weekend of September 25th-26th please come by. Maps can be picked up at C.X.Silver Gallery, 814 Western Ave., West Brattleboro, VT.
Several years ago I was honored to have successfully gone through the jurying process to be accepted as an artist offering work on the beautiful Artful Home website (previously known as The Guild). It’s been wonderful working with them and has happily resulted in many sales.
As part of their once a year Studio Sale, I have reduced the price of eight of my pieces by 40% off their original price. You can see them here. The sale is over on January 12th.
Quilting Art: Inspiration, Ideas & Innovative Works from 20 Contemporary Quilters
Over a year ago Spike Gillespie invited me to be part of a book she was planning to write focusing on 20 art quilters. I just received my copy and this large format book is stunning. Spike chose a wide range of fiber artists who stylistically create very different work. She interviewed each artist and then wrote a piece on that person’s inner development as an artist finding her voice as well as her creative process. It’s quite compelling, inspiring and readable. I’m still working through it all but I find it so fascinating to hear about each person’s road to her moment of self identity as an artist. Spike also highlights a piece of “advice” from each artist. I’ll write more about my “advice” later. It may ruffle a few feathers…
And the artwork is delicious! Beautiful full page high res shots and close ups.
I was somewhat nervous to turn to my section. It’s alarming to see one’s face and art in a book. It feels so permanent. But I’m very happy with the piece she wrote about my work and process and it felt true to me which was what was most important to me.
This book has just become available on Amazon.
