Breast Cancer Month

As many of you know, this month is Breast Cancer Month. We encourage/remind all of you (eligible) ladies to get your annual mammogram if you haven't already and make it routine to do monthly breast exams to check for lumps and/or other changes.

Don't know the proper way to do breast self exams? click here for a brief tutorial on how.

We also encourage you to CLICK HERE and check out this site. Every time someone visits the site (and clicks on the pink specified button), a free mammogram is given to a woman in need. Visit daily all this month and click. Please share with all your friends and family, male or female.



Stay tuned for upcoming pics of my latest Breast Cancer Month inspired/related quilts.



Picture credit: http://www.active.com/images/upimages/ist2_4450118_breast_cancer_run_ribbon.jpg

Sculpture Quilting Classes with Carolyn Crump

Over the weekend of the 5th through the 7th, I took three Sculpture Quilting classes with Carolyn Crump. She is a dynamic fiber artist from Houston, Texas.

The class was very intense with very long hours. Some of the technique learned were:

Enjoy the pics of some of my projects I created during the classes

2-D quilting
3-D quilting - Mask making







Monoprinting fabric
Alcohol dispersion dying (fabric)
Fabric painting

Carolyn Crump

My Newest Style: Collage Quilting

I've started expanding my style of quilting and have become addicted to creating what I like to call "collage quilts".












You can find these quilts in Eula boutique right now for purchase.

Narrative Arts, The Supreme Orator Exhibition

Last Saturday, my "Unparalleled Journey" quilt that I made in honor of the 44th Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama was included in the "Narrative Arts, The Supreme Orator" exhibition opening at the Kennedy Heights Arts Center. This was their 2nd invitational exhibit of this year.




Other artists included, but were not limited to, Cynthia Lockhart; Joyce Young, and Kyle & Kellie Phelps. The exhibit included quilts, photography, paintings, jewelry, and mixed medium and media pieces.

Global Lead Art Gallery Exhibit

These are some of my quilts that are hanging up in the Global Lead Art Gallery here in Cincinnati for their "Building on Tradition-Contemporary Quiltmaking" exhibition.



They've been up for the past 3 months and came down yesterday but I still wanted to share a few of them with you.

"Seeds of a Dream" Quilt

I was commissioned by Kennedy Heights Arts Center to create a quilt in celebration of their 5 year anniversary. I talked about this back in April when I had first started to draft ideas for it and had given you a sneak peek of my progress.


Here is the finished project:



The symbolism of it....

The founders' names are placed all around the seeds to reflect that they sewed the seeds that took root and formed the foundation of the arts center. The branches of the tree are the collective hands of a community that worked together to create a vision for the art center. Inside of the crystal ball is the Kennedy Heights Arts Center building.


If you're in the Cincinnati area, stop by the center to see the quilt among the other great works of art displayed.

Kennedy Heights Arts Center
6546 Montgomery Rd.
Cincinnati, OH 45213
513.631.4278

www.kennedyarts.com

"Honey's Mango Bop" Quilt

On June 23rd, 2009, my "Honey's Mango Bop" quilt was one of the many featured in the "TEXTURAL RHYTHMS: CONSTRUCTING THE JAZZ TRADITION -- CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN AMERICAN QUILTS" exhibition opening at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City.

The venue was packed with art, quilt, and jazz lovers all around.



Great works from artists included Carolyn Crump and Carolyn L. Mazloomi, who organized the exhibition.

I couldn't be there so my daughter went to represent for me and even signed a book on my behalf.



The exhibit will be there till October 11th. To learn more about it and museum, Click Here