Mélange
Fiber Guild of Lexington
Curatorial Statement:
Mélange reflects the diversity of the work that Guild members produce. This exhibit is a sampling of small works by 16 Fiber Guild members which includes quilting, fabric collage, rug hooking, mixed media, sculptural quilted vessels, weaving, needle felting, and sculptural wet felting. Some items have recognizable subject matter, while other works are exploratory. Some work in traditional techniques, while others push the boundaries of art.
About the Guild: The Fiber Guild of Lexington was incorporated in 1980 to encourage an active awareness, interest, and participation in the fiber arts among its members and the community as a whole. The members are a group of textile enthusiasts who work with multiple textile techniques. Some of the members are professionals, who teach, sell, and exhibit their work nationally and internationally. Others pursue different fiber arts for their personal enjoyment. Some members have engaged in their art for decades, while others still view themselves as learners.
Passion and the payment of modest dues is all you need to become a member of the Fiber Guild. The Guild sponsors workshops on a variety of topics of design and techniques. The Guild also organizes exhibitions and shares current and work-in-progress with other members.
Mélange reflects the diversity of the work that Guild members produce. This exhibit is a sampling of small works by 16 Fiber Guild members which includes quilting, fabric collage, rug hooking, mixed media, sculptural quilted vessels, weaving, needle felting, and sculptural wet felting. Some items have recognizable subject matter, while other works are exploratory. Some work in traditional techniques, while others push the boundaries of art.
About the Guild: The Fiber Guild of Lexington was incorporated in 1980 to encourage an active awareness, interest, and participation in the fiber arts among its members and the community as a whole. The members are a group of textile enthusiasts who work with multiple textile techniques. Some of the members are professionals, who teach, sell, and exhibit their work nationally and internationally. Others pursue different fiber arts for their personal enjoyment. Some members have engaged in their art for decades, while others still view themselves as learners.
Passion and the payment of modest dues is all you need to become a member of the Fiber Guild. The Guild sponsors workshops on a variety of topics of design and techniques. The Guild also organizes exhibitions and shares current and work-in-progress with other members.
Participating Artists:
Dobree Adams
Statement: My early felted work, primarily floating mountains and waterfalls, was inspired by Chinese landscape painters who first put in the big mountain, then the mountains in the middle ground, and finally the details of the foreground. This gave me the first sense of how I could apply the layered process of felting to make landscapes. For this body of work begun in 2019, I studied Japanese landscape painters including Hokusai (1760–1849), Hiroshige (1797–1858), and Hasui Kawase (1883–1957), and the British landscape painter J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851). All were drawn to mountains and gorges, waterfalls and rivers, and the effect of light falling on the landscape.
Bio: The artistic vision of Dobree Adams is expressed in both fiber and photography. Recognized as one of Kentucky’s major contemporary fiber artists, she has also taken hundreds of photographs to record and share the influences behind her work in fiber, images she has gathered in her travels and at home on the Kentucky River farm she shares with her husband, poet Jonathan Greene. Recently she has been experimenting with the layered process of felting. In her woven and felted work she uses the wool from a rare breed of sheep, the Lincoln Longwool, an old British breed renowned for the curl, luster, strength, and length of its wool. For 20 years she raised and exhibited a prize-winning flock of Lincoln Longwools, the first significant flock of Lincolns in Kentucky since the 1930s. She is dyeing Lincoln wool for her felted landscapes.
Statement: My early felted work, primarily floating mountains and waterfalls, was inspired by Chinese landscape painters who first put in the big mountain, then the mountains in the middle ground, and finally the details of the foreground. This gave me the first sense of how I could apply the layered process of felting to make landscapes. For this body of work begun in 2019, I studied Japanese landscape painters including Hokusai (1760–1849), Hiroshige (1797–1858), and Hasui Kawase (1883–1957), and the British landscape painter J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851). All were drawn to mountains and gorges, waterfalls and rivers, and the effect of light falling on the landscape.
