Alliance for the Arts | Artist’s Question, Answered in Fiber
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When starting a new piece, artists might ask themselves: What idea is important to communicate? What concept do I want to explore? What emotions do I want to evoke?
This exhibition presents the artwork of 29 individual artists who explored these themes, answering in their artwork.
The quilts in this exhibit reflect the varied traditions and artmaking methods characteristic of contemporary art quilters. Included are original surface designs on fabric, hand stitching,machine stitching, hand embellishments, applique, and digital printing. Some works are representational. Some are abstract.
SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates), a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the art quilt: “a creative visual work that is layered and stitched or that references this form of stitched layered structure.” The vision of SAQA is that the art quilt is universally respected as a fine art medium.
Opening Reception: June 3, 5-7pm • See it first. See it free. This event is open to the public. Come meet your neighbors at this free event!
Featured Artists:
Bobbi Baugh: Nor Could Our Hands Catch Them
From her studio in DeLand, Florida Bobbi creates collaged textile artworks for exploration of memories, dreams, storytelling and images of the natural world. The works are built from hand-printed fabrics and paper and finished as art quilts.
Gretchen Brooks: Ring the Bell
Brooks’ biology experience has provided a wealth of inspiration for Gretchen’s artistic endeavors, which have ranged from floral design, to outdoor cement and mosaic sculptures.
Kathleen Campau: Sending Kisses by Moonlight
Campau’s art has been shown extensively in Michigan, the International Quilt Festival, and regional art exhibits in both Florida and Ohio.
Susan Charles: Red Skies, Beauty or Beast
From an early age, Susan has been fascinated by shapes and colors. She developed her craft working at a quilt store in Northern California. Charles says “I wanted to explore what was once a beautiful sunset is now a deadly fire.”
Gabriele DiTota: Double Threat
Gabriele’s surface design techniques including monoprinting, mark making, dyeing, discharging and screen-printing helps her create the textural and unique fabrics used in her art works.
Mel Dugosh: Who Does Your Stripes?
Mel specialized in and taught traditional edge turned hand appliqué using predominantly vintage and civil war reproduction fabrics. She only recently discovered art quilting after health and mobility constraints curtailed her traditional quilting craft.
Regina Dunn: Screen Door With A View
Regina started her artistic journey in 2001 by making traditional quilts. She ventured into the art world by attending workshops, joining art groups, and trying many techniques over the years as she developed a personal style.
Sally Dutko: Urban Jeopardy
Dutko’s dyed and painted fabrics transform into abstract compositions hinting at subjects through color, texture, line, pattern and typography.
Linda Geiger: Too Many Choices
Linda has been focusing on textile surface design. Her art is spontaneous rather than premeditated, as she finds inspiration in a piece of hand-dyed fabric and then paints,pieces, and stitches it into a work of art.
Peg Green: Feeling Exuberant – Somersault
Green’s projects include a Mongolia-America Friendship Center with weekly adult classes, and a seed distribution project with a demo vegetable garden.
Edith Gross: Brother, Should I Spare a Dime?
Gross expresses herself through art quilting which is her passion, freedom, joy, and voice.
Leslie A. Hall: Mama, Are We There Yet?
Hall makes fiber art pieces that are shown and exhibited nationally. She lives quietly on Longboat Key, Florida with her husband and cat, Dudley.
Diane Powers Harris: Spirit Owl’s Offering – Solace
Powers was surrounded by vibrant tropical flowers and vivid sunsets which influenced her early use of exuberant color. She is interested to discover how her art will grow. Will it incorporate strong use of color
Jane Hartfield: Life Is A Cycle
Hartfield explores the unlimited techniques for applying color and creating unique fabrics, Jane has also found satisfaction in making wearable art. She has a passion for adding color to fabric with fiber reactive dyes and paints.
Linda M. Kim: Creating Love from Despair
Kim combines her affections for textiles, found and recycled materials, and her concerns as a woman, parent, immigrant and American. She creates art quilts for their inherent storytelling quality and tactile allure.
Angie Knowles: The Same But Different
Knowles works in mixed media, primarily surface design on cotton, silk and rayon. She has explored many different aspects of fiber arts, from clothing construction and hand embroidery to machine knitting and surface design techniques.
Karol Kusmaul: Party Lights
Kusmaul enjoys making collage art with repurposed fabrics and using raw edge, hand applique. Her work reflects her delight in pattern, contrast and variety.
Deborah Kuster: Why Do You Worry?
Kuster creates her art by cutting, assembling, sewing, and forming her hand-woven textiles into two-and three-dimensional works of art. They are her visual interpretations of the lingual.
Susan Leslie Lumsden: Anclote Answers, Estuarial Quandaries
Susan is known for her rich colorizations, variegated textures and high level of insouciance. Her quilts are sought after and found in public, corporate and private collections.
Sherri Lipman McCauley: Yellow Is Joy
McCauley works extemporaneously and in the abstract. The serendipity of the paint or dye landing on the fabric dictates the direction of her design. The simple stroke of a geometric shape or the blast of a colorful line ground her work.
Susie Monday: Whirling Past Darkness
Monday’s large textile collage stitched art evokes the culture, stories and landscapes of the Texas Borderlands — the inner creative life of the artist. Working in mixed media on fabric, Susie dyes, screen prints and/or digitally designs much of the fabrics she uses.
Pamela R. Morris: Where Did the Bluewater Go?
Morris is most inspired by the colors of the Master in the small flower petal, the feathers of birds, the magnificent skies and waters outside her home on the Gulf of Mexico. But Pamela arranges them to please herself, usually in simple shapes.
Shannon Marie Pernoud: Sunken Treasures — Gilt-less Pleasures
Shannon stumbled into sewing when gifted with a machine. Having no training, she taught herself by making purses without patterns. Currently, she focuses on her creative art quilt endeavors.
Susan M. Robinson: Have We Crossed the Line?
Robinson has married her love of painting and her passion for quilting, along with her interest in portraits and abstracts into her recent studio works.
Sara Sharp: First Waves, Flattening Curves, Persistent Peaks
Sharp combines her love of nature and years of painting experience and training to create collage art quilts. She paints, pieces, hand prints, and stitches commercial and hand dyed fabrics to make wall hangings showing abstract designs, social concepts, and nature scenes.
Annie Smith: Gray Matter Chaos
Smith is driven by her senses, and from early childhood, she has been intrigued with the visual impact of color and texture. These elements make her spirit soar.
Becky Stack: Weathered Cedar — Beauty on the Marsh
Stack uses fabric, fiber, and a variety of mediums to create pictorial wall quilts.
Beth Frisbie Wallace: Still a mother, sister, friend…
Wallace has created with fabric and thread since a child. As an adult, her love of color, print and texture,and an abundance of fabric scraps from sewing garments collided with the resurgence in quilting following the U. S. Bicentennial.
Marian Zielinski: Breakthrough
Zielinski engages her experience in costume, scenic, and lighting design to create dramatic images and visual stories.
In the Theatre Lobby: Doug Smithwick
Born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1949, I was exposed to abstract art at a very early age. Fortunately my older brother Bruce, who was born 14 years earlier, is an accomplished abstract artist. I recall as early as 12 years old Bruce frequently taking me to museums and art galleries. I loved Picasso, Mondrian and Kandinsky. When I was 16 my brother moved to New York City. He found a great apartment in Greenwich Village. Most of my Summer breaks from school he would fly me up to stay two or three weeks with him. In addition to being able to observe his painting I spent hours walking around the city. Especially enjoyed the Village and Soho.
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