77 x 65
Exhibited:
Fiberarts International, Center for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh PA and touring throughout US
Detail:
Kathleen Loomis
I collected stamps as a child and still love to check out the new commemoratives at the post office. For many years I sent a postcard to my mother every day and found joy and comfort in the ritual of the mail. So when I began to make constructions of thousands of tiny quilts, about the size of stamps, they became postage stamps in my mind and in my titles.
I sew the small bits into “grids in space,” held together only by threads. They remind me of the fragile bonds that hold our world together and how easily it could all come apart.
My quilts aren’t all square, but website thumbnails are! Click on the photos to see what the whole quilt looks like.
77 x 65
Exhibited:
Fiberarts International, Center for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh PA and touring throughout US
Detail:
77 x 45
Exhibited:
Fantastic Fibers, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah KY
Detail:
~77 x 51 installed
Exhibited:
Bluegrass Biennial, Claypool-Young Art Gallery, Morehead KY
Detail:
~75 x 85 installed
Exhibited:
Creative Statements, Zanesville Museum of Art, Zanesville OH
Detail:
60 x 24
Detail:
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:
Kathleen Loomis is a member of
PYRO Gallery in Louisville, KY,
and her work is available for purchase
through the gallery.