Bio: The artistic vision of Dobree Adams is expressed in both fiber and photography. Recognized as one of Kentucky’s major contemporary fiber artists, she has also taken hundreds of photographs to record and share the influences behind her work in fiber, images she has gathered in her travels and at home on the Kentucky River farm she shares with her husband, poet Jonathan Greene. Recently she has been experimenting with the layered process of felting. In her woven and felted work she uses the wool from a rare breed of sheep, the Lincoln Longwool, an old British breed renowned for the curl, luster, strength, and length of its wool. For 20 years she raised and exhibited a prize-winning flock of Lincoln Longwools, the first significant flock of Lincolns in Kentucky since the 1930s. She is dyeing Lincoln wool for her felted landscapes.
Philis Alvic
Statement: This piece is a collage of several fabrics that I have woven. I am an artist who has chosen weaving as her principal medium of expression. Over the last forty years, I have used completely loom-controlled pattern weaving to convey a series of visual ideas that are not usually approached through weaving. The pieces used for construction of the final work are woven on either a traditional multi-harness loom operated with foot treadles and on a computer-assisted loom.
Bio: Philis Alvic is an artist, weaver, and writer. Her woven wall textiles have been in over 300 exhibitions. Two of her books have been published – Weavers of the Southern Highlands and Crafts of Armenia – and over 120 magazine articles. She has served as a design and craft-marketing consultant in thirteen countries.
Statement: This piece is a collage of several fabrics that I have woven. I am an artist who has chosen weaving as her principal medium of expression. Over the last forty years, I have used completely loom-controlled pattern weaving to convey a series of visual ideas that are not usually approached through weaving. The pieces used for construction of the final work are woven on either a traditional multi-harness loom operated with foot treadles and on a computer-assisted loom.
Bio: Philis Alvic is an artist, weaver, and writer. Her woven wall textiles have been in over 300 exhibitions. Two of her books have been published – Weavers of the Southern Highlands and Crafts of Armenia – and over 120 magazine articles. She has served as a design and craft-marketing consultant in thirteen countries.
Susan Brandish
Statement: I enjoy creating these simple scenes which suggest the telling of a story: What are these chickens looking at and where are they going?
I have a strong background in the biological sciences and enjoy the outdoors, and sometimes I just like to be whimsical with the creative process. These little quilt postcards are fun to make and a playful way to use bits of scrap fabrics. The chickens were “repurposed” from a set of old placemats I no longer used.
Bio: Both a blessing and a curse, I grew up the daughter of a career military man, moved many times and was exposed to different places and cultures from an early age. The anxiety and heartache of being uprooted every couple of years was balanced by the excitement and wonder of new adventures. Kentucky is my home now, where I live with my husband in Nicholasville and own Skirted Turtle Studio in Lexington. I hold degrees in zoology, veterinary medicine and fine arts.
Statement: I enjoy creating these simple scenes which suggest the telling of a story: What are these chickens looking at and where are they going?
I have a strong background in the biological sciences and enjoy the outdoors, and sometimes I just like to be whimsical with the creative process. These little quilt postcards are fun to make and a playful way to use bits of scrap fabrics. The chickens were “repurposed” from a set of old placemats I no longer used.
Bio: Both a blessing and a curse, I grew up the daughter of a career military man, moved many times and was exposed to different places and cultures from an early age. The anxiety and heartache of being uprooted every couple of years was balanced by the excitement and wonder of new adventures. Kentucky is my home now, where I live with my husband in Nicholasville and own Skirted Turtle Studio in Lexington. I hold degrees in zoology, veterinary medicine and fine arts.
Mave Brittian
Statement: Sunburned Venus is a mashup of a Matisse nude and Botticelli's Venus. The reclining nude has long red hair and is lying on a clam shell instead of standing like Botticelli's Venus. Geneva II is my version of a portion of one of my daughter, Liz Wilcox's, paintings. They are both tribute pieces to some of my favorite artists and paintings.
