Art Buddies
March 29, 2020 |Karol Kusmaul For years now, I have attended a spring fiber artist retreat in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. Sometimes for a week, sometimes for 11 days, sometimes with a class or two, sometimes just to retreat and work on projects. The venue is unbelievably perfect. Lots of
The Only Blue House in the Neighborhood
Last month I went off to Mexico for a late winter break from the rain and gloom of Oregon. February had been very busy and I had not even begun to plan how I was going to respond to our “Neighborhood” challenge, but tucked it into the back of my
Where I Am. Where I Go
A small town in the context of the wider world.
Ailsa Craig
March 31, 2020 Catherine McDonald Neighbourhood means many things to me but none more so than a small country town that espouses the values of working together for the good of their town. In my piece I have tried to show the open countryside all around the town. Coming from
Rural Neighborhood
I live in a rural neighborhood surrounded by mostly native flora and fauna. If you know the Sierra Nevada foothills in northern California, you might be wondering why my quilt has so much green, when most of the year it’s so brown (or as we like to say, golden). For
Charlie
“No one has any intention of building a wall“ This sentence was said by the former GDR head of state Walter Ulbricht in a press conference on June 15, 1961. It was a lie. The Berlin Wall was built two months later and the inner German border was closed. The building of the wall had
Lisa Walton
Lisa Walton Australia Lisa Walton lives in Sydney Australia and has been a textile artist & teacher for over 20 years. She dyes and prints her own fabrics and loves to embellish and layer her textile art. She was awarded the Jewel Pearce Patterson Scholarship for Quilting Teachers by the
Sandra van Velzen
Sandra van Velzen Tiel, the Netherlands I am a textile and mixed media artist from the Netherlands. I create both abstract and pictorial quilts. The design of my work is sometimes driven by the theme of an (international) contest, sometimes by the theme of the art groups I am part
Maria Shell
Maria Shell Anchorage, Alaska, USA How do I get color to vibrate? How do I get a self made print to read against another self made print? How can I stitch these elements together so that the viewer sees not only hundreds of scraps of fabric but also the SUM–the
Martha Ressler
Martha Ressler Hamburg, Pennsylvania, USA A painter first, Ressler specialized in industrial subjects and working-class neighborhoods. But the allure of Fiberart won her away. She has been sewing since she was 13, and loves the textures of fabric. >She walks a lot, and takes photos or does sketches of her