Is there a greater way to celebrate the autumn than spending an afternoon in my backyard, along the Wallkill River cooking up natural dyes with a group of wonderful women? Definitely not! Luckily this is how I spent Saturday morning…
What do you get when you combine beautiful fall foliage, plant dyes, warm apple cider, and a (hopefully) sunny day? A workshop this weekend at my home in New Paltz. Join us for a day of dyeing with october plants…
So the Rondout Valley Common Ground Celebration was an amazing success! After a tense early morning of cold rain and fog the percipitation ceased just as I began to drive over the mountain and within an hour the sun was out! I…
Sunday October 14th an amazing and much-appreciated event is taking place in Stone Ridge, New York and I am excited to be teaching an introduction to natural dyes class at two different time slots during the event. The Rondout Valley Common…
This past May, as I graduated from the State University of New York with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking I had the opportunity to show a body of work at the Samuel Dorsky Museum. A years of worth…
I recently finished my first set of little treasure drawings/quilts. The process of doing the drawings, painting them, cutting out all my layers of fabric and paper, hand sewing them together, inserting the backing, and attaching the hanging device on…
in 2008 I had the good fortune to see an exhibit of the quilts of Gee's Bend at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. These beautiful pieces are so strong in both their aesthetics and their history. They embody the idea…
I've been getting a lot done in the past couple days- work is coming along nicely on my little treasure portraits and today I spent time figuring out what form I want the book on the back of the old…
After having trouble with design and getting my blogger blog to look a way that reflected my art I decided to make this switch to wordpress! We'll see how it treats me. To see my past entries feel free to…