Bio: I've always loved reading and my artwork is usually telling a story, of a moment in time, or a lifetime. I have been making hooked rugs/fiber art for 20+ yrs. I make bedside rugs (practical art), wall hangings and multi-media pieces. I have a piece in the UK Art Library collection and was in a show at the Speed Art Museum in conjunction with a Goodwill fundraiser.
Statement: Sunburned Venus is a mashup of a Matisse nude and Botticelli's Venus. The reclining nude has long red hair and is lying on a clam shell instead of standing like Botticelli's Venus. Geneva II is my version of a portion of one of my daughter, Liz Wilcox's, paintings. They are both tribute pieces to some of my favorite artists and paintings.
Bio: I've always loved reading and my artwork is usually telling a story, of a moment in time, or a lifetime. I have been making hooked rugs/fiber art for 20+ yrs. I make bedside rugs (practical art), wall hangings and multi-media pieces. I have a piece in the UK Art Library collection and was in a show at the Speed Art Museum in conjunction with a Goodwill fundraiser.
Linda Wood-Busby
Statement and Bio: I am a rug hooking artist from Versailles, KY. This has been a passion of mine since 2005. I cut wool into strips and pull the wool into loops through a linen backing. I have fun dyeing the wool with the bright colors I love to work with. This is my take on a very old art form. The rugs and/pillows are extremely soft but durable.
Statement and Bio: I am a rug hooking artist from Versailles, KY. This has been a passion of mine since 2005. I cut wool into strips and pull the wool into loops through a linen backing. I have fun dyeing the wool with the bright colors I love to work with. This is my take on a very old art form. The rugs and/pillows are extremely soft but durable.
Christine Schramm Cetrulo
Statement: Miriam Tuska was the wife and, more importantly, the Muse of John Tuska. This internationally celebrated University of Kentucky artist, drew, painted, and sculpted extraordinary works. As can be seen in Miriam Tuska Sitting, she is sitting under a quilt while in bed. Quite ordinary? No. As I drew her, she spoke to some inner image of beauty I need. I was focused on Meriam as an “archetype,” to borrow Jung’s language---an image constituting a world of possibilities that logically cannot be realized but are grounded in our “collective unconscious.”
In Miriam Tuska Morning, I was focused on the idea of 'inspiration' itself. To her husband, celebrated artist John Tuska, Miriam is Everywoman. He, and I, believe her to be a feminine symbol for the universal manifestation---“incarnation”--- of art.
The piece Dancing Toward Freedom is a reminiscence of when I was a child and I would escape restrictions by pretending I danced “To the Sound of Music” in my backyard.
Bio: After 25 years, Christine Schramm Cetrulo retired from the University of Kentucky Department of English, where she taught writing, literature, rhetoric, pedagogy and was Assistant Director of the Writing Program. Her love for narrative and symbols---of story and image---led to her second career as a fiber artist. Christine has quilted for forty years, first learning the classic skills and then branching out to her own designs. She is nationally published and has been juried into international, regional and local fiber exhibits. Working in both traditional and non-traditional substances, she draws and paints as well as adds layers of beadwork, embroidery, and surface embellishment. Christine’s most prized achievement is the Purchase Award from the University of Kentucky Permanent Collection.
Statement: Miriam Tuska was the wife and, more importantly, the Muse of John Tuska. This internationally celebrated University of Kentucky artist, drew, painted, and sculpted extraordinary works. As can be seen in Miriam Tuska Sitting, she is sitting under a quilt while in bed. Quite ordinary? No. As I drew her, she spoke to some inner image of beauty I need. I was focused on Meriam as an “archetype,” to borrow Jung’s language---an image constituting a world of possibilities that logically cannot be realized but are grounded in our “collective unconscious.”
In Miriam Tuska Morning, I was focused on the idea of 'inspiration' itself. To her husband, celebrated artist John Tuska, Miriam is Everywoman. He, and I, believe her to be a feminine symbol for the universal manifestation---“incarnation”--- of art.
