TEXTILE ART
I love working with textiles and learning with others. These projects require no previous textile experience, just a commitment to imagination and play. Textile techniques I have used in workshops include collage, quilting, painting, tie-dye, sun painting, and simple sewing, as well as screen printing and batik.
"Wisdom Speaks"
2018
In this collaborative quilt project. participants created their hexagon blocks with scissors and gluesticks. The project was done by adult participants in the Women in Ministry conference at Luther Seminary. The artist and Dr. Lois Malcolm led participants in a discussion of Sirach 24, in which Wisdom is personified as a boastful "she". I machine-quilted the blocks to the larger fabric and cotton batting.
2018
In this collaborative quilt project. participants created their hexagon blocks with scissors and gluesticks. The project was done by adult participants in the Women in Ministry conference at Luther Seminary. The artist and Dr. Lois Malcolm led participants in a discussion of Sirach 24, in which Wisdom is personified as a boastful "she". I machine-quilted the blocks to the larger fabric and cotton batting.
"...are holy!"
2018
Created with Sunday School children ages 5-12 at Redeemer Lutheran. This 8-part set of banners began with questions about creation--what exists that we humans didn't create? The children painted and splashed ideas about these things on large pieces of fabric with watered-down acrylic paints. Once the pieces dried, I used metallic fabric paint to add lettering representing different aspects of what is created, good and holy. Pictured is the "poop" painting, where we honored soil, compost, waste, decay and decomposers.
2018
Created with Sunday School children ages 5-12 at Redeemer Lutheran. This 8-part set of banners began with questions about creation--what exists that we humans didn't create? The children painted and splashed ideas about these things on large pieces of fabric with watered-down acrylic paints. Once the pieces dried, I used metallic fabric paint to add lettering representing different aspects of what is created, good and holy. Pictured is the "poop" painting, where we honored soil, compost, waste, decay and decomposers.
Blue Advent
2016
Created with Sunday School children ages 5-12 at Redeemer Lutheran. This series of blue textile paintings were made to decorate the sanctuary during Advent, the season of waiting for justice. The children added cardboard cutouts and found objects like buttons and lace as stencils to a piece of fabric covered in wet blue ink. I then used light, salt and a bit of spray paint to bring out the images. Strong, hot light causes the uncovered fabric to dry at a different rate than the fabric under the stencils, creating variations in color. Salt repels dye, creating grainy, starry textures around the stencils. The white fabric paint spray gave more definition to details of the stencils.
2016
Created with Sunday School children ages 5-12 at Redeemer Lutheran. This series of blue textile paintings were made to decorate the sanctuary during Advent, the season of waiting for justice. The children added cardboard cutouts and found objects like buttons and lace as stencils to a piece of fabric covered in wet blue ink. I then used light, salt and a bit of spray paint to bring out the images. Strong, hot light causes the uncovered fabric to dry at a different rate than the fabric under the stencils, creating variations in color. Salt repels dye, creating grainy, starry textures around the stencils. The white fabric paint spray gave more definition to details of the stencils.
Sock Puppet
2018
A child at South Minneapolis Ecumenical Day Camp made this fantastic sock puppet out of recycled fabric and found objects. Groups of 10-12 children ages 5-10 built these puppets, with a bit of help from adult volunteers to hot glue and sew together components.
2018
A child at South Minneapolis Ecumenical Day Camp made this fantastic sock puppet out of recycled fabric and found objects. Groups of 10-12 children ages 5-10 built these puppets, with a bit of help from adult volunteers to hot glue and sew together components.
"Environment"
2017
Textile collage by child (age 7-8). As a guest artist for MNIPL's summer nature camp All in the Circle, I invited children to create forest floor environments using recycled fabric, felt, beads and blunt needles.
2017
Textile collage by child (age 7-8). As a guest artist for MNIPL's summer nature camp All in the Circle, I invited children to create forest floor environments using recycled fabric, felt, beads and blunt needles.