Interview 2

Hello everyone, Probably just my brother reading this now as I have been so lax about posting. Other than trying to heal bones in my foot – yes, more broken bones- I am still enmeshed in creating pieces for the Blackfeet Portrait Project. We have gotten a contract for the exhibit from the Hockaday Museum [...]

Ok, so by now I have a list of about 25 Blackfeet artists and I am looking for contact information. I was really surprised to find that many of these artists do not have their own websites and the information I could find was not leading me where I needed to go. This made tracking [...]

Hi, Glad to be back. I have been laid-up for a brief period recuperating from a motorcycle mishap. We are referring to it now as “the incident”. I would not normally show off my legs to just anyone, but since it’s just you and me . . . here is the new hardware that I [...]

I just got back from a joint conference of the Surface Design Association and Studio Art Quilt Associates. I am a member of both organizations. While this was not the first professional conference for artists I had attended, I thought it was the most useful. Rather than focus on techniques or professional development the focus [...]

Maria Elena Kravetz, the owner of a reputable gallery in Cordoba, Argentina, contacted me to see if I was interested in showing my work with her gallery at International Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair, SOFA West, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Now, an opportunity of this magnitude does not normally drop on my doorstep, so [...]

Hope everyone has been enjoying fine weather, health and the joys of the season. Here in Michigan we have about 6 inches of snow-not much by our standards-and about 20 degrees.I spent much of last week in the Chicago area with family and learning the finer points of snow-resist dyeing of fabric. I see this [...]

Today I am working on my pieces for the exhibit sponsored by the Fiber Artists Coalition. www.fiberartistscoalition.com The group of fourteen artists proposed a traveling exhibit inspired by a Wallace Stevens poem. As soon as I read VII, I knew what my composition would be. In 1998, not long after we moved to Michigan and [...]

I have been trying to get some flesh tones right for some time now. Part of my challenge is managing the dye process. Colors do tend to shift somewhat on silk. The other part of the challenge is my vision of the creation in the first place. Here’s what I’m working on now. A motorcyclist [...]

Au Sable Chasm, outside AuSable Forks, New York, about 65 miles south of the Canadian border.I must have looked and acted as if I needed a vacation after the Portfolio went off to the printer. My husband and his father were going on a genealogy research trip to upstate New York and swept me up [...]

I have been breaking up the work on editing the Portfolio with preparations for my next “Elements” work. For those of you not familiar with this series of mine, it is basically a collection of works that span the boundaries between art quilts and kinetic sculpture. I create these works from my own hand-dyed silks, [...]