INTERNATIONAL FIBER COLLABORATIVE
2007-2008
Jennifer Marsh, Syracuse University
Comart Bldg, 1055 Comstock Rd
Syracuse, NY
13244
United States
ph: 1-614-561-9057
alt: jenniferbrookemarsh.com
blueangl
Mindy Thompson
Jennifer Marsh
Lake Odessa, Michigan
"Hot Plate Mama"
Crochet/knit
"Burlap
Membrane"
Costa Rica
Collaborators:
Aura Madrigal, Irene Chaves, Gaby, Alina & Carlos Chavarria, Alex & Antony Gonzalez
Costa Rica
Collaborators:
Aura Madrigal, Irene Chaves, Gaby, Alina & Carlos Chavarria, Alex & Antony Gonzalez
Carol Lovell
Central Square, New York
Central Square, New York
"GO
Green"
Crocheted
Crocheted
Carol Prost
Maynard, MA
"Jennifer, Enclosed
is my panel for this exciting project! I am also a sculpture and fiber
artist and have passed your project website along to colleagues and
friends. As a student in the Brandeis Cultural Production MA, program,
I have posted a link to your website project on our class "Making
Culture: Theory & Practice" classroom on line component. I will
be
telling the youth in our community project at a local Housing
development about it too! Best
Wishes. Carol"
Silvia
Piza - Tandlich
Costa Rica
"Color Membrane"
and members of the Cerro Danta Collective of Women & Youngsters
galeriaoctagono.com
Costa Rica
"Color Membrane"
and members of the Cerro Danta Collective of Women & Youngsters
galeriaoctagono.com
Gaby's Panel
Costa Rica
Silvia Piza-Tandlich
Costa Rica
"Green Membrane"
Design & Embroidery by SilviaPiza-Tandlich
Collaborators -Aura Madrigal, Irene Chaves, Gaby, Alina & Carlos, Alex & Anthony
Galeria Octagono www.galeriaoctagono.com
Malinda
Smith, CO
Educator
Smith, CO
Educator
Christi Beckmann
Besthoud, Colorado
Quilted Panel
Submitted Nov 1, 2007
Karen Rosenberg
Berkeley, CA
"Earth, Sea, Sky"
Wool, Silk, Misc.
Knitted
Submitted Nov 6, 2007
Berkeley, CA
"Earth, Sea, Sky"
Wool, Silk, Misc.
Knitted
Submitted Nov 6, 2007
Carol B. Lovell
Central Square, New York
"Jennifer,
Here's another one! The "N" represents the gas prizes $! Good to see the added activity!"
Georgia
Vinsunl
U.K.
"Hi Jennifer,
Enclosed is my contribution to the International Fiber Collaborative. I've only been crocheting for a few months now and always seem to loose stitches per row as it grows! Hence the add-ons to make it a square! I look forward to seeing the finished product and hope it gets a lot of publicity!"
U.K.
"Hi Jennifer,
Enclosed is my contribution to the International Fiber Collaborative. I've only been crocheting for a few months now and always seem to loose stitches per row as it grows! Hence the add-ons to make it a square! I look forward to seeing the finished product and hope it gets a lot of publicity!"
"We Love Nature"
Applique and Painting Over Cotton Mesh
Silvia Piza-Tandlick, Irene Chaves, Maritroni Avarado, Alex, Anthony, Gaby, Alina, Kris, and Patric. Silvia and members of the cerro Danta Women's & Youngsters' Collective.
www.galeriaoctagono.com
Virginia Spiegel
Byron, IL
"Mother & Child"
Hand-painted and commercial cotton, raw edge applique and hand stitching.
www.virginiaspiegel.com
www.virginiaspiegel.com/blog/
Fiberart For A Cause
Fundraising for the American Cancer Society.
virginiaspiegel.com/NewFiles/ACSFundraiser.html
Current fund raiser: Ongoing online book, "Art, Nature, Creativity, Life"
Aimee Lee
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York
"Cut
and knitted plastic shopping bags. Approx. 120 bags representing 3
years of bags collected by a couple in New York City. I wanted to
create a panel made out of a petroleum-based product, to show how our
dependence on oil goes a lot further than gasoline for our vehicles.
Plastic bags are an inextricable part of our lives, something we don't
even ask for, but get automatically when we purchase goods. In cutting
the bags into strips, I kept every piece of the bag in the knitting
process so that it remains a closed circle; no plastic was
put
into the garbage system in the process. I also wanted to use bags from
only one family, to show how many plastic bags can accumulate in one
household (and this isn't even all of them!)."
