tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13502730002755488042024-03-05T17:16:12.703-08:00Contemporary Quilt Art Association BlogLynn Wollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16609616866023167810noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350273000275548804.post-77129133147615162722016-03-19T18:21:00.000-07:002016-03-19T18:21:55.194-07:00Jurying a quilt show....Could you do it? Elizabeth Spannring tells what's involved!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Elizabeth Spannring, quilt artist from Southwest Washington and experienced quilt juror and judge, gave CQA members a reality check in a "mock jury" session at the group's March 13 meeting. Consensus: It ain't as easy as it looks!<br />
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<i>[Editor's note: All images in this post are used with the permission of the artists.] </i><br />
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Spannring has been quilting for 25 years, and was executive director of the former Association of Pacific West Quilters (nee Association of Pacific NW Quilters: APNQ), producers of juried and judged shows last held in Tacoma. It was during her various volunteer positions with APNQ that, in 2002, she decided to enter the Northern California Council's judging certification program. In 2005 she joined the National Quilting Association's judging program and, in 2006, became a certified NQA judge.<br />
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Spannring is the only US judge also certified in Canada. She explained that Canadian show judging can be quite different from most US shows, in that show sponsors are more strict about entries that involve patterns, kits, classes, derivative work, etc. These are all put into a class by themselves, and the Best of Show must always be entirely original work.<br />
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In outlining the responsibilities of a juror (Evaluate the work objectively based on principles of design, review the artist's intent, evaluate techniques, rank entries, select accepted entries), Spannring pointed out that the quilt world is really quite small, and jurors must maintain confidentiality about all aspects of the jurying--no comments may be made or reported outside of the jurors' process, about any of the entries or entrants if recognized, or selected or rejected entries.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This "wholecloth" (above) quilt is actually stitched leather....and the "traditional" quilt (below) is created from plastic animal-feed bags!</td></tr>
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Spannring noted that one of the first challenges confronting jurors can be as simple as "What is quilt?" Many organizations have defined "quilt" as 3 layers held together by stitching or other means, but increasingly there have been many surprising developments in what some of those layers may comprise. Spannring showed what appeared to be a wholecloth quilt that was made from leather! (It was indeed stitched....) Another surprise was a piece very traditional in appearance that was made from plastic animal-feed bags! "3-D work can also be a challenge to evaluate," said Spannring, adding "What is it? How can it be evaluated?"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Evaluating 3-D work is a definite challenge for jurors</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another challenge in jurying can come when determining if a piece is derivative...or not!</td></tr>
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She pointed out that jurors hear the artist's statement read, while judges do not: "Sometimes the piece's title makes clear what it's supposed to be. Other times, without the title or artist's statement, you have to make a decision only on the design." She then added, "There can sometimes be a big difference between the quilt and the artist's statement!".<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(Above and below) Could a juror determine what these are by title alone? Would the typical artist's statement clarify the artist's intent?</td></tr>
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Evaluating pieces in a series can be another challenge. Spannring: "Do the jurors pick one over another? Is one piece more successful than another? Show both? Together? Separately?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">For a series: Choose one? Both? Show together? Separately? Decisions, decisions...</td></tr>
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Then there's the challenge of the famous quilt, or the famous quilter, the one that's been receiving honors at show after show....the jurors have to pretend 'This is the first time I've seen this piece.'"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A famous quilt jurors would have to pretend to have never seen before!</td></tr>
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She noted that the Judge's Choice award is the only time a judge can be subjective. ("Everyone knows I am a sucker for a cat quilt," she laughed.) It's critical that a juror be aware of his/her personal likes and dislikes, and instead confine evaluations to design principles: shape, movement, line, texture, color, balance, value. Color awards must consider if a piece were to be done in a different colorway, would it be more or less successful.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spannring admits to being "a sucker for a cat quilt" when it comes to "Judge's Choice"!</td></tr>
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Spannring stressed that "As jurors, we're judging what's in front of us, not the quilter. And no one technique is any better than another." Actual technique can be hard to see in a photo the juror sees; the use of beads and "bling" needs to be carefully considered: are they distracting or an integral part of the design? All of which leads to a restatement of a "first principle": Quality photography done exactly to a show's specifications is critical for proper jury evaluation of an entry.<br />
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Before setting up a mock jury situation in the meeting, Spannring outlined the responsibilities of an organization's exhibit committee--all the decisions that need to be made before the jurors are called in to do their work. The show committee is responsible for selecting the show's theme and the selection criteria for entries, verifying the available space for quilt display, and creating an entry form. The committee is also responsible for setting the rules: size restrictions, age of pieces, construction requirements, and hanging and display requirements.<br />
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Then, giving the group a theme deliberately broad--"The Nature of Things"--Spannring ran through a digital-image show of 30 pieces, from which 15 were to be selected as "the show." After the first quick "look-see" run-through, attendees broke into small groups and made the usual "Yes/No/Maybe" initial selections within their groups. This resulted in a lot of spirited discussion about the merits (or not) of each piece.<br />
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Spannring then aggregated the majority selections from each group into a final group of 15...and when the metaphorical bell rang at the end of the meeting, members' opinions were widely scattered on the pieces selected and the overall cohesion of the "show" thus created. The wisdom of Spannring's parting statements was made clear: "The more information an organization gives a juror, the easier the
juror's job is," she said, adding "For a really cohesive show, it's up
to the show's producers to be specific and explanatory as to the
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As said at the top of this piece, it ain't as easy as it looks!Donna DeShazohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04912477693218815842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350273000275548804.post-2543713696059249422016-02-21T15:00:00.001-08:002016-02-21T16:48:06.823-08:00Small things have great meaning for artist Amanda Devine<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seattle-area artist Amanda Devine at Feb. 13 CQA meeting</td></tr>
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A chance viewing of a small urban scene outside a hospital room window led to years of visual explorations for Amanda Devine, an artist in the Puget Sound area. At CQA's February 13 meeting, Devine shared some of the results of this event as well as other aspects of her more than 40 years of artistic pursuits.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Memoir," a shadow box created by Devine displaying miniatures of actual items she found while closing her aunt's house which had been her grandmother's house. (12"x15"x12")</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Devine's "Echo." Packing material stuffed with found objects. (Mixed media/encaustic. 7"x7"x3")</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of Devine's mixed media pieces featuring various papers, photograph, buttons. (13"x9"x3") (Amanda Devine photo).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An early Devine photo where she manipulated a "regular" photo using a paper negative.</td></tr>
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Devine was already involved in photography, and especially alternative photographic processes when, in 1977, she was "practically living" in a Los Angeles area hospital during her husband's week-long recovery from surgery. Looking out of the room's window one day, Devine realized that an elderly woman she saw feeding birds in a nearby parking lot had been doing this same thing several days in a row--it was her routine.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of Devine's first "Lavina" series photos. Lavina (dark figure in center, just below rear of first car) has just finished feeding the large cluster of birds, left.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pushing a shopping cart, Lavina (upper right near white car) presents the figure that Devine used so extensively in her "Lavina's Song" series of pieces.</td></tr>
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Devine had only a simple camera with her at the time, but began taking photos of the "bird woman" as she entered the area, fed the birds, then slowly moved out of the scene. Not long after, Devine came across an illustrated newspaper article
about the woman and learned that her name was Lavina, and the woman was
quoted as saying "The birds are always hungry." Even though her photos were snapped more than composed and the negatives were scratched, Devine ended up with a sequence of 40 photographs that provided a basis for a wide variety of expressions in her art, including the series titled "Lavina's Song."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The newspaper story that identified "the bird woman" and told her story. (Amanda Devine photo)</td></tr>
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Using Kodalith thin paper for the high-contrast images it produced, Devine made up a set of 40 prints of her Lavina pictures and then began printing portions of them. As she worked, the birds began to look like musical notes, and Lavina's shape reminded her of calligraphic symbols; some she even made into rubber stamps ("rather clunky!"). Combining the elements in different ways led to the series of prints and mixed-media pieces that make up "Lavina's Song." <i>(One part of the series is shown below, in Devine's photo.)</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Devine combined a piece of one of her "Lavina" series photos with bird sketches in this mixed media piece. (Amanda Devine photo)</td></tr>
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"I spent 30 years trying to tell the story," Devine said. "If the photos had been better quality, I might have quit with just one set of photos!" As it is, in 2002 the whole series of "Lavina" pieces were framed and displayed in hallways on the 7th floor of Seattle's Swedish Hospital.<br />
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In various moves, Devine downsized from her own darkroom to an early MacIntosh computer given to her by a friend. This opened up a new world for her; she has subsequently kept upgrading to the newest Apple equipment. She gives great credit to the "genius bar" staff at the University Village Apple store for guiding her along in her art. She digitized the original "Lavina" negatives after 30 years and, with this computer capability, turned them into a book.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of Devine's "Convergence" series large-scale (14x34") images. (Amanda Devine photo)</td></tr>
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Devine has more recently returned to her original photographic "roots" with a series titled "Convergence," comprising 18 large-scale photo images (14" x 34") that she prints herself "each in an edition of one." Most of the subjects in this series are of shorelines and water, as are the images in her "Exploration" series that feature closeups of beach elements in smaller scale. One of her very long pieces in the nature genre was displayed in her solo exhibition at the Commons Gallery in Sammamish City Hall.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An image from Devine's smaller-scale "Exploration" series. (Amanda Devine photo)</td></tr>
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Devine has had pieces in an extensive list of exhibitions since the mid 1970s, including both her photography and mixed media. For more about Devine and images of her work, go to <a href="http://amandadevineartist.com./" target="_blank">amandadevineartist.com.</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Devine's daughter took this photo of Amanda being swarmed by birds at the shoreline..."the birds are always hungry" is a fitting title!</td></tr>
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<br />Donna DeShazohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04912477693218815842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350273000275548804.post-30363202705852741842016-01-31T12:20:00.000-08:002016-01-31T12:20:31.931-08:00Helen Remick's unusual materials "stitched" together to be shown at National Quilt Museum<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Remick's "What I Want to Remember" (Mark Frey photo)</td></tr>
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There's big news from CQA member Helen Remick! Her latest work, "What I want to Remember,"
is one of 25 quilts selected for the National Quilt Museum’s "The Gala
of the Unexpected." It will be on display at the museum from April 14
to July 12 and will then travel through the end of 2017.<br />
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The quilt top
is made of 35mm film negatives and overhead projector sheets printed
with pictures from the negatives and other sources. Helen says of the
quilt: "As my dear mother-in-law slipped into dementia, she and I
repeated two lists that were important to her: the names of family
members, and the places she had lived. As I finished this quilt I
realized that I had created my own list. The photographs are of the
people I love and the places I have been." <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of "What I Want to Remember" (Mark Frey photo)</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="color: black;">Asked about how she constructed this piece when putting together such unusual materials, Helen said, "I saw potential in the
35 mm film precisely because the holes for stitching were already
there, and were even. I have a Cricut paper cutter, one of the early
versions, that can be programmed to do odd shapes. I drew a pattern for
the printed areas, printed the overheads, and then cut the shapes,
including the holes to match the film. The only thing I had to punch
was the diagonals on each film strip. A nasty job, but a limited one.
Then it was easy to sew together with yarn. The top is fastened, not
quilted, to the two other layers: tulle and felt."</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="color: black;">For more about Helen and images of her other pieces, go to </span></span><a href="http://www.helenremick.com/"><span class=" fz-15px fw-m fc-12th wr-bw lh-15">www.<b>helenremick</b>.com</span></a><span class="tri ico down-arrow-gray-thick optrg"> </span>Donna DeShazohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04912477693218815842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350273000275548804.post-33939238350171498492016-01-23T13:03:00.000-08:002016-01-23T13:03:45.861-08:00CQA to host a one-day symposium April 16<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Symposium speakers (from top): Dr. Sandra Sider, curator, Texas Quilt Museum; Cathy Izzo, Art Quilt Gallery, New York City; Kris Sazaki, president and board member, Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA)</td></tr>
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Calling all art quilters!<br />
<br />
Enjoy a day of gathering, inspiration and
learning! CQA's upcoming<b> Quilt Art Symposium</b> promises to shine a light
on the future of Quilt Art with three leading speakers--Dr. Sandra
Sider, curator of the Texas Quilt Museum; Cathy Izzo of the Art Quilt
Gallery, New York City; and Kris Sazaki, president of SAQA.<br />
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The full
day includes a luncheon, a tour of the CQA exhibit "Cutting Edge," and
an opening party!<br />
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<b>**Saturday, April 16, 2016 </b><br />
<b>**Washington State History
Museum</b><br />
<b>**Tacoma WA </b><br />
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Hotel details, ticket info and other information
on the event are now available at: <a href="http://www.quiltartsym.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.quiltartsym.com</a>Donna DeShazohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04912477693218815842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350273000275548804.post-11476528374066160482016-01-14T18:21:00.001-08:002016-01-14T18:21:17.056-08:00CQA members get messy at annual "Play Day"<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">CQA artists at play, January 9, at Bellevue Arts Museum</td></tr>
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Splashing paint around was definitely on the agenda as members of CQA got together January 9 at Bellevue Arts Museum for the group's annual "Play Day" to try out a variety of surface design techniques. Many thanks to the Program Committee for the arrangements (Helen Johnston, Nicole McHale) and especially to the instructors/demonstrators for being so generous with their materials and information: silk screening (Colleen Wise), stamping (Margaret Liston), "gelli printing" (Ginnie Hebert), and marbling (Helen Johnston). And thanks to BAM for hosting us again for this, our third year of play days. A good time was had by all! Here's a look at the day's activities, in photos.<br />
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STAMPING WITH TEXTILE PAINTS<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some stamps required careful painting. (That's instructor Margaret Liston at left.)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Other stamps could be painted more casually.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stamping the same design in different colors makes for an interesting result.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Overlaying a different stamp design in a third color adds even more interest.</td></tr>
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SILK SCREENING<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Instructor Colleen Wise (green shirt) imparts the basics of silk screening on fabric.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leaves proved to be a popular design for silk screening.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This silk screen for a pattern features both orange and purple paint....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...for a very interesting two-color result.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Silk screening patterns, rather than objects, was also popular...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...as in this nice contrasty result.</td></tr>
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MARBLING<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In marbling, drops of paint on a jelly-like surface can be swirled for free-form patterns...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...with this attractive result.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This multicolor marble paint pattern will have spectacular results.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An interesting swirl pattern in neutrals. The blue and yellow "masks" in the background have holes that confine the paints and provide interesting patterns [see photo below].</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Very unusual results were achieved with the use of a mask with many open "holes."</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A bright marbled design.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Marbled pieces: The one at the left used the "mask" with holes; the one at the right was free-form.</td></tr>
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"GELLI PRINTING"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Monoprints, many with textures from pattern forms (right foreground) were achieved from fabric paints applied to "gelli" forms such as the circle, right background.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Daubs of paint were applied to the gelli forms (this one a rectangle), then spread out with a brayer, so that fabric could be placed on the paint to achieve the desired monoprint design.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The paint was given this design on the round gelli plate...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...fabric was then placed over the paint and firmly rubbed....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...so that the painted design is offset onto the fabric.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Twin designs from the gelli plate were achieved directly (left) and with a stencil (right).</td></tr>
