Bonnie Ahrens will be teaching two
classes at the Midwest Felting
Symposium in Madison Wisconsin.
They are One-of-a-Kind Hand-Shaped Hats and Whimsical Hats and Garments.
Bonnie Black is showcased along
with three other artists living at the
Lake in the May/June issue of the
Lake of the Ozarks Profile Magazine. Bonnie moved back to
the Lake this year and now lives in
her original family home where she
has added a fiber studio. She is
currently the vice president of MoFA
and has two pieces in the Aberration
exhibit in Columbia, MO.
Sue Brown demonstrated and
exhibited soft sculpture and dollmaking
at the Art Fair and Winefest
in Washington, MO, May 15,16 and
17.
Nancy Clark will be in Winfield,
Kansas from September 16-20, and at the UnPlaza Art Show the
weekend of September 25. She is
also part of the market in Las Vegas,
a show in Hermann in June, as well
as at the Old Capital Art Show in
Springfield, Illinois the weekend of
May 15. Plus a new grandchild due
the end of August.
Rosemary Claus-Gray is a member
of a new fiber art group, Fiber Art
Alliance. The members are all fiber
artists, but many are also mixed
media artists, and their artwork
represents a wide array of visions
and techniques. Their first exhibition
is "Natural Lines" and features
artwork that is inspired by the lines
in nature. Each artist will create 3
pieces this year for the exhibition,
and the first set of work is posted on
their website now. Take a look and
bookmark the site:
www.fiberartalliance.com. By the end of 2009, the group will
have an exhibit ready for gallery or
museum showings. Please contact
Fiber Art Alliance if you might be
interested in a fiber exhibit.
Anne Cove has a solo show "Lotherton” which opened in Leeds,
England on May 6. The venue is a
Leeds City museum, Lotherton Hall,
a late 19th century house, set in
beautiful gardens. Her work for the
show relates to the house and its
grounds and is comprised of silk
organza hangings, layered and
beaded. In addition, one of Anne’s
quilts which was bought by the City
of Leeds for its art collection in 2003,
is on permanent display in this
museum.
Janet Ghio will have an exhibit of
Art Quilts, June 7-July 1 at Solar
Gallery, Unity Center of Columbia,
Broadway & Clinkscales, Columbia,
MO.
Visit Marilyn Grisham’s gallery THE
FIBER STUDIO, 18 Commerce,
Wichita, KS, 316-303-1996,
fiberstudio1@sbcglobal.net. Her
2009 schedule will have each show
open on the second Friday of each
month and the closing artist
reception on final Friday Gallery
Crawl.
Sharon Kilfoyle taught a nuno
felting workshop in Los Gatos, CA in
March and in San Diego in April.
Then she had a show, "Agua
Caliente," with her son Santo Noce,
a glass artist, at Cafe Forte in San
Diego. The silk and nuno felt work in
the show was inspired by her recent
trip to Mexico. Sharon's studio in
Ashland, MO is well on its way to
completion, and the past two
weekend workshops of silk dyeing
and nuno felting that she's
conducted have convinced her that
fiber artists in Missouri can produce
textiles worthy of any runway in the
world. Bravo!
Joanne Kluba’s work is part of
Inside/Outside–Book Arts Exhibit at
the Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles,
MO from April 24–June 5,
2009.
The exhibit, Fiber and Wood, May
21-June 30, 2009, at the
Kirksville Arts Center in Kirksville,
MO, features weavings, fabric
wall hangings and sequined pieces
by Jo Morasco.
Pat Owoc’s work will be exhibited in
two exhibitions under the auspices
of Quilt Surface Design symposium,
June/July at The Works Gallery,
Newark, OH, and the second
September/October at The Ohio
Craft Museum, Columbus, OH. She
will also have work on display in the
Surface Design Association member
show—Surface Matters, Surface
Design Association, Kansas City,
MO (June-August). Pat will also be
part of eARThworks 2009, Missouri
Coalition for the Environment,
Regional Arts Commission, St.
