My Friend & Fiber Partner in "A View Within"

Karen Rips, in World of Threads, opening tomorrow, 11/1. 

A View Within is our collaboration, featuring body imaging works in different formats.

The Brain Initiative Moves to the University of Chicago Medical Facilities

Artists had submitted pieces investigating how  our minds work,  where thinking comes from, what is the origin  of consciousness. It is not only scientists who can shed light  on how our minds  function - artists can also do so. The exhibit goes from 11/1 thru 3/15 Chicago University  (DCAM)  2nd floor corridor link & (CCD) 5758 S. Maryland Chicago, IL 60637

New Venue

Soon many of the pieces in "The Brain-Art Initiative" will be moving from its current location, the Beverly Arts Center, to The University of Chicago Medical Facility.

 This is the first time I'll have work in a university medical facility and I'm very excited. 

This is the piece that will be traveling onto the University. It's multi threads on fiberglass mesh, machine stitched. It received 3rd place. 

Brain MRI

Lia Cook also had a piece in the show, receiving 1st Place. You can see it below:

The Chicago Tribune Today

A Great Pleasure

Change of Plans

It was a great pleasure meeting Tom Lundberg last night. Unfortunately, I have no photos of the meeting nor of his lecture, The Language of Textiles: Fiber in Contemporary Art, but it was such a pleasure to meet and talk about textiles, processes & art.

As part of the CCAI program featuring textiles in my show, Silk & Sinew & a show at their neighboring facility, the BRIC, Tom presented a through overview of textiles throughout the centuries to the present.

As a professor of textiles in the MFA textile program at the Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, Tom Lundberg offers students not only a wide variety of experiences with textiles & their processes, but a broader knowledge of textiles in art. 

But better yet, Tom inspires his students to create thought provoking works of art, as Sara Rockinger's work:

In/Visible

Pics From my "Silk & Sinew" Show

Finally, here's some photos from my show, Silk & Sinew sponsored & funded by CCAI. It's a wonderful gallery space with grand natural light & very tall ceilings.

Check out their site & my Facebook page for more photos. Thanks.