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...AND SOME MORE FINISHED PRODUCTS:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Products achieved through silk screening and gelli printing, above and below.</td></tr>
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<br />Donna DeShazohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04912477693218815842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350273000275548804.post-13637133518919681792015-12-15T13:13:00.000-08:002015-12-15T13:13:26.992-08:00CQA enjoys visual and tactile treats by Larkin Van Horn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"I like creating something hard on something soft...and something shiny on something matte." That's one working premise for Larkin Van Horn, a prolific Whidbey Island mixed-media artist and teacher who shared her work and her thoughts with CQA members at the group's December 12 meeting.<br />
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Van Horn came from a family of embroiderers--"no quilters!"--and that was her medium for a number of years. Then in 1972 she started beading. Her first project? Her own wedding dress! Apparently the experience was a bit much, as it was another 15 years before she picked up her beading materials again. Even then it was a bit of serendipity: She was working part time at a cross-stitch shop, making samples, when she decided to gussy up the pieces with some beads from a bead shop that happened to be right next door. "Pretty soon I was doing more beading and less stitching!" she laughed.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Pods II." The quilting design was inspired by one of Van Horn's half-waking, later-puzzling, thoughts scribbled down in the early morning: "What about a stick with a hole in it?"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Crucible." Small pieces fused into place; beaded center.</td></tr>
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At some point the idea of making quilts intrigued her, and Van Horn signed up for her first class in this art, only to find she wasn't good at following others' directions. She made her own way into the art-quilt world and also has made a number of quilts that, like her more current technique (collage), often serve more as the base for beading and threadwork than as stand-alone quilts. "My pieces are small," she added, "because the beading is so intensely done."<br />
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She uses her own hand-dyed cotton and silk fabrics for the backgrounds on pieces she creates for exhibitions, but her class samples are done on commercial batik backgrounds: "The students like to work on something that's readily available to them."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Hold Fast Your Heart." (Sue Smith photo) [The small squares at top of photo are part of the "My 60th Year" project; below]</td></tr>
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"Most of what I do now is fused fabric collage with 'stuff' on it," explained Van Horn. The "stuff" can include yarns, various strings and thread creations, porcelain and ceramic faces, found objects and, of course, beads, lots and lots of beads...and sometimes beads on top of sequins for extra sparkle and texture.<br />
<br />One of the most extensive exhibits of Van Horn's work was titled "Night Thoughts," at the Latimer Quilt and Textile Center in Tillamook, OR, where Van Horn has both exhibited and curated a number of exhibits. This show, which also traveled to the La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum in La Conner, WA. was three years in the making. "I had to create about 100 new pieces for the exhibit," said Van Horn, adding "About 80 pieces would be hung on walls, and another 20 would go into display cases. The Latimer Center was able to show all the pieces; La Conner hung all the wall pieces but couldn't show the 3D work." She added that the theme or title of the exhibit was "the first thing that came out of my mouth when Latimer asked what the show would be called. I had no idea what it meant, but there it was!"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Soul's Winter." Part of the Shattered Circles series.</td></tr>
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When listeners asked Van Horn about threads for beading, she noted that beads are sharp, so you can't use rayon, cotton, metallic or any of the usual sewing thread without having the threads shredded or cut by the beads over time. She uses nylon beading thread, doubled--"If one part starts to shred, you have a chance to replace or fix it before the whole thing breaks," she explained. Another choice would be "Fireline," a synthetic fishing line purchased from outdoor stores. She added one warning: "Fireline can't be ironed...it'll melt!" The fusible materials she uses include both Misty Fuse and Wonder Under, depending on the type of project.<br />
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Someone asked about handling bugle beads, notorious for having sharp ends. Van Horn told of a head-scratching experience she had once at a small beading session at a conference in Santa Fe. When the subject of bugle beads came up, one beader said "Oh, I paint the ends with colorless nail polish." The next beader said, "If you use colored nail polish, you get a 2-tone effect." A third beader said, "I use acrylic paint!" The final beader opined, "I have the best method. String them from a coat hanger and spray with an acrylic spray, then use a toothpick to spread the beads apart." At this point, Van Horn interjected: "Why not just put a seed bead between each bugle bead?" Came this rejoinder from the table: "What a waste of beads!"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Firestorm II"</td></tr>
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Many of Van Horn's pieces fit into specific series she's been developing
over the years, such as Shattered Circles; Labyrinths; Trees; Angels, Goddesses and
Mermaids; Dolls; Gaudi Windows, and Vessels, Shrines and Reliquaries.<br />
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In the "Shattered Circles" pieces, she takes a circle of fabric and, either freehand or by following a hand-drawn sketch, cuts the circle into a number of pieces. She then "explodes" the pieces outward from the center to create what is often an extremely complex design that sometimes completely disguises its circular origin. "My rule for myself in these pieces is 'Use every piece'!" Van Horn said.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Emerging III," part of the Shattered Circles series. Van Horn follows the rule of using every piece of the cut-up circle...but there's no rule against adding something else!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"La Deluge," part of the Shattered Circles series--the orange-red "fronds."</td></tr>
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She differentiated a labyrinth--"It leads you into the center and back out again"--from a maze--"It's created to confuse"--and described how she does machine quilting on labyrinthine pieces where the "path" is often a thick cord that would deflect the "foot" of a sewing machine. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Celtic Spiral VII," part of the Labyrinth series.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Labyrinth II." Van Horn uses a positioning drawing for the future labyrinth line so that all machine quilting can be done before the thick corded line is applied.</td></tr>
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A trip to Barcelona led to her five-piece series of "Gaudi Windows," where her works mimic the shapes but not the colors of the windows in some of Antoni Gaudi's buildings. For the "Angels, Goddesses...." series, Van Horn, who described herself as "a Lutheran Buddhist Pagan," said she did only one angel but "a whole lot of goddesses!" Her intensely beaded dolls are "meant to be like a 'talking stick'--the one holding the stick is the one who gets to talk--so that you tell your story or your doll's story while you're holding her."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Bright Gaudi Day," part of a series of five pieces inspired by the architecture of Antoni Gaudi in Barcelona.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Pele," one of Van Horn's series of beaded dolls ("and yes, I give them all boobs!")</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Dancing in the Moonlight" from the Goddesses series. The "moon" is another shattered circle.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Deep Sea Troika" in the Goddesses series.</td></tr>
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The "Vessels, Shrines..." series is largely 3D work, for which Van Horn said she buys the stiffener Timtex in huge rolls. This series includes a number of boxes where the sides are quilted and beaded with the edges finished with a machine satin stitch, then sewn into the final box shape by hand. She defined this series by saying "A vessel is something that holds something else--a leaf that holds a drop of water is a vessel. A shrine can be for anything that anyone holds sacred, and a reliquary holds any object that is considered sacred."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Starflower Box," in the Vessels series. The edges are finished in machine satin stitch, then the pieces are sewn together by hand.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Tree House I" in the Vessels series..."A vessel is something that holds something else..."</td></tr>
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On her 59th birthday, Van Horn embarked on a year-long project that would culminate on her 60th birthday--each month, she would create a small square of fabric, quilted and beaded in whatever design struck her fancy on that month. Each was titled, signed and dated on the reverse side as part of a permanent record of what is a milestone for so many of us. And of course she created a special box to hold these little treasures.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"My 60th Year." Van Horn created a heavily beaded little square each month between her 59th and 60th birthdays, plus a beaded box to hold them.</td></tr>
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Van Horn's works, which include some exquisite pieces of beaded jewelry, have been in exhibits throughout the country and are found in many collections. To see images of her various pieces and series, go to: <a href="http://www.larkinart.com./">http://www.LarkinArt.com.</a><br />
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<i>(All photos by G. Armour Van Horn unless otherwise credited.) </i>Donna DeShazohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04912477693218815842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350273000275548804.post-34630193962060927952015-11-20T18:32:00.000-08:002015-11-20T18:32:06.692-08:00"Wet wood" is favorite medium for Helga Winter<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Artist Helga Winter speaking at the Nov. 14 CQA meeting</td></tr>
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"I like to work on the lathe with wood that's green enough to spray me in the face," said Helga Winter, wood turner, as she showed some of her pieces at the November 14 meeting of Contemporary QuiltArt Association (CQA). In a departure from standard wood-working techniques, where fully dried/aged wood is used for its stability, the Pt. Townsend, WA artist incorporates into her design ideas the changes and distortions that occur when green wood dries and resumes its natural shape.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of Winter's turned bowls and "spheroid" shapes, after use of paints and/or dyes</td></tr>
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Winter came to her wood-turning focus in a roundabout way. Born in a small town in Germany, she was exposed to sewing, knitting and fiber crafts in her home but didn't see this as her own creative path. She came to the U.S. as young person, studied Education at the University of Texas at Austin, and received a graduate degree in Special Education from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.<br />
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During her graduate studies she did include one art class, and found that she loved it. It was at this time that she happened into a woodworking shop and began collecting wood scraps for projects with her special-ed students. On visits to the shop, she became fascinated with the work being done and, with great persistence, managed to get the shop owner to allow her to apprentice as a furniture maker. Winter eventually tried her hand at wood turning and became adept enough to acquire some grants in 1982. The materials she was using at this time were all hardwoods, native to the region.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These spheroid wood shapes are highly embellished</td></tr>
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Winter moved to Pt. Townsend in 1987 and soon became acquainted with the native Madrone trees--a softwood variety quite different from the furniture stocks she had been used to. She learned that the Madrone was "ornery," in that no matter what changes she imposed, the worked wood always wanted to "take its shape back." She noted that in time "you learn to read the tree: crotches, where limbs join the trunk, are always good to use as they are strong."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Winter uses a chain saw to cut a "blank" from a donated Madrone tree. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Madrone "blank" readied for the lathe</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The metal fitting on the bottom of the blank readies it for mounting on the lathe.</td></tr>
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Asked how she sourced "fresh" trees for her work, Winter assured the audience that she didn't cut them down...rather, as her reputation has spread in the area, she often finds "donations" of fresh tree chunks in her driveway, or people will call her with news of a tree that's either fallen or being removed. (She will return the favor by making a piece for the donor!)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A "slimmed-down" blank ready to be turned into a bowl</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Outside of the future bowl. A finished little "foot" will be shaped later.</td></tr>
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Drying time for the turned pieces will vary with the season in which the tree "fell," with autumn wood being relatively dry and spring wood being relatively wet, and also vary with the thickness of the piece. A one-inch-thick piece can take a year to dry, whereas a thin bowl can dry in a couple of weeks. Winter will reverse each piece top for bottom every day to keep the remaining moisture from all going to the foot of the piece. She regularly achieves bowls so thin that light can be seen through the sides: "I do this by lathing slowly!"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Above and below: the setup for turning the inside of the bowl</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finished inside of the bowl</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Turning the foot</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Above: the finished bowl, off the lathe. Below: the same bowl after it's completely dry. Note the change in shape characteristic of Madrone!</td></tr>
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Madrone turns brown as it dries, so Winter completes her pieces by embellishing with paints or dyes or, often, pigmented wax, so that the finished piece may look as if it's pottery or glass instead of wood, thus drawing the viewer in for a closer look. Whereas paint can obscure the wood's grain, dyes will let the grain show through. Some of her pieces are spheroid in shape rather than bowls; these are created as two halves and glued together.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blue dye colors the inside of this bowl. The outside is encaustic wax in translucent colors applied with "hot brushes," showing the various wax layers.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Winter will use an acrylic gesso to collage pieces of map on finished bowls, along with paints and dyes as embellishments.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(Above and below) Various layers of dyes, waxes and paint completely disguise the wood origins of these bowls.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spheroids (above and below) are formed of two pieces glued together. Acrylic gesso is used to transfer portions of maps on these two pieces.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here the red color came from paper than was "transferred" to the bowl.</td></tr>
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Winter's latest artistic works incorporate not wood itself, but a wood product--paper, specifically pages torn from books. ("These are discards from a local bookstore," she added quickly. "I don't dismantle usable books!") After removing a book's binding, she will rip the pages into strips of varying widths.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dismantled books provide stacks of paper of different widths.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Winter tears the pages into strips of varying widths, using a hacksaw blade mounted on a piece of wood.</td></tr>
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For a series of wall pieces, she has reassembled the strips by sewing, then mounting on board, and added colored wax to create pieces that bear only a slight resemblance to their origin. "There's no significance to the words on the paper strips," Winter said.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here, the torn pages were staggered and sewn together in 5-page "signatures," wax added, and the resulting piece mounted on board.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A more "measured" mounting of torn pages, with colored wax added.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here, the sewing "strings" form a visual element in the board-mounted, waxed pages.</td></tr>
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Another series involving the torn pages are open-front boxes that, depending on the size, can be wall-mounted or set on tables. Here, she rolls the torn strips into tubes and dips one edge into either clear or colored wax. She then folds the tubes into sharp angles and "meshes" them into the box shapes, creating an attractive pattern of shape and color.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The elements inside the boxes are "tubes" [below] formed from torn book pages with colored wax added. The tubes, in turn, are folded into angular shapes and fitted into the boxes.</td></tr>
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Winter's works are on display in a number of galleries in the Pacific Northwest. For more about her works and pictures of her extensive series of bowls, go to <a href="http://helgawinter.com./" target="_blank">helgawinter.com.</a><br />
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<br />Donna DeShazohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04912477693218815842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350273000275548804.post-77623799438777533302015-10-17T20:51:00.001-07:002015-10-17T20:51:30.387-07:00Corsets: constricting? Hey, they can be fun!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">CQA member Mary Berdan finds this corset rather fun!</td></tr>
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CQA members had a chance to lace each other into corsets that reflected the styles of our foremothers from centuries ago at the group's October 10 meeting...and pronounced a number of them to be surprisingly comfortable!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hilary Specht Coffey of Period Corsets, speaker at CQA's October 10 meeting</td></tr>
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Featured speaker at the meeting was Hilary Specht Coffey, owner of Period Corsets of Seattle, a company that has been supplying corsets and related undergarments for theatrical and film use for nearly 18 years.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of Period Corsets' models (above) that were available for "audience participation." The antique models (below) were mostly admired...and only touched while wearing gloves!</td></tr>
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Coffey described the company as "a cross between a costume shop and a factory. We started as a costume shop, complete with a 'head draper' and costume designers, but it's hard to be profitable making 'one-off' pieces." The operation really took off when the decision was made to select a range of specific designs that could be easily repeatable, in a specific set of sizes, and now employs seven people. "We produce every undergarment from head to toe," she added.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(Above) Typical silhouettes from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries relied on specific undergarments (below) to mold the body to the shape of the outer garments.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Imagine trying to get through a narrow doorway with this 18th century petticoat (above), whose "hippy" shape relies on the "pocket hoop pannier" (below). Both are designs from Period Corset.</td></tr>
