Tracy McCabe Stewart - Contemporary Fiber

My gal pal, Shelley and I got a personal tour of the beautiful ArtCloth Network show at the Legacy Arts Center in Crystal Lake, IL from artist extraordinaire, Barbara Schneider (she’s in the show) before doing our photography workshop with her later that day.  Barbara led us around the mansion as well.  The venue for the show is in a fascinating old mansion that is in the midst of renovation.  The mansion currently houses a music school, artist studios and other various community arts spaces.  It’s a great space.  Read more about the center by clicking the link above.    Here are some of the more “in progress” parts of the house. 

Great wordwork all over the house

 

All the old fireplaces were intact

 

more great woodwork

 

This hall is a s big as my living room!

 

beautiful staircase woodwork

And pieces from the actual show.  It was really hard to shoot-odd angles and lots of windows.  As usual, I forgot to note the individual artists’ names.  Artcloth is made with numerous layers and techniques of surface design:  dye, paint, discharge, screening, stenciling, etc.  The piece below was beautiful.  Lots of beautiful copper metallics:

a great piece from the show

 

a beautiful mosiac piece

 

Barabara's Schneider's piece

 

Shelley and Barabara look at another of Barbara's pieces

artcloth!

 

Judy Langille's pieces

There is a really good Shiva paintstick tutorial on Rebecca Reasons Edward’s blog:  This is My Brain on Quilts.  She discusses using stencils, stamps and below that making your own rubbing plates with puff paint.  It sounds intriguing.  I will be experimenting soon.  The piece of mine below has some of my own Shiva paintstick experiments on it.

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