Helen Plaumer
Manchester, England
"This Is It"
"I am contacting you regarding your
call for
fiber panels expressing concern about oil dependency. I
am from Manchester, England, and am very interested in your project. I
happen to have recently made a textile panel with the text ' This is it
' appliqued onto a vintage tray cloth. The appliqued letters are all
made up of textiles that have a personal history for me. I hope you
will be interested in including the panel in your project.. I can email
you an image if you would like me to."
Burris Laboratory School
Gloria May - H.S. Art
Muncie, Indiana
"Dear
Jennifer,"Thank
you for this opportunity to display my students' work. It is very
exciting. The 2 pieces I am sending were group projects done by
students who attend We are the last K-12 lab school in
Indiana and service Ball State University."
Ren
Vasiliev
Bloomfield, New York
"Sunset and Picnic"
Center Panel: Knitted and Crocheted
Background: Cotton Upholstery Fabric, Sewn
Bloomfield, New York
"Sunset and Picnic"
Center Panel: Knitted and Crocheted
Background: Cotton Upholstery Fabric, Sewn
Bonnie J. Smith
San Jose, California
"This is my contribution to the International Fiber Collaborative. The "Iris" is one of my very first pieces of art in needle work. I believe if we are not to careful we may not have any flowers in this world one day."
San Jose, California
"This is my contribution to the International Fiber Collaborative. The "Iris" is one of my very first pieces of art in needle work. I believe if we are not to careful we may not have any flowers in this world one day."
Monika
Dalkin
Tucson, AZ
Cotton / Acrylic Fiber
Knitted
Tucson, AZ
Cotton / Acrylic Fiber
Knitted
Vicky
Dekrey
Portland, OR
Submitted December 23, 2007
Quilted, Recycled Plastic
Portland, OR
Submitted December 23, 2007
Quilted, Recycled Plastic
"I
have participated in several art shows raising awareness of how much
single use plastic we all use & since plastic is made from
fossil
fuelsit seemed appropriate for this project."
Rebecca Wombel
Lincoln, UK
"Flower"
Crocheted VHS Tape
Devotion Primary Extended Day School Brookline, MA
Teacher - Carabeth Connolly
Kids first names - Ittay, Afik, Emma, Noam, Genevive, Raz, and Pradyumna
Knitting, sewing, crochet, gluing, and drawing
Kids first names - Ittay, Afik, Emma, Noam, Genevive, Raz, and Pradyumna
Knitting, sewing, crochet, gluing, and drawing
P.S - The kids were very excited to participate in this project.
Amy
Bouse
Los Angeles CA
Quilted
“Best Wishes with this great project. Sincerely, Amy”
Los Angeles CA
Quilted
“Best Wishes with this great project. Sincerely, Amy”
Calle
Mayor Middle School
Torrence, CA
Torrence, CA
Mrs.
Mareau’s Special Ed Class
"Hands Around the World"
“I am a para-educator for special needs children and they all participated in making this panel. Other students cut hands from different color fabric representing different skin tones. We then had the children write there names in chalk on the hands and then one of the educators wrote over all the names and lettering with paint. All the aides names, our teachers names, town & the children’s names are on the panel. Our children would love to see there quilt online and where it goes.”
Anne Copland, Adam Corcoran, Victor Luna, Jo-Ann Nakumara, Bobbi, Larry Williamson, Kelsey, John, Ken, Esther, Ken, Cheyne, TT, Jamie, Joseph, Jamie, Brandon, Kelsey
"Hands Around the World"
“I am a para-educator for special needs children and they all participated in making this panel. Other students cut hands from different color fabric representing different skin tones. We then had the children write there names in chalk on the hands and then one of the educators wrote over all the names and lettering with paint. All the aides names, our teachers names, town & the children’s names are on the panel. Our children would love to see there quilt online and where it goes.”
Anne Copland, Adam Corcoran, Victor Luna, Jo-Ann Nakumara, Bobbi, Larry Williamson, Kelsey, John, Ken, Esther, Ken, Cheyne, TT, Jamie, Joseph, Jamie, Brandon, Kelsey
Cherrie
Syracuse, New York
“Oil Splash in Water”
“Cheri, Thank you so much for your hard work in helping me put this project together. Thank you for keeping me sane and together. When this project is over I will surely miss working with you.” - Jenny
Daniel
Boyer
Houghton, MI
“The Last Yawn”
- marker on Fabric
Houghton, MI
“The Last Yawn”
- marker on Fabric
Gail Kincaid
Fishers, IN
“Find the Good”
“I
wove this panel on a large 4
harness floor loom in my home. My goal was to create the entire panel
using only the things already in my studio. No electricity was used
in the preparation, weaving, and finishing of the panel. The warp
threads (red,black,and purple) are a heavy cotton called carpet warp.