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Coffey took an informal poll among the attendees, asking what the word "corset" evoked. The answers ranged from the expected--"tight, uncomfortable, stiff "--to the more surprising--"sexy!" She pointed out that whereas clothes are shaped to the body, corsets are used to shape the body itself. "Every 10 years or so throughout history," she added, "a new silhouette becomes the vogue." And each century had its own quirks: 17th century corsets had to be laced up the back, as front lacing was considered "immodest." (Does this bring to mind the usual cover art on "bodice-ripper" romance novels?) In the 1830s--the period of the "dandies"--even men wore waist corsets.<br />
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Period Corsets' products are not true, exact reproductions, as whalebone and wooden stays are either no longer available or no longer acceptable. The company's designers research shapes and details of corsets in the relative periods, then pick out the main elements of the historic models and adapt them to the modern customer.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Period Corset designers research historical corsets and other undergarments at a number of museums (above and below) as well as surveying artworks, cartoons, and other materials from the respective periods. </td></tr>
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For example, steel is now used for the stays--in sizes from 1/4" to 5/16" and in a spiral version that bends in two directions. Coffey added that they were not into the super-tight lacing of the past, though all the products feature laces as well as, often, hooks.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After research from a number of different sources, Period Corsets' crew create a number of mockups (above), then proceed to create finished patterns in different sizes (below)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(Above and below) "Cone-shaped" corsets in the Period Corsets line and details of the master pattern. This design stops at the waist in the back.</td></tr>
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As part of her presentation, Coffey showed a fascinating video titled "Dresses Undressed" produced by Vogue Germany (available on YouTube) that shows the many layers underpinning styles of various eras--a pregnancy dress and its accompanying corset elicited a lot of startled reactions from the viewers!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From right to left: all the underpinnings required for this once-fashionable outfit! (From the video "Dresses Undressed")</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Above, "pregnancy dresses" from this era are a far cry from today's maternity wear! (From the video "Dresses Undressed")</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Ghosted" side view (above) and front view (below) of the frightening-looking corset worn under the "pregnancy dress" shown in the video "Dresses Undressed."</td></tr>
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Period Corsets' retail line includes models representing eras from about 1560 to 1912, and mostly European in design origin. All are hand made. The company sells only online, but does have fitting rooms available for appointments. And, of course, Coffey stands ready to create one-of-a-kind garments for special order, with costs ranging from several hundreds of dollars to several thousands, depending on the fabric and embellishments selected. While the company does not rent out its products, they are sold to rental houses that supply corsets for film and theatrical use. Their corsets have been used in the movie "Cold Mountain," and several TV series including "Salem," "Hell on Wheels," and "Sleepy Hollow"....and of course there was the special corset for Madonna....<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(Above) Ginnie Hebert gets laced into a nifty black velveteen number that absolutely requires the pose below! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(Above) Sonia Grasvik adjusts the front of a corset on Sally Morgan--who asked for a bed post to hold onto when the back of this number was being laced up! (Below) What can you say after this but, "Ta-dah!"</td></tr>
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Following Coffey's presentation, the audience members gleefully lined up to lace each other into some of the many samples provided. One person said she seriously needed the traditional bed post to hang onto while another person laced up the back of her corset! The challenge of getting ones', um, front body parts (Okay! Boobs!) properly situated in these unaccustomed garments provided a lot of laughs. General consensus was that the corsets proved to be surprisingly comfortable, once properly fitted and laced, especially in providing some back support.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(Above and below) Nicole McHale likes the feeling of this "cone-shaped" number, especially after being laced up by Period Corsets' Hilary Specht Coffey, above left.</td></tr>
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For more information on Period Corsets, including company history and photos of models available, go to <a href="http://www.periodcorsets.com/">http://www.periodcorsets.com/.</a>Donna DeShazohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04912477693218815842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350273000275548804.post-17252133476334028982015-09-13T20:02:00.001-07:002015-09-14T14:57:33.354-07:00Books as Art: with Susan Steinhaus Kimmel<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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CQA members were treated to a wonderful display of artistry and workmanship at their September 12 meeting as Susan Steinhaus Kimmel demonstrated--yes, demonstrated!--a number of her beautiful and intriguing handcrafted books.<br />
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The Wenatchee, WA area artist has a strong background in the arts, as she's both studied and taught calligraphy, design, drawing, painting and mixed-media collage. She's been painting for 25 years, and taught art at the college level for 19 years. Then, in 2001, she left academia to focus full time on her own art projects, many of which are handmade books-- all one of a kind.<br />
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"I'm stubbornly committed to one-of-a-kind pieces of art," said Kimmel, adding "To be creative is to never repeat. And many artists produce 'editions' of their pieces, but even when I did paintings, I did only one--the original. No subsequent prints." <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">[Shows two separate books] (1) "Chaos and Creation" (back) based on Genesis, features a neutral background (chaos) and vibrant, colorful foreground (creation). (2) The little house (front), created after the artist's visit to the American South, was inspired by a friend's photo of a house on the "Underground Railroad," which aided so many escaped slaves on their way to the North. It unlocks from the rear and includes a little box in which an accordion-folded text presents writings and photos about slavery and the Underground Railroad.</td></tr>
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Calligraphy and "making marks" were elements of Kimmel's art works even during her time in graduate school. There, one of her major student projects involved making some 500 random ink "marks," one per sheet of paper, in a "visual language" all her own. She then enlarged each sheet sequentially on a copy machine, watching the marks get rougher and rougher as they grew in size. Finally she had a series of six-foot panels, each with a single unique mark, to create a lengthy wall display. To present the work to her instructors in a manageable format, she bound a pictorial representation between sheets of handmade paper--her first "book."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The tall book, left, was Kimmel's first, and provided a visual record of her grad school project comprising pages of enlarged ink "marks," her own "visual language." At right is "The Good Earth," containing alternating pages of poetry and drawings on natural subjects.</td></tr>
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When Kimmel had completed this project she realized it was the "feeling" of a handmade book that she wanted, not just to work with traditional bindings. Her ideas and the contents always come first; the format is secondary. To aid in recreating that feeling, the idea, in the pages, she initially called on her calligraphy experience to design her own alphabet that only she can read or write. "Calligraphy in a language you don't understand is something you can appreciate simply for its beauty," she said. Sometimes she wrote texts backwards to emphasize visual strength over readability and to alter impressions: "When you write left to right, your hand is 'pulling,' and when you write right to left, your hand is 'pushing.' It's an entirely different feeling," she added.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kimmel, who plays flute and piano, created a book presenting musical terms rather than quotations. The paintings represent whole, half and quarter notes and the treble clef. A hole cut in the front reveals part of the first page, and the text is an accordion-fold pullout that's attached in an unusual way. The inks are French.</td></tr>
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As her thought processes and projects evolved, she asked herself, "Why can't the cover be as interesting as what's inside?" Thus she began to playing with the shapes and designs of the covers, and frequently echoes the cover shapes in the inside pages. She uses Davy or binder's board for most of her covers, as it resists warping, stands erect, and accepts glue. (She uses Yes brand glue.) Her primary tool is an Xacto knife, but in at least one instance she resorted to a saw: One spectacular book has front and back covers comprising two pieces of wood cut from a single board that had two similar dramatically "carved" ends--and that she picked up from a store's scrap bin!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Woodcutter's Song," left, was bound in a board Kimmel found with the sculptured ends. The book at right has pages shaped to mimic the shape of the cover.</td></tr>
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The "wooden" book also caused her to consider how she was binding her books, usually done with a straight strip of binding cloth. She engineered a method of internal "hinges," with tabs hidden under front and rear pasted-down endsheets, for a clean finish that allowed the resulting book to open nearly flat. This project led to further consideration--Why should the binding strips be just straight?--and soon she was shaping binding strips to correlate with the rest of the books' designs.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Daring Harmonies," above, has a shaped binding strip, and a hole in the cover to reveal part of the interior. Below, Kimmel with the cover open. Text consists of poems on individual pieces of paper hidden behind some of the structural elements.</td></tr>
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How do you "demonstrate" a book? Kimmel likes to have her books interactive, and showed how a hole in the cover of one book gives a peek at what's inside and invites the viewer to delve into the interior. In another, the reader is invited to search for the contents, as the text consists of several poems on small pieces of paper that are hidden behind some of the structural elements of the pages.<br />
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A number of Kimmel's "books" are actually boxes, each containing texts in some form of visual delight, sometimes as accordion-folded, illustrated pages. ("Boxes are difficult!" she laughed.) One such box encapsulates her favorite parts of "Alice in Wonderland," starting with a "rabbit hole" in the cover, revealing a "lock" to be opened with an antique key Kimmel bought in Paris. The accordion-fold pullouts open in two directions, and are illustrated with watercolor drawings and calligraphy.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Above, interior of "Snippets of a Dream" that represents Kimmel's favorite parts of <i>Alice in Wonderland</i>. The antique key, bought in Paris, "unlocks" the accordion-folded text, below, that pulls out in two directions,.</td></tr>
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Kimmel does all her text work by hand--lettering, alphabets--nothing is done by computer or by other "commercial" printing methods. Although she has made paper herself, she prefers to buy interesting papers instead "wherever and whenever I can!" as creating her own would take too much time. Before doing her illustrations she'll "stretch" her watercolor paper by pinning it to boards, wetting it to allow it to "ripple," as it then flattens as it dries. If she's trying out a new paper or ink she may practice her calligraphy before embarking on a final page in case the ink were to bleed. And (unlike many of the members of her CQA audience!), she works on only one project at a time, thoroughly cleaning up her workspace before starting the next project.<br />
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For Kimmel, the main difference between the collages in which she used to specialize (and still makes) and the books she now creates is in planning: she needs to see the end before she even starts. First comes the idea of the content; then she sketches the format, and finally she thinks through every step in sequence--and writes it down. She tries never to get to the end of the project and find something was wrong earlier in the process.<br />
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Even with meticulous planning, sometimes she will get a surprise. One experimental shape resulted in a foldout that resembles an alien UFO where every fold was a new challenge. Unfortunately the design proved to have a weak joint that tended to tear when the folded text was opened. "Definitely a design flaw," she said. Asked if she ever builds a "model" before committing to a final design, Kimmel laughed and said, "Generally, no... I hate practicing!" Only once did she construct something of a practice piece, and that was for one where the calligraphy had to fit within extremely tight parameters.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">CQA's program chair, Nicole McHale, left, helps Kimmel show the interior of "In the Beginning," based on the creation story. Here the artist's calligraphy required some practice as it had to fit in very tight parameters.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Close up of illustrations (acrylic on watercolor paper) in "In the Beginning," where each segment is revealed sequentially with the turning of each of the book's seven pages.</td></tr>
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One of Kimmel's books, "Passing of Time," was selected for <i>500 Handmade Books, Vol. 2</i> (Lark Publishing, Julie Chen, Ed., Page 62). This piece was an engineering challenge, as the "pages" fold out in four different directions. Considering that she was able to submit only two photos--one of the book open and a detail shot of the title page--that hardly represented this complex piece, Kimmel was thrilled to have the work chosen!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Above, Kimmel prepares to open "Passing of Time."Below, the book fully opened, in four different directions. This book required some clever engineering!</td></tr>
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Considering the scope and variety of these works, one might ask, as Kimmel does, "What is a book? What are the limits? To me, a book is a container of text and/or images...a container of information. When I show my collages, people don't get close to them...they seem to feel that they can 'get' them from a distance. My books? People want to engage with them...and that's what I like!" And at the end of Kimmel's presentation, that's exactly what her audience members did, exclaiming as they opened the pages and boxes and discovered interesting bits every time!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Above, CQA members gather around to investigate Kimmel's books more closely. Below, Kimmel talks about the alphabet she created for one of her early works with CQA's Roberta Andresen, right, and Christina Fairley-Erickson, left.</td></tr>
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For more about Kimmel and her other artworks, go to <a href="http://kimmelfinearts.com/">kimmelfinearts.com/.</a><br />
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Our August speaker, Nancy Stephens (see post below), did an excellent job of making the subject of copyright approachable. As she is an attorney rather than a practicing artist, it was decided that we would thank her with some artwork of our own--potholders and fabric postcards! Here's a small sample of the pieces created by some of our members for Nancy!<br />
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the writer's notes during the speaker's presentation, and should not be construed
as legal advice….each case is different. For specific questions and/or
guidance, check with a legal professional.)</span></i></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seattle attorney Nancy Stephens emphatically makes a point at her August 8 presentation to CQA members about copyright issues related to art quilts.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">At CQA's
August 8 meeting, Seattle attorney Nancy Stephens, who leads the trademark and
copyright practice at Foster Pepper LLC, provided a fascinating overview of how
these areas of the law may be applied to the realm of art quilting.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">"Intellectual
property comprises four areas—patents, trademarks, trade secrets and
copyright," said Stephens, adding that while there's a body of law for
most of these fields, the area of art quilts is different. "The law is
firmly set on patents and trademarks," she said, adding "there's not
much on trade secrets, and when it comes to copyright in relation to art
quilts, it gets vague and muddy." <span> </span>Copyright covers the rights in the expression
of an idea. Searching for cases involving any type of quilting that have been
adjudicated, Stephens found only four or five that touched on our concerns.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Stephens
pointed out that the basis of copyright is that "it protects <b>original works of authorship</b> that are
fixed in <b>tangible form</b> of
expression." This includes works that are literary, musical, dramatic,
pantomime, motion picture, sound recordings, architectural, and—where we artists
come in—pictorial, graphic and sculptural. "Works of a utilitarian
function (clothing, blankets) are excluded from copyright—but if you can
extract some artistic design element, you can copyright it," said Stephens.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">So who
determines what is "original work"? "Ultimately, a court of
law," said Stephens. "You would need to prove how you came up with
the design. When it comes to art quilts, you can't copyright the idea or
concept, the method or technique, or a pattern, but you can copyright the
design-- your particular arrangement and placement." </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A drawing made for Stephens by a friend, representing copyright as "a sword and a shield."</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Copyright
gives the owner the right to copy a work, distribute copies, and creative
derivative works. Stephens pointed out that "If <i>you</i> make a derivative work of someone else's copyright work, and want
to apply for copyright for it, you need permission from the original copyright
holder and also need to show what you added to the original." She noted
that anything created before 1923 is considered in the "public
domain" and may be used freely.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Asked
how the "fair use" rules might apply in this case, Stephens said "There's
no 10% or 20% rule!" She advises clients not to rely on Fair Use, although
there are some exceptions to copyright rules in that regard:<span> </span>the court would consider the purpose and
character of the use, the nature of the copyright work, the amount and
substantiality of the portion taken, and effect of the use on the potential
market of the original.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">So how
should we go about getting copyright protection for our original work—and why
should we? "You own the copyright for your work simply by creating
it," said Stephens," but to protect it, you need to file Form VA,
which can be found online at www.copyright.gov, to register the
copyright." Because copyright is a federal program, any infringement suit
would be fought in federal court.<span> </span>As to
why file for copyright, Stephens pointed out that filing creates a public
record, and you can't claim damages for anything that occurred before you filed
the copyright certificate. With the advent of the internet, infringement is
becoming an everyday occurrence, and "willful infringement" of
properly registered copyright material can be quite costly to the infringer. </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The photo at the left was made into a sculpture, right. The sculptor claimed it was a parody (an exception to copyright), but the court held it was an infringement.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">One of the
key considerations in any suit for copyright infringement is if there is a
pattern of copying. Referring to a particular case, Stephens showed pictures
from two different catalogs of sweaters. The second or "infringing"
catalog displayed two sweaters that were substantially the same design as two
that were pictured in the first catalog; the court decided that infringement had
occurred. In another case a major retailer directly copied, for some T-shirts, some
dog illustrations that a small company had online. In a "David vs.
