I am honored and delighted to share that my 52 Ways to Look at the River has been acquired by the Phillips Museum of Art at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA.
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| 52 Ways to Look at the River |
During the run of my recent exhibit at the Museum, "
The Enduring Beauty of the Susquehanna", I was able to see first hand the care and expertise that the staff puts into handling, storage, and display of their artwork. Even more importantly, I saw the effort the Museum puts into community engagement, and how my work was used and will be used to engage with students and visitors. I also appreciated how their values aligned with mine, as in using Land Acknowledgement statements. I feel this is the highest and best use of this quilt, and am so happy to have this home for it.
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| 52 Ways to Look at the River, detail 1 |
I conceived of this project in 2015 on the summer solstice with a simple premise--to visit the Susquehanna once every week for a year, take photos, then return to the studio to make a 6" x 12" fiber panel representing what I had just viewed. My idea was that this beautiful river is complex and ever-changing, literally different every time one looks at it, and I wanted to capture ephemeral moments in it's flow
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52 Ways to Look at the River, detail 2
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Making the panels commenced as a quick, abstract exercise, but they soon evolved into complex, detailed vignettes. I had great joy in creating them, and learned a lot about both the river and about my approach to creative expression. I documented each week's panel on my blog. At the end of the year I created a quilted background and attached the panels to it, with a finished size of
72”h x 82”w". |
52 Ways to Look at the River, detail 3
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I know many of you followed along as I made this quilt, and I want to thank you for your ongoing support and encouragement. For everyone recently discovering my work, a good place to start exploring is with my series of river quilts, seen
here.
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| 52 Ways to Look at the River, detail 4 |
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