Celebrating American Craft 2025 Acceptance

Greenhouse Effect

I am delighted to share that Greenhouse Effect has been juried into Celebrating American Craft 2025 at the Sarratt Gallery at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. This juried exhibition features the work of 34 craft based artists from across the USA. With clay, fiber, metal, wood or glass these works demonstrate the skills, voice and heart of contemporary craft art. The exhibit opens September 8th and runs until October 31st.

Greenhouse Effect, detail.

My statement for this work: Alarmed by global climate change and frequent dramatic weather events, I’ve been working on a series of weather-related quilts. The greenhouse effect is a process that occurs when gases in the Earth's atmosphere trap the Sun's heat. This makes the Earth much warmer and contributes to extreme weather, wildfires, droughts, and agricultural disruptions. For this quilt I made prints of leaves from species native to my micro-environment in Pennsylvania, as many are showing stress related to these changes.

Materials: Artist painted and commercial cotton, silk, wool fabrics

Techniques: Wet process cyanotype and solar dye prints, monoprints, patchwork, stitching

Size: 62"h x 48"w

I am always particularly pleased when my work is included in a fine craft venue; to me it represents the best of contemporary art.

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