{"id":893,"date":"2012-06-11T19:22:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T23:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allida.com\/wp\/?page_id=893"},"modified":"2023-03-25T09:19:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T13:19:53","slug":"art-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/allida.com\/wp\/?page_id=893","title":{"rendered":"Fiber Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Fascinated by grandmother’s drawings and rag rugs, the abstract expressionism of Sonia Delaunay, and traditional arts from Finland, I made a series of rag-rugs to evoke natural imagery: the sun and the rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While living in Spain, I was overwhelmed by the dryness of the land. Having lived in Chicago near Lake Michigan, the arid desert was so different, and I started to draw the Seine while sitting on the banks of a canal near Gare du Nord. These became abstract images that I have printed on cloth and have worked into a few designs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the fall of 2016, I curated a show that featured teaching artists from FLY. During the honey-bee festival. My own contribution was a giant walk-in honeycomb installation constructed out of fabric so that visitors could walk into it and be engulfed in texture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the fall of 2019, I did an experimental limited engagement to get feedback on a new project that will combine theatre, digital projection, fiber art and participation called In-Between Thoughts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fascinated by grandmother’s drawings and rag rugs, the abstract expressionism of Sonia Delaunay, and traditional arts from Finland, I made a series of rag-rugs to evoke natural imagery: the sun and the rain. While living in Spain, I was overwhelmed by the dryness of the land. Having lived in Chicago near Lake Michigan, the arid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1841,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-893","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P1R2gu-ep","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2433,"url":"https:\/\/allida.com\/wp\/?page_id=2433","url_meta":{"origin":893,"position":0},"title":"In-Between Thoughts","date":"February 23, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Art is a necessary part of my life. 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