Goliath" situation, a crowd-funding effort is underway to help the
copyright owner mount a suit against the retailer.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A major retailer created T-shirts (upper right) using artwork of dogs created by a small company. A crowd-funding effort is underway to aid the small company in mounting a suit for infringement.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">So what <i>can</i> be used for art quilts? Stephens
listed the following: <br />
--Public domain material (pre-1923)<br />
--Commercial printed fabric unless possibly when the fabric is subject to
copyright protection<br />
--Stamps, stencils, images from magazines…"So long as you 'make it your
own,'" cautioned Stephens. "Transformative is a key word. If you are
in doubt, seek permission from an earlier rights holder, and keep a paper trail
of your efforts," she added.<br />
--You can be "inspired" by the works of others, but it can't be a
copy. Your work must be "transformative."</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A lower court held there was no copyright for "letters" (left-hand quilt) when its creator filed a suit for infringement by the makers of the quilt at right, but an appeals court ruled that the copy was too similar as a whole.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">CF Enterprises (right photo) was enjoined from using Thimbleberries' registered design/pattern, left.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Audience
members asked Stephens about a locally inspired, prize-winning art quilt that
has been widely seen at shows and in publications in recent months:
"Chihuly's Gondola," which was based on one of the displays in the
Chihuly glass garden at Seattle Center. Noting that Chihuly apparently has made
no complaint ("and he would have several more years to do so"),
Stephens pointed out the possible reasons that there would be no case of
infringement here:<br />
--The quilt artist gave Chihuly total credit for the inspiration<br />
--She made only one piece<br />
--She took her own photo of the display, and worked from and modified that
photo<br />
--She changed the medium, i.e.to fabrics<br />
--She changed some of the colors</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Wrapping
up her presentation, Stephens gave us the following tips on how to deal with
our own work in relation to potential copyright issues:<br />
1. Be creative (remember "transformative"!)<br />
2. When borrowing, don't highlight the part that makes it special<br />
3. Create a "story" for your work…How/why you came to create it…or
"I'm making a commentary on XYZ"<br />
4. Give credit where it's due<br />
5. Use the term "artwork" instead of "quilt," as the latter
is so wrapped in history with utilitarian objects<br />
6. Use the © symbol with your work: © First Name Last Name Date<br />
7. Don't mass-produce!</span></span></div>
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Donna DeShazohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04912477693218815842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350273000275548804.post-61229324602130114002015-07-17T16:25:00.000-07:002015-07-17T16:25:47.890-07:00Art=Toys=Art in Cathy McClure's hands<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cathy McClure at July 11 CQA meeting.</td></tr>
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Seattle-area artist Cathy McClure was one of 10 kids in her Arkansas farm-country family when she made a visit to a local carnival, an event that was to provide the key direction for her ensuing artistic journey. McClure led a fascinated CQA audience along this journey--complete with a menagerie!--at the group's July 11 meeting. "I was both attracted to and repulsed by what I saw at that carnival," McClure related, "by the carnies themselves....and especially by the toys offered as prizes on the midway." This was her first real exposure to massive quantities of the stuffed (and overstuffed) toys that would later become the basis of her art pieces.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">McClure demonstrates one of her "bots" at the CQA meeting.</td></tr>
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McClure earned a BFA in metalsmithing at Texas Tech in 1995, enjoying the creation of 3-D pieces from flat, 2-D materials. An MFA at the University of Washington followed, in 1997. That was also
the year she was selected from among 428 applicants as the winner of the
19th annual Betty Bowen Memorial Award. She had been creating such "functional" pieces as a sterling silver teapot
(truly an art piece!) when she felt she could be doing...more.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">McClure's silver teapot is actually functional!</td></tr>
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The "more" turned out to be kinetic art, with a key initial piece being "Carnival of Life," a zoetrope [Sugg. see Wikipedia] involving placing the work on a rotating table in a dark room illuminated only by a strobe light. The viewer would see what appear to be elements on the rim of the table continually bowing down and standing up in sequence as the table revolved, whereas in reality all of the pieces were fixed in position. [A video of this piece in action may be seen on McClure's website: cathymcclure.com.]<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The toy market is measured in billions of dollars per year...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...and too many end up broken or discarded.</td></tr>
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Around 2003, in a further return to thoughts of that carnival of her childhood and the garish midway toys, McClure began to collect broken toys from toy and thrift stores. "This is a gluttonous arena of overstuffed toys," she said. "The toy market in 2012 was over $84 billion, with $20 billion of that in the US. Mostly they were all made in China, so broken or unwanted toys were just thrown out. There was no way stores could return them to the manufacturer," she said, "so I began to experiment with other ways to use them."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">McClure begins the process of "de-stuffing" a broken animal toy.</td></tr>
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McClure cut away the fuzzy or shaggy outer "skins" of the toys (mostly animals) and removed all the stuffing, leaving only the plastic body skeleton and, most important, the battery-operated mechanisms that caused the toy to move and speak. In a lost-wax process, she replaced the plastic shape with metal--silver or bronze--with the aid of a small casting operation in Rhode Island. Some of the original plastic parts from the original toy are retained as a reminder of the toy's origin, an example being the flexible, segmented trunk of a toy elephant.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The plastic "innards" of a stuffed elephant, above, and McClure's silver version, "Trumpet," below, with original flexible, segmented trunk and battery-operated mechanism retained.</td></tr>
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McClure calls the finished animals "bots," and the critters are both amusing and slightly eerie as they honk, bark or squawk while performing their original walking, bobbing, hopping or scurrying moves--but in elegant lines of polished silver or bronze metal instead of colorful fuzz! "Somehow they sound louder, more cranky, kind of upset once they're de-stuffed and cast in metal," she laughed.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Above, a stuffed bunny reduced to its plastic skeleton, and McClure's "Silly Bunny," below, in bronze (left) and silver (right).</td></tr>
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In 2006, McClure created a zoetropic piece titled "3-Ring Circus" that combines bots with other constructs, complete with appropriate music "that sets the tone as the piece lures you into a deceptively magical world," said McClure. [A video of this piece may be seen on her website: cathymcclure.com.]<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Above, scene from McClure's two-months' residency in New York, with the artist at work (below) getting down to the innards of an Elmo toy.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">McClure's "Hokey," based on an Elmo toy.</td></tr>
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Not all of the toys she works with are reconstituted in metals. McClure had the pleasure of a two-month residency in New York where she had workspace and the equivalent of a "storefront" in which to create art pieces from both the "skins" and the plastic bodies of toys. The de-stuffed plastic bodies were displayed on shelves, and she made wall pieces out of assemblies of discarded skins sewn on canvas. Making use of the traditional "everything but the squeal," she went on to create rings out of the eyeballs removed from the toys!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">McClure sewed an assemblage of discarded toy "skins" on canvas for wall hangings.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A true "hairy eyeball" (above) made into a ring! Other rings, below, created from eyeballs removed from toys.</td></tr>
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One of her installations involving just the plastic "innards" from toys is endlessly fascinating--18 plastic "Mickey Mouse" figures, independently hard-wired to an activation button that a viewer can push to start the figures moving. With arms flicking up and down, the "Mickeys" move forward, back and slightly sideways in an ever-changing pattern that's both balletic and slightly militaristic as they bounce off one another. [See video on her website.]<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Above, McClure "de-skinning" one of 18 "Mickey Mouse" toys (below).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The finished installation of 18 "Mickeys," each individually hard-wired to a viewer-activated button.</td></tr>
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The toys--bots--that McClure renders in metal form are where she creates income, so their parts are created in multiples, e.g. 50 of a particular leg or body, and lined up in her studio ("a 2-car garage!") awaiting assembly. "As I need one of the battery-operated mechanisms for each piece, I sought out and was lucky to find a source for the original mechanisms," she said.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Line-up of cast toy parts in McClure's studio.</td></tr>
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She frequently has other artists helping create parts of her installations, e.g a woodworker putting together the "rings" for the revolving parts of her zoetropic carnivals. "I often have to solve problems en route," McClure said. "For example, I was having trouble installing the elephant bots on 'Midway' and finally ended up using small chains--which I realized also symbolized the plight of elephants' lives in carnivals and circuses," she added.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A woodworker friend creates "rings" for McClure's "Midway" installation. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Above and below, stages in the creation of McClure's "Midway" installation for exhibit at Bellevue Arts Museum.</td></tr>
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McClure's "Midway" exhibit was featured at the Bellevue Arts Museum in 2011-12. She will have an installation at 1925 3rd Ave. in Seattle later this summer as part of the Seattle Art Fair.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Above and below, McClure's "Midway" installation at BAM, 2011-12. That's her "Chicken" bot in the glass case, above.</td></tr>
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She is currently working on paintings for a children's book and--a bit mind-boggling--she is making plans to create a human-scale "Hokey" figure, based on the innards of the Elmo toy! It will resemble her bots of the same name, but at that size definitely will not be made in sterling silver! "I want it to be a balance between the artist and the viewer, between seriousness and play, between childhood and adulthood," she explained.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An obviously hokey photo of McClure's planned human-scale "Hokey"!</td></tr>
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For more information about McClure and photos and videos of her works, go to <a href="http://cathymcclure.com./">cathymcclure.com.</a><br />
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<br />Donna DeShazohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04912477693218815842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350273000275548804.post-84178024504820825862015-06-20T17:18:00.000-07:002015-06-20T17:18:10.264-07:00Rachel Brumer presents "Work and Meaning" <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rachel Brumer contemplates a question from the audience at the June 13 CQA meeting.</td></tr>
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CQA's June 13 speaker, Seattle-area artist Rachel Brumer, is a thoroughly modern person who includes some antique methods in depicting her chosen themes that also tend to look back: "tribute" and "memorial."<br />
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Born in Oakland, CA, Brumer came from the background of an immigrant New York Jewish family. "There were no garment or quilting sewers in my family," she relates, though several of her grandparents were tailors. Dance became her first means of self-expression, as she began ballet lessons at age 10: "I was already quite tall," she laughs. Her dance training taught Brumer all the basic elements of art, but in the framework of the body on a stage. From ballet she moved to modern dance, and for ten years was a professional modern dancer in New York and Seattle. She holds a BFA from Mills College and, after more years of training, worked for several years as an interpreter in American Sign Language for the Library for the Blind.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of Brumer's first quilts, "Danny, Are There Really Five Moons?" created for a friend who died of AIDS. Friends contributed to the borders. Below, closeup of part of a poem created for the quilt.</td></tr>
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For the past 18 years, Brumer has been a mixed-media studio artist. "Common themes in my work are tribute and memorial," she says. "I am always asking myself, 'Why am I interested in remembering? Why does my work harken back....?'"<br />
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Her work takes many forms: quilts with mostly traditional materials; mixed-media pieces involving fiber and photography, and full-wall installations with photography, silk-screening, metals, paper, wax and other materials. Some of the photographic treatment involves a light-reactive process developed in 1842--VanDyke printing--for achieving images on fabric. "It's like cyanotype," she adds, "except that it's brown-printing instead of blue-printing."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Part of the installation for "Cover Them," with the quilt "Paula Jonap, 2/11/25" at left, and pages from Klarsteld's book at right</td></tr>
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Brumer has worked in series for many of her pieces, often creating a public installation with the results. One, "Cover Them," was an installation at the King County Art Gallery in 1997. She was inspired to create this work by Serge Klarsteld's 1996 book "French Children of the Holocaust," which she searched to find names of girls who shared her birthday. She created 10 large quilts (over 80"), each named for one of these girls, that were then crudely quilted and nailed, unbound, to the gallery walls. Some of the quilts included rubbings from pebbles and gravestones.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Mathilde Dziubas 2/11/28" above; closeup below. Fabrics hand-dyed; birds appliqued</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Francoise Kadosh 2/11/26"</td></tr>
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Another part of the installation she made was a stack of 30 small, utilitarian-type children's quilts. One of these was hung from a peg beside a notice encouraging visitors to take that quilt for a child, and to hang up another from the nearby stack. "I received a number of notes telling me where some of these quilts were taken," she relates.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sign at left invited viewers to take the quilt off the peg for a child, and hang another from the stack at the right. Local quilters donated quilts as the level of the stack would go down.</td></tr>
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Another series, created in the late 1990's, is called "Marker" and comprises 20 quilts inspired by headstones of women buried in cemeteries across Washington state. Most include the figure of a dress form as a stand-in for the woman, and embroidery of phrases taken from the headstones.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Marker I"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of "Marker I." Words from gravestones were embroidered on pieces in this series.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Marker II"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Marker III"</td></tr>
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"Slumber, the Nights" (2007) was a gallery installation of seven small "beds" in a room, evocative of a dorm room or an orphanage, inspired by a friend's adoption of child from Kazakhstan. The only light in the room came from the beds, which were really light boxes. Brumer punched tiny holes in the form of traditional quilt patterns in the "bed covers" for the light to shine through and illuminate the room.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tiny holes punched in the "covers" in traditional quilting patterns allowed light to show through and provide the room's only illumination in "Slumber, the Nights"</td></tr>
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A delightfully quirky installation, created in 2006 as Brumer's part of a 12-artist exhibit, is "Describing 10,402 Days of Dairyness," which used an old wooden library card-catalog cabinet in depicting the lives of a couple who owned a dairy farm. The "cards" in the cabinet were fabrics in different colors of white ("like milk") dipped in beeswax to stiffen them!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A library card-catalog cabinet holds "cards" made of white fabrics dipped in wax in "Describing 10,402 Days of Dairyness"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The times carved into the boards represent the times of daily milkings: 3:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. </td></tr>
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In 2008, Brumer made a trip to Poland and Ukraine with her mother and several relatives, resulting in a series titled "Memory's Main Gate" depicting objects from her grandparents' history. The purchase of some pieces of antique lace in Krakow resulted in a series of mounted wall pieces, "Krakow Fragments," where the lace was distressed, then combined with photographs of the same lace intact, intending to represent the destruction and renewal of buildings seen in the area.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Memory's Main Gate" 2009. Fiber on board.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Memory's Main Gate I" 2008. Fiber and metal. Statue of Liberty at left--the first view of America an immigrant sees; portion of Brumer's grandmother's bowl at right.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of Brumer's "Krakow Fragment" pieces</td></tr>
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A project Brumer started in 2010--depicting still lives with objects of meaning--grew into a much longer-term commitment than she realized, but was one with great personal rewards. She asked 15 friends to select some objects that had meaning for them, and to sit with her and tell her all about them--meetings that, by mutual consent, could extend over a whole evening. Photographed, the images were brown-printed on hand-dyed fabric; the backgrounds were then bleached out and the pieces printed again. One result, comprising a number of images, is a quilt titled "Small Regional Still Lives"; larger, single-image pieces are board-mounted in a series titled "Large Regional Still Lives."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Small Regional Still Lives" quilt, 63 x 68</td></tr>
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Among Brumer's newest series are large oval or circular pieces, some completely in fiber as wall quilts; others mix fiber with additional materials in often tiny individual pieces that have to be mounted independently on the wall. One of the latter is "Partial Floor Plan of a World," which combines board, fabric, paint, French knots and beads...it's definitely 3-D! Her "Enhanced Sunspots After Galileo" pieces are round, created with a sun-print process, and entirely fabric--and loaded with French knots and tiny hand-painted flower "petals."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Partial Floor Plan of a World" 76 x 61 x 1</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closeup from "Partial Floor Plan..." showing 3-D structure. Pieces of torn fabric are "lifted" off the board by beads underneath. French knots decorate the tops.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Quire: Book of Findings" wall exhibit at Seattle Art Museum</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closeup of a section of "Quire..."</td></tr>
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Brumer references the written and printed word in one of her newer series, "Moveable Type," with tributes to books and libraries. Some pieces use her own visual "language" (in "Printers' Ornaments") created by photographing small, similar-sized found objects (e.g. bottle caps, etc.) and combining and photographing them into what appear to be rows of letters. Views of these letters were also a major element in "Quire: Book of Findings," a large installation at the Seattle Art Museum in 2001 that also includes fiber and metal.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closeup of a portion of "Printers' Ornaments," showing the small found objects Brumer collected and photographed to create a "language"</td></tr>
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Some pieces portray the outer bindings of books as art objects--for example, "Chemise Binding Green"--where she notes that the original name for a book cover was "chemise." Her love of doing massive numbers of French knots is clearly evident in the "Illuminated Letters" series. More books are on display in her "Shelves" series, where paint, embroidery, fiber, wax and hand-dyes are combined in objects on purpose-built wooden shelves.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Chemise Binding Green"</td></tr>
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This prolific and versatile artist obviously spends a lot of time working in her studio, where she says she loves working at night when it's quiet and distractions are lessened. However, she has also taken her creativity "outside," in several three-month residencies at the Mission Creek Correctional Center at Belfair, WA, where she goes twice a week to conduct three-hour classes at this women's prison.<br />
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Brumer is represented by two galleries: Friesen Gallery in Ketchum, ID, and Patricia Rovzar Gallery in Seattle, where she will have a solo show opening July 2 for the "First Thursday Art Walk" and running to the end of July.<br />
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For more about Brumer and her work, go to <a href="http://rachelbrumer.com/">rachelbrumer.com</a>, her excellent website that is loaded with photographs and informative artist statements. There is also an extensive, interesting interview with her, with photos, at <a href="http://worldofthreadsfestival.com/artist_interviews/118-rachel-brumer-14.html.">http://worldofthreadsfestival.com/artist_interviews/118-rachel-brumer-14.html.</a><br />
