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
Deborah Brown & Michael Popoff
Oakland, CA
“White Elephant Extravaganza”
Wool & acrylic yarn purchased, knitted & crocheted squares sewn together.
Courtney Stricklin
Los Angeles, CA
Jennifer Van Trease
Azusa, CA
“Plastic Bag Quilt”
Plastic shopping bags (200+) tied together in a traditional quilt pattern.
www.jennifervantrease.com
www.courtneystricklin.com
Ellie McLees
Syracuse, NY
“Industrial bling for the garage! Thanx for doing this!”
Kelly Soderholm
Summer Shade, KY
Acrylic Yarn Crocheted
“Extremely cool project – Best of luck!”
Oriskany Falls, NY
“The American Dream; Blue Birds For Oil”
Cotton sheet, fabric paint, bailing twine, fishing line, nylon flag, glass beads, felt, broken necklace, sparkle glue. Braiding, Sewing, Quilting, Painting, Sparkling.
“This sheet started out as a prop in the fall of 2001. I was in the middle of my masters in art education, taking one of Dr Hope Irvin’s creative thinking classes. It started out as a shroud for a Taliban fashion show. The bugs and the “cut off hands” necklace have been removed. The entire SU campus was in a state of shock and dismay over what was happening in out country and what was happening in the Middle East. I honestly feel that Bin Laden attacked the US over oil in a long round about way. I honestly feel that US invasion of Afghanistan and ultimately Iraq was simple over the trade of oil…so many lives, so much money so much damage to our planet.
The fabric has been floating around from closet to closet for the past 7 years, never really disappearing but never being used for anything, any purpose. This project seemed like an ideal progression for this fabric. Who knows where it will end up!!!
This winter I spent a lot of time with the square on my lap. Quilting, watching the news, thinking about how oil prices are sky rocketing. The cost of food, processing food, and transporting food has become so unbelievable that we are crazy not to have found a new renewable resource. Simply speaking, the cost of a bale of hay in now between $3 & $6 in upstate NY where hay and grass is abundant. I can’t imagine what it is in Florida, or Afghanistan. As for the Blue Birds, (of Happiness?) Are we really happy when we have ruined our planet, the air, water? I suppose one of the saddest visuals I recollect is of the birds that die from being soaked in oil every time there is an accident with a oil tanker on the ocean.
Thank you so much for allowing me to participate, I look forward to the unveiling of the gas station and the reception. “
Christine
Copeland
Rochester, MI
Rochester, MI
Jerry Oyarzo Hickey
Oakland, CA
Pieced fabric from samples / all fabric is recycled
Allegra Bruke
Santa Rosa, CA
“I want it now!”
3 layers of heat-set recycled plastic, acrylic paint.
“I’m
originally from up-state NY and grew up in a family of automobile
dealers. My dad owned a Packard dealership and a gas station. I
pumped many gallons of gas in my youth. It you haven’t already seen
‘Who killed the electric car’ please do. We desperately need
alternative fuel.”
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Leslee Nelson
Madison, WI
“Compassionate Mind”
Fabric piecing & writing & setting intention
“While I sewed this I listened to a tape called Naoble Heart by Pema Chodran on Meditation. She talked about compassionate mind I thought if we had compassionate minds we wouldn’t be destroying our climate or invading countries for oil.”
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Joanne Minot
Edgecomb, Maine
Cotton, machine pieced and quilted.
“If
the U.S. invented the railroads the way they do in roads people &
freight could be moved with vastly greater savings in oil by reducing
gas station stops.”
Elise McWilliams
Oxford, OH
“Thank
you for creating such an inspiring show. I meet once a month with an
artist’s group and I proposed this show as an idea, but I think I’m
the only one who created a piece. Still, everyone was very inspired
in the group that people are out there with such great ideas such as
yours! Thank you so much!”
www.elisemcwilliams.com
Jan “Tsunami” Barnes
Seattle, WA
“The Biblical Whale Takes Charge”
Background
untreated artist's canvas. Assorted fabric appliqué including
felt. Surface embroidery stitches done with cotton perle and carpet
warp. Original Design.
Member
of the Pacific Northwest Needle Arts Guild.
Lisa Lazdowsky & Darlene Chase
(The Dolly-Mamas)
Needham, MA
“One”
Wool, plollyfill and a combination of knitting, crocheting, and felting (wet felting and needle felting)
www.elissascreativewarehouse.com
Spotsylvania, Virginia
“Mother Nature”
Quilting technique, 100% cotton quilting materials, reused polyester batting.
“I
am delighted to be part of this public forum & display depicting
our country's excessive reliance on oil for energy. As a 30-year
retired biology teacher who ended her career teaching environmental
science, this affords me the chance to continue to promote, preserve,
and protect our environmental consciousness in a visually
demonstrative way. Thank you for the opportunity to participate in
this project.”
