I am excited to share that I have work in a couple shows!
ekphraestival 2025
A group show celebrating word & image in honor of April’s National Poetry Month.
April 4 – May 16, 2025 - opening First Friday, April 4 6-8 p.m.
Poetry readings in April & May + video installations in garage. Gallery hours Thursday and Friday afternoons from 2-5 p.m., April 10 thru May 16
Soliloquy Fine Arts 2232 SE Clinton | back of building Portland, OR
Northwest Designer Craftartists Presents “Fiber Between the Lines” – An Exhibition of Contemporary Fiber Art.
Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum
OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, April 26, 2025, 3PM — 6PM
Northwest Designer Craftartists (NWDC) is pleased to announce Fiber Between the Lines, an upcoming exhibition showcasing contemporary fiber artwork by NWDC members at the Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum. Artworks in the show were selected by artist and curator Ellen Ito, the exhibition highlights the diverse and innovative ways fiber artists push the boundaries of traditional techniques.
Featuring works in a wide range of fiber-based media, Fiber Between the Lines will present sculptures, installations, quilts, wall pieces, artist books, basketry, and more. NWDC artists employ techniques such as dyeing, weaving, surface design, embroidery, and stitching to create vibrant and tactile works of art.
The exhibition includes work from Danielle Bodine, Barb Burwell, Flóra Carlile-Kovács, Julie Sevilla Drake, Kate Dwyer, Joyce Hayes, Ann Johnston, Claire B Jones, Bella Yongok Kim, Patti King, Margo Klass, Annetta Kraayeveld, Mary Lane, Katherine Lewis, Anna Macrae, Barbara Matthews, Dorothy McGuinness, Naoko Morisawa, Ree Nancarrow, Barbara Nepom, Gabriela Nirino, Elin Noble, Natalie Olsen, Seiko A. Purdue, Ellen Ramsey, Julia Rapinoe, Amy Roberts, Joan Stuart Ross, Kathy Ross, Laura Stangel Schmidt, Luanne Seymour, Terri Shinn, Jan Silver, Denise Snyder, Mary Tyler, Barbara J. Walker, Helga Winter, Judy Zugish.
“Selecting the work for Fiber Between the Lines provided an opportunity to explore the dynamic fiber arts ecosystem, wherein legacy processes meet, commingle, and diverge,” said Ito. “Keen expressions of skill, the works are surprising, vibrant, organic, and tactile: Ikat goes 3D, embroidery becomes a painting, soft quilts shout with bold color. Diverse but in dialogue with one another, these NWDC member artists’ sculptures, installations, baskets, quilts, and wall pieces evince the makers’ vital relationships with creativity and each other.”
Ellen Ito is an artist, curator, and programmer based in the Puget Sound region. She has contributed to numerous exhibitions, including Soft Power at Bumbershoot Contemporary (2024), and On Site, an interdisciplinary moving image series at Seattle's Mini Mart City Park. She is also the creator of Following Gordon, an experimental documentary inspired by the hitchhiking experience of activist Gordon Hirabayashi. Currently, Ito serves as the Curator of Collections and Special Projects at the Tacoma Art Museum.
April 2 – June 29, 2025
OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, April 26, 2025, 3PM — 6PM
Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum
703 South Second Street
La Conner, WA 98257
(360) 466-4288
HOURS
March - October
W - SUN
11AM - 5PM
ADMISSION: $7
Stay creative,
Barb
Congratulations! I'm out of town for the poetry/art opening. I'll get in to see it when I get back home and before it closes. I'd love to go to La Conner and see the quilt show! Not sure I can swing it but it'd be fun. :)