Second Nature

Conversations in Fabric Curators Linda Fowler and Tracy Rieger	September 13–November 1, 2009 If your quilt could speak, what would it say?
	Bob Adams Lafayette, IN Infrastructure No. 41 Paper lamination, thermofaxed screens, fused $3,000 “There are bumps in the road, deal with it.”

	Deborah Anderson Columbus, OH Tracking Series: More Than Numbers Heat transfers on cotton; whole cloth $2,500 “FedEx patterns track your parcel better than numbers alone.”

	Esterita Austin Port Jefferson Sta., NY Sunday Morning Reverse appliqué, painting NFS “Sit right down here and tell me about it.”

	Jeanne Beck Canandaigua, NY Parables Monoprinting and screen printing with dyes & paints, free-motion machine & hand stitching $6,000 “Combining fragments of letters, texts and invented languages, I explore the intersections between word and image, ancient and contemporary, civilization and nature, spirit and form.”

	Lisa Binkley Waunakee, WI Floating and Grounded Handmade felt, hand beaded and embroidered, haiku $1,600 “Floating and Grounded is an interior conver-sation about being at the shore—the way the rhythm of the surf can make you feel both buoyant and rooted, and the way that rhythm both encourages and suggests tranquil breathing.”

	Lisa Binkley Waunakee, WI Leaving Autumn Hand-dyed and embroidered fabric, machine-pieced $1,200 “This quilt converses about the experience of a leaf as it ‘leaves autumn’: it begins aloft, in its tree home; then it releases and falls, adrift and alone; ultimately, it alights on the ground and awaits its next incarnation.”


	Sue Cavanaugh Columbus, OH Makume Variation #11: Journey Stitch-resisted Shibori patterning, Makume and Ori-nui stitched, dyed $2,500 “Sunrise, sunset; each day writes an abundance of possibilities.”

	Nancy Condon Stillwater, MN Brain Scan Digital images on fabric, quilted, pieced $1,500 “The brain has a million hills, rivers and valleys; the mind a million conversations.”

	Cynthia Corbin Woodinville, WA Text Fabrics hand dyed and painted by the artist; machine pieced and quilted $2,700 “Consider the shape of letters as abstract structures, word as form; a statement of language, without saying anything at all.”

	Marlene Ferrell Parillo Lincolndale, NY Dream City Hand-pieced & embroidered with beadwork and ceramic fixtures $11,000 “Dream City addresses my lifelong difficulties with sleep and everything that visits me at night: anxiety dreams, flight dreams, death dreams, dreams of home, grief, as well as the annoyance of losing sleep over bathroom trips in the middle of the night! The lizards, which are Native American symbols for dreams, crawl across my quilt, weaving all of the stories together.”

	Linda Filby-Fisher Overland Park, KS Earth Song 1: Medicine Wheel Series Hand-pieced, painted & pounded; machine-pieced, appliquéd, embroidered, printed & quilted using netting, cotton; copper embellishment $900 “My quilt says that the earth is heavy with our story (ka-no-ge:-s-di); on its back we grow (cynyddu doethineb); we rise (superamos).”

	Marla Hattabaugh Scottsdale, AZ Inca Influences Hand-dyed & quilted fabrics, strip-piecing $3,000 “Hiking the Inca Trail is something best left to Real Hikers. The tightness of the ‘giraffes’ all right next to each other are just like the tightness of the rocks on the trail.”

	Anne Hiemstra Farmington Hills, MI I Know So Little About My Mother’s Life #2 Direct hand appliqué, photo transfer, machine quilting, hand quilting and embroidery NFS “If my quilt could speak one sentence about itself, it would say: ‘Too late.’”

	Cathy Jeffers Centerville, OH The Sky Is Falling Pieced, stitched & quilted by machine NFS “Sky is inspired by the children’s story The Sky Is Falling. Faced with the many environmental conversations we hear today, it seems even more real.”

	Catherine Kleeman Ruxton, MD Graffiti Quilted textile hanging $9,000 “Nobody can resist a blank wall.”

	Patricia Larson Columbus, OH Pete's Birds Photo transfer, hand- stitched NFS “Overheard in bird conversation: ‘I like the colors in the border.’”

	Barbara Lind Cleveland Hts, OH Sweetheart of the Regiment Machine-pieced and quilted NFS “I especially enjoy hunting for ‘found objects’ fabrics such as this antique, chromolithographed pillow top depicting a charming WW I - era soldier girl purchased at a rummage sale for $8.00.”

	Cheryl Lynch Broomall, PA Motherhood Machine-pieced and quilted, digital printing, hand embellished NFS “If I did such a good job giving my kids roots and wings, then why am I so sad?”

	Karen Schultz Silver Spring, MD Caution Direct appliqué, machine-stitched, fused, painted $300 “I am a portrait of a Middle-Aged Woman as the Artist.”

	Susan Shie Wooster, OH The Magic Lama Whole cloth painted; drawn & colored with airbrush & fabric paint, mostly machine-sewn, Nature-fil bamboo-cotton batting. $27,500 “Magic Lama is a poetic history of parts of the Democratic Primary election race last year, focusing on Barack Obama, with a supporting cast of the Statue of Liberty (as his mother), the Dalai Lama, and a blue donkey/ llama — along with notes from my own life at the same time.”

	Ginny Smith Arlington, vA Original Sin Machine-pieced and appliquéd, hand-quilted $2,500 “Birds and flowers are common decorative features on traditional quilts. On my quilt, the bird is less protective sentinel and more argumentative partner. We just don’t speak his language.”

	Jill Rumoshosky Werner Wichita, KS Prepackaged Machine-pieced & stitched $5,000 “Prepackaged: Prepared and wrapped beforehand to be ready for sale.”