My fiber artwork celebrates texture, color and the myriad possibilities fiber offers to "paint" an image using fresh and unusual techniques.

My stitched paintings meld a blossoming interest in gardening with dyed silk and free-motion machine embroidery. My felt collages contemplate color relationships and patterning. I have long been fascinated with layering as a method to enrich both surface and meaning. I have used my work to explore the effects of layering fabrics, threads and yarns in order to create depth, rich color and texture in both my stitched paintings and felted collages. Movement and flow of color play an increasingly important role in my work, as do shadows and reflections.

I have been working with embroidery and hand-painted silks since 1986, building on the foundation laid by my B.A. in Studio Art. I have sewn since middle school and a sense of experimentation and play led me to explore the use of the sewing machine as a drawing and painting tool.

Solo Exhibitions

2008  Painting with Fiber, Nutting Gallery, West Liberty State College, West Liberty, WV
2005  One person show, Creations Gallery, Hockessin, MA
2002  Threads in Bloom, Peninsula Fine Art Center, Newport News, VA
2001  Stitched Impressions, Hodson Gallery, Hood College, Frederick, MD
1997  Contemporary Samplers, G Street Fabrics, Rockville, MD
1996  Layered Letters, Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, Laurel, MD
1986  Landschaften aus der Nähmaschine, Stadtbücherei Sendling in Munich, Germany

Group Exhibitions

2007  Selections from the Fiber Artists Collective, Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH
2007  Fiber Artists Collective Exhibition, American Association
for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC
2007  Holidazzle, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY
2007  Fiber Fever, Jewish Community Center, Baltimore, MD
2006  Art Of The Stitch, Biennial Exhibition, United Kingdom
2005  Fiber Feast, Fiber Art Center, Amherst, MA
2005  A Stitch in Time, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2003  Efflorescence, Artspace at John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
2003  9-11: Artists Respond, American Craft Museum, New York, NY
2001  Baltimore 25, Baltimore, MD (curated by Paul J. Smith)
2000  Works by Contemporary Maryland Artists, Government House, Annapolis, MD
1998  Werkstoff Stoff, Stadtmuseum Penzberg, Penzberg, Germany
1998  Power Objects in the Here and Now, Government House, Annapolis, MD
1998  Fantastic Fiber, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY
1998  Art in Bloom, Hurlbutt Gallery, Greenwich, CT
1997  Fiberart International '97, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
1997  Art MD '97, Howard County Center for the Arts, MD
1995  Mansion Art Gallery of Rockville, Rockville, MD
1993  Works in Fibre, Howard Community College Gallery, Columbia, MD
1993  Small Works, Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1992  Fiber Arts '92, Creative Arts Guild and BASF Carpet Fibers, Dalton, GA

Pew Charitable Trust, Corporate Headquarters
Howard Community College
Temple Emanuel of Baltimore
Musikfest '89, Bethlehem, PA

2007  First Place Fiber, Bruce Museum Craft Show, Greenwich, CT
2006  Award of Merit, Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, State College, PA
2003  Award of Merit, Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, State College, PA
2000  Award of Excellence - Honorable Mention, ACC Baltimore Winter
1999  Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award
1996  Award of Excellence, Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, State College, PA
1995  Excellence in Fiber, SoNo Arts Celebration, South Norwalk, CT

My art has been featured in The Crafts Report, "Painting with fiber one stitch at a time", in November 2005. Also, in Maryland Public Television's "Artworks This Week" in 2002, HGTV's "Sew Much More" in 2001, and in newspapers and magazines such as the Baltimore Sun, the Chicago Tribune, and Columbia Magazine.

I enjoy teaching and my lectures, workshops and classes include free-motion machine embroidery, painting on silk, silk collage and an encyclopedia of fiber manipulation techniques.

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