Sarah
Wagoner
Tallahassee, FL
“Them”
Used
clothing dump stored & donated fabrics, pieced together with
antique treadle (electricity – less) sewing machine.
“Good
luck with your installation! I find it particularly interesting as I
have been working, for almost a year, on the preliminary designs for
a similar installation. (I actually found your project in the process
of researching my own) You have given me encouragement to follow
through with my project by reinforcing it’s social relevance and
it’s origins in the collective zeitgeist. Thank you!”
Jane Fisher-Merritt
Wrenshall, MN
"Tea Bags"
Jennifer
Marsh
Syracuse, NY
Syracuse, NY
Lola Bulman - Salina, KS
Debbie Wagner - Bennington, KS 2 panels www.3riversgallery.com
“Petroleum Eye On The Future” “Look to the Sky beyond the Corporate Barrier”
The
Perez Family
Boca Raton, FL
“Family Expressions”
Acrylic on Fabric
Boca Raton, FL
“Family Expressions”
Acrylic on Fabric
Lauren Michelle Lewis
“This
is my effort to participate. I’m a fledgling knitter, so I was
relieved when I found out I didn’t have to make a narrative panel
to participate – Thank You! I used scraps from several fiber
projects I’ve worked on over the years, so it’s like a recycled /
pro-recycling panel! I think what you’re doing is awesome! I am
glad I found out about it; I’m still not sure how I feel about oil
& etc – it’s such a messy, tangled knot filled with needs,
wants, greed, blood, love – all of it. Every fiber of human
confusion & existence is somehow ensnared in oil…it’s hard to
detect, it’s hard to digest; but this has given me space to attempt
to wrap my head around things, you know? This is awesome and
exciting. “
Jody Servon
Blowing Rock, NC
“Untitled (puddle)”
Cotton, felt, fiberfill; sewn & fused fabric
Victoria Paskett
Portland, ME
Linen fabric, silk thread, embroidery
Idil
Akbostanci
Istanbul, Turkey
“Textile Diagram”
Knitting, Stitching
Istanbul, Turkey
“Textile Diagram”
Knitting, Stitching
Jackie Adamo
Instructor: workshop @ Adamo Studio
Syracuse, NY
Participants – Elena Bingham, Daniel O’Connor, Lark Allen
www.adamoartwprks.com
Elizabeth G. Leal
Greensboro, NC
“Save Nature”
Machine Embroidery on fabric.
Leal is a Mexican born artist / educator. As a visual artist, her focus is on fiber arts, painting, and sculpture, areas in which she experiences, vividly the trans formative power of art.
Brenda Springer
Blacksburg, VA
Crocheted Acrylic Yarn
“I am a hobby crocheter; using yarn from hand-me-downs, thrift store buys and occasional new yarn. I enjoy making things with my hands in all forms of media (especially clay). I am involved with voluntary simplicity, environmental issues and personal lifestyles choices that effect the environment. I live in a home heated with geothermal heating and positive solar design. I grow some of my own food and shop locally whenever possible.”
Julia
Karll
St. Peters, MO
“VHS Panel”
Crocheted of VHS tape
St. Peters, MO
“VHS Panel”
Crocheted of VHS tape
Anna Bender
Pittsburgh, PA
“Upholstery fabric swatches, I thought using upholstery fabric would be a good idea to contribute towards this collective reupholstering of this gas station.”
www.annabender.com
Linda Boone Laird
San Diego, CA
“Almost Anything Can Be Re-cycled”
Antique silk log cabin quilt top, machine-quilted to cotton fabric 2 machine-appliqué panels w/ 1955 car ad scanned onto iron-on transfer fabric.
Linda Boone Laird - panel detail
Concetta Ceriello
Forest Hills, NY
“Cotton & fleece scraps, cotton printed with 4 color inkjet printer. The images on this quilt come from a 1922 picture of an oil rig in Oklahoma.”
Emily Duffy
El Cerrito, CA
“For The Love Of Oil”
Woven poly/cotton fabric w/ thread patchwork
www.politicalartwork.blogspot.com
(An on line political art gallery dedicated to spreading progressive / liberal political viewpoints to citizens of our country)
Kathleen A. Kneeland
Boston, MA
“At Any Cost”
Under rug padding, black plastic garbage bags, tewy cloth, gold ribbon and thread, embroidery thread, wool thread.
Kathrine Copeland
Washington, DC
4 panels Recycled fabric www.americansforthearts.com
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Christine O’Reilly
Rochester, NY
“It’s Not All Black And White”
All weather quilted / knitted using ‘oil derived’ recycled materials & mono filament thread, plastic shopping bags: loom knitted white squares & frame batting, Video tape: loom knitted circle-top embellishment, package netting: letters to form word ‘Peace, & frame edging, Plastic table cloth: 3’x3’ base and frame, Dryer sheets: binding Knitted edges.
www.lezdrum.com/artistpages/artistpage.cfm?artistid=4
Elizabeth M. White
Bethel, CT
“One World’”
“Coconut (landscape) fiber, Impregnated w/ assorted seeds for renewal, seeds of hope, The dome/sphere was appliquéd with connecting rays to symbolize both the sun/earth and the spokes of a wheel. Four feathers were added as the air element in the four directions of the earth. Hopefully we will see the sprouting of new energy in the near future. I am a sculptor working in natural materials & also with the medium of cement.”