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<br />Donna DeShazohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04912477693218815842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350273000275548804.post-45614495370432858242015-06-06T15:04:00.000-07:002015-06-06T15:04:36.668-07:00O'Steen wins "People's Choice" award at 2015 Patchwork Design show in Brazil<div id="yiv1687259106yui_3_16_0_1_1433525049827_23484">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica , sans-serif;">O'Steen reports that she was thrilled by the news--but also surprised. Her
assumptions were that the Brazilian attendees would like bright
colors and her piece is mostly neutrals. She thinks they liked the
details created by her combination of three quilts into the one piece, as well as the
three-dimensional effect in the shaping of the top quilt
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Donna DeShazohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04912477693218815842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350273000275548804.post-27954706362794187552015-05-14T15:54:00.001-07:002015-05-14T15:56:07.550-07:00C!QA hears from Jean Williams Cacicedo, icon of wearable art<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jean Cacicedo shows annotated samples of some of her techniques at the May 9 joint CQA/SDA meeting in Seattle. (Photo by Christina Fairley Erickson)</td></tr>
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As quilters, many of us dye various fabrics to get the colors and effects we want. While she's not a quilter, Berkeley artist Jean Williams Cacicedo goes even further--she first creates her own cloth! Cacicedo, an icon of the wearable art movement of the 1970s, showed samples of her unusual garments May 9 as she addressed a joint meeting of the Contemporary QuiltArt Association (CQA) and the Seattle chapter of the Surface Design Association (SDA).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cacicedo models one of her "pieced, felted, slashed" coats (Photo by Christina Fairley Erickson)</td></tr>
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When Cacicedo was studying drawing, painting and sculpture at Pratt Institute in New York, textile art wasn't on her radar--there were no textile classes available at that time. She received her BFA from Pratt in 1970, in sculpture. It was viewing a tapestry at the Cloisters that inspired her to express herself in fiber and textiles, which became her media for the next 45 years. "Cloth is with us from birth to death, in every culture," she said. "We're beholden to our ancestors, who first tied threads from flax...then the history of spinners, weavers, dyers and so on."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of Cacicedo's earliest crocheted pieces: fabulous butterfly coat.</td></tr>
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Some of her first works were done in crochet, which at that time was somewhat "anti-establishment." Indeed the '60's and '70s were an era of counter-culture, and working with one's hands was a big part of the U.S. craft movement at that time--as it is in the more current "maker" movement of today.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coat created for Wyoming Wool Growers' Association. Cacicedo's spinning, dyeing and crochet work.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An early piece: "Chaps: A Cowboy Dedication"</td></tr>
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During this period Cacicedo spent seven years in Wyoming, and fell in love with working with wool--spinning, dyeing, crocheting, sewing: "Wool is our first language," she says.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chart showing the "toothiness" of various fibers, with the rougher fibers better for felting and dyeing. From left: Coarse wool, fine wool, alpaca, cashmere, silk, linen, cotton, polyester.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closeup of a Cacicedo piece, showing internal layers after a "burn-out" type technique. Wool layered with a single-knit poly jersey.</td></tr>
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From crochet, Cacicedo began to work with layers or "substrates" of materials to create finished cloth. One of her first chosen layers was Melton cloth, a tightly woven, smooth-finish wool often used for overcoats. Later she came to use a lot of wool jersey that, unfortunately, became harder to find. To each of these fabrics (and later selections of wool and other fibers) she would add a layer of a fine gauze that would shrink when hot water and pressure were applied.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A "pre-coat" shape of shrinkable gauze, to which Cacicedo will add wool or yarns for subsequent shrinking.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closeup of gauze. Cacicedo's chosen version, from Japan, is all wool and shrinks 50%.</td></tr>
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The gauze she now uses is a high-twist, pure wool from Japan...that costs $38 per meter and has a 50% shrinkage rate! She can create near-felt with these layers through the application of water, pressure and agitation. She warned that in this method it's best to do the shrinking process before any dye is applied as the dye will prevent some of the shrinking.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stitching with a heavy white thread is added to a layered scarf.</td></tr>
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In 1997, Cacicedo attended an international shibori symposium, and was delighted to discover new techniques to apply to her work. While many of us think first of "tie-dye" when we hear the word shibori, to her it's more the process of the stitching that's the hallmark of this craft. She will stitch heavy wool into the lightweight gauze, often using the stitching as a resist, drawing up the threads and then dying (and shrinking) the result. Sometimes she will stitch polyester to wool to achieve the designs that occur as the wool shrinks and the poly does not.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This felt-like coat includes hand dyes and printed motifs.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Printed and dyed, this coat is of Asian motif.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The scarf (above) and coat (a closeup below) appear printed, but the dark areas are actually tissue-thin from a "burn-out" type process.</td></tr>
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Her garments can be described as "pieced, sewn, slashed, felted, dyed." Some of her work includes printing on the final cloth, and her method involves the use of sodium alginate as a print paste (often including dye). Once totally dry, the printed material is then immersed in an aluminum sulfate (alum) bath so the water and alum attach to the sodium alginate, then a water softener is used to remove the alum.<br />
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Cacicedo extensively documents each of her methods, including experiments with various types of yarn and fabrics, with annotated samples. She finds the documentation process as exciting as making the final pieces themselves.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(Above) Attendees at the meeting survey Cacicedo's extensive array of annotated technique samples. Closeup of one technique below showing her layering method.</td></tr>
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Cacicedo states that "Art is not about fashion. We are pawns of the fashion industry, but wearable art can differentiate the wearer....can transform the spirit of the wearer. The art we wear can tell stories of journeys both real and spiritual." She reminds that "There is no art-making that can take place without first having craft," and that "there is no one way to approach design...we all go in different doors."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"....stories of journeys both real and spiritual..." (Above) Part of Cacicedo's "Down Under" jacket. (Below) "Red Sea" coat.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr>
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Among Cacicedo's most recent design explorations is "notan," the Japanese design concept of the use of black and white in the dynamics of positive and negative space. She has begun conducting workshops involving this principle.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Reveal Handbag," above, a sculpture of black wool stitched with white wool and shrunk. Inside is an armature of reed.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A beautiful visual pun, this "Raincoat," now in the de Young Museum in San Francisco, is full of punched holes!</td></tr>
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Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout Western Europe, Japan and the U.S., and in 2000, the de Young Museum in San Francisco mounted a 30-year retrospective of her work. She is the author of the book "Jean Williams Cacicedo: Explorations in Cloth," published in 2000 by the Museum of Craft and Folk Art. For more on Cacicedo and her work, go to <a href="http://www.jeancacicedo.com./">www.jeancacicedo.com.</a><br />
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(Thanks to Christina Fairley Erickson who contributed notes and photos to this report.)<br />
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<br />Donna DeShazohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04912477693218815842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350273000275548804.post-6394012113996724292015-04-19T19:27:00.000-07:002015-04-19T19:27:14.590-07:00Kathy Hattori and "sustainable color for artists"<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Kathy Hattori, president of Botanical Colors LLC, Seattle, gave CQA members an enlightening--and disturbing--look at the world of color, specifically fabric dyes, at the group's April 11 monthly meeting. A strong proponent of natural, plant-based dyes, Hattori bolstered her thesis with facts and photos of the largely unregulated dye producers that support the global fashion and textile industry. <br />
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Around 2000, Hattori was a hobby spinner, weaver and dyer with a tech job in Silicon Valley--"doing okay, not great"--when, in the space of a couple years, she lost her job in the internet bust, sold her house and ended her marriage. Building on her earlier experience with dyes, she started a small, online natural dyes company and was now enjoying what she was doing.<br />
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Then she was contacted by Target, a large retailer whose "concept team" wanted to see if natural dyes would be practical and economical for their apparel lines. Several dyed samples later it was clear that the company's clothing lines--comprising a number of synthetic blends rather than pure wool or silk--were not appropriate for natural dyes, nor would the increased costs of using natural vs synthetic dyes work with the retailer's price points.<br />
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Growing out of this experience, Hattori learned that "the textile industry is in trouble managing their resources." She pointed out that in the 1980s, 95% of the clothing sold in this country was U.S. made; today, that figure is only 2%. Unregulated dye manufacturing and dye houses abound in the developing world, and there is little regulation on dying commercial clothing. "And yet there are no waste-water treatment plants in the developing world," she noted, adding that "Some of the water in these countries is fatally polluted. In 2012, global dye-manufacturing was listed as one of the top 10 industrial polluters." Hattori noted that azo dyes have been banned in the U.S. and Europe, but they are regularly used in China and India. "There are more than 50,000 dye houses in China alone, and more than 40% of the surface water is polluted," she added.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hattori says the dye industry "would like you to see it like this (above) when it's really like the scene below." China alone has more than 50,000 unregulated dye houses.</td></tr>
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Hattori then spoke of a number of "change agents" who were working to reverse this trend. Greenpeace, for one, has done a great deal of work with their "Toxic Threads" initiative in pushing manufacturers to clean up their supply chain. H&M has introduced a line called "Conscious Collection," and she urged that it be supported. A movement called "Fibershed" was started by a woman in Northern California who set out to recreate her wardrobe from suppliers within 150 miles of her home; the Fibershed idea has now taken off around the country. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Greenpeace "Toxic Threads" initiative has been instrumental in helping many manufacturers clean up their supply chains.</td></tr>
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One project involving Hattori was an interesting effort started by noted designer and store operator
Eileen Fisher, who opened "Green Eileen" stores that specialize in
recycled clothing, sales of which provide income to support programs that improve the lives of women and girls as well as help cut back on the vast number of new garments
created annually. These stores get a ton of garments each month for recycling. In connection with the 2014 opening of a "Green Eileen" store in Seattle, Hattori was tasked with over-dyeing 100 garments. The collection sold out in three weeks and was considered an excellent launch for the store.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A recycled T-shirt over-dyed for Seattle's "Green Eileen" store</td></tr>
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Though she was not "a fit" for Target, that experience encouraged
Hattori to approach other apparel manufacturers, and she's now working
with several to develop new clothing lines with more "earth-friendly"
dyes and natural materials.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Diagram of a traditional multi-step supply chain for a pair of men's trousers</td></tr>
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While the commercial garment industry has expanded to nearly countless suppliers along the line from designer to retailer, Hattori and her company developed a supply chain with only four entities: Customer, Fiber/Fabric, Dyes, Dyer.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Garments from Other Brother, Portland Or, a typical customer in Hattori's company's 4-step supply chain</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Knit Tees from Cloth Foundry, San Francisco, a fabric supplier in Hattori's supply chain (natural-dye colors)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hattori uses either large-capacity or specialty dye houses depending on the size of the order.</td></tr>
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One customer example is Other Brother of Portland, specializing in men's wear based on natural dyes, sustainable cotton and U.S. manufacture. An example of a fabric supplier is California Cloth Foundry of San Francisco, specialist in knits spun from U.S. sustainable cotton, and U. S. manufactured. Depending on the product quantities involved, large-capacity dye houses in North Carolina or Maine, or specialty dyers in New York, Los Angeles or Seattle, will be used. The dyes, of course, are all natural and non-toxic.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hattori holds a "Backyard Hoodie" designed by Cloth Foundry in all natural cotton and natural dyes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A rich, black color on natural cotton, as in these pants, can take five different dyes.</td></tr>
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Hattori explained that the No. 1 issue for natural dyes is that they must meet wash- and light-fast standards to be acceptable for commercial use. As an aside, she noted that to get a rich black color on natural cotton can take five different dyes, and that "Cotton needs a lot of preparation before dyeing: it takes 8 hours to prep and 45 minutes to dye!"<br />
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She mentioned several area operations involved in the natural/sustainable movement, including Tolt Yarn & Wool in Carnation, a local grower, and Jubilee Farms, also in Carnation, offering classes and gatherings of dyestuffs in July and August.<br />
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At the end of the presentation, attendees gathered around Hattori's samples of organic brown cotton and both yarns and clothing dyed with indigo and other natural dyes in glowing, earthy colors.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hattori holds a cotton boll with newly developed brown cotton fibers.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Natural dyes create rich colors in yarns.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Warm, earth tones in natural-dyed cotton Tees invite touch!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dye from the indigo plant produces a wide range of blue colors in these natural cotton fabrics.</td></tr>
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Web contacts: <a href="http://www.botanicalcolors.com/">www.botanicalcolors.com/</a>, <a href="http://www.clothfoundry.com/" target="_blank">www.clothfoundry.com/. </a><br />
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<br />Donna DeShazohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04912477693218815842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350273000275548804.post-65998113531481516372015-04-08T12:37:00.001-07:002015-04-08T12:37:33.043-07:00Art quilter Helen Remick's early work proves fresh as today<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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CQA member Helen Remick, Seattle, has made yo-yo's and complex spiral piecing hallmarks of her art quilts for a number of years, and recently even some of her earliest pieces have been appearing in current publications and exhibits. "I'm now convinced that my work is 10 to 15 years ahead
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She has four images included in the book
<i>1000 Quilt Inspirations: Colorful and Creative Designs for
Traditional, Modern and Art Quilts</i>, Sandra Sider, Editor,
Hachette Press, 2015. These are “Raining Cats and Dogs” (2010), “Ma, How
come she gets all the attention” (2014), “Tangled Web” (2003),
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Raining Cats and Dogs" (detail)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Ma, How come she gets all the attention" (Detail)</td></tr>
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Two of Helen's early quilts are on tour until
2016 as part of the exhibit associated with the book <i>500 Traditional
Quilts</i>, Karey Patterson Bresenhan, Editor, Lark Books,
2014. "Untitled" (1996) and “Spinning Out Spinning In 4: Rose of
Sharon” (2005) will be at the IQA show in Portland and other
venues. A third piece,“In Honor of the Wedding of Elizabeth and Yuki,” (2005)
was not available for the exhibition.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"In Honor of the Wedding of Elizabeth and Yuki"</td></tr>
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“Fantastic” (1998) was included in the SAQA
red-quilts show on <b>Facebook</b> and has been picked up by
<b>Quilters Newsletter</b> to appear in a near-future Readers
Quilt Show feature in the magazine. Helen recently finished instructions for
this quilt in response to requests generated by someone pinning
a picture of the quilt on <b>Pinterest</b>. The pattern is
available on <b>Craftsy</b> <a href="http://www.craftsy.com/pattern/quilting/home-decor/fantastic/133923" rel="nofollow">http://www.craftsy.com/pattern/quilting/home-decor/fantastic/133923</a>
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Donna DeShazohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04912477693218815842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350273000275548804.post-49399704767722428012015-03-22T19:29:00.000-07:002015-03-22T19:29:11.486-07:00Alfredo Arreguin's "pattern paintings" charm in the details<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alfredo Arreguin at March 14 CQA meeting</td></tr>
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"When I paint, my problems disappear...so I paint a lot!" laughed prolific Seattle artist Alfredo Arreguin as he spoke about his work to members of the Contemporary Quilt Art Association at the group's March 14 meeting. Arreguin's paintings can take up to four months to complete. And, given the amount of details contained in each work, that's a whole lot of problems that can just go away!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This kind of detail can take months to complete</td></tr>
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Born in Mexico, Arreguin admits to being a bit of a bad boy in his early years. When his mother created a series of small drawings for him, he took them to school to exchange to other students for candy. When she learned of these transactions, his mother balked and said he should learn to create his own art. His father took a different approach: When young Alfredo was doing poorly in school, his father sent him out into the jungle to work on-site with engineers. The discipline of creating his own art obviously took root, and scenes and animals of the jungle became an ongoing theme in his adult paintings.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elements of the jungle appear in many of Arreguin's paintings</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One can spend hours finding interesting details!</td></tr>
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Arreguin arrived in Seattle in 1956 at age 23, to enter the School of Architecture at the University of Washington. The choice of major was more that of his father's than his own, and after a couple of years he switched to Interior Design in the University's art department for a year, finally coming to rest in the school's painting program, where he earned his BA and MFA degrees.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of Arreguin's early works, where he adds pattern to the tablecloth to tie elements together</td></tr>
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During his senior year at the University he began to develop what would become his signature style--very detailed, pattern paintings that offer the viewer almost endless possibilities to discover nearly hidden elements. "I love painting scenes from nature," he says, "and the use of pattern allows me to hide things in those scenes, like behind leaves."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Birds and forest elements are common themes</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There are two large cats worked into the pattern....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(Above and below) Large cats are favorite elements</td></tr>
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His favored format is four by six feet, and he prefers working in oils rather than acrylics as the latter dry too fast for the type of detailed, overpainting work he does on each piece. He was once asked why he chose to work pretty consistently in the 4x6 format, and the reason is quite practical: When fellow artist Alden Mason was leaving Seattle for Europe, he put up for sale a large quantity of cheap stretcher bars in that size, and Arreguin snapped them up!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Patterning on floors often appear as tiles</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closeup of a pattern portion showing the "fill" is often faces</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Deep Time," with graceful pterodactyls, is in the collection of the National Academy of Sciences</td></tr>
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To achieve the over-all patterning that characterizes Arreguin's work, he will start with a grid of, say, one-inch squares, which he then fills in, often working on a detail in a square on the left side of the painting, then moves to the corresponding square on the right side to create a similar or matching detail. "It's organic," he says. "Often I discover new things by changing a few details as I work back and forth on my grid." He frequently creates "ghosts" by covering his first drawing with another on top. For his striking portraits he will first outline the face realistically, then add patterns to crowd around the image and sometimes work patterns on top of the face.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Except for the eyes (above) and the red lips (below), the faces are almost hidden</td></tr>
