California Society of Printmakers and Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) worked together to create an exhibit examining the overlap between the hand pulled print, and the art quilt. The first exhibition of Printed and Stitched will be from 5/20/23 to 6/18/23 at Art Ark Gallery artarkgallery.com,1035 S. Sixth St, San Jose, CA 95112 Swirling Suns2 – … More Printed and Stitched
Peninsula Museum of Art May 20 – July 17, 2022 The Shops at Tanforan, Space 204 1150 El Camino Real, San Bruno CA 94066 The opening and reception on Saturday, May 21, 2022 was a big success with 80 people attending. The Peninsula Museum of Art gallery, located at the The Shops at Tanforan, proved the perfect venue … More Prism Play at the Peninsula Museum of Art
My Sunrise Reflections is heading to Ohio to be included in the 2022 SAQA Spotlight Auction. I was inspired by sunrises seen at a recent quilting retreat at the Bishop’s Ranch in Healdsburg, CA. I made this 6”x 8” quilted piece for the SAQA Spotlight Auction which will take place online during our 2022 Conference … More SAQA Spotlight Auction
BLUE was my choice for my contribution to the spectrum of quilts for the SAQA Northern California/Northern Nevada Prism Play call for entry. We started working on our quilts in June 2021. Members are now beginning to turn in their entries for the show juried by color expert Joen Wolfrom. In March 2022, we will … More Prism Play: A Full Spectrum of Art Quilts
I completed a second year with the 12 x 12 Challenge at the Textile Dream Studio in Berkeley. Here a group of women, working in various media, met monthly to further our development as artists with discussions related to our creative practice and art shares related to our progress working in the 12” x 12” format. Our last … More Twelve x Twelve Finale
For the second year, I participated in a group of women committed to creating art in a 12″ x 12″ format and making at least 8 – 12 pieces during a 12 month period. We met monthly at the Textile Dream Studio in Berkeley. We’re showing our work at Bay Quilts in Richmond in Feb 2019 … More Twelve by Twelve Challenge 2018
I’ve continued with my drawing and printmaking. I decided to try my hand using Adobe Illustrator and have been taking a class at UC Berkeley extension. The drawing tools in the app are so different from traditional drawing, each assignment has taken hours and hours to complete. The class was completely filled with several people … More Illustrator
In our most recent session of collage making with Michelle Wilson at UC Berkeley Extension, we learned to make a simple accordion book to use as a substrate for a collage. I decided to combine collage and paint across the entire eight span of pages. My goals were to explore using images as texture and … More Why Collage?
I’m taking a collage class at UC Berkeley Extension with papermaker, printmaker, book and installation artist Michelle Wilson. We’re about 6 weeks into the class and have explored various techniques and media for creating collages with found imagery. One of my favorite assignments in the class so far was to create a piece of mail … More Mail Art Project
It was a busy week, and I didn’t have time to do any homework for my printmaking class. I usually do my carving at home, so I can spend most of my in-class time using the press. As I was getting ready to head over to the class at Chrysalis Studio in SF, I grabbed … More A Keen Print
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