Off to ACC Baltimore!

The felt is made, the bags are packed, and I’m off to the show on the early plane tomorrow!!  Super psyched…but also some pre-show butterflies in my stomach.

Here’s hoping for a great show and getting a chance to see the town!  Baltimore is such an amazing city: Edgar Allen Poe, John Waters, The Museum of Visionary Arts, seafood galore, sailboats, schooners, and beautiful architecture.

[Update]  Great article about SDA invitational artists to ACC

Jenne Giles
It is difficult to talk about Jenne Giles without bringing up her rose blossom scarves and collars. Lush in color and crafted with the delicate touch of a real flower, these pieces are stunning. It would be a mistake, however, to only fixate on these pieces. Giles, invited to show in Baltimore by the Surface Design Association, has a painterly grace and an excellent sense for color. Giles also creates felt paintings, which are playful fields of color and shape that look as delightful as they would feel. Working in felt, Jenne becomes very close to her material, and though her pieces have a pristine, natural look, she puts hard tactile work into making them. As she describes it, “Each piece begins in a painterly manner as brushstrokes of colorful wool are layered to form a composition in fiber.  Hot water is applied and the piece is then worked by hand, in a method similar to working with clay, by rolling, scrubbing, and manipulating the fiber to form a wearable felted fabric.” Show-goers in Baltimore will be lucky to see these efforts first hand. See more of Jenne Giles’ wearable artwork and felt paintings.

http://craftcouncil.org/post/baltimore-show-invitational-artists