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Thursday Group

Jean — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:42:26 +0000

The advanced surface design students in my Thursday class have been meeting every two weeks during the summer. On the last day of class, each person received 1 yard of cotton fabric. They had 2 weeks to add a technique to the fabric. At the meeting, the fabric was given to the next person and so on until the last or 6th trade. This time, the piece you were given was yours to complete. Here is the piece I finished after 6 people added their mark.

Graffiti

Jean — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:33:55 +0000

This summer I had the pleasure of meeting a young talented Graffiti artist, J. He was teaching a class in Urban Art to kids at the Dougherty Art School. My canvas includes the wall his students bombed on the lower right portion.

Scott & White Chapel

Jean — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:08:25 +0000

Scott & White Hospital had the dedication of the new Chapel last week. It was an honor to be selected to design and make the banners/streamers that are placed on either side of the center table. The glass wall piece ties all the elements together. It is a quiet space, in what may be a very troubling time. Peace.

Two Mothers

Jean — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:41:26 +0000

A friend, who is also a fiber artist, and I created a collaborative work for the Tokyo Electron Show. Ruthie and I passed 6-one yard pieces of fabric back and forth, each time adding our own layer of imagery /color /texture. When we felt the individual pieces were finished, I cut some of the them up and sewed/collaged them into a single cloth. The new cloth is called Two Mothers, as we both nurtured the little pieces along.

Tokyo Electron purchases one art work from most of the juried shows they invite to their facility. It was a huge surprise when a notice came, saying that Tokyo Electron USA wanted to purchase Two Mothers for their permanent collection. Wow.

I’m back!

Jean — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:23:26 +0000

Things have been busy, busy. This winter’s weather did not help. Dye does not like to be cold. It refuses to co-operate. There would be an 8 hour window of warm followed by days of cold, gray weather. It allowed one layer of printing, only to wait weeks for the opportunity to create the next layer. Summer was completed in time for the Tokyo Electron Show which ran from early February until April 1, 2010. The inspiration for Summer was acres of blooming Firewheel’s, when I lived in the country. The piece is 36″ wide x 82″ high, multi layers of dye and printing. The fabric is a translucent silk/cotton voile.

ABIA Fabric

Jean — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:42:52 +0000

The Austin Fiber Artists were contacted by the City of Austin to hang a show at Austin Bergstrom Airport. The fiber pieces go up Wednesday August 19, 2009 and will hang until November 3, 2009. A backdrop to one of the show cases is my piece of cotton/silk. Lovely.

Discharge

Jean — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:46:10 +0000

An ugly piece of fabric made lovely. When I finished the many processes to print/dye this piece of cotton/silk, I really didn’t like it. Too dark. It was about to go in the discard pile. I had made up some discharge paste several days ago. There was a little left. Mounded the fabric on my print table. Filled a syringe with the discharge paste and dropped bits of the paste onto the fabric. Put it out in our 100 + degree heat and periodically checked it. Loved the results. It reminds me of a summer water color.