Layers of Meaning Imbue Barbara Schulman's 'Keeper of Memories'

Keeper of Memories

26” x 25”

Quilted on a painted 1897 crazy quilt, by the artist's maternal grandmother. Machine stitched, with vintage fabric.

Keeper of Memories by Barbara Schulman

Mary Vaneecke is Stitching Stories

 ACN member Mary Vaneecke's work Abuela Reads the Headlines is now on view at the Vision Gallery in Chandler, Arizona as part of the Art Quilts XXVI exhibition.  The theme this year is Stitching Stories.  The online juror Ellen Blalock's gallery talk will be on Thursday, December 2 at 5:30 MST.  You can register for the online event by clicking here. 

The collage includes found objects, hand-dyed vintage linens and commercial fabrics, hand-felted and beaded wool rope layered over shibori with machine stitched headlines about the Obama immigrant detention camps.  

Abuela Reads the Headlines, 55'' x 84''

Abuela Reads the Headlines, detail