The piece Dancing Toward Freedom is a reminiscence of when I was a child and I would escape restrictions by pretending I danced “To the Sound of Music” in my backyard.
Bio: After 25 years, Christine Schramm Cetrulo retired from the University of Kentucky Department of English, where she taught writing, literature, rhetoric, pedagogy and was Assistant Director of the Writing Program. Her love for narrative and symbols---of story and image---led to her second career as a fiber artist. Christine has quilted for forty years, first learning the classic skills and then branching out to her own designs. She is nationally published and has been juried into international, regional and local fiber exhibits. Working in both traditional and non-traditional substances, she draws and paints as well as adds layers of beadwork, embroidery, and surface embellishment. Christine’s most prized achievement is the Purchase Award from the University of Kentucky Permanent Collection.
Sue Dee
Statement: This little quilt was the result to copy a large quilt. All fabric (27) were hand dyed by me using fiber reacting dyes. It was made in one weekend and then quilted the next day. The quilting is the same as the larger quilt but just the 16 blocks in the center.
Bio: I was raised in Iowa and learned to sew young. I did not take up quilting until I retired. I have taken a few quilting classes and read lots of books as my quilting desire and experience have allowed. I am a self-taught dyer but now teach classes in both quilting and dyeing. I now reside in Kentucky and enjoy my free time make more quilts.
Statement: This little quilt was the result to copy a large quilt. All fabric (27) were hand dyed by me using fiber reacting dyes. It was made in one weekend and then quilted the next day. The quilting is the same as the larger quilt but just the 16 blocks in the center.
Bio: I was raised in Iowa and learned to sew young. I did not take up quilting until I retired. I have taken a few quilting classes and read lots of books as my quilting desire and experience have allowed. I am a self-taught dyer but now teach classes in both quilting and dyeing. I now reside in Kentucky and enjoy my free time make more quilts.
Constance Grayson
Statement: As a child, I learned traditional quilting techniques from my Appalachian Kentucky aunts. Since that time, I have been fascinated with the interplay of color, form and texture that I can obtain from the manipulation of fabric. Although I continue to respect the more historic quilting tradition, through the years I have moved more and more toward using the traditional materials and techniques in combination with the fine art technique of collage. This combination of techniques has allowed me a large degree of artistic freedom in utilizing fabric and thread, together with found objects, in creating original work. My goal in creating this work is for the finished piece to “read” like a painting from a distance and only reveal its three-dimensionality upon closer inspection.
Bio: Constance Grayson is a self-taught artist working primarily in either fabric or paint based mixed media. Her work has been displayed in U.S. galleries, museums and exhibits in Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, Georgia, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York, including academic institutions in New York (St. John’s University), Arkansas (Crittenden County Community College) and Tennessee (Christian Brothers University). She has participated in solo and invitational exhibits in Fabriano, Gubbio, Milan and Foligno, Italy as well as Spa, Belgium. One of herfabric collages was the cover image for, as well as the subject of an article in, the August/September 2014 edition of Quilting Arts magazine. Her art has also been featured in the May/June 2015 edition of Kentucky Home and Gardens magazine and the March 2010 issue of ArteCulture, an Italian monthly magazine. Currently, her art is in the permanent collections of Christian Brothers University in Memphis, Tennessee; the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky; Christ Church Cathedral in Lexington, Kentucky; LeBonheur Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee and the Jessamine County Public Library, Nicholasville, Kentucky.
Statement: As a child, I learned traditional quilting techniques from my Appalachian Kentucky aunts. Since that time, I have been fascinated with the interplay of color, form and texture that I can obtain from the manipulation of fabric. Although I continue to respect the more historic quilting tradition, through the years I have moved more and more toward using the traditional materials and techniques in combination with the fine art technique of collage. This combination of techniques has allowed me a large degree of artistic freedom in utilizing fabric and thread, together with found objects, in creating original work. My goal in creating this work is for the finished piece to “read” like a painting from a distance and only reveal its three-dimensionality upon closer inspection.