Brooke E. Demos
New York, NY
“Make Art With Oil, 2008”
Post-consumer plastic shopping bags and plastic packaging material. Collaged using heat method to melt cut pieces together.
*Plastic can be hand sewn, or on a machine, with a little extra patience.
“I am motivated to weave with discarded plastic bags because of the transformation that occurs when I process this modern waste product, produced in vast quantities on a global scale, into a sensual fabric or textile construction. The material speaks to me about where it comes from and what it is made of, directing me to themes of universal shopping culture, sustaining the environment, and turning blight to beauty. I work with the inherent colors of the bags in my formal concerns when designing appropriate patterns and textures for individual pieces.”
Kelly Pergande
Portland, OR
“A Chicken Speaks Her Mind”
Mixed Media: Plastic table cloth, cotton fabric, laminated paper, oil paints, permanent marker, staples.
Technique: Hand stitched table cloth & fabric panel together and created the surface design on the panel w/ oil paint & marker. Attached ‘oil drops’ w/ staples. Added vinyl sheet to cotton panel for added weather resistance.
Allyn Cantor
Cannon Beach, OR
“Navigation”
“Pieced & assembled fabric, machine stitched I combined fabric I painted & printed with recycled & found fabrics. I see this as an abstracted landscape. “Navigation” is how I feel we must approach our changing relationship with finite resources.”
www.allyncantor.com
Beth Hartmann
Sebastopol, CA
“It’s The Journey”
Thrift store sweaters, fulled, and pieced with appliqué.
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Caroline Le Blanc
Adams, NY
“Darkening Horizons”
Natural & Synthetic fiber yarns
Adams, NY
“Darkening Horizons”
Natural & Synthetic fiber yarns
Charlotte Exantos
Randolph, NJ
“Red Heart Super Saver”
Yarn & Fun with foam alphabet
letters, crochet.
“Treat the people you meet…. Is a personal mantra that I think about at times when I’m feeling sassy and disconnected from the human race. While I was thinking about what to so for my panel, me and my classmates suffered a great loss with the passing of a student who was also my friend. For a little while we were all full of so much grief. There were a lot of tears and breakdowns and the general feeling in the hallways was very somber. I remember spending time in the dark with people sitting silent for hours not knowing what to do with ourselves. However, out of this dark time I witnessed unimaginable amounts of love from my fellow students. Love was just pouring out of the walls and there were random acts of kindness everywhere. People who I’ve never ever spoken to would stop me in the hallways just to talk about how they feel. We were no longer just people but together in this building making art, we were family. I felt a close personal bond to every one of those people. That wonderful capacity for compassion made it completely impossible to make a panel that was all doom and gloom. Believe me I as going to do a doom and gloom panel but now I didn’t know what to do. At the same time I had just began studying Buddhism and the idea for my panel came while I was reading a chapter of the book Hardcore Zen by Brad Warner entitled No Sex With Cantaloupes.”
Diane Miller
Syracuse, NY
“Hand Knitted yarn on background. All materials were either recycled or leftovers from other projects. I wanted to do something that included the bear symbol as some of my ancestors were native American of the bear clan.”
“Treat the people you meet…. Is a personal mantra that I think about at times when I’m feeling sassy and disconnected from the human race. While I was thinking about what to so for my panel, me and my classmates suffered a great loss with the passing of a student who was also my friend. For a little while we were all full of so much grief. There were a lot of tears and breakdowns and the general feeling in the hallways was very somber. I remember spending time in the dark with people sitting silent for hours not knowing what to do with ourselves. However, out of this dark time I witnessed unimaginable amounts of love from my fellow students. Love was just pouring out of the walls and there were random acts of kindness everywhere. People who I’ve never ever spoken to would stop me in the hallways just to talk about how they feel. We were no longer just people but together in this building making art, we were family. I felt a close personal bond to every one of those people. That wonderful capacity for compassion made it completely impossible to make a panel that was all doom and gloom. Believe me I as going to do a doom and gloom panel but now I didn’t know what to do. At the same time I had just began studying Buddhism and the idea for my panel came while I was reading a chapter of the book Hardcore Zen by Brad Warner entitled No Sex With Cantaloupes.”
Diane Miller
Syracuse, NY
“Hand Knitted yarn on background. All materials were either recycled or leftovers from other projects. I wanted to do something that included the bear symbol as some of my ancestors were native American of the bear clan.”
Elizabeth Good