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SUMMARY:"Crossroads" Exhibition by Central Iowa Textile Artists
DESCRIPTION:Crossroads\nGroup Exhibition by Central Iowa Textile Artists\nSeptember 5th – September 30th\, 2023 At The Octagon Community Gallery \nAbout this group exhibition:\n“Crossroads” – A place where two roads meet and cross each other. An intersection where a choice must be made\, to go straight\, or change course and take a new direction. We come to many crossroads in our lives\, places where we decide to stay on the straight path\, to take the path least taken\, or to create a new path altogether. Sometimes life events force us down a path we don’t choose. \nThe artists who are members of the Central Iowa Textiles Artists have been creating art for many years. They come from varied backgrounds. Although only one member has a degree in art\, all have studied with various artists in the field of textiles and beyond\, for many years as they honed their own style and process. \nArtist List:\nIlene Bartos\, Janet Bergeron\, Mary Cecil\, Barbara Jones\, Rebecca Kemble\, Sue Kluber\, Rebecca Loew\, Janet Pittman\, Wendy Read\, Barbara Riggs\, Barbara Stewart\, Fern Stewart \nExhibition Dates:\nSeptember 5th – Exhibition Opening Day & Reception at 5PM\nSeptember 30th – Exhibition Closes \nArtist Biographies:\n\nIlene Bartos –\nIlene has been working with fiber arts and quilting for over 20 years\, designing both traditional\nand art quilts. Her works have hung in galleries and shows and won various awards and blue\nribbons. She enjoys being a lecturer at guilds and loves teaching others how to make quilts that\nare slightly beyond their comfort level or outside the traditional box. Quilting combines her\npassion for color with her love of fabric and gives infinite possibilities for creative\nexpression.Ilene authored two traditional quilt books in 2009 and 2010 but has since been\ndevoting her time to designing contemporary art quilts and writing patterns for them. She loves\nteaching others how to work with bright colors because it makes everyone smile – her motto is to\nspread joy\, one quilt at a time. \nJanet Bergeron –\nTextiles have defined Janet’s world since the age of eight. From garment construction\,\ncostume design\, quilting\, dyeing\, and construction\, her happiness has always been\nfound in her sewing room. Her work has been exhibited locally and in a number of regional and traveling\nexhibitions\, as well as many homes and offices. \nMary Cecil –\nMary Cecil has always had an interest in the arts but never found her niche until she\ndiscovered quilting. As with most quilters\, she began with more traditional designs but\nthen began to see challenges in more diverse forms of expression. Her life in both the\nUS and Mexico has offered endless inspiration from images of architecture\, birds\, plants\nand more\, which she captures with her camera and then brings to life in fabric. Her work\nhas received recognition in a variety of venues and she continues to improve and\nexplore textile art making. \nBarbara Jones –\nFor the past twenty years\, Barbara has been involved in quilting\, primarily in creating\nfabric wall art rather than making bed quilts.\nOver the years she has sold many of her “fabric paintings” and has had her art\ndisplayed in galleries throughout the US. Her work as also been displayed in magazines\nand newspaper articles. In 2006 she started a pattern company of primarily whimsical animals. The patterns are\nsold in quilt stores throughout the US\, the UK\, Australia and Canada.\nHer process for many of her art quilt “paintings” begins with a sketch of the motif\,\n(usually an animal) which is then transferred to the background fabric. The quilt\n“paintings” often include various media\, i.e.\, painted or hand-dyed fabric by the artist\,\nwool\, silk\, yarn\, zippers\, buttons\, sticks\, etc. many of the fabric “paintings” are done\nentirely by hand\, so each piece requires months to complete.\nBarbara likes to bring awareness of the environmental issues facing many animals that\nare disappearing or on the endangered species list through her art. \nRebecca Kemble –\nRebecca has always been inspired by her environment\, and found joy in creating.\nWhether in the countryside\, or the city\, there is always something that catches her\ninterest to influence her art. As a mixed media artist\, she tends to combine the use of\npaint\, dye\, fabric and stitch to create both image and texture. Her work has been shown\ninternationally\, nationally\, and resides in private collections throughout the United\nStates. Because of her awareness of the world around her\, she is also keenly aware of how the\nenvironment is being affected by changes in our climate. Her latest works have focused\non the “little” things that provide so much for our survival. \nSue Kluber –\nThere has never been a moment in Sue Kluber’s life that did not include art.\nObserving all that nature offered consumed her. Love of the changing seasons \,the\nwildlife\, and a grandmother who lived “by the signs”  were treasured inspirations\, as\nwere life lessons from a colorful and diverse cast of talented characters that crossed\nher path.  She has entered some shows\, won a few awards\, and sells some pieces\,\nbut the rewards are really the joy of capturing moments that she loves in the art. \nRebecca Loew –\nRebecca Loew is a textile artist living in Grinnell\, Iowa. She has been quilting for more\nthan 40 years\, but in the past ten years Rebecca has explored many other areas of the\nfiber arts. She has exhibited her work in several gallery shows and has art in private\ncollections. She has taught Shibori\, natural dying\, and other textile arts at the Des\nMoines Art Center. \nJanet Pittman –\nJanet Pittman\, a quilt artist from West Des Moines\, Iowa\, has been quilting and\ndesigning as owner of Garden Trellis Designs for over 30 years. Janet’s quilt designs\nhave appeared in Love of Quilting\, American Patchwork and Quilting\, and Country\nMarketplace magazines. She the author of Appliqué\, the Basics and Beyond\, Colorful\nQuilts for Playful Kids and First Time Machine Appliqué.\nInspiration for her wall hangings comes from photographs she has taken of her own\ngarden and of gardens and other sites on her travels. She finds that the color variations\nin hand-dyed fabric and batik fabric add to the natural feel of her mostly realistic\ndesigns. Many of her quilts are embellished with decorative threads\, machine or hand\nstitched\, to add texture and color to the images. \nWendy Read –\nJust as many young children have throughout the generations\, Wendy Read became\ncomfortable with the fiber arts at an early age\, from playing with her mother’s button\nbasket and the fabric scraps that fell on the floor as her mother sewed\, to making many\nof her own clothes as a teenager. As an adult drawn to the arts\, she naturally\nexperimented with the media she was most familiar with\, incorporating exotic and\ninteresting fibers and materials\, paints\, and dyes to create her art. Born in Baton Rouge\,\nLouisiana\, she was fortunate to have the influence of several professional and amateur\nartists in her family\, as well as year-round access to nature.\nHer work has been displayed in numerous exhibits and private showings\, and has won\nmany awards throughout the country. While she uses many fiber art techniques\, there is\nusually extensive thread-painting in her work\, where the thread becomes her paint\, and\nthe sewing machine her paintbrush. \nBarbara Riggs –\nBarbara Riggs has been a fiber artist and