Beth Hartmann, Sebastopol, CA
Beth Hartmann, Sebastopol, CA
It’s The Journey
Thrift store sweaters, fulled, and pieced with applique.
Allyn Cantor, Cannon Beach, OR
Allyn Cantor, Cannon Beach, OR
Navigation
Pieced and assembled fabric, machine stitched I combined fabric I painted & printed with recycled & found fabrics. I see this as an abstracted landscape. “Navigation” is how I feel we must approach our changing relationship with finite resources.
Kelly Pergande, Portland, OR
Kelly Pergande, Portland, OR
A Chicken Speaks Her Mind
Mixed Media: Plastic table cloth, cotton fabric, laminated paper, oil paints, permanent marker, and staples.
Technique: Hand stitched table cloth and fabric panel together and created the surface design on the panel w/ oil paint and marker. Attached ‘oil drops’ with staples. Added vinyl sheet to cotton panel for added weather resistance.
Brooke E. Demos, New York, NY
Brooke E. Demos, New York, NY
Make Art With Oil, 2008
Post-consumer plastic shopping bags and plastic packaging material. Collaged using heat method to melt cut pieces together. *Plastic can be hand sewn, or on a machine, with a little extra patience.
I am motivated to weave with discarded plastic bags because of the transformation that occurs when I process this modern waste product, produced in vast quantities on a global scale, into a sensual fabric or textile construction. The material speaks to me about where it comes from and what it is made of, directing me to themes of universal shopping culture, sustaining the environment, and turning blight to beauty. I work with the inherent colors of the bags in my formal concerns when designing appropriate patterns and textures for individual pieces.
Elizabeth M. White, Bethel, CT
Elizabeth M. White, Bethel, CT
One World
Coconut (landscape) fiber, Impregnated with assorted seeds for renewal, seeds of hope, the dome/sphere was applique with connecting rays to symbolize both the sun /earth and the spokes of a wheel. Four feathers were added as the air element in the four directions of the earth. Hopefully we will see the sprouting of new energy in the near future. I am a sculptor working in natural materials and also with the medium of cement.