This my little corner of the world at the Ann Arbor Fiberarts Guild spring show, Fiber Feast. It both gratifying and humbling at the same time to be juried into the show and be allowed to display my work along side some well known fiber artists.
The participants marketed weaving, knitting, bead weaving, silk dying, felted wearable art as well as home dec items. There was a fashion I am always amazed at the talent in this group. We are so lucky to have such a diverse art culture in Southeastern Michigan.
Other things going on in the wonderful world of Fiber are the projects that we have been working on at USArt Quest,
www.usartquest.com are the experiments that Susan Pickering Rothamel and I have been doing with the art products that her company produces and markets for mixed media artists. I have been on a personal mission to see how these products typically used with paper will work with fabric. will they withstand the rigors of the sewing and the heat involved. After they are produced, will they hold up to the test that they might be put through in transport to quilt shows. and will they give me results I am not finding in other commonly used products for quilting. I am loving this process, the results and the collaborative process. We have pulled together a little team of art quilters made up of five artists who are very different in work style and background, we spend a day exploring the materials and the good company. I couldn't ask for more out of life right now.
Norm and I have been working of our materials for our new web site,
www.slkpdesigns.com It should be up and running within the next couple of weeks. Jeff Rownan of Webarticulate has been working on it . This photo is going to represent our byline, Where Fabric and Glass Collide, it will blend the art glass and little quilts that are the bulk of work that I do. It seems only natural to bring them together, that way Norm and I can really share the work load and the fun. He is such a good sport about this and I suspect that it is because he enjoys the shows and certainly doesn't like being left home alone. He is truely the salesman in the family, I would be reall happy to sit back with a book or knitting needles and keep really busy, he enjoys talking and meeting new people. we seem to compliment one another. . We have two shows in May, one is a three day event in Berrien Springs at the Lemon Creek Winery. That will be a lot of fun and we will encounter many of the people from the Michigan International Speedway Wine Festival. Ta Ta, time to get to work