Louis, MO (May 8-May 30—opening
reception May 8, 6-9 with a
reception/auction on May 30 starting
at 6:00 PM).
Luanne Rimel has a one-person
exhibit Vestige—New Works on
Cloth, May 25-June 27, 2009,
Boone County National Bank, Lobby
Gallery, 8th & Broadway, Columbia,
MO. Part of the FATE exhibits in
Columbia, MO.
During the Japanese Festival at the
Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis,
MO, Labor Day weekend, Indigo
Moon People (John and Robin
Quint) and Toni Disano will
demonstrate Shibori Techniques
and Indigo Dyeing. They will have a
booth with Indigo dyed clothing,
scarves, batik hangings, bandanas,
material sample pieces for quilting,
procion dyed silk scarves and more
for sale. They will have some of
Sharon Kilfoyle’s beautiful work for
sale, too.
Jo Stealey is one of two keynote
speakers at National Basket
Organization Basketry
conference and will also conduct a
workshop entitled, “Baskets, Books & Shrines.”
Peggy Wyman’s “Wayward Wind"
won 1st place at the 2009 20x20x20 Exhibition in Baton
Rouge. Also "Muir's Meanders" got
an Honorable Mention at Yosemite
Renaissance XXIV and "Fandango"
was given one of two Awards of
Excellence at the 2009 National Art
Premiere, Elmhurst, IL.
Peggy’s work is also showing now
at Fiber Directions 2009 at the
Wichita Center for the Arts; the 17th
SE Regional Exhibition at the Mattie
Kelly Gallery, Ft. Walton Beach, FL;
the National Art Exhibition at the
Academy of Fine Arts, Lynchburg,
VA; Rome Art Coterie's National
Exhibition, Rome, GA; Web and
Flow, a national basketry show at
the Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN
and the National Multimedia
Exhibition in Harrisonburg, VA. "Green Momentum" was chosen to
grace the cover of the "Seen and
Heard" pull-out section of the
Springfield Community Free Press;
that section will be part of the paper
through October. "Blue on Blue" and "Second
Growth" are part of MoFA's Aberration exhibition at the Boone
County Museum, Columbia. And "Fresh Start" is showing at Think
Green! at Waverly House Gallery in
Springfield. Peggy also was a juror
at the Missouri State Gourd
Society's art exhibition held in
Sedalia during their Annual
Weekend Festival.
Barb Zapulla is part of
Innovations 8 at Innsbrook:
8 Artists Interpret Nature in Textiles and Fiber opening on September 5, 2009. She is in
a group exhibit with Marjorie
Hoeltzel, Dawn Ottensmeier,
Barbara Simon, Sun Smith Foret,
Alana Tibbetts and Pat Owoc. In
June, Barb will be working in the
textiles department at the Maho Bay
Resorts, St. John USVI.
The following Fiber Arts Tour &
Exhibition (FATE) venues in
Columbia, MO highlight work by the
following MoFA members from May
15 – June 30, 2009:
Vicki Smith and Suza Wooldridge at
Bluestem Missouri Crafts; Nicole
Ottwell and Joleen Goff at Columbia
Art League; Jo Stealey at Perlow-Stevens Gallery; Luanne Rimel at
Boone County National Bank;
Bonnie Ahrens, Bonnie Black,
Rosemary Claus-Gray, Anne Cove,
Tracy Deniszczuk, Toni Disano,
Judy Dominic, Carlene Fullerton,
Janet Ghio, Marilyn Grisham,
Norman LeClaire, Jackie Keirnan-Hale, Sharon Kilfoyle, Joanne
Kluba, Karen Stiehl Osborn,
Barbara Overby, Pat Owoc, Debbie
Prost, Iwona Rypesc-Kostovic,
Leandra Spangler, Jo Stealey,
Jennifer Wax, Jacqueline Weatherly,
Margaret Roach Wheeler, Suza
Wooldridge, Peggy Wyman, Barb
Zappulla, and Carol Zeman.
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