The weft (green with black specks) is actually plastic tape not
unlike the yellow and black found at crime scenes on television. It
has the work GOOD repeatedly and was used in factories to mark metal
coils that passed inspection. The three panels were then sewn
together by hand to achieve the 36”x36” size requested.”
Albuquerque, NM
“Jennifer, here’s my piece. All the
fringe is made of the rayon circles 1 cut as neck holes for my line
of clothing. The 3 circular designs are reminiscent of oil spills.
Good luck with your project. I may do another one. – Ginger”
Isabel Altamirano
New Orleans, LA
Yarn, ribbon, telephone cord, plastic bags, hobby plastic gift bow material, paper
books and other stuff.blogspot.com
Liz Stuff
Syracuse, New York
Cotton/wool -machine designed and knit pieces -zigzag stitched together
Mary Trecilla
Milan, Italy
“Dear Jennifer, Here’s the fiber
piece I made for your gas station project. I used puffy pens ( which
dried much darker than original colors-grrrr) and hope that’s not
against the rules! It’s a little larger to allow for sewing the
seams. If you have any more group projects, let me know, I’ll give
you my email in case you didn’t save it. Good luck and I’m sure
it’ll be a success – I’ll look at the website. P.S I heard
about this through A/N Magazine, an artists’ mag. out of the UK.
Nancy Hinds
Covington, LA
Cotton fabric, pieced and quilted by machine with acrylic paint.
“This was a practice piece I quilted during Desert Storm. Word such as “skud” (missile) are stitched on it. I thought it was appropriate for this installation. I wanted to wipe an oil dip stick on it, but decided to use black acrylic paint to give that effect.”
Covington, LA
Cotton fabric, pieced and quilted by machine with acrylic paint.
“This was a practice piece I quilted during Desert Storm. Word such as “skud” (missile) are stitched on it. I thought it was appropriate for this installation. I wanted to wipe an oil dip stick on it, but decided to use black acrylic paint to give that effect.”
Nemis
Syracuse, New York
“Syracuse”
Ruth O’Lill
Norfolk, Virginia
“Quilted-Conscious”
Quilting by hand and machine. Made
with
recycled fabrics from other projects and no new materials.
“I
was raised in Cortland, New York
and now live in Norfolk Virginia where I write grants for a homeless
recovery center. That is why there is a map of NY and VA incorporated
into my quilt. I am the author of two books, A Personal Guide to
Hope, and Songs To Sisters, and I continue to free-lance for “Venture
Inward” magazine. I am also a certified Quantum Touch
practitioner.”
Southwest Ohio Crochet Guild
Chillicothe, Ohio
“SOCG”
Worsted Weight Yarn & Crochet Hook
Judy Henline, Susan Ealy, Bridget Moorland, Karen blumburg, cathy Robbins
Artist Unknown
Syracuse University Fibers
Department Syracuse, New York
Sarah
Saulson -Joan Deuel -Melissa
Koch -Maryanne Stanton Woven
(3 panels)
Britney Whiting
Boise, Idaho
Looze & CJ Glick
“Duck”
Recycled clothing, felt, iridescent thread, feathers, polyester fiber fill, etc.
Technique….stuffing and hoping.” – Britney
Gina Skillings
Parland, FL
“Recycle, Reuse”
Patchwork
Quilt – cut down and
recycled from the first full sized quilt I made about 25 years ago.
ginaskillings.com
Ginger Quinn
Albuquerque, NM
“Here’s another panel for the installation- “- Ginger
Jane Linders
Maryland, MO
“Crude Awakening”
Cotton,
Cyanotype, Gold Netting,
Enlarged Negative
If anyone is interested in only using the blue image & collaborating, they are welcome to the piece. - Jane
If anyone is interested in only using the blue image & collaborating, they are welcome to the piece. - Jane
freewebs.com/janeLinders
Jeda Feldurdin
Undills Forks, NY
Marjorie McWilliams
Woodland, CA
“Thanks For The Fun!” –Margie
FabricDesigns.com
Matt McCalmont
Portland, Oregon
“Big Win”
Fabric, burlap, appliqu'e, needlepoint
“I really
enjoyed making this square.
Thanks for the opportunity! I told some friends here in
Portland
about your project. Good luck with everything and I look forward to
seeing how it turns out (via internet).”