Bio: Constance Grayson is a self-taught artist working primarily in either fabric or paint based mixed media. Her work has been displayed in U.S. galleries, museums and exhibits in Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, Georgia, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York, including academic institutions in New York (St. John’s University), Arkansas (Crittenden County Community College) and Tennessee (Christian Brothers University). She has participated in solo and invitational exhibits in Fabriano, Gubbio, Milan and Foligno, Italy as well as Spa, Belgium. One of herfabric collages was the cover image for, as well as the subject of an article in, the August/September 2014 edition of Quilting Arts magazine. Her art has also been featured in the May/June 2015 edition of Kentucky Home and Gardens magazine and the March 2010 issue of ArteCulture, an Italian monthly magazine. Currently, her art is in the permanent collections of Christian Brothers University in Memphis, Tennessee; the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky; Christ Church Cathedral in Lexington, Kentucky; LeBonheur Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee and the Jessamine County Public Library, Nicholasville, Kentucky.
Rosemary Rice Harney
Statement: Bound and Banned is a cotton plaster and cane sculpture hand-crafted in 2019. It symbolizes women simply surviving throughout paternalistic times and feeling held back from thriving through expression simultaneously.
Bio: Rosemary Harney is a Lexingtonian fiber artist, crafting with her own hand-dyed wool. She also works with watercolor, acrylic, and oil paints on various surfaces. Her passions are wool rug hooking, crochet, sewing, and other fiber arts. You can find her doodling in a notepad or bringing an artistic vision to anything and everything beautiful in life.
Statement: Bound and Banned is a cotton plaster and cane sculpture hand-crafted in 2019. It symbolizes women simply surviving throughout paternalistic times and feeling held back from thriving through expression simultaneously.
Bio: Rosemary Harney is a Lexingtonian fiber artist, crafting with her own hand-dyed wool. She also works with watercolor, acrylic, and oil paints on various surfaces. Her passions are wool rug hooking, crochet, sewing, and other fiber arts. You can find her doodling in a notepad or bringing an artistic vision to anything and everything beautiful in life.
Jody Hicks
Statement: This artwork is symbolic of breaking free from bondage and enjoying freedom in Christ. It is machine-pieced, appliqued, and quilted, and embellished with hand-sewn beads. Breaking Free: Romans 8:2 was submitted to the annual Hoffman Challenge in 2012, and it received the award of being chosen for the yearlong traveling exhibit.
Bio: Jody Hicks has enjoyed sewing most of her life and began quilting in 1984. She has won several awards over the years on the local, state, and national levels. She studied fiber arts under Arturo Sandoval at UK, and is a long-time member of the Fiber Guild and Quilt Artists of Kentucky.
Statement: This artwork is symbolic of breaking free from bondage and enjoying freedom in Christ. It is machine-pieced, appliqued, and quilted, and embellished with hand-sewn beads. Breaking Free: Romans 8:2 was submitted to the annual Hoffman Challenge in 2012, and it received the award of being chosen for the yearlong traveling exhibit.
Bio: Jody Hicks has enjoyed sewing most of her life and began quilting in 1984. She has won several awards over the years on the local, state, and national levels. She studied fiber arts under Arturo Sandoval at UK, and is a long-time member of the Fiber Guild and Quilt Artists of Kentucky.
Christine Levitt
Statement: Nature and patterns are my biggest inspiration: they keep me balanced and make me happy. I particularly enjoy using discarded textiles. Not only does it repurpose the materials, I find their intriguing patterns inspiring. My grandmother crocheted innumerable lace doilies which have been at the center of much of my recent work. These works reflect COVID 19 and explore ways in which the virus has altered our realities, our sense of home and place.
Bio: Christine Levitt received her Bachelors of Art Studio in May 2012, from the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY with a fiber arts emphasis under Arturo Alonso Sandoval’s guidance. She began working on an art degree at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee in 1975 and then life happened and finally realized her dream after all those years. Christine has always loved to explore different art media.
