Here’s an update on Life Forms, my solo exhibit, at UC Berkeley Extension’s Art and Design Center: I installed the show a day early, so it’s up and available for viewing. I’m pleased with how great it looks in this space. I chose work from my portfolio created for the Post-Baccalaurate Certificate in Visual Arts plus … More Life Forms at the Art and Design Center
Life Forms, my first solo exhibit, will be at UC Berkeley Extension, Art and Design Center, 95 Third St., San Francisco, Aug 7-21. Artist Reception – Saturday, Aug 16, 2 -4 pm. Includes work from my portfolio completed for the UC Berkeley Extension Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Visual Arts which I completed in Feb 2014. Learn … More Life Forms
I am thrilled that an image from my quilt Rain Dance is featured on the postcard for the SAQA Regional Show Northern California Inspirations at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles. I haven’t had a chance to see the show, but I hear it is beautiful. From left to right, images on the … More Northern California Inspirations
A few weeks ago I completed a silk screening class at San Francisco Art Institute with artist Jonathan Palmer. I was inspired by some of his prints where he combined silk screening and relief printing and decided to create my own series using these techniques. I posted about it here. I created three related prints … More Two new prints
Here’s an update on the printed piece started during a quilting retreat in Healdsburg. I finished it today and titled it Rain Dance. I was inspired to create a California themed linoleum block print on a background pieced from yellow and white scraps (more here). The colors and silhouetted dry seedpods represent our current … More Rain Dance
I just learned that my quilt, WWII Nurses, has been accepted as part of the WWII Home Front Quilt Challenge that will be shown at a special exhibit at the Voices in Cloth quit show. The quilts will also be displayed on an online exhibit and other Bay Area venues. The quilts in this exhibit … More WWII Nurses
A major component for completion of the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Visual Arts at UC Berkeley Extension is to develop a portfolio of work suitable for application to a Masters of Fine Arts program. I’ve been developing this portfolio for over a year and studying at UCBX for over three years. Yesterday I presented my portfolio … More Life Forms – A Portfolio of Work
When Katie’s Luminous Linocuts class started up again a couple weeks ago, I decided to create a large print on a background pieced from yellow and white scraps from a recent quilting retreat at Bishop’s Ranch in Healdsburg, CA. I wanted the background to create a landscape feeling with a darker silhouette of plants in … More Piece, Print, Quilt
Back in August 2013, I saw this reader’s challenge in Cloth Paper Scissors magazine and decided to give it a whirl. The challenge was to use our favorite techniques to create a six inch mixed media square with some kind of stitching. I used one of my linocut prints on fabric as the starting point, … More Reader Challenge
In October I attended a two day workshop with Kerr Grabowski learning her deconstructed silk screen printing techniques. Her methods include creating designs and textures on fabric using thickened fiber reactive dyes, then printing the designs onto fabric. I created a good “stash” of fabric during the two days and some more when I got … More Deconstructed
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