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Drawing with Thread

Friday, April 2, 2010 0:13 No Comments

A great exhibit in the Boston Area… all thread lovers should check it out.

Drawing in Thread: Contemporary Embroidery
March 30 – May 2
Opening Reception on April 8 at 5p.m. with a gallery talk at 6:30p.m.
The Gallery is located in Carlson Hall on the Mount Ida College campus
Traditionally, embroidery is a decorative embellishment made with a needle [...]

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loving hand

Friday, April 2, 2010 0:05 No Comments

The beauty and grace of the hand of embroidery artist Walter Bruno Brix is inspiring. He creates lovely subtle simple lines in thread to explore issues of sexuality, the aging body, and of life and death.
I am especially drawn to his series 42, a series of what I assume might be self portraits of a male [...]

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topographical stitching…

Thursday, March 18, 2010 14:24 No Comments

I love the goreous topography, map like work of artist Amy Honchell. Though she may not fall under the auspices of craft she is definitely inspired by fiber and the idea of touch. Her most recent body of work Personal Geographies uses the layering, folding, and stitching of fiber to create some beautiful installation work [...]

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layers of thread…

Friday, March 5, 2010 19:07 No Comments

When I saw the beautiful installation work of artist Jodi Stevens I was inspired by its simplicity in both palette and form.  Her installation impediment reminds me a lot of Ann Hamilton’s performances with her use of the large table, facing chairs, and pile of materials. But with the hand wrapped stones and gray color [...]

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color and crochet.

Thursday, February 18, 2010 13:15 No Comments

One of my embroidery students sent me the link to Portuguese artist, Joana Vasconcelos, an artist who I had seen some work of before but not the full breathe of her work. I must say that her super fancy website has way too many bells and whistles, I just want to see the work, dammit.
But [...]

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a midwestern girl….

Friday, February 5, 2010 11:55 No Comments

The second to last connective thread feature is on the Midwestern artist Summer Zickfoose, a fabulous name I must say. Summer had two lovely works in the exhibit, both hair embroideries on old childrens christening dresses. The work spoke about memory, loss, nostalgia, and innocence.
They were very beautiful and worked incredibly well with the [...]

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Fiber Artist Talk in Brooklyn, NY this Sunday

Friday, January 22, 2010 14:49 No Comments

Come one, come all, bring friends, tell friends.

Hear from the Artist’s mouth all about their awesome fiber work.
Featuring 8 artists from the connective thread exhibit.
Artists Talk this Sunday, January 24, featuring artists from the connective thread exhibition.
5:30 pm at Sweet Lorraine Gallery.
Artists include:
Sarah Bahr
Marcy Chevali
Crystal Gregory
Einet Imber
Joetta Maue
Alisha McCurdy
Simone Melteson
Stacy Renee Morrison
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connective thread exhibition

Friday, January 15, 2010 16:08 No Comments

Kendra Skalski

Here are some images of the opening and install of the fabulous connective thread exhibtion, I was so honored to curate this exhibition and blown away by the quality of work that was submitted. The curating process was so difficult – but in the end I felt like it was a very exciting and [...]

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