Christine has shown her work at the Bluegrass Biennial in 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014 and at the Palvino Family Art Center’s show, A Thread Runs Through It, 2015 and 2016. She had pieces accepted into the juried group show, Common Threads: Contemporary Textile Art in the Commonwealth Exhibition in 2011 and 2015 sponsored by Surface Design Association, the Kentucky Arts Council Governor’s Derby Exhibit 2016, the Arturo Alonzo Sandoval: Artist, Educator, Mentor exhibit at the Living Arts and Science Center, was the artist of the month at Blue Stallion Brewing Company in Lexington, KY in November 2016 and has artwork in the UK Healthcare permanent collection. She has exhibited in group shows with the Fiber Guild of Lexington every year since 2013 and teaches bookmaking and eco printing workshops for the same group, yearly. Christine’s artwork can be found at Artifacts Gallery in Indianapolis, IN.
Statement: Nature and patterns are my biggest inspiration: they keep me balanced and make me happy. I particularly enjoy using discarded textiles. Not only does it repurpose the materials, I find their intriguing patterns inspiring. My grandmother crocheted innumerable lace doilies which have been at the center of much of my recent work. These works reflect COVID 19 and explore ways in which the virus has altered our realities, our sense of home and place.
Bio: Christine Levitt received her Bachelors of Art Studio in May 2012, from the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY with a fiber arts emphasis under Arturo Alonso Sandoval’s guidance. She began working on an art degree at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee in 1975 and then life happened and finally realized her dream after all those years. Christine has always loved to explore different art media.
Christine has shown her work at the Bluegrass Biennial in 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014 and at the Palvino Family Art Center’s show, A Thread Runs Through It, 2015 and 2016. She had pieces accepted into the juried group show, Common Threads: Contemporary Textile Art in the Commonwealth Exhibition in 2011 and 2015 sponsored by Surface Design Association, the Kentucky Arts Council Governor’s Derby Exhibit 2016, the Arturo Alonzo Sandoval: Artist, Educator, Mentor exhibit at the Living Arts and Science Center, was the artist of the month at Blue Stallion Brewing Company in Lexington, KY in November 2016 and has artwork in the UK Healthcare permanent collection. She has exhibited in group shows with the Fiber Guild of Lexington every year since 2013 and teaches bookmaking and eco printing workshops for the same group, yearly. Christine’s artwork can be found at Artifacts Gallery in Indianapolis, IN.
Diana Lineberry
Statement: My artwork ranges from realistic to the surreal and on to the abstract. I find beauty in everyday scenes, animals and objects that share my space and experiences. I am inspired by both the amazing and the simple things in life. I value the serious, the odd, and the playful aspects of life and attempt to capture some of that in my art.
Bio: When I retired from teaching, I began painting! It is one of the things that makes me most content. Painting and creating other artworks taught me to see with new eyes and heart. I use many different mediums from watercolor to found objects and like them all, but whichever one I am currently using usually becomes my favorite. I consider anything is an art possibility!
Statement: My artwork ranges from realistic to the surreal and on to the abstract. I find beauty in everyday scenes, animals and objects that share my space and experiences. I am inspired by both the amazing and the simple things in life. I value the serious, the odd, and the playful aspects of life and attempt to capture some of that in my art.
Bio: When I retired from teaching, I began painting! It is one of the things that makes me most content. Painting and creating other artworks taught me to see with new eyes and heart. I use many different mediums from watercolor to found objects and like them all, but whichever one I am currently using usually becomes my favorite. I consider anything is an art possibility!
Karen S Riggins
Statement and Bio: Karen works with fiber, mostly in the form of quilted art. Her art work is based on her original designs. Such techniques as hand dyeing, painting, and hand beading, along with free motion machine quilting are used in creating 2 and 3 dimensional work such as wall quilts, vases and clothing.
