Give and Take Dolls

Buttons make dolls joints and allow them to be connected together

6" x 18" each

Self Portrait Planting

Collagraph with fabric collage and hand coloring

11" x 15"

Small Works part II

Sheyboygan Visual Artists created a second Small Works fundraiser!

Here is my contribution, pieced and appliqued vintage fabric

Urban Farming Work

4 classmates and I worked at Whitelock Community Farm this last semester for our Urban Farming class.

We spent the last couple of months rebuilding the hoop house, digging trenches and holes, turning over beds, planting seeds and transplanting seedlings.

Here is my final contribution to the farm!

A Small Story

Olive Hill Series 2

Olive Hill Series 1

What is Felt

Felt, Felt

Okay, Okay

Using the Devore process, which removes the cotton from poly-cotton fabric, this book creates a dialogue about words and communication through transparency and text.

The fabric is all hand dyed and the book hand bound.

Because Not All Things Hold

Hand dyed fabric, poly fill, quilt batting, devore, applique and machine embroidery.

This and That, That Shit

Samples for Book Final,

Polyester Cotton Blend Fabric

Hand Dyed and Devored

The Devore process removes the cotton from the fabric, leaving just the polyester, creating the transparent white text

"Open Up" a Book for Connection

"Open Up" a book for connection

hand dyed cotton fabric, thiox and devore, poly fill, thread

Participants slip hands into arm forms sewn into the book.

One partcipant sits with palms facing up, the other down.

The hands share the same fingers but, it is difficult and nearly impossible to reach the partner.

A connection is made, a narrative is created.

Laying My Hands to Rest

all materials hand dyed and hand sewn

Quilted

Hand Dyed Fabric, Stitching, Quilt Batting

About 15" x 24"

Side one

Potato Dextrin Resist Stenciled, Over Dyed, Immersion Dyed

Side two

Silk Screened Applique

Gloves

Immersion Dyed Cotton Spandex Blend

Silk Screened

4" x 16"

Knuckles

Potato Resist Stenciled, Over Dyed, Immersion Dyed

Repeat Pattern on Rayon

32" x 32"

Fabric

Hand Dyed Cotton Jersey

Screen Printed

Reaching

Surface Resist and Dye project

2 1/2 yards of cotton fabric

process:

dyed bronze, corn dextrin resist, over dye light brown, inko resist body form, hand paint shirt and pants of figures, thiox/bleach arms, hand paint arms on top, hand paint plants