Upcoming Exhibits

I will have a piece, Forest Floor, var. 3 at Quilt National, opening May 25, 2013 at The Dairy Barn Gallery in Athens, OH.

Also, Reflections, Venice, var. 20 is currently at Form Not Function at The Carnegie Center for History and Art in New Albany, IN until July 13, 2013.

Reflections, Venice, var. 18 will be at the International Quilt Festival - Long Beach, California in  July 2013 and also at the National Quilt Museum, Paducah, Kentucky, September 12 - December 2, 2013.

Pokey and me

 

It was fun to do the filming for Quilting Arts TV. This is a picture taken with Pokey Bolton, the host, during one of the breaks on the set.

Filming for Quiltings Arts TV program

 I just came back from filming 3 segments with Pokey Bolton for the Quilting Arts TV program on PBS. The show will air this fall on PBS. It was a really fun expereince, once I got there and got started. I did a segment on my Reflection quilts, a segment on the three dimensional shaping (using the leaves) and one on digital printing through an online printer.  My car was FULL with proejcts coming and going. It filmed in Cleveland and that was long ride under the threat of the big snowstorm last weekend.

Hope to have  images to show at some point here.

Article in Quilting Arts

I have an article on digital design and printing using an online printer in the December/January issue of Quilting Arts. Please check it out. Available online at QuiltingArts.com or on the newstands.

I am excited to see the cloth and the words in print! This is my 3rd article with Quilting Arts. They also published my DVD -  Three Dimensional Fiber Art: Shape and Texture, Light and Shadow, which has been doing well.

Having spent so much of my previous career in publishing from the publisher end, it is fun to be an author.

Art Quilts at International Quilt Festival in Houston

Here are some photos from the SAQA Seasonal Palette exhibit that was at Houston a week ago. The show will be traveling to Cincinnati, Long Beach a a few other venues over the next 18 months, I hope to go see it in Cincinnati next April. My piece is the water reflection piece at the far right in the first photo. 38 artists were asked to make pieces for the show - each of us were given a particular season and color collection to work from. As well, we each created a notebook documenting our process and work along the way. There is a catalog ($20) available from the SAQA.com site. Photo credits: Gregory Case.

Another exhibit at Houston was A Sense of Scale. Very large pieces were interspersed with groupings of small pieces. This exhibit will also be traveling to other venues and also has a catalog available from SAQA.com. My piece in this exhibit was Mingled Waters - the very large piece shown in photo below.

What's Happening!

It has been a busy couple of months! Every time I think I am going to sit down and write something, stuff happens. I am busy and happy working in my studio and have participated in several exhibits there. Last month I was asked to be part of a new interior design gallery called TishStudio.com that carries one of a kind interior home furniture and art. Also, I have artwork that is off to several major exhibits:

Reflections, var. 19 is part of The Seasonal Palette exhibit at the International Quilt Festival in Houston and then will travel to several other shows.

Mingled Waters is off to Houston also for the exhibit A Sense of Scale.


Barry's Robe is going to be part of an exhibit in Lowell, MA called Encounter With Cancer which I wish I was able to go and see.

I have an article coming out about digitally printing fabrics in the Dec/January issue of Quilting Arts.

Leaf Kicking Boots will be part of the Women's Journeys in Fiber exhibit at the Fine Art of Fiber at the Chicago Botanic Garden from November 1-4.

4th Friday at The Starline Gallery is coming up on October 26 and I have 3 pieces in the juried exhibit there and the studio will be open.

And last, but definitely not least, my piece, Forest Floor, var. 2 has been selected for Quilt National 2013 and is already on its way to Athens, Ohio for the catalog photo shoot.

Now I can see why I have been so busy - it has been good to get so much work out the door to various places and events.

I hope some of you can visit one of these exhibits. If you need more information, please email me at: BJSCO@comcast.net.

KathyAnneArt Featured Artist Profile

Kathy Anne White featured me on her blog yesterday. Here is the link to her blog. Thank you Kathy Anne!

I can get the article uploaded but not the photos. SO please geo visit the link to see the whole article.

http://www.kathyanneart.blogspot.com/2012/08/artist-profile-barbara-schneider.html

 

Artist Profile Barbara Schneider

Fiber Artist Barbara Schneider

"My ongoing interest in the Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi, finding beauty in things that are imperfect, impermanent and incomplete is at the core of all my artwork. I try to capture the essence of images made of light and movement, images that are in infinitely variable. What does the eye see? What does the camera see" What does the mind see"

 

My Leaves series is an exploration and interpretation of natural images by enlarging and reshaping them. I collect leaves, pods, flowers, grasses and look closely at their structure and shape. In particular, I like to collect these natural objects at the end of summer when they have begun to wither and fragment. Enlarging them in my work process allows me to see them as sculptural objects. I look at the play of light upon surfaces and shaping the pieces introduces a new element-light and shadow interacting with the undulating surfaces."

 

 

 

In the first week of July this year Barbara Schneider spent a week in my workshop in Greenville New York at Hudson River Valley Art/Fiber Workshops. It was an incredible group of woman who gathered to learn and experiment with digital printing alternative surfaces. The artist's present were like sponges with the plethora of material thrown at them and the results were many awesome alternative prints. Barbara was no exception as we printed one of her leaf images on several substrates.

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of the things I loved was the time we had (the workshop was 5 days) as I was able to spend a nice bit of time with everyone in the workshop while their images printed which included time with Barbara, her surfaces and images. When you start to experiment with alternative surfaces a great place to start is trying the same image on the various substrates. When you switch images you don't really get an overall view of what can happen in printing the variables. Above you can see Barbara's image on many substrates. Of course it is always hard to see in pictures, but the textures and impact of the image can still be seen. Barbara made some notes about precoats and surfaces as she worked.
(If you click on the images you will be able to see more detail in the print)

With her fiber art, Barbara has developed 2 processes that she uses to create her leaf pieces. These processes and some background on how the concept developed and fits into her overall aesthetic is the content of her new DVD "Three-Dimnesional Fiber Art: Shape & Texture, Light & Shadow"just released. You can view a snip of her dvd on the same page here.

 

The video workshop is available for HD and for Standard Video.

 

You can visit Barbara's website to see more of her work. It's worth a visit to see her different series and the scope of her work.

It was wonderful to meet and work with Barbara Schneider. Her work is interesting, her attention to detail is inspiring and it's exciting to see her DVD first hand!

 

www.kathyanneart.blogspot.com/2012/08/artist-profile-barbara-schneider.html