Monthly Archives: January 2011

Jan312011

Inspiration

As I write this , I am thinking about my trip back home to New York City this December. By the time you read this, it will be February and the trip will be over but I wanted to share some of my thinking about what inspiration I would like to return to Colorado with after the trip and where I’m planning to get it!

I love New York in December. The tree will be up and people will be skating [...]

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Jan232011

America Celebrates! Quilts of Joy and Remembrance

Opening this month at the Longmont Museum in Longmont, CO is a wonderful exhibit of fiber art — America Celebrates! Quilts of Joy and Remembrance, curated by Judith Trager, a well-known fiber artist living in Boulder, CO. I was honored to be invited to participate but by the time I was added to the list of artists asked to contribute a piece of fiber art — all the well know holidays were taken! [...]

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Jan162011

American Folk Art Museum

Located right next to MOMA, this museum is always on my itinerary. This trip, I lucked out and saw their exhibition of American quilts from their collection. This exhibition is in two places — one on 53rd street and one at their smaller gallery on Columbus Avenue right opposite Lincoln Center.

Many of the quilts displayed were quite unusual and seeing them close up really makes a difference in how you “see” the quilt. Most of them [...]

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Jan92011

High Line Park in NYC

One of the things I really wanted to do during my visit to New York was walk the “High Line”. This is the newest park in NYC created from old railroad tracks on the lower west side. It is a beautiful park and even though we walked it in the dead of winter, it was still full of dried flowers, grasses and ground cover. The views are so different from the ones you get when walking the caverns of [...]

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Jan22011

NoHo Gallery in NYC

Because Ludmilla Aristova was having a solo show here, I stopped in to see her work in person. I was hoping to see her work depicting the NY skyline but instead was treated to a series of textured, multi fiber and stitched abstracts presented framed and wall hung with sleeves on the back. The monotone works, all in the same colorways, were interesting but I really wished to see a broader scope of her work. However, [...]