I am a surface design artist creating original, one-of-a-kind fabrics. I incorporate unusual techniques such as dyeing with ice, manipulating fiber reactive dyes, and the use of decolorants. I’m an ardent observer of my surroundings always ready for the unexpected color or element to catch my eye and influence my next project. Warm colors, balance and an unexpected variety of texture can be found in every piece of art cloth.
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Candace Edgerley
Candace Edgerley is a practicing artist working with the
traditional Japanese technique of shibori hand dyed fabric. Edgerley’s work has
been exhibited nationally and internationally in China, Korea, Japan, Germany
and France. Her work is in private and permanent collections including the
Corcoran Museum, Kaiser Permanente, and David Copperfield. As a
juried-in-artist at the Torpedo Art Center, Alexandria, VA, she shows her work
in Fiberworks Studio and teaches workshops through the Art League. She has
served as President of the international Surface Design Association and is a
member of New Image, a local group of artists that show nationally. She recently retired as an adjunct professor
at the Corcoran College of Art + Design. Edgerley has a Bachelor of Science
degree in Business Education from Northern Illinois University with additional studies
at the Corcoran College of Art + Design.
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Cyndi Souder is an award-winning artist whose work has appeared in quilt shows, books, and magazines. She travels to teach, appears in season 1700 of Quilting Arts TV, and has two classes on Craftsy. Her book, Creating Celebration Quilts, focuses on celebrating events and lives by creating unique, meaningful quilts. Much of her commission work involves making Celebration Quilts for clients.
Cyndi is Juried Artist Member of Studio Art Quilt Associates and a BERNINA Ambassador.
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Jane Davila
Jane Davila is a fiber and mixed-media artist who began her professional art career as a printmaker, specializing in etchings and intaglios. Her prints can be found in many private and corporate collections around the world. She switched to fiber, mixed media, and art quilting in the 1990s but still incorporates many printmaking techniques, such as screen printing, block printing, gyotaku, and thermofax printing, in her work.The experience of living in Peru in the 1980s has had a lasting impact on her appreciation for the diversity of cultural expression and iconography, which as a theme frequently shows up in her work. Repeating motifs of fish, birds, and insects reflect her ongoing fascination with nature, the environment, and human impact on both. www.janedavila.com
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Judy Gula
Judy Vincentz Gula has been working in fiber since elementary school. Since middle school, she has been a weaver, a spinner, a dyer, and a collector. Later, she studied fashion design at Radford University, earning degrees in fashion design and business marketing. Judy now enjoys merging all that she has learned from her many interests and channeling that into making art quilts and samples for her shop, Artistic Artifacts.
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My name is Julie B. Booth. I am a fiber artist, fiber arts teacher and
owner of Thread Born Dolls.
I create multi-layered fabrics using painting, printing and more
recently, resist techniques. The resists I use can be found in your
kitchen. I've spent the last year exploring and experimenting with using
common household materials as fabric resists as part of a grant
project. It continues to be an exciting and inspiring journey.
Some of my fabrics become cloth "dolls" others "speak" to me as pieces
of art in and of themselves.
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As a young child, I continually begged my Mother to buy new arts & crafts projects for me. I rarely finished a project but my Mom indulged me because the projects kept me occupied. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized I am obsessed with process. As an adult I learned to follow through and finish projects while continuing to try new techniques. I graduated with a degree in Journalism and Art from the University of Utah. I am an avid sewer, art quilter, illustrator, and surface design artist. I enjoy sharing my art explorations with others through teaching, various publications and my blog: somethingcleveraboutnothing.blogspot.com
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My obsession with fabric surface design emerged while writing my “Telling Your Story” newspaper column about local artists. I was so inspired by the fabric artists I interviewed that I decided that I wanted to spend more time creating my own art, especially working with fabric, dyes, and paints. I tried snow dyeing, but with very little snow here most winters, that proved difficult. But I thought that ice cubes would also work, and so ice dyeing was born. I wrote the first article on ice dyeing, which appeared in Quilting Artsmagazine in 2011, and taught a webinar in June 2013 on that topic.
But for me it’s not just playing with ice and dye. I also love working with other ways to change the look of the fabric’s surface including, but not limited to, sun printing, soy wax batik, discharge, gelatin printing, thermofax screen-printing with dye attractant and inks, and marbling. I also love using all kinds of tools for marking the fabric from potato mashers and wood printing blocks to doilies and lace.
I love to share this art-making journey through local classes and on my blog (bloombakecreate.com). My goal is to inspire others to stretch their creative muscles by trying something new and challenging. I always say if I can do it, you can too
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Susan lives in Concord, NC with her husband of 37 years. Her love of quilting began over 30 years ago. She loves all things vintage. Her art began with painting and illustrations with extreme detail. After college she discovered quilting. As time went on with her new love of fabric she began to incorporate all of her talents on fabric, painting, drawing, and many embellishments. She is best known for her love of embellishing all her work. Anything from hand embroidery, beading, painting, machine stitching, tattered, rusted things and more. Her work has a whimsical, yet vintage feel. Susan teaches and lectures all over the Southeast. Beginning in Feb. 2016 she will be featured on three “Quilting Arts TV” segments.
www.susanedmonsondesigns.com
susanedmonson.wordpress.com
email her at susanledmonson@gmail.com
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She has studied Design, Patchwork and Embroidery with the prestigious City & Guilds Institute of London, England and has studied withinternationally acclaimed teachers/quilt makers Nancy Crow, Jan Meyers Newbury, Elin Noble, Gail Harker and Ruth Issett. Susan has also been awarded two Certificates in Art and Design and Textile Design/Decoration from the Gail Harker Creative Studies Centre in Washington, USA.
Susan has spent the last 20 years learning, experimenting and finally teaching a variety of surface design techniques in dyeing, painting, screen printing and image transfers. Most recently she has focused on soy wax resists and has recently released an instructional DVD on many of the techniques she is currently teaching across North America. Her work is known for its use of traditional methods with contemporary design and materials.
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My budding fascination with surface design started around the time I began blogging, in 2006. Over the years I have tried many techniques and played with many products. During that time I learned which surface design techniques I enjoy most and included among those are screen printing, stenciling, wax batik, dyeing and stamping. I love making my own unique fabrics to use in my sewing projects, which includes quilting, making handbags, home decor items and more.
Web site: www.terristegmiller.com
Blog: stegart.blogspot.com
I am impressed, delighted, and 'bee-mused' to find this fun hive of women painting outside the box, beyond the box, and completely without boxes! I have been making whole cloth quilts with "one layer" of design upon the initial white fabric, in that I like to paint the color on in either a representational design, or else in whimsy simply tie or wad or fold the fabric, and then paint some color on to see what happens. What I have found in your blogs is really inspiring. I find surface design very alluring, and self-expressive. Thank you for creating this blog, and all your blogs, and for all the inspiration. Smiles to you all from the edge of the earth in Oregon! sl
ReplyDeleteHi Terry. Thanks for one more way to follow you and see what all you're doing with your talent!
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