Honoring legacies: becoming a maker, learning to sew
In childhood, long before I called myself an artist, I would tell people that I liked to make things. And when I was a little girl, Tante…
35 years of textile samples, part 5: weaving, intaglio & miscellaneous
And how about all of those other areas of experimentation? I was once a weaver and a spinner, and I first learned to print and dye textiles because as a…
35 years of textile samples, part 4: non-stitched resists
Resists have always fascinated me. A resist is a substance or a mechanism used to prevent dye or colorant from acting upon a surface. My very first experiments with resist…
35 years of textile samples, part 2: stitched & clamped resists
In the previous post, I described needing a storage container and finding myself immersed in sorting through a career's worth of textile samples and explorations. Here is Part 2 of…
35 years of textile samples, part 1: early screen prints
The day began with a search for a larger container to store fabric teaching samples. It ended with a journey through 35 years of creating fabrics. I had already edited…
35 years of textile samples, part 3: stitch resist (shibori, tritik)
This is the third in a series of posts revisiting a treasure trove of textile samples made while learning new techniques. In search of a storage box, I found myself…
ICON Gallery Exhibit, plus a night in Fairfield
Contemporary Art Quilts of Astrid Hilger Bennett, Carol Coohey, BJ Parady and Judy Zoelzer Levine is featured exhibition at ICON Gallery in Fairfield, Iowa. What a wonderful installation: clean, light-filled…
SDA Confluence Conference, part one
Tim Harding's Exhibit at the Nash GalleryIn June, I had the opportunity to attend Confluence, the biennial International Conference of the Surface Design Association. As an SDA Board member, I…
Anni Holm & the NetWorking Project
Iowa City's celebrated Iowa Arts Festival took place June 3-5, inaugurated by a Gallery Walk at 17 downtown locations including Iowa Artisans Gallery, the gallery that I am associated with.…
Bumping into The Fabric Workshop in Philadelphia
In mid-February, I attended the Buyers' Market of American Craft as a buyer for Iowa Artisans Gallery. As we prepared to leave, we discovered our flight was canceled and rescheduled…