When did you know art was your calling? How has your creative journey evolved? How do your compositions come together? Every textile has a story? What do you love most about the creative process? What brought you to the Celebration of Fine Art?
While I could respond in so many different ways to these questions, watch the video to see how I responded on this particular day!
Photos from CFA
After the walls had been built and painted, the lighting track installed, and Chloe set up, but before all the art!Quite a difference art makes! For broader context for the work on view, I played a silent video on loop in my studio throughout the duration of Celebration of Fine Art. A creative highlight of the show was collaborating with Trevor Swanson to create beautiful patinaed steel armatures for my artwork. This Way to Freedom, 18.5″ x 26.5″, stitched silk, cotton, chiffon, pastel, acrylic glazes, & patinaed steel, 2026The making process of Twelve Hands, the modular & self-renewing artwork mentioned in my letter. Here it is in an early stage. The making of Twelve Hands, the modular & self-renewing artwork mentioned in my letterYou can see Twelve Hands and other artworks peeking out from my workspace at my CFA studio. I created this artwork, In Case of Fire, initially as a packing list for the CFA residency. It features all of my studio essentials, all in once place. Shel brought it from home during one of his visits to the show. It appealed to many visitors, and sparked a whole new concept for a body of work I’m now developing. Every collector of an original received a homemade stitched thank you note. I even started making stitched original greeting cards for sale. Faces were popular, as were saguaro cacti. I have to probably make 100 saguaro cards for the show next year1I like the abstracts myself!An extra special stitched thank-you to the owners of the show, featuring the names of several artists I got to know, and little icons correlating to their work. Honestly the connections with other artists and patrons made this show incredibly meaningful. Youngest Collectors
Some of the original “Dear Artist Postcards” jotted down over these last months:
The CFA artist catalogue. Check out my IG reel flipping through!