Karen lives in Nonesuch, KY where she works in her studio, NoneSuch Birdsong Studio. She is an avid quilter, who has been quilting for over forty years, having started as a traditional hand quilter and then moving on to non-traditional, original design work. Her work is influenced by her love of gardening, and the nature that surrounds her on the farm where she lives with her husband and two cats.
Statement and Bio: Karen works with fiber, mostly in the form of quilted art. Her art work is based on her original designs. Such techniques as hand dyeing, painting, and hand beading, along with free motion machine quilting are used in creating 2 and 3 dimensional work such as wall quilts, vases and clothing.
Karen lives in Nonesuch, KY where she works in her studio, NoneSuch Birdsong Studio. She is an avid quilter, who has been quilting for over forty years, having started as a traditional hand quilter and then moving on to non-traditional, original design work. Her work is influenced by her love of gardening, and the nature that surrounds her on the farm where she lives with her husband and two cats.
Arturo Alonzo Sandoval
Statement (in Haiku):
God is all Matter
All Ideas come from Him
God and I are One
For spiritual growth
I co-create with His Mind
Art is One with God.
Bio: Arturo Alonzo Sandoval, Professor Emeritus with a named University of Kentucky Endowed Professorship, is known internationally for his innovative mixed media fiber art. Sandoval received two NEA fellowships, three Al Smith Kentucky Arts Council grants, and voted a FELLOW of the American Craft Council, NYC (2007). He pursues the cutting edge in art quilts transforming linear industrial materials inspired from textile and computer symbols using pattern, text, machine sewing, and interlacing creating unique graphic and colorful art expressions. “Work produces results”, is his mantra.
Statement (in Haiku):
God is all Matter
All Ideas come from Him
God and I are One
For spiritual growth
I co-create with His Mind
Art is One with God.
Bio: Arturo Alonzo Sandoval, Professor Emeritus with a named University of Kentucky Endowed Professorship, is known internationally for his innovative mixed media fiber art. Sandoval received two NEA fellowships, three Al Smith Kentucky Arts Council grants, and voted a FELLOW of the American Craft Council, NYC (2007). He pursues the cutting edge in art quilts transforming linear industrial materials inspired from textile and computer symbols using pattern, text, machine sewing, and interlacing creating unique graphic and colorful art expressions. “Work produces results”, is his mantra.
Tonya Vance
Statement: To me, art has always been very personal, a way to communicate an impression or a feeling with others. I am inspired by relationships between people and things, like family, nature, and biology. Fiber is very versatile and allows me to explore the relationship between materials in an unlimited scope of possibilities. I love the textural and organic nature of working with fiber and being able to build complexity and dimension to my pieces. When working with fiber, I feel a connection with the natural world and fiber’s use in domestic history.
Bio: I received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Murray State University with an emphasis on printmaking. After moving to Lexington, I continued creating prints and began printing on fabric. I joined the Fiber Guild of Lexington and learned the art of wet-felting. I am an adjudicated member of the Kentucky Crafted Program and the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen, a member of Bluegrass Printmakers and Fiber Guild of Lexington. My work has been in over 60 exhibits in Kentucky and the US.
Statement: To me, art has always been very personal, a way to communicate an impression or a feeling with others. I am inspired by relationships between people and things, like family, nature, and biology. Fiber is very versatile and allows me to explore the relationship between materials in an unlimited scope of possibilities. I love the textural and organic nature of working with fiber and being able to build complexity and dimension to my pieces. When working with fiber, I feel a connection with the natural world and fiber’s use in domestic history.
Bio: I received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Murray State University with an emphasis on printmaking. After moving to Lexington, I continued creating prints and began printing on fabric. I joined the Fiber Guild of Lexington and learned the art of wet-felting. I am an adjudicated member of the Kentucky Crafted Program and the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen, a member of Bluegrass Printmakers and Fiber Guild of Lexington. My work has been in over 60 exhibits in Kentucky and the US.