Sincerely, Matt
artsubstrates.com owheregallery.org
Sincerely, Matt
artsubstrates.com owheregallery.org
Suzanne Morlock
Wilson, WY
“Oil Revisited”
Recycled plastic bailing twine
Suzannemorlock.com
NYC, NY
“From Death Comes Life”
“I
am recently working in printmaking
and I’m teaching a course at Manhattan Graphic center in N.Y.C.
Dyed & Silkscreened with hand stitching on cotton. I took purple cotton fabric and silkscreened images of skulls and angels. Once the images were in place I bleached out the fabric destroying areas of image and color – then I tied and Dyed the fabric once again to bring forth new life. The red stitches on the sides, symbolize the blood shed – over this natural resource.”
Dyed & Silkscreened with hand stitching on cotton. I took purple cotton fabric and silkscreened images of skulls and angels. Once the images were in place I bleached out the fabric destroying areas of image and color – then I tied and Dyed the fabric once again to bring forth new life. The red stitches on the sides, symbolize the blood shed – over this natural resource.”
Diane Knowtton
Syracuse, New York
Sally Dill
New York, NY
“Handy”
Stitched Fiber Construction of Aprons, pantie, Gloves, Linen Doily, Crocheted Doily, Dress, Hand gloves & Scarf.
“A
stitched fiber
construction was started in the late 1990’s while travelling thru
upstate New York. I probably was stitching while passing Syracuse.
How fitting that I have now tweaked the piece into a panel for the
International Fiber Collaborative. I am a native of St Louis
Missouri, the
daughter of a quilter, the mother of three, the grandmother of three,
and a mixed media artist and photographer, living with my spouse and
working in New York City since 1995.This is the first time, gloves,
from my ‘found glove collection’ have been part of an artistic
endeavor.”
Eve Gage
Monterey, CA
Lave, ribbon, thread, hand stitched
“This is my
first public space art
project: it feels wonderful to participate with a community in full
creative expression.”
evegage.com
Ildiko Szabo
Liverpool, England
Crocheted plastic flowers
“Enclosed
is my panel. It probably
get terribly scwished, just give it a good shake and it’ll be all
right. Wishing you the best of luck with the project, it’s a
brilliant idea!”
Pat Friedli
Nebraska, NE
Cotton Fabric, machined pieced, hand appliqué
“Sincere
thanks for this great
project. I admire you for doing something that will make a huge
statement.”
"Goes Green"
Sharon – Green Bags
Courtney – Material
Cherrie – Crochet, Assembledge
"Harmony"
Gualala, CA
“Good luck
with the project. My
Square is made from 100% organic cotton fabric swatches. Enjoy! In
gratitude.”
harmonyart.com
Heather Thompson-Roberts Damariscotta, Maine
Artist of Back Meadow Studio
“Water Baby”
“Panel background is a Batik cloth in water hued tones accented with gold. Layered with 100% carded white Romney Wool formed into “Water Baby” symbols surrounded with drifting mists of gently manipulated Romney Wool. Glistening highlights in contrasting tones was achivied with mylar material used in my spinning and wool fiber product. The top layer to the panel is sea green tulle contrasting to the overall design. Machine stitched with multi-colored thread to add tecture and durability to the finished Panel.
Tatiana Sarasa
Baleares, Spain
“I
am a visual artist from Spain and
I am very pleased to participate at the Fiber International
Collaborative Project. I send you the panel and my personal dates. I
have chosen part of the lyrics of George Harrison’s song “ Here
comes the sun”, as the sun is so much involved in our environmental
problems; it is a threatening element if we keep on deteriorating our
planet, but it can also be an important source of alternative
energy.”
tatianasarasa.com
Jenny Haack
Springfield, Ohio
“Eating Fossil Fuel”
Keith A. Buchholz
St. Louis Missouri
“Oil War”
Reclaimed Crochet, Plastic Church Sign Letters
Keith is a St Louis, Missouri based artist working in Xerography, Found Object, Performance, Mail Art, Collage, And Artists Books Since the Late 70’s. He has shown in collaborative projects for over 25 years, and has shown in over 20 countries, worldwide. His work is held in many collections and Archives. Keith is a Fluxus Artist and is the founder of Fluxus/St.Louis Artfarm. KeithBuchholz.Blogspot.com .
Susan Krueger
Bowling Green Ohio
“Made From Oil”
Recycled
plastic newspaper delivery
bags reinforced with mesh from onion bags, recycled coffee bags and
dried fruit bags, acrylic yarn, machine appliquéd, machine
sewed, crocheted.
