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Great News

11/29/2012

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     I was delighted to hear from Elizabeth Furr, Executive Director of Arts at the Old Rock School, that I have officially become a board member at the Old Rock Schools of Arts.  I am honored to be a part of this esteemed group, and I want to thank the members who nominated me.  I look forward to meeting the other members, getting to know them and to serving this community in this wonderful way.  Great news for beginning a new year!
     I'm working on an art quilt for showing at my speaking engagement with the Rotary Club of Valdese on
December 11th.  The club is interested in my art work and the processes that I use to produce my art quilts and wearable art pieces. I so look forward to meeting all of the members and sharing about this passion in my life, and expressing to them my hope that the pieces I make will somehow speak to the needs of others.
     Below is a picture of the start of a piece I will be showing (hopefully I can get it done by then ;).  I am continuing to explore new ways of making marks on cloth and the picture of the trees in my mind is changing.  I love to explore new techniques and am continuing to find my artistic voice, so to speak, through color and stitch.
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At this stage, the cloth has been through several steps already: hot soy wax has been applied using a tjanting tool, then three colors of thickened dye were applied with a credit card, then it was batched overnight, then rinsed and dried. More changes coming up for this one...
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Detail of the fabric: I never get tired of the way the dye looks on the fabric after it has gone through this process. There are thousands of shades of color within this piece, the process amazes me.
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6/5/2022 03:03:26 pm

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