This is a great show and full of inspiration. I was also very intrigued to Scully use Procreate on the ipad
as a drawing tool, something I played with a bit this past fall.
The show is up through July. Don't miss it.
Dianne Koppisch Hricko
The Migrant Quilt Project memorializes migrants who have died seeking refuge in the US. Every year, the Project recruits a volunteer artist or organization to create a quilt made from clothing abandoned by migrants along the border near my hometown, Tucson. Each quilt carries the names of those whose bodies have been identified, or the word 'desconocido' ('stranger' in Spanish) for those whose remains are unidentified.
My contribution to the project covers the fiscal year 2015-16 and honors the 144 people whose bodies were found at the border that year. It features an image of Virgin de Guadelupe, and a silhouette of Fr. Eusebio Francisco Kino. Fr. Kino was the first European in the area that is now Tucson, and is in my view the first border crosser here. Creating this work was a humbling and sobering experience.
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Desconocidos, by Mary Vaneecke |
The Arizona Historical Society recently acquired the entire MQP collection, which is on display now through February 2023. The exhibition is the first chance for the public to view the 2019-20 quilt,
For information on the current exhibit, click here.
To see more of my work, click here: www.maryvaneecke.com
HARMONY is a juried quilt exhibit that will take place at the Broadway Gallery in Alexandria, Virginia 6/1/22-8/31/22. https://broadwaygalleries.net
Curators for the exhibit are Lisa Ellis and Barbara Hollinger.
When I read the call for entry, I was excited by both the theme and size limitations.
The theme was chosen in a time when the world was chaotic and we all needed to look for harmony in our lives.
All pieces entered had to conform to 12x12, 24x24, 36x36 or 48x48 finished sizing. The square format of various sizes would make such a unique patchwork installation on the walls of the gallery.
I was totally motivated to enter my work!
As a mixed media fiber artist, I work digitally with photographs, scanned dyed cloth and surface design to express my visual voice.
For this exhibit I was inspired to work with a photo of a rustic old farm truck I had taken in Harmony, CA. – a central coast destination for artists and those seeking peace.
The abandoned relic was proudly basking among the thick grass and trees behind the glass-blowing building. It conjured up sweet memories of the past, bringing me joy and harmony.
I digitally developed the photo intuitively until the elements flowed together, commercially printed on cotton broadcloth, free-motion quilted on eco-felt, painted with Inktense pencils, applied foil and attached it to a 24” square canvas.
I had left 3 inches all around the quilted piece for attachment to the canvas with a heavy-duty stapler. Since it was a bit tricky to do for the first time, I reached out to a member of our group for advise and she recommended videos to watch to guide me. It worked!
LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL! was juried in.
‘She loved the smell of old truck, thick cotton and vinyl seat covers, old gasoline and oil, the smell of country, decades of farmers, workers and families taking trips back and forth to town, up back roads to swimming holes, over fields, through all the weather. She imagined what this truck would have seen if it had eyes and a memory.’ Quote by Glenda Love
The other artwork that will be shown in the exhibit was made a year earlier.
I was inspired to create RHYTHM AND JOY! while admiring the beauty and magical lure of aloe. Music and nature fill my soul inspiring me to create art to depict the changing visual language of our natural world, the seasons of our life. Aloe is resilient, grows slowly and like music survives for generations and can fill you up with happiness.
While listening to Handel’s ‘Water Music’ I digitally developed a photo and scanned dyed shibori cloth until the elements harmoniously flowed together, commercially printed on cotton broadcloth, painted with Inktense pencils, and quilted. Can you feel the Rhythm?
Fine Line Creative Arts Center
37w570 Bolcum Rd
St. Charles IL 60175
May 12, 2022-April 2024
We congratulate ACN member Yolanda Sanchez, whose works on paper are included in her exhibition Come Slowly--Eden! at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts May 12-June 18 in New York City.
Yolanda writes about the exhibition:
The following pieces are on view now:
Held Harmless #6 is at the Blue Line Gallery in Sacramento, CA, in the SAQA Northern California regional exhibit called Forever Changed. I made a paper collage, had it printed then hand stitched to connect and emphasize elements of the design.
Shibori Dye Day is a trompe l'oeil piece I made from a photo I took then stitched to make it pop. It does fool the eye as it has a REAL shibori piece on the surface and no one knows if the blue is the indigo or the sky! It's on its way to Visions in San Diego.
AbEx Next Gen was just accepted into the Oz Quilt Network's biannual traveling exhibition. It will tour around Australia into 2024. This is the "next generation" of a large mixed media piece I did a couple of years ago - I photographed a small portion of it, tweaked it till it came back to life and then printed and stitched it.
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