Cathy Vigor
Statement: Life is full of changes. Constantly moving forward. The seasons of the year: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter are a metaphor for a lifetime of changes. Each season transitions into the next. Spring brings new life and growth. Summer bursts with blooms, ripping fruits, and vegetation. In Autumn we see the metamorphosis of butterflies and the bursting of seed pods. Winter brings peace and quiet. Birds migrate, animals hibernate, seeds hide in the soil. The cycle of seasons and changes begins again.
My garden is a constant reminder of transitions of the seasons and a source of inspiration: the colors, shapes, flowers, seeds, creatures both great and small. My garden is a joy. I have it planted for all seasons to share it with birds, butterflies, insects, and other creatures. And they all return the favor by providing a constant source of inspiration. I have plants for dye and food to eat, leaves for Eco printing, seed pods, chrysalis, cocoons, and nests from which to draw inspiration. The pods and felt vessels that I create don’t exist in the real world. They are fantasies of what might exist based on a combination of forms I find in my garden.
Bio: Cathy Vigor is a Fiber Artist who specializes in Surface Design on fiber. She hand dyes silk and paper which she utilizes in felt-making, printmaking, and encaustic painting. Her work has been widely exhibited in group and solo exhibits regionally, nationally and internationally. Most recently her work was included in Fiber Focus 2019 in St. Louis, Explorations in Felt 2020 at the Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clifton, NJ, Separate Yet Connect International FeltMakers Virtual Exhibit 2020, Archetypes Virtual Fiber Exhibit 2020, Lexington Art Leagues Member Exhibit 2021. Vigor is a juried member of the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen, Kentucky Crafted, Surface Design Association, International Feltmakers Association, and the Fiber Guild of Lexington. She maintains a studio at Main and Walton Artist Studios in Lexington, KY.
Statement: Life is full of changes. Constantly moving forward. The seasons of the year: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter are a metaphor for a lifetime of changes. Each season transitions into the next. Spring brings new life and growth. Summer bursts with blooms, ripping fruits, and vegetation. In Autumn we see the metamorphosis of butterflies and the bursting of seed pods. Winter brings peace and quiet. Birds migrate, animals hibernate, seeds hide in the soil. The cycle of seasons and changes begins again.
My garden is a constant reminder of transitions of the seasons and a source of inspiration: the colors, shapes, flowers, seeds, creatures both great and small. My garden is a joy. I have it planted for all seasons to share it with birds, butterflies, insects, and other creatures. And they all return the favor by providing a constant source of inspiration. I have plants for dye and food to eat, leaves for Eco printing, seed pods, chrysalis, cocoons, and nests from which to draw inspiration. The pods and felt vessels that I create don’t exist in the real world. They are fantasies of what might exist based on a combination of forms I find in my garden.
Bio: Cathy Vigor is a Fiber Artist who specializes in Surface Design on fiber. She hand dyes silk and paper which she utilizes in felt-making, printmaking, and encaustic painting. Her work has been widely exhibited in group and solo exhibits regionally, nationally and internationally. Most recently her work was included in Fiber Focus 2019 in St. Louis, Explorations in Felt 2020 at the Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clifton, NJ, Separate Yet Connect International FeltMakers Virtual Exhibit 2020, Archetypes Virtual Fiber Exhibit 2020, Lexington Art Leagues Member Exhibit 2021. Vigor is a juried member of the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen, Kentucky Crafted, Surface Design Association, International Feltmakers Association, and the Fiber Guild of Lexington. She maintains a studio at Main and Walton Artist Studios in Lexington, KY.
|
Public Gallery Hours
Wednesday 12pm-5pm
Thursday 12pm-5pm Friday 12pm-5pm Saturday 12pm - 5pm Viewings also available by appointment |
The Loudoun House
209 Castlewood Dr. Lexington, Ky. 40505 Email: [email protected]
Phone 859-254-7024 |
All Lexington Art League programs are made possible through the generous support of LexArts.
|
The Kentucky Arts Council, a state arts agency, provides operating support to the Lexington Art League with state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support provided by Lexington Parks & Recreation.
|
A yearly online giving challenge from the Bluegrass Community Foundation.
|