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"I paint what I love," he says, "and I love people, women, flowers, birds, gardens...everything that lends itself to patterns." Many of the combinations reflect designs of the tapestries and crafts seen in traditional markets in his native Mexico. Other frequent subjects include religious figures--St. Francis of Assisi for one--and some important in Mexican observances, including madonnas and La Malinche, mistress of the conqueror Cortes. And for a time, he created a series of portraits featuring the noted Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mexican-heritage themed piece</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">St. Francis of Assisi and his beloved birds</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A madonna in a more typical "halo" setting...but look at the background!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A very Mexican madonna</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Above and below, two very different treatments of a Frida Kahlo portrait</td></tr>
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Arreguin's pieces may now be found in countless museums and private collections, and his resume of solo and selected group exhibitions covers several pages. Some of the achievements of which he's most proud include having two pieces in the Smithsonian (one in the National Museum of American Art, the other in the National Portrait Gallery); winning the competition for the 1988 Washington State Centennial poster from among 200 applicants; and having pieces selected by the U.S. Department of State for the embassy in Karachi, and for the collection of the San Francisco's Mexican Museum.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arreguin's portrait of Emilio Zapata is in the Smithsonians's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arreguin's "Washingtonia," selected for the state's centennial poster from among 200 applicants. When asked why he painted the cat in the foreground, he replied, "It was there!"</td></tr>
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In a more recent development, as Arreguin related, he hadn't been known in Mexico for his art as he had been living in Seattle for so long. Now, however, he's pleased that his work is being shown in a San Antonio, TX, gallery as one of the "Mexican Masters" alongside Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A young Arreguin, right, with the late writer Raymond Carver and his wife, poet Tess Gallagher. Carver's short story "Menudo" was written about Arreguin.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arreguin's portrait of Carver features a poem by Gallagher , the words of which the artist painted over the entire image.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A portrait of Carver barely emerges from the typical Northwest fish</td></tr>
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Noting that he recently turned 80, Arreguin is not looking to mount big exhibitions any more. "A big show drains you," he says, "and I now have just enough energy to paint every day." Given the amount of creative inspiration and just plain detailed work that goes into each of his pieces. that seems just about right.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This piece combines Arreguin's signature patterns with the "big wave" typical of many Japanese paintings. The artist was in Japan during his Army duty as well as on later trips: "I am like a sponge," he says, "I soak in everything I see!"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arreguin's impression of Washington's Rialto Beach on the Pacific Coast</td></tr>
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More about Arreguin and his work may be seen on his website--<a href="http://www.alfredoarreguin.com/">www.alfredoarreguin.com/</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null">.</a> He is represented by Linda Hodges Gallery in Seattle, where his bio and resume may be found at <a href="http://www.lindahodgesgallery.com/#!alfredo-arreguin/c18o6">http://www.lindahodgesgallery.com/#!alfredo-arreguin/c18o6</a>. University of Washington Press published a book on Arreguin and his work, "Alfredo Arreguin: Patterns of Dreams and Nature," now in a second edition--<a href="http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/FLOALP.html.">http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/FLOALP.html.</a><br />
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<br />Donna DeShazohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04912477693218815842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350273000275548804.post-10483909315006458662015-02-25T18:11:00.000-08:002015-03-20T11:24:47.145-07:00Wendy Orville's monoprints may look like photographs, but...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bainbridge Island artist Wendy Orville</td></tr>
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There was a lot of close-up inspection of Wendy Orville's sample monoprints at the February 14 CQA meeting as the attendees discovered that these very photographic-looking pieces...were not photographs at all! An artist residing and working on Bainbridge Island, Orville spoke to the group about her artistic journey, inspirations, and methods in this informative program, enlightening the many of us who knew little about monoprinting.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This monoprint triptych is not a photograph!</td></tr>
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Orville came to appreciate art and nature at an early age, with her scientist parents (father=geology professor; mother=high school biology teacher) encouraging her and her siblings to experiment. For fun, she would draw and paint birds and animals from taxidermy specimens her mother brought home to use as school samples. She traveled extensively with her parents during school vacations, and when her parents' sabbatical years would come up, the travels--usually to other countries--were lengthy enough that she was put into local schools in those countries, experiencing total language immersion!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The above image and the two below are among the "15 paintings in 5 days" Orville produced while at Yale, using blobs of pure color. A similar type of abstraction is an element in some of her present-day works as well.</td></tr>
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She found herself drawn to oil painting early on and studied art at Yale University. One of her first class assignments was to create 15 paintings in 5 days! She settled on using bold chunks of pure color to capture the essence of the scenes she chose to depict. "I was painting faster than I could think!" she said. "During this same period, in creating a number of black-and-white tempera drawings, I made up a rule of my own: I could draw the landscape with only the 'tools' I found on site, meaning sticks, rocks, and so on. The resulting work was very similar to what I'm doing now...the pendulum swings between abstraction and realism." In playing with hard edges as a major element of these quick paintings and drawings--"abstracting as much as possible"--she often confused anyone watching as to exactly what she was capturing on the surface!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Titled "Trees I," this tempera drawing was done with sticks and twigs Orville found on site.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Orville took a 4-day intensive workshop in monoprinting from Taos, N.M. artist Michael Vigil, above.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Above and below: Two of Orville's early monoprints, inspired by Taos scenes</td></tr>
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Orville received a BA in Fine Arts and an MFA in painting, then, unfortunately, her career as an oil painter ended when she developed a severe allergy to oil paints. A move west to Taos, New Mexico, set her on her current path. Here she took a 4-day workshop in monoprinting with local artist Michael Vigil, and found her new medium. The vast open skies of the southwest gave her new themes and inspiration--as, in 1996, did a move north to the moody skies, wetlands and dense forests of the Puget Sound region.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Puget Sound wetlands represented in a monoprint...a big change from Taos scenes!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Above and below: Picturing her kids' toys was a fun way for Orville to keep her hand in while busy with child-rearing.</td></tr>
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She began to incorporate northwest scenes in her work, then came a hiatus when a lot of her time was taken up with raising a new baby. Much of her art during this period consisted of small, quick drawings of kids' toys "just to have a good time." Perhaps it was these drawings, or perhaps a mental return to her drawings of the taxidermy specimens in her childhood, as Orville found herself wanting to seriously concentrate on animals, but with a high degree of abstraction.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Her more serious work depicting animals was sometimes done "on site," e.g. sitting in a pig pen to capture the porker above.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Achieving a hard edge on the sides of the sheep, above, came as Orville practiced a new technique. This image became the logo for a local eating establishment.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In creating this image, Orville tried to ignore the dog's personality and just show patterns of light and dark.</td></tr>
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"I actually sat in a pig pen to make one drawing," she laughed, adding "I wanted to show just patterns of light and dark and not get hung up on the animal's personality. How much could I take out and still have a recognizable form."<br />
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With the first child and, later, a second one under control, Orville returned to works from nature with an emphasis on skies: "I found that unlimited space could be found just by looking up," she said. "Clouds represent a moment in time. For me, it's about paying attention to the abstraction of form--I can get lost in an image." She spent several years with landscape and sky subjects "trying to find my language," she said, adding "sometimes I invented landscapes...I've learned not to question myself if I'm having a good time!"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The rock, tree and clouds were all printed from different plates, and the rock itself came from Orville's imagination.</td></tr>
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Much of her work is in black and white, but other pieces include as many as 8 to 10 layers of color. She will lay down some under layers of bright colors and then add complementary colors on top until she achieves the desired effect.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of the color monoprints have 8 to 10 layers of colored ink applied.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Orville's "inspiration/test" wall...photos, sketches and test prints</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sketch with design notes form a record of a particular piece</td></tr>
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So how does Orville achieve monoprints that look like photographs, but aren't? As a guide, she may start with one of her own photos or drawings created on site, parts or all of which may end up in the finished print. Then, using a range of values of non-pigmented ink (which allows the light of the printing paper to come through) on a sheet of glass as a palette, she uses a thick, heavy roller and rolls back and forth over the inks until she achieves the desired blending of tones for the over-all piece.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Non-pigmented inks are laid out in a range of values</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inks on the glass palette ready to be rolled and blended</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first rolling....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...then continued rolling, until the inks are blended to her satisfaction.</td></tr>
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This "base" is then rolled onto a plexiglass plate and the detail work begins. If the work features clouds, Orville will take a small stick and draw a sharp line, delineating the edge of a cloud as the line of ink is removed. Then, using a small wad of paper, cloth or even her finger, she will proceed to remove more and more ink until a perfect cloud appears: "It's a subtractive process," she explained, adding that the inked plate can be worked on for as long as a day before the ink dries too much to be worked. The paper to be printed on is soaked and blotted before being put on the press as wet paper absorbs the ink in a more saturated way. And as the name implies, only one print can be pulled from the plate.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The final blended ink is rolled onto a plexiglass plate, ready for creation of the image. A photograph (upper right) serves as a general guide for the desired shape of the cloud.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A sharp line delineates the edge of a cloud...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...then rubbing with a wad of paper, cloth or a finger removes ink to create the cloud itself.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Soaked, blotted printing paper is taken to the press where the final plexiglass plate is mounted, ready for printing.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The completed monoprint of the sky and cloud comes off the press. Any trees or other landscape features are added later from different plates.</td></tr>
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She may print only an area of clouds one day, maybe not knowing what, if anything, she will print on top of it, and return at a later time to add trees or other landscape elements from a different, separate plate. To achieve the often very thin and "spiky" portions of trees, grasses and other forms that mark a number of her pieces, Orville will employ parts of credit cards, toothbrushes, Q-tips and other everyday items to make fairly sharp lines--"anything that pulls the ink off," she explained.<br />
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The moody, ethereal quality of Orville's work is wonderful on its own...but it's even more enjoyable when you find out how this artist achieves her unique images!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Monoprint of old pilings at the site of the former Port Blakeley mill on Puget Sound. "As a younger artist, I often exaggerated elements in the landscape. Now I seek out forms that are weathered and shaped by nature," Orville says.</td></tr>
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For more views of Orville's pieces and information on the artist, go to <a href="http://www.wendyorville.com./">www.wendyorville.com.</a>Donna DeShazohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04912477693218815842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350273000275548804.post-56212161823054204462015-01-27T17:33:00.000-08:002015-01-27T17:33:31.424-08:00CQA holds annual "Play Day," prepares for StashFest<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A "free-form" marbled design, right after being pulled off the "gel" medium</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A large turnout of enthusiastic CQA members gathered January 10 in the workroom of the Bellevue Art Museum, eager to learn some new surface-design techniques as well as to play with favorite art materials. All the activities were aimed at producing unique fabrics for "The CQA Collection," which will be unveiled at the </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">StashFest 2015 </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">fundraiser, set for April 18 in La Conner, WA. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Attendees were clad in old clothes and aprons, ready to "get messy" with paints, crayons and more, in instructional sessions led by volunteer "stationmasters": Colleen Wise (silk screening), Marilynn Dondero-Rich (die-cutting), Carla Stehr (water-soluble crayons, pencils, color sticks, rubbing blocks), and Helen Johnston (layered marbling using fluid acrylics, masks and traditional marbling tools). Roberta Andresen was our liaison with BAM and also brought a varied collection of stamping materials. Carla DiPietro, fundraising chair for CQA, masterminded all the details of this fun--and important--meeting.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Colleen Wise (at rear) led the silk-screen station</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leaves are always a favorite silk-screen design (above) as are textures (below). The latter lend themselves to further screening, stamping or other surface design,</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carla Stehr, left, led the station using water-soluble crayons, pencils and "color blocks" as well as the use of rubbing plates.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carla Stehr's "notebook" showed the many different appearances of the same color that can be achieved with the different water-soluble products and how they are handled.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rubbing over embossed plates with various water-soluble media on a piece of wet, previously dyed fabric produces some interesting effects.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Die-cutting flowers out of a fusible-backed piece of fabric (above) resulted in a "negative space" piece of fabric (below) that was later used as a mask in a silk-screen project!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finished die-cut flowers, packaged for sale at StashFest.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yellow paint is applied, drop by drop, to create the free-form marbled piece at the top of this post.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The use of this plastic mask (above) confines the paint on top of the gel to produce a more structured piece (below). Once removed from the gel, all the marbled pieces were placed on layers of newsprint to soak up what amounted to a fairly large quantity of liquid.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Many pieces of unusual materials were completed during the session, with others due to be further treated and then returned at the next meeting, as Carla DiPietro builds up the pieces of "The CQA Collection." The play-day was the group's third such annual workshop, and the April 18 StashFest marks CQA's third appearance at that fundraising event. StashFest sales of fabrics created and/or donated by CQA members will benefit both CQA and the La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum. (Preliminary information about StashFest may be found at <a href="http://members.lovelaconner.com/events/details/stashfest-2015-2253">http://members.lovelaconner.com/events/details/stashfest-2015-2253</a>)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(From left) Fundraising Chair Carla DiPietro, former president Mary Lewis, and member Cheryl Quesnell admire finished pieces as they begin to stack up on the drying rack.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Among the completed, labeled and packaged pieces for "The CQA Collection" to be sold at the April 18 StashFest is this delightful, coordinated set of silk-screened "rooster"prints.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Artist Lois Gaylord recommends a book during her talk at the CQA December 13 meeting.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In a month full of traditional ceremonies, the speaker for the December 13 CQA meeting was an apt choice: Seattle-area artist Lois Gaylord, a master weaver of ceremonial cloths. Gaylord spoke of these cloths as being of or having "spirit"--a concept given different names by every religion. For example, the Jews have a hundred different names for "force" or "spirit." She considers any textile with more than a practical purpose to be a cloth of meaning, and this can include anything from an altar cloth to a child's security blanket. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Anything with more than a practical purpose can be a cloth of meaning," said Gaylord.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Representation of a thick rope of three 2-strand fibers, reconstructed from a fossil found in cave in Lascaux, France, from 15,000 B.C.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gaylord began her presentation by pointing out that thread has been a basic and connecting element from ancient times. </span></span>Thread appeared in various forms, including twisted into rope, more than
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The three Norns from Norse mythology, spinning, weaving and cutting thread. (Art by Kevin Cain, Gaylord's husband)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ancient Anatolian kilim depicts the weaving goddess in several ways.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Every civilization had a spinning and weaving<span style="font-family: inherit;"> goddess who was the theme of many artworks. Greek sculptures</span></span> show the Three Fates spinning and cutting thread, and the same theme is seen in depictions of the Norns in Norse mythology. Anatolian kilim, at 9,000 years of age one of the oldest known fabrics, frequently featured several different representations of the goddess. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Designs in raffia textiles from the former Zaire serve to identify the user's status.</td></tr>
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"In those times," Gaylord said, "there was no distinction between religious and everyday uses of cloth." In the former Zaire, the Kuba people created textiles of raffia with designs that "identified you and your place in society." This was important, Gaylord added, "so that when these cloths were used in burials, you could be identified by your departed family members when you arrived in the land of the dead."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Above, traditional Tibetan prayer flags. Below, a modern interpretation by CQA member-artist Sharon Rowley, using the traditional five colors.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rowley's 9-flag "Prayer Song" is 20 feet long, repeats three designs three times each</td></tr>
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Other examples of early cloths prepared for sacred uses were initiated in Japan, including weavings made from hemp fibers and others of fibers from the mulberry plant. Prayer flags came into use in Nepal in 1000 B.C. These were used in sets of five, one in each of five colors--blue for sky, red for fire, yellow for earth, white for air, and green for water. The prayer flags were not intended to direct prayers to God, but rather to promote peace and spread goodwill to all via the fluttering wind until they naturally disintegrated.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Above and below, "sazigyo" strips from Burma have texts of prayers woven into them.</td></tr>
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From Burma came a different style of prayer cloth--sazigyo. Here the text of a prayer is woven into a long strip resembling a tape. Frequently people would order these for donation to a monastery, often to "earn merit."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Above, heavily embroidered stole in the tradition of Christian ministers. Below, a modern interpretation done in felt with appliques by Seattle weaver Leah Adams.</td></tr>
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Moving toward more modern times, Gaylord showed images of stoles worn by Christian ministers, where the lavish embroidery designs and other elements help identify the wearer's rank in the clergy.<br />
