77 x 65
Exhibited:
Fiberarts International, Center for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh PA and touring throughout US
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Postage 2: The Great Lawn
77 x 45
Exhibited:
Fantastic Fibers, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah KY
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Postage 4: Spaghetti Sauce
~77 x 51 installed
Exhibited:
Bluegrass Biennial, Claypool-Young Art Gallery, Morehead KY
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Postage 6: Epidemic
~75 x 85 installed
Exhibited:
Creative Statements, Zanesville Museum of Art, Zanesville OH
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Postage 7: Tower of Babble
60 x 24
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Tool Box
4 x 9 x 2
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Ice Box
8 x 4 x 1.5 closed
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Slinky Box
7.5 x 6.5 x 1.5
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Bargain Box
5 x 9 x 2
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Bingo Berry Box
5.5 x 5.5 x 4
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Bird Box
6.5 x 5 x 2
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Leonardo Box
10.5 x 7 x 2 closed
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Library Box
9 x 6 x 2 closed
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Monument Box
5 x 3 x 3
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Music Box
7.5 x 4.5 x 3 closed
Pencil Box
6 x 4 x 1.5 closed
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Pink Specs Box
5.5 x 5.5 x 4
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White Pigeon
10 x 8 x 1
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Eschenbach
12 x 9 x 1
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Allouez
12 x 9 x 1
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Pichlberg
8 x 10 x 1
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Wigan
12 x 9 x 1
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Recoleta
9 x 12 x 1
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Earley
9 x 12 x 1
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Blue Garden
14 x 11 mounted
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Night Garden Blue
25 x 12 mounted
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Night Blooming Cereus
26 x 12 mounted
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Slick Dude
12 x 9 framed
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Pig Newton
12 x 9 framed
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Kimono Rose
10 x 10 mounted
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Kimono Field
12 x 9
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Kimono Garden
10 x 8
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Fireworks
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Flower Pot
6 x 6 mounted
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Six Shells
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Postage 3: Memorial Day
86 x 100
Exhibited:
Quilt National ’09, Dairy Barn Art Center, Athens OH, and touring throughout US, Quilts Japan Prize
Permanent collection of International Quilt Museum, Lincoln NE
As of Memorial Day, May 26, 2008, there were 4,083 U.S. military dead in Iraq. Here is a flag for each of them.
Detail:
Memorial Day
86 x 100
Exhibited:
Quilt National ’09, Dairy Barn Art Center, Athens OH, and touring throughout US, Quilts Japan Prize
Permanent collection of International Quilt Museum, Lincoln NE
As of Memorial Day, May 26, 2008, there were 4,083 U.S. military dead in Iraq. Here is a flag for each of them.
Detail:
Kentucky Graveyard (Iraq)
71 x 60
As a fiber artist I have long been familiar with a famous quilt owned by the Kentucky Historical Society called the “Kentucky Graveyard Quilt.” Made in the 1840s, it showed a graveyard full of coffins, each inscribed with the name of a family member who had died. Other coffins waited outside the graveyard for future bereavements. See photo below.
I updated the quilt to memorialize those of our Kentucky family who died in Iraq. This quilt was completed and dated 9/11/06, a fitting time to pause and think of the brave men and women who have been sacrificed. As of that date, 43 troops from Kentucky had died in Iraq.
Original Kentucky Graveyard Quilt:
Detail:
War Rationale 1
War Rationale 2
War Zone 1: Firefight
48 x 42
War Zone 2: Desert Storm
46 x 47
War Zone 5: Road Junction
35 x 37
War Zone 6: Reconstructive Surgery
33 x 37
War Zone 7: Intercepts
52 x 24
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Tower Memory 2
25 x 16
My employer, Mercer, had offices in the South Tower of the World Trade Center and I spent many hours there on business in the 1990s. I loved the buildings from the outside as they reflected the sky and the skyscrapers, and from the inside as our conference room overlooked the harbor and the Statue of Liberty. Many of my closest friends and colleagues lost their workspace and possessions when the towers were destroyed, although all escaped safely. Almost 300 colleagues from a sister company, Marsh & McLennan, were not so fortunate and lost their lives in the other tower. The towers live on in my memory — losing their detail, a little frayed along the edges.
Crazed 11: Marching On
52 x 55
Crazed 5: Camouflag
33 x 41
Fading
59 x 99
Exhibited:
Mid-States Craft Exhibition, Evansville Museum, Evansville IN
Detail:
Flagging
98 x 54
