Category Archives: Fiber Artist

May122013

RiNo Safari Open Studios Day

I have to admit, I’m a little tired.

The aBuzz Gallery opened on May 2, then we had First Friday and yesterday was the annual open studios event for the RiNo art District.

All in all, I think about 500 people came to the gallery in the last 10 days.

But what fun too!

I loved these three visitors in particular (center of photo). They stayed for at least 30 minutes (that’s a long time for a visit!) but they couldn’t [...]

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May62013

What a Weekend!

This was probably the most exciting weekend in my life! I opened up a contemporary art gallery called aBuzz Gallery in the RiNo (River North) art district in Denver.

aBuzz Gallery

Thursday was the “grand opening” and more than 200 of my friends attended to see the new space and wish me well. We had wine, food and music to celebrate the moment and my husband even flew in my granddaughter (and her mom, Catia) to come to [...]

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Apr282013

SAQA Conference – Santa Fe

I’ve been in Santa Fe, NM for the past three days to attend the SAQA Conference. I just love meeting all the people I know by name and putting faces to their emails and blog posts. The first night is always a “meet and greet” called “speed dating.” Everyone gets about 90 seconds to tell their story and pass out postcards of their work. I met about 30 new fiber artists that evening.

Friday, I gave my talk called “Going From [...]

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Feb32013

More New Work – Felting, Couching & Stitching

A couple of weeks ago, I got the urge to work with a felted background and apply decorative machine stitches and couching to see what textures I could create so I went out to buy an “embellisher”. These machines are relatively inexpensive so if I decided I didn’t like the result, I wasn’t worried about wasting a lot of money. I had purchased one of these machines years ago, tried it for a couple of weeks and broke so many [...]

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Jan272013

Entering Competitions

I have mixed feelings about entering fiber and art quilt juried exhibits. When I was building my early resume, I entered 15-20 shows a year and got into about 50% of them. My objective was to get people to see my work and see if my work measured up to everyone else’s. Because the shows I entered were juried, it also brought my work to the attention of the juror (if fleetingly!) and also to the people seeing the exhibit [...]