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Completing her survey of the history of ceremonial cloths, Gaylord pointed out that while she'd covered 10 uses, from kilim to challah covers, at least 20 more such uses exist that she hadn't had time to cover, ranging from christening gowns and confirmation dresses to modern pagan robes and maypoles!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jacket Gaylord made during studies for her B.A. in Fine Arts at the UW. She spun the yarn and wove the jacket.</td></tr>
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Gaylord took a somewhat circuitous path to her present emphasis on weaving ceremonial cloths. After receiving an Associate degree in industrial model building in California, she relocated to Seattle and completed her studies in textile design for a B.A. in fine arts at the University of Washington. Torn between devoting herself to creating clothing or going entirely into fiber art, she let her thoughts simmer during a nearly 20-year "gap in conceptual art" as she made her living as a freelance architectural-model builder.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Above, "Homage to Eve," a small sculpture representing a time of Gaylord's indecision about her path. Below, another sculpture to exorcise her fears: The downward spiral (black beads) shows Fear, Doubt, Worry, Indecision, Procrastination. She turned these negatives into positives with the upward spiral (white beads) that shows Courage, Confidence, Hope, Certainty and Decisive Right Action.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Pulling Spirit into Daily Life," a fabric piece made during Gaylord's time in the UW Fiber Arts Certificate Program.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Above, "Finding Focus," a basic 9-patch base of hand-painted jigsaw puzzle pieces topped with pins, wire, thread and beads. Below, closeup of a similar piece, "Puzzle of Life."</td></tr>
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Returning at last to the textile arena, she completed a fiber-arts certificate program at the UW where she formed the idea of doing art with a spiritual focus, even then worrying that this effort might be criticized--and also wondering if such creations would sell! Gaylord worked out some of her fears in tangible form, using her model-building skills and her love of textiles to create several small sculptural pieces that helped her turn her negative concerns into positive actions.<br />
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Raised in Jewish tradition, Gaylord soon found her niche in designing and weaving cloths appropriate to Jewish ceremonies and practices. In 2010, she designed and wove a special Torah cloth as a member of the Women's Torah Project--the first woman in Jewish history to do so. The cloth covers the altar where the Torah is displayed, with the blue borders delineating the area the Torah covers when unrolled. The central design of the cloth can be a leaf or a feather, depending on the viewer's choice; the central "rib" is a tablet-woven band. The red color represents the male, the blue color the female.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Above and below, hand-dyed, hand-woven tallit or prayer shawls.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tablet-woven "atarah"or neckbands on tallit or prayer shawls</td></tr>
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Tallit or prayer shawls are among the other ceremonial cloths in which Gaylord has come to specialize, oftentimes hand-dying the warp threads to get the effect she desires. She also creates hand-dyed linens with silk-screened designs to serve as matzoh and challah (bread) covers for the ceremonial table. And, she's found that these ceremonial items of "spirit" do indeed sell!<br />
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Gaylord recently completed study through the "Arts Now" EDGE Professional Development Program in Edmonds, which was about the business part of being an artist. She is now devoting time to entering shows and working on getting solo shows of her work. For more about Gaylord and her work, go to her website: <a href="http://www.loisgaylord.com/" target="_blank">www.loisgaylord.com</a>.Donna DeShazohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04912477693218815842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350273000275548804.post-30925522193590201032014-11-16T19:39:00.001-08:002014-11-16T23:48:39.047-08:00JoeTheQuilter Cunningham shows his unique voice<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">San Francisco quilt artist Joe Cunningham at the Nov. 8 CQA meeting</td></tr>
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<b><i>"Jules is a slut!"</i></b><br />
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This wasn't the opening line of Joe Cunningham's presentation to CQA members and guests at the group's November 8 meeting, but it was just one among many laugh-provoking comments that marked the San Francisco artist's highly entertaining program. (The pertinence of this line will be disclosed in due course...)<br />
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Joe took up quilting in 1979 after a 10-year career as a musician (guitar player), in his native Michigan. Formal art study or training was never among his activities, but art and music were always his interests. "The Detroit Museum of Art was my favorite school-skip location," he laughed. "Art is intimidating, but quilting is endearing," he added, as a way of explaining how he came to create his own art through quilting.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joe points out the combination of traditional, modern, and "maker's choice" elements in the free-form design of this antique quilt from his collection. He is inspired by antique quilts where the makers did anything they wanted!</td></tr>
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He took as his quilting mentor Hungarian-born Mary Schafer, a strict traditionalist who taught that you engineer the border of a quilt around the center, and "If it's not tradition, you can't do it!" Joe threw himself into the study of the quilting traditions, and from that viewpoint, gave the CQA audience a capsule history: Quilting began with the elaborate European bedspreads, but by the time quilting migrated to this country, American women began to throw out this idea in favor of creating quilts as useful objects--as gifts, or as blankets to keep the family warm.<br />
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And, as this was a "woman's pursuit," there was no money in it--at first. There were very few actual quilt patterns in the period 1810-20 or so, but by the 1840-50 period, thousands of patterns existed. The first quilt kits appeared in the 1940s, and thereafter there were more quilts being styled by designers than by ordinary quilters. Through the '60s, '70s and '80s, the traditional quilt was a box, with limits clearly defined. This "standard" was spread by show categories, reinforced by what quilts won, what quilts got published.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is Joe's "anti-medallion" quilt, where he followed his desired path of "starting by putting any two pieces of fabric together," and of course ignoring the traditional center-medallion design.</td></tr>
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In attending numerous quilt shows, Joe soon found that he was noticing quilts in vendor booths that were 100-150 years old, yet were not considered traditional...they were often odd designs that quilters had just made up. It was these quilts that most attracted him, and that he began to collect and use as inspirations. His mantra is "Start by putting any two pieces of fabric together, any way you want!" He says he's still "making a blanket," adding that a philosopher friend riffed on this idea when calling a quilt "the perfect existential object." Joe redefined this as "wrapping up against the coldness of the universe!" He said he's on a one-man crusade to make quilts/blankets "art to go on a wall."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Island in two parts" is Joe's "anti-Amish" quilt. The larger area is a single piece of green-and-white striped fabric cut into chunks and turned in various directions to add interest and dimension.</td></tr>
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Joe likes to buy fabrics by price, and "the cheaper, the better!" He's the guy who scours the sale tables, saying "I have a flair for the unattractive. If the fabrics actually go together, I toss 'em!" He adds, "Beautiful fabric doesn't make a beautiful quilt...it's the quilter who does that." He has no interest in color theory; he prefers to do things never seen before.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joe's version of "New York Beauty." Again, he prefers to start with fabrics that don't go together: "I have a flair for the unattractive!" These came from 3 different sale tables. The pinkish fabric is a stripe that Joe cut into pieces of varying sizes and re-sewn at varying angles for texture and interest.</td></tr>
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Using a design wall, Joe will construct a piece in chunks, often using the same fabric across seams so the seams are not so obvious. At the same time, he will often cut a striped fabric into numerous pieces, sewing them back together at different angles, so that the seam contributes to the resulting textured appearance.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This "crazy quilt" was inspired by an aerial view of protesters in Kiev's main square, inside the barricades. This is his first time to use fabrics that do indeed go together, but they are at least from all over the world.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joe programmed the quilting design to show the barricades, sleeping protesters, etc.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joe likes black-and-white quilts...here he's unfolding one that's just black thread all over white fabric.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The front and back (oddly enough!) are the same. Joe drew a low-res image of the quilting design and blew it up to 6x7 feet in size. Then he computerized 130 individual drawings as 7" blocks in rows of 10, to be able to quilt the overall design.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Close-up of the tree at the center of the design.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Close-up of window, bricks, on the black-and-white quilt.</td></tr>
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Several years ago Joe embarked on his "bias tape" period, creating design lines of a number of his pieces with commercial bias tape. It all started when he spotted a huge spool of bias tape at Britex, the San Francisco mecca for fabric lovers, at a really cheap price. He bought 100 yards of the tape and stitched some of it on a blank section of an in-progress quilt. He liked the result so much that he posted a note, "Seeking bias tape!" on his website...and had to take it down after a month to attempt to stem the deluge of incoming tape! "I still have a huge bundle," he laughed, then added, "and I'm still buying the stuff on eBay when I spot a bargain. I'm the guy who pays $3.98 for a spool of it--plus over $12 shipping!"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The "Cunningham Ancestral Line," done with black bias tape.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Winter Twister," again done with black commercial bias tape.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Close-up of part of "Winter Twister"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Defunct Civilization" is a great example of fabrics most quilters wouldn't put together! The design lines--a Roman aqueduct and fallen columns at top, an old car at bottom, are done with bias tape.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Back side of "Defunct Civilization." Quilting design is a repeating pattern Joe drew, representing the layout of a V-6 automobile engine.</td></tr>
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One of Joe's more recent projects is a series of portraits, self- and otherwise, several of which make use of his favorite bias tape as a defining line. One of his wife was done somewhat in the pop art style of Roy Lichtenstein, complete with the iconic "thought balloon." Asked how his wife liked the result, Joe said "Oh, she likes the quilt, but she says it isn't her!"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More "unusual" color combos in this portrait of Joe's wife, but it's the bias tape lines and "thought balloon" that capture the eye first.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The "thought balloon" words were printed on Joe's computer printer.</td></tr>
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Another "bias-taped" portrait was one of fellow fiber-artist Luke Haynes. With the portrait nearly completed, Joe felt it lacked something to finish off the bottom. His son, Jules, offered the use of some of his old jeans. It needs to be explained that Jules had been the only male student, along with 24 teen-age girls, in some sort of alternative arts program...and the girls had written various comments on Jules' jeans. Not until Joe began hand-quilting this denim section of the quilt did he discover that some of these writings were legible...including the comment about Jules that opens this article. "Once Luke heard about this," Joe laughed, "he said he had to have this quilt!"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Portrait of fellow artist Luke Haynes includes bias tape, rick-rack and buttons...and the inked comment about Joe's son Jules in the bottom section comprising used denim jeans.</td></tr>
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A quilt Joe completed just before his appearance at the CQA meeting is a self-portrait utilizing silk-shirting scraps in tan and black, remnants from a manufacturing operation.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joe's self portrait. The black and tan fabrics are silk-shirting remnants.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Close-up of quilting pattern Joe designed.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">[Above and below] More close-ups of quilting pattern on Joe's self portrait. Note the raw edges of the tan and black silk areas.</td></tr>
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With all the desired pieces of the design stitched in place, Joe programmed his longarm quilting machine with his chosen quilting pattern and went off into another room to eat, read, etc. All was going fine until he realized the machine had begun to make strange noises and, finally, shut itself off in mid-stream. Returning to the room to check out the situation, Joe found to his horror that the machine had jammed on some of the loose edges of the silk-shirting patches and "stitched/ripped" two holes in the quilt, then managed to break some expensive internal part of itself! This explains, he said, why there is a flower on the self-portrait quilt...and why it's in just that spot.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joe points out the flower that "rescued" the self-portrait quilt when his longarm quilting machine "ate" two holes in the quilt. "At least the eyes of the figure are looking in this direction,"he laughed.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Close-up of the flower that covers up the offending holes.</td></tr>
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Joe has taught and lectured all across the country; his quilts are part of both private and public/museum collections. He is the author or co-author of more than a dozen books on quilting both traditional and modern, including six with traditional/"liberated" quiltmaker Gwen Marston, as well as 2010's pioneering "Men and the Art of Quilt Making." Read more about Joe and his quilts at his blog, <a href="http://joethequiltercunningham.blogspot.com/">joethequiltercunningham.blogspot.com</a> and on his website,<a href="http://www.joethequilter.com./" target="_blank"> www.joethequilter.com/.</a><br />
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<br />Donna DeShazohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04912477693218815842noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350273000275548804.post-78553319271727810272014-10-17T16:11:00.001-07:002014-10-17T16:11:54.063-07:00Marjorie Fiddler, quilter to weaver<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Marjorie Fiddler at CQA's Oct. 11 meeting, wearing a "vest/coat" woven of silk and linen threads.</td></tr>
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Marjorie Fiddler's first quilt, started when she was in college in Northfield, MN, was intended for a friend getting married. After wrestling with sandpaper templates ("to prevent them moving") and the severely limited fabric selection in Northfield in 1965, she abandoned the quilt...for more than 30 years! At the October 11 meeting of Contemporary QuiltArt Association, the Seattle-area artist told how, in the decades following that first effort, she combined her love of quilting with a subsequently discovered talent for weaving.<br />
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Out of college by the early '70s, Fiddler found herself in Boston, where an occupational-therapist friend employed at a local hospital gave her access to an unused workshop full of weaving equipment. "There was an old counter-balance loom missing some parts and pieces," Fiddler said, "so I spent the summer rounding up materials to repair the loom, acquiring fibers to weave, talking to every weaver I could locate, reading a ton of books on the craft, and so on." Soon she was creating weavings of her own, from simple curtains to a complicated, colonial-style overshot bedspread. "Weaving is very step-by-step, and that appealed to me," Fiddler added.<br />
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In 1989, Fiddler arrived in Seattle with a year off to explore "something brand new," and the first thing she tried was watercolor classes. "I found out pretty quickly that I couldn't draw sufficiently--which was good, as I spent my time learning to blend colors," Fiddler said. Dealing with color came in very handy in her next exploration, which was a quilt-design study group. Here she learned to not second-guess herself, to have faith in her own work and not gauge everything by how others responded to it.<br />
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From roughly 1989 until she retired in 2004, Fiddler was involved primarily in quilting. "What I loved about quilting was that the cloth comes already colored and frequently with patterning...and you can work piece by piece on a design wall," she said. "In weaving you have to decide so much in advance."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fiddler's first finished quilt taught her a lot about scale!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nicole McHale, left, and Bonnie Brewer check out Fiddler's "Friendship" group quilt. All hand-quilted in a traditional basket design, it was featured in the first show of the Assn. of Pacific NW Quilters, 1994, and traveled to Christchurch, NZ in a "sister city" exchange.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bonnie Brewer studies Fiddler's "Batik Jewels" quilt, one of her early pieces created from fabrics a friend brought back from Micronesia. Fiddler found she liked the use of narrow inset lines..something used extensively in weaving.</td></tr>
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"But some of the same principles basic to quilting are also critical to weaving," she adds. "Value is more important than color...a piece needs to 'read' both from closeup and at a distance. Line is another common element. I like to work on a grid, for the geometrical interaction of the lines. Scale is also important. And for me personally, I like having a limit, or boundaries...and you get that within the confines of the loom. I don't do tapestry weaving, as that has no boundaries."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fiddler's 8-harness rug loom</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View of part of Fiddler's studio and her 16-harness loom, used for yardage.</td></tr>
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Given the freedom of retirement, Fiddler chose to return to weaving as her creative outlet. A class at Weaving Works in Seattle in 2005 was followed by her joining the Seattle Weavers Guild. Then, through a family connection, she inherited two large floor looms--one, an 80"-high, 8-harness rug loom, the other a 16-harness loom for weaving yardage.<br />
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"Having these large, wonderful looms signaled to me that it was time to have 'a room of my own,'" Fiddler said, so the next step was rental of studio space outside of her home. "This also meant I now had something of my own space within my head....I was no longer worried about making pieces just for sale--though I do sell pieces--but from then on, the projects were just for my pleasure," she added.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A sample of plain weave, where both the warp (vertical) and weft (horizontal) threads show.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sample of weft-faced weave, used for rugs. Here, only the horizontal weft threads (yarn) show.</td></tr>
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Fiddler showed images of "plain weave"--where the warp (vertical) strings are visible in the finished product--and "weft-face weave," where the weft (horizontal filler) yarns entirely cover the warp. This latter weave style is what Fiddler uses for rugs, which are her most frequent projects. She uses linen threads for the warp and 2-ply wool for the weft (mostly purchased from Henry's Attic). Fiddler does most of her own dying, sometimes using natural dyes, but primarily using washfast acid dyes from Dharma. "Once I was concerned with consistency in dyeing, but I've learned to let it go," she added.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vertical stripes can be done in weft-face weave by manipulating the looms harnesses.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Samples with vertical stripes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Samples of "standard" horizontal woven stripes in weft-face weave.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closeup of horizontal weft-face weave. The little "specks" of color come from tightly pounding down a single"shot" or thread of yarn.</td></tr>
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Even in the weft-face weave, Fiddler can product vertical lines as well as the basic horizontal lines, by manipulating the loom's harnesses to create stripes. Non vertical/horizontal-line patterns can also be created through the use of ikat dyeing--basically tie-dyeing on a thread-by-thread basis. Sections of yarn are wrapped with some sort of resist, e.g. threads, plastic bags, tape, etc., then the yarn is sequentially dyed, first with the resist in place, then without (or vice versa, depending on the desired color combinations). The ikat process does require advance measuring in order to have the "second color" appear in the right place in the final piece, added Fiddler.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A setup for ikat dying, showing the "resist" wrapping. Inset shows a woven sample from ikat-dyed yarn.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The purplish irregular sections are ikat-dyed.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The final appearance can be changed by manipulating the ikat-dyed yarn section.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finished section including an ikat-dyed portion.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here, only the gray section(s) were ikat-dyed.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The irregular grayish sections were ikat-dyed.</td></tr>
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With the experience she's gained over the years, Fiddler says she can now sit at the loom and design as she goes, without working from a precise plan or a sketchbook. The basic design principles of design she first learned in her years of quilting--and that transfer directly to weaving--now stand her in good stead.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Done in a twill weave, this is Fiddler's first piece that doesn't have top/bottom mirror image, a result of her running out of some of the yarn!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This piece was over-dyed with indigo, and again, is symmetric rather than mirror-image.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deciding she'd not been using enough different colors in her work, Fiddler used a triad color scheme for this piece. She found she needed to change colors more often than usual!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Reflections"--an ikat piece with both horizontal and vertical lines, somewhat designed "on the fly" as Fiddler ran short of some of the yarns and had to modify as she went.</td></tr>
