Anita Grant won first place in the
Home Is Where the Heart Is category at Midwest Weavers’
Conference in Grinnell, Iowa this
June. The piece Anita entered
was her pique woven Bedroom
Bench.
Valerie Doran Bashaw reports
that she was a studio assistant
for Akemi Nakano Cohn at the
Surface Design Conference in
KC area in June.
Akemi teaches a modified
version of traditional Japanese
paste resist. Akemi adds
powdered acid dyes to the paste,
which is made of special rice
bran and flour, cooked to a
specific formula. The images are
cut out of stencils made of
exquisitely scented smoked
mulberry handmade paper, and
the colored dyes are applied
using a squeegee so that the
color goes through the holes cut
into the paper.
The benefits to this version are
that you are resisting the next
layer of dye that will be applied,
(not dip dyed by the way, but with
a tool) and also putting down
very vivid color. This produces
stellar results, once you learn the
technical aspects of this process.
So you are dyeing and resisting
the next layer with one effort.
The end product is then steam
set, and the excess dye and paste
is washed out. The colors are
very bright and vivid, so this
is a really exciting new way to
work!
Akemi showed many images of
Japanese traditional kimonos that
were dyed using the original
method, where plain paste is
applied with stencils, and then
color applied over the paste.
There was lots of student work
and her own beautiful work too. She will be in Vermont next
August offering a workshop and
her website might offer more
opportunities to learn it. Valerie
says she highly recommends it!
Bonnie Black was selected by
the Lake Arts Council for a one-person fiber exhibit Saturday,
July 11. The exhibit was part of
the Hot Summer Nights Festival, "Missouri Pops" evening
featuring the Missouri Symphony
Orchestra. The "Missouri Pops"
concert and featured artist exhibit
has been a tradition at the Lake
of the Ozarks for over twenty
years.
Rosemary Claus-Gray wants to
thank Leandra Spangler and Pat
Owoc for caring for her art pieces
from the Aberration Exhibit, as
they were being considered for
¡Fibra, Vive! Never second-guess
a juror. She did not select either
piece, but chose another in
vibrant colors. Nonetheless,
she’s pleased to have a piece in
the MoFA exhibit. Susan Leslie
Lumsden selected three of
Rosemary’s pieces for the exhibit
she is curating at the World
Trade Center in St. Louis. She
has focused on SAQA members
to invite to show there. It's a
wonderful opportunity to have
one's work seen.
She has had another piece
selected for Fiber Focus 2009 at
Art St. Louis. She believes this is
an important fiber art exhibit, and
the Innovations in Fiber weekend
is something she looks forward to
every two years.
Rosemary contributed an article
in the SAQA Journal, Summer
2009, called "Why Study Art."
She feels it's preaching to the
choir for MoFA, but that you
might find it of interest.
Her website www.rosemaryclaus-gray.com has her new work, including a fun
page of "Critters" — funky folk art
animals she’s created over
several years as just studio play
time. Her friends saw them and
encouraged her to do something
with them. Right now, in addition
to making them presentable by
matting and framing them, she is
combining her art with her
professional therapy experience
working with families and
traumatized children by writing
books using these critters. The
books are designed to help a
child regain some hope that he or
she can cope with the traumas
they’ve experienced.
Rosemary will be at the
Innovations in Fiber weekend
and hopes to see a lot of other
MoFA members there.
Judy Dominic exhibited
mudcloth plus outdoor random
weave and gut sculptural forms in
the Earth juried exhibit at the
Kennedy Heights Art Center,
Cincinnati, OH, July 18-Aug 8, 2009
Katherine Ehlmann was
selected to be the Featured Artist
in the summer issue of St.
Charles Magazine. As a result of
the article, she was nominated
for a DOVE award, recognizing
women of achievement in St.
Charles County (Home
Based Business category), given
by the St. Charles Business
Magazine.
Nicole Ottwell’s MFA Thesis
Show, Technology and Tradition (jacquard- and hand-woven
textiles), will be at the University
of Missouri-Columbia George
Caleb Bingham Gallery (corner of
University and Hitt) on November
9-13, 2009. Gallery hours are
Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm. Reception is
4-7:30pm, Friday, November 13, 2009.
Pat Owoc will be involved in a
number of exhibitions during Innovations in Textiles 8: Not All Together Whole, a solo show
at Craft Alliance (opening reception
9/11/09);
Past Away, Fiber'd Artists, UMSL;
8 Artists Interpret Nature,
Innsbrook Resort; ...and then there
were nine, ArtFiber, Maryville
University; ¡Fibra, Vive!, Missouri
Fiber Artists, The Old Orchard
Gallery, Webster Groves;
Fiber Focus, Art St. Louis; and Tactile Fluency, Studio Art Quilt
Associates, World Trade Center,
Clayton. More details about each
venue—address, phone number,
time of opening reception,
exhibition dates, etc.—are
available online at
www.craftalliance.org.
On Labor Day Weekend,
September 5-7, 2009 at the
Missouri Botanical Gardens in St.
