Interview 2

I’ve been working on the editing for that new book, Portfolio 16, for a while now. It is a project that does command a lot of attention. Carol Myers in Indiana sent me a particularly interesting work called Shield. I love her work. She also had a very compelling image in one of the previous [...]

Hi, I have been busy with a trip to Missouri to visit a friend or two. Unfortunately, the six inches of snow and sheet of ice that decided to cover the southern part of the state forced me to cut my travels short and head back toward Chicago instead. Ahh, that just gives me more [...]

I met the artist, Karen Halt at SOFA Chicago when she came by the Studio Art Quilt Associates table. We initially discussed how she constructed her works and her desires to create a different feeling in her works by varying the materials used and the methods for display. Subsequently, I learned that Karen may just [...]

Welcome to the first in what I hope will be a long and interesting series of interviews with artists. Below the Falls, detail Eileen Doughty, our first subject, is a fiber artist living in Virginia, USA. She grew up in Menasha, Wisconsin, on the Fox River. An area characterized by rolling dairy country, small towns, [...]

Hi again, Hey thanks to everyone who came to my open studio. It was great fun. Humm, that’s not a character flaw to be so into showing off is it? We managed to get almost everyone who visited to take their turn at the quilting machine and contribute to the completion of the donation quilt [...]

Hi everyone, I thought you might like to see the traditional quilt top that will be loaded on to my long-arm quilting machine during my open studio next week. You might just have a chance to quilt a bit on it yourself! Binky Patrol is my charity of choice these days. binkypatrol.org They provide covers [...]

Hi everyone, My niece, Madison, age 7, called me last summer and asked if I would make a quilt with her. I was very touched and said sure, I would. Then she lowered the boom. “I want it to be just like the one in my reader.” Humm? Apparently, there is a story in the [...]

Hello everyone, Welcome to my new Blog, Interview 2. As the name suggests, we will be interviewing people involved in the art world as well as having some candid discussions ourselves. To make this welcome even bigger, I’m opening my studio for a reception on Saturday, February 14, 2009 from 1p.m. to 4p.m. Let me [...]