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For more about Fiddler and views of her weavings, go to <a href="http://www.mfiddlerweaver.com./">www.mfiddlerweaver.com.</a>Donna DeShazohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04912477693218815842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350273000275548804.post-88376390577197078722014-08-15T17:12:00.000-07:002014-10-16T11:51:54.310-07:00Deborah Kapoor uses ancient technique to create very modern art<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Artist Deborah Kapoor at CQA meeting</td></tr>
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Seattle-area artist Deborah Kapoor calls her work mostly experimental as she continually pushes to new boundaries. That she does this using one of the most ancient of art media--encaustic--intrigued the members of Contemporary QuiltArt Association as she spoke at the group's August 9 meeting.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The materials of encaustic: beeswax, pigment, resin (R&F Paints)</td></tr>
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Encaustic work uses a mix of beeswax, pigment and resin that functions as paint and that can be used in much the same way as oil paints, but with the added ability to encase three-dimensional objects within the wax. Some of the earliest uses of encaustic date back to 500 B.C., and the medium was used in mummy paintings by the Egyptians around 100 A.D.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Hot boxes" or palettes (R&F Paints)</td></tr>
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The wax, pigment and resin are mixed and melted on top of a "hot box" or palette, and applied with brushes or spoon- and knife-like metal tools. Modern encaustic materials have an advantage over oil paints in that there's no need for solvent--they can be cleaned up with soy wax, then soap and water.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"BloodMilk"--encaustic with plaster bandage, wire, thread, book pages, onion skins, lace, Saral transfer, string, dryer sheets.</td></tr>
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Encaustic pieces are archival--as long as they are not subjected to uncontrolled intense heat--and can be reworked at a later time by applying heat to any given area. They can crack if dropped--but the artist can then simply reheat the affected area and fix it!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Retention of Life Force"--Encaustic,wire, paper, yarn.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Non-Violence"--Encaustic, lace, paper</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Swinging Between External and Internal"--Encaustic, ink, fabric, ribbon</td></tr>
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Kapoor was into painting and drawing in graduate school, then found herself cutting things up and adding stitching to her paintings. Soon she was integrating cold wax into her paintings to create layers, so it became an easy move to encaustic.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Vehicle of the Gods"--Encaustic, dryer lint, thread, batting</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closeup of "Vehicle of the Gods"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Inexorable Passage of Time"--Encaustic, old greeting cards</td></tr>
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Many of her works spring out of three main themes--nature, the body, the self--each of which offers numerous paths for her to follow. Her husband is from India; that, combined with travel to India and study of Indian philosophy, has resulted in a good deal of her work exhibiting themes from Indian culture and traditions. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Small Acts of Kindness"--Includes rubber bands in encaustic</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Village Gods"--Encaustic, paper, ink, thread</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Sense Base"--Encaustic, Satsuma peels</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Back side of "Sense Base"</td></tr>
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Kapoor takes full advantage of encaustic's ability to "hold" three-dimensional objects within the wax, and she collects and uses materials as disparate as bags of fibers, rubber bands, eye makeup-remover pads, dryer sheets, dryer lint, greeting cards, batting, "plaster bandages," plastic wrap, Satsuma peels and madrona bark in her work. She often includes prints and/or printed materials, and some pieces include hand-written mantras.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Inner Soul"--Encaustic, thread, paper (with written mantras)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Divine Mother"--Encaustic, felt, ink, paper, cord. Part of "Remembering" installation honoring Kapoor's late mother-in-law.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Installation of "Remembering"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Cosmic Consciousness"--part of "Remembering" installation. Encaustic, paper, found objects, brads, cord.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Remembering: Bones"--Encaustic, cord from pajamas</td></tr>
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Kapoor began teaching encaustic classes at Bellevue College last year, and this winter will be teaching classes in Color Theory and Encaustic and Color. Her work can be seen at Art Exchange Gallery in Seattle, <a href="http://www.artxchange.org/">www.artxchange.org</a> and on her website: <a href="http://www.deborahkapoor.com/">www.deborahkapoor.com</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Students gather around Kapoor in encaustic class at Bellevue College.</td></tr>
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For more information on encaustic history, materials and techniques, go to R&F Paints, <a href="http://www.rfpaints.com./">www.rfpaints.com.</a>Donna DeShazohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04912477693218815842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350273000275548804.post-32368191193635503302014-07-19T17:11:00.000-07:002014-10-16T11:52:39.535-07:00Ross Palmer Beecher's "metal quilts and flags" fool the eye<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Artist Ross Palmer Beecher at July 12 CQA meeting</td></tr>
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"One man's trash, etc...." was never more true than for Ross Palmer Beecher. The Seattle-area artist wowed Contemporary QuiltArt Assn. members at the group's July 12 meeting with images and samples of her flags and quilts, which are definitely the epitome of mixed media.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of Beecher's cloth quilts/flags. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closeup shows presidential flags from placemats</td></tr>
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Originally from Connecticut, Beecher was intrigued by fabric quilts as a child after her sister showed her pictures from an exhibit at New York's Whitney Museum. To create her own version of a scrap quilt, Beecher solicited fabric scraps from customers on her newspaper-delivery route. As this was in the '70s, she ended up with a motley collection including lots of polyester, Dacron, and other less-than-ideal fabrics to work with. She also determined she would make the quilt entirely by hand.<br />
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As if these materials were not challenging enough, Beecher soon moved on to creating quilts and flags from aluminum cans! Now, her pieces comprise every type of scrap material imaginable, including license plates, pop and beer cans, spray cans, used paint tubes, candy wrappers, gummy worms, old clothing, venetian-blind slats, bottle caps, car and bicycle inner tubes, junk jewelry, silverware, kitchen utensils, cigarette lighters, snuff cans, Hot Wheels toy cars...you name it, she's used it! Some materials are discarded items she picks up as she bicycles to work. Friends and neighbors who know of her artwork will leave bags of cans on her front porch. Complete sets of states' license plates are available online if she doesn't find enough in her scrounging.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Triptych "Tumbling Dice" uses pieces of army clothing, Boy Scout patches, bullet casings from a shooting range.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closeup of "Tumbling Dice." The small squares in the "plain" faces are mounted bullet casings.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Created from discarded cigarette lighters and parts of snuff cans. This piece was chosen by employees of the Seattle Water Dept. for permanent display in the Department's building.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Includes "head shots" from Napoleon olive oil cans, plexiglas.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bottle caps, woven pop cans</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cut-up tin cans, a lunch box, strips from a child's wagon. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closeup of above; note open lunch box (black handle)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gummy worms, varnish, epoxy. Colors remain strong even after 10 years of hanging in the artist's window!</td></tr>
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In using cans, she will "fillet" them to get sections that she may then use in large chunks, or she may cut the sections into thin strips that she will then weave together. She uses a Whitney punch to create holes in the edges of the materials--by hand. Heavier materials are linked by metal staples, lighter ones by 28-gauge wire.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closeup of "quilt" featuring silverware in fan pattern. The piece is part of the permanent collection of the Boeing Co. at its Chicago headquarters.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beecher's favorite Log Cabin pattern done in license plates</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"My Palette #2" done in "filleted" spray cans and paint tubes</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closeup of "My Palette #2"</td></tr>
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Pressurized spray cans need a different treatment to make them workable, involving gloves, a paper bag and bolt cutters: she places the cans in the bag and "pinches" them with the bolt cutters to let the residual gas escape. It's a surprise to learn that she's able to handle these unforgiving materials without a lot of slashed fingers! In using various fabrics in her pieces, often she will glue them to cardboard from cereal boxes to make them stiff enough to combine with metal pieces.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Log Cabin "quilt" done in Hershey chocolate syrup cans that were saved for Beecher by an artist neighbor.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closeup showing strips from chocolate syrup cans. Each block is bordered with bicycle inner-tubing,then laced with 28-gauge wire. The center "spiral" is an automobile reflector.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Even an old bedspring forms the basis of a pop-can quilt!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coke can "hearts" with 7-Up can backgrounds, Napoleon olive oil centers. A similar, larger version is on permanent display at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closeup shows weaving from pop-can strips. Metal flowers (top) are from an old tin ceiling.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A bit of a pun--the letters are taken from license plates, which are typically made in state prisons.</td></tr>
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Beecher has dedicated a 10' x 10' area of her 1500 sq. ft. house as a "studio," but admits that the construction process has expanded into her living room. Her "stash" consists of little piles of similar materials, mostly all out and exposed...she has to see it to remember what she has available to work with. Most of her pieces average 38 x 24 inches in size, with the largest being 9 x 6 feet.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A modification of Beecher's favorite Log Cabin pattern</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A closeup shows the metal staples used to join heavier metal sections.</td></tr>
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Some of her pieces are mounted on boards--depending on where the flag or quilt is to be hung or displayed--but she prefers to let them hang free as if they were made of cloth in the traditional manner.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A mandala design of Coke cans and flip-top rings</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Pepsi mandala including flip-top rings</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Wedding Band," similar to traditional Wedding Ring pattern</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closeup of "Wedding Band" shows the thin "curly" linkages Beecher cut from the rims of bottle tops.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Rainbow" mandala of soda can flip-top rings with colander center. On permanent display at Seattle's Harborview Medical Center.</td></tr>
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Asked about how she markets her work, Beecher responded that the Center on Contemporary Arts in New York gave her some exposure some years back. Her work was seen by a number of gallery owners, including Seattle's Greg Kucera, who asked to represent her. <b><i>[Greg Kucera Gallery is showing a major exhibit of her work through August 23, 2014, at 212 3rd Ave. So., Seattle.] </i></b><br />
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She also checks the internet to review calls for artists' entries. She has won an award from Artist Trust organization, and has been commissioned to produce a number of pieces of public art. (A Beecher piece was hanging in the US Embassy in Baghdad.) One piece for the Washington State Arts Commission, intended for a school in Gold Bar, was rejected by the school as some of the bottle caps in the frame came from beer bottles; the piece now hangs in the Commission's own office!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of two quilts on permanent display at Seattle's Safeco field (one with AL team logos, the other with those of NL teams), on license plates, with bottle-cap borders and sashing.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Created for display at an Ellensburg high school.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closeup of Ellensburg high school piece, with full-size tractor seat (supplied by students)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Piece created for a school in Dupont, WA, with themes selected through a community/committee process. Includes tiles, oils on metal, coffee stirrers, fabrics, badges, military clothing. Each 15" square is wood-backed.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closeup of a section of the Dupot school piece. Note actual school supplies, book spines in upper right block.</td></tr>
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For more information about Beecher, her work and her awards, see: <a href="http://www.gregkucera.com/beecher.htm" target="_blank">www.gregkucera.com/beecher.htm</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"> </a>.<br />
Donna DeShazohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04912477693218815842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350273000275548804.post-445631737954662112014-06-26T16:02:00.002-07:002014-10-16T11:53:07.694-07:00Deborah Gregory explores "Nature's Influence" with CQA members<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deborah Gregory addresses the June 14 CQA meeting</td></tr>
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For someone who says she's "not from a crafty family," Deborah Gregory has created a body of work that shows that she's made her own mark, through study and practice, to easily elevate craft to the level of fine art. Deborah, a long-time member of Contemporary Quilt Art Association (CQA), displayed the wide range of her fiber art at the group's June 14 meeting.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Sea Circles II," one of Deborah's earlier quilts</td></tr>
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Deborah grew up in Gloucester, Mass., with water, marsh and tide flats as her constant view, and the salty, watery smell, she said, was "just right." Possibly coincidentally, possibly by design, she ended up living in Seattle where "the water smells are just right!" Her career following a degree in Psychology comprised 20 years of social work where, she added, "Unfortunately you don't see a finished product." However, the tools she employed in her profession have helped her to be intuitive in her creative work.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of Deborah's earlier, more traditional quilts</td></tr>
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Once retired from social work, Deborah first focused on making clothing, then discovered Block Party Quilters, a traditional quilt guild in the Seattle/East Side area, and later joined CQA. Like many "newly hatched" fiber artists, she loaded herself up with classes in a wide variety of techniques, e.g. Lorraine Torrence's design classes, shibori, painting, collage, 3-D, etc. Throughout this exploratory period, she came to learn that "You have to be able to yield control and let the fiber work it out."<br />
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Three quite different events or occurrences happened in the early 2000s that sharpened her focus. First, her daughter died, in 2002, after a four-year fight against cancer. During this period, Deborah sought comfort in working in her studio.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Genesis," one of the first pieces using landscape netting</td></tr>
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Then, at one point, Deborah was intrigued by rolls of landscape netting she kept seeing on her walks on a path through a Bellevue greenbelt near her home. This was the fibrous net of the type highway departments use to control hillside erosion. Deborah "acquired" a yard or so of the netting and, using it as a resist, found that it slowly disintegrates when bleached and reused in her favored discharge process. Both the netting and that slow, deteriorating characteristic became the foundation of many of her subsequent series of art quilts. "I use this decomposition as a metaphor for nature's cycle of growth, flowering, decay and regrowth," she says.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Passages," Deborah's piece in "Visual Verse." Netting based, this one introduces color.</td></tr>
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Finally, in 2003 Deborah took part in a CQA-sponsored exhibition titled "Visual Verse," a show of works created by members who were paired with poets to produce companion art/poetry pieces over the period of a year. Her participation in this exhibit helped set her compass for her future work.<br />
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One of Deborah's more extensive series is "Choices and Pathways," and she has just completed her 21st piece in this group! <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Choices and Pathways IV." The central motif of this piece became a theme in a number of subsequent pieces.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Choices and Pathways XI" sold promptly, even though Deborah had originally felt it was a failure-"too much black"!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Diptych "Choices and Pathways X" in preliminary stages.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Diptychs "Choices and Pathways XII," left, and the finished "Choices and Pathways X," right.</td></tr>
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Another series is titled "Cycles," where she intends to complete a piece for each month of the year.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"January II" in the "Cycles" series. Commercial fabric, pole-wrapped, bleached with dishwasher soap.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"May" in "Cycles" series. Pole-wrapped, discharged, over-dyed several times in sections.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"July" in "Cycles" series. Same fabric as "May." The small round white spots are the results of water and bleach "blops" from an uncleaned spray bottle!</td></tr>
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A third series is "Rest in Red," where several pieces are in the traditional kimono shape.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Rest in Red II." Hand-dyed with discharged "leaves"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Rest in Red III," a commission for Fine Woodworking display.</td></tr>
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In addition to doing discharge work with the netting, Deborah incorporates both blue- and brown-printing in her pieces. Though similar, the latter involves using a silver nitrate solution painted on the surface of fabrics. In blue-printing, she either mixes or buys the solution (ferrous, cyanide, iron), then paints it on fiber or fabrics in a dark room. Once the solution is dry, she exposes the treated material to the sun or a UV light, then rinses the piece to see the final design that emerges. During a residency in the Southwest, Deborah experimented with just tossing the blue-print fluid onto fabrics rather than painting a design, but she found the sun there to be so strong that the pieces were over-exposed. Further, the tossing method wastes a lot of the solution.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Release Contain," a dyed silk back with blue-printed design and a layer of silk organza.</td></tr>
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Deborah has tried painting at several times during her artistic journey, but found that she's much more comfortable with collage and fabric 3-D work. She sometimes includes a netting in her collage works, but this time it's the much finer florist's netting that she will "distress" with a heat gun.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Pathways III" collage</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Ancient Walls" collage. Hand-dyed (wine-colored) fabric background, canvas front with paint, paper, fabric and silk-screened work.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Blue Garden VI" collage</td></tr>
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Many of her 3-D pieces are bowls, a format she's been experimenting with for some time. Using a balloon to form the basic shape, she will layer on blue-printed silk organza ("rayon collapses!"), occasionally lining the piece with layers of wool. She has used a variety of stiffeners in the bowls, including liquids, but has found no one better than any other.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Sea Bowl" of blue-printed silk organza, with distressed edges, loose threads.</td></tr>
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More recent experiments in 3-D work include her "Floats," where three loose layers of blue-printed silk organza are hung from a specially made, acrylic and metal wall-mounted frame. Deborah confided that she was able to trade one of the "floats" for a week's vacation in a palapa in Mexico!<br />
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One of Deborah's pieces will be included in a NorthWest Designer Craftsmen show at the Whatcom County Museum this fall. For more information about Deborah and to view the full range of her extraordinary work, see <a href="http://www.deborah-gregory.com./" target="_blank">www.deborah-gregory.com.</a><br />
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