Louis, Missouri, during the
Japanese Festival, Indigo Moon
People, John and Robin Quint,
and their friend Toni Disano,
helped by Connie Zullo, will
demonstrate Shibori techniques
and Indigo dyeing. They will have
a booth with Indigo dyed clothing,
scarves, batik hangings,
bandanas, material sample
pieces for quilting, procion dyed
silk scarves and more for sale as
well as some of Sharon
Kilfoyle’s beautiful work for sale.
Admission fee for the Festival is
$10 and includes most of
activities during Japanese
Festival except for the Tea
Ceremony. Visitors who become
first-time members of the Missouri
Botanical Gardens during Labor
Day Weekend receive a free
three-day pass to the Japanese
Festival for two adults and their
children under age 12. The
Japanese Festival at the Missouri
Botanical Garden is one of the
largest and oldest festivals of its
kind in the United States. For
more information about the
Japanese Festival or the Missouri
Botanical Gardens see
www.mobot.org or call
314-577-9400. We hope to see
you there!
Luanne Rimel has five pieces
in Elements: The Art of Textile
Collage, at Craft Alliance.
The exhibition is curated by
Barbara Simon. It opens
September 11 and runs through
October 25. Luanne also has
four pieces in 8 Artists Interpret
Nature in Textiles at The Gallery
at Innsbrook, Innsbrook, MO. This
exhibit opens September 4 and
runs through October 4. Marjorie
Hoeltzel is the curator. Both
exhibits are part of Innovations in
Textiles 8.
Luanne also won an honorable
mention at the Surface Design
Members show in Kansas City,
Surface Matters, May 29-August 15, 2009.
Deann Rubin’s one-person show Face It: Contemporary
Handwoven Tapestry is at
The Gallery, University City
Public Library, September 4-29,
2009. Opening reception is September
4, 6-8pm. Informal
demonstrations will be held
throughout the month. This exhibit is
part of innovations in Textiles 8.
Deann‘s “Play Girl" is also part of
American Tapestry Alliances’
Connections: Small Tapestry
International currently on exhibit
at Leeds Gallery, Earlham
College, Richmond, IN,
August 20-September 20,
Earlham College В, 801 National
Road West В, Richmond, IN.
An exhibit booklet is available at
www.americantapestryalliance.com.
Jo Stealey was one of two
keynote speakers, along with
Marci McDade (Fiberarts magazine editor), for the National
Basketry Organization conference
in Portland, Oregon, as well as
teaching a workshop entitled, “Baskets, Books & Shrines.” Jo
will also have a two-person
exhibit with Jane Birdsall
Lander, The Language of
Objects, at the Sheldon Art
Galleries. This exhibit is part of
the Innovations in Textiles 8
events.
Jackie Weatherly was accepted
into ¡Fibra, Vive!, the MoFA
membership show at the Old
Orchard Gallery, 37 S. Old
Orchard Road, Webster Groves,
September 18-October 9, as well as the Sew
What show at Art Dimensions.
This runs August 14-September
26th in the Flax Gallery at Art
Dimensions, 1214 Washington
Ave, 3rd Floor (enter through
Mossa Center). Jackie will also
have a solo exhibition,
October 9-November 14, at
Gateway Gallery, 7921 Forsyth
Blvd, Clayton, MO.
Jennifer Weigel's painting
Missouri Magic is featured on the
Les Bourgeois 2008 Vignoles-Traminette label as part of the
Collector's Series. The wine label
release party was held in July, and
Weigel will have several of her
paintings on display at the winery
from November-February. In
August, she and Laurene Franco
were in Claude: The Monster, the
Myth, the Legend, a two-person
show entirely devoted to Claude,
a lovable 6 1/2 foot plush Bigfoot,
at Cranky Yellow Publishing. In
September, Weigel is
participating in Common Threads,
the fiber/glass fusion exhibit at
Third Degree Glass in conjunction
with Innovations in Textiles 8.
She also has a solo show, Relics & Reliquaries, at the Green
Center in October with a
reception on October 3 from 2-4pm.
One of Peggy Wyman’s
sculptures was chosen (for the
4th year in a row) for the Missouri Top 50 exhibition held
in conjunction with the Missouri
State Fair. Her work received 3rd place at MoFA's Aberration
exhibition at the Boone County
Museum, Columbia, part of this
year's FATE tour.
Congratulations to all who are
part of the MoFA membership
show ¡Fibra, Vive!:
Bonnie Ahrens, Pat Owoc,
Bonnie Black, Karen Kelley
Schultz, Judy Cobillas, Leandra
Spangler, Tracy Deniszczuk, Jo
Stealey, Linda Elkow. Jackie
Weatherly Janet Ghio, Suza
Wooldridge, Joleen Goff, Peggy
Wyman, Rosemary Claus-Gray,
Barbara Zappulla, Candy
Grisham, Carol Zeman, Sharon
Kilfoyle, Connie Zullo and
Barbara Overby. |
