Interview 2

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 [...]

When we left off yesterday, I was talking with David Dragonfly, the Acting Curator of the Museum of the Plains Indian. He was discussing developing a support system to assist me in creating the Blackfeet artist portrait series. Since I am not a registered (or unregistered for that matter) Native American, I can not receive [...]

Perhaps by now you have heard the news that I’m the Visiting Artist for the Friends of the Museum of the Plains Indian for 2010-2011. I will be creating a traveling exhibit and many portraits of Blackfeet artists. What we really have not talked about was how this came about. I wish I could take [...]

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 [...]

Hello and it is good to be back from the depths of Portfolio editing. I have shipped the final SAQA Portfolio 16 off to the printer. It is a good day. Portfolio 16 is the largest book we have published to date – 296 pages of fine fiber art quilts. It is a great collection [...]