"Just a couple weeks ago I finally got
around to reading my Nov/Dec edition of Fiber arts magazine and saw
the call for participants in the International Fiber Collaborative. I
went to the website and couldn’t believe that I actually knew where
“the abandoned gas station in New York State” is! By Peter’s
grocery store, right? – if it’s still there. We used to live in
Syracuse years ago. Our two boys were born there, I got my MFA in
Fibers at SU. Still consider myself a fiber artist.”
Monika Dalkin
Tucson, AZ
Sherry Lewis
Jamesville, NY
Recycled acrylic yarn.
This panel is
knit in the Fair Isle tradition from the Shetland Islands. The
Shetland Isles and the rest of the coast of Britian, like many other
places in the world is always under threat from oil spills.
Fortunantly the tradition and culture of the people of the Shetland
Isles continue to survive today.
*I will be happy to help with the project on April 12!!! Look forward to seeing you then!”
*I will be happy to help with the project on April 12!!! Look forward to seeing you then!”
Laurie Carlson
Arlington, MA
“Fun From The Stock Pile” (Four Panels Submitted)
BFA textile design, 1976 and MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, College of Visual and Performing Arts. LCH Designs, www.liteweave.com
Hand woven pieces in patch work Hand woven pieces in patch work too
Cut and sewn knitted
sweaters
Serged burlap
Cinzia Loddi and Meri Ciuchi
Sansepolcro, Italia
“Asimmetrica Ammore / Asymmetrical Love “
Fili Di Cotone-Pannello Di Cotone
Wires of Cotton – Cloth of Cotton
“Hello, we send our panel “Asimmetrical Love”, we are happy to take part in the exhibition. Good Luck”
-Cinzia Loddi & Meri Ciuchi
Peter
Forbes
Syracuse, New York
Syracuse, New York
Anni Holm
West Chicago, IL
“Collectively We Can Make A Difference”
“Blue Epson ink
cartridges plastic
sleeves cut in strips, then knitted into skinny panels using recycled
chopsticks, hereafter stitched together to create a square. The
approximately 100 plastic sleeves that went into this piece were
collected by the staff at the Photo Department’s Digital imaging
Lad at Columbia College Chicago, and hereby saved from entering the
landfill. Besides the gasoline most of us use for transportation, I
believe we as artists also need to consider the many oil-based by
products of our art making process that end up in the landfill.” anniholm.com
Claudine Intner
Annapolis, Maryland
“Give Me Oil Or Give Me Death”
Art Quilt using various fabrics.
“My piece stems from American political decisions that focus more on oil than human rights.”
www.intner.net
Isabel Altamirano
New Orleans, LA
Jennie Turner
Redmond, WA
“Crazy Plastic”
"I
took the plastic labels from plastic
soda and water bottles. I cut them up and sewed then down in the
style of a crazy quilt to make a big quilt block. After a while I
began to think about the labels as fabric, not plastic. Now I am
wandering what else to do with plastic bottles in place of fabric! I
heard about your project through my needlework guild, PNNAG aka
Pacific Northwest Needle Arts Guild. It sounded interesting, so I got
started on a project. I am obsessed by all these plastic bottles we
throw away, even though they can be recycled. Since a piece made of
bottles would be too bulky I decided to make a panel out of the
labels. I chose the technique of crazy quilting, using the labels as
the “fabric” scraps. I dyed the background fabric and began
quilting down the plastic labels. I am a nurse, and all my fellow
nurses saved labels for me.”
Ann C. Kittredge Houlton, Maine (2 panels)
"As this project is about the use of oil, I decided to collect all of my old scraps of synthetic yarn, derivatives of petroleum-based materials, and use them to knit a panel on which I then placed the caption “I Am OIL”. Then I knitted a second panel with all of my scraps of natural yarns; I even unraveled an old woolen afghan which was beginning to fray and recycled the wool by incorporating it into the second panel to which I applied the caption “NOT OIL”.”
New Rochelle, NY
“Bad vs. Good”
Felt, fabric, paints
"I tried to show the negative aspects of the depletion of our current energy sources, versus the positive benefits of alternative natural energy sources.”
www.Lisapost.com
Karen Kuhn (2 panels)
Portland, OR
"Love-Joy” scrap jeans & old slipcover fabric
"Old Friends” I cant seem to part with old jeans. This project was the perfect vehicle to move them onto a better place!
Painter, stay at home mom.
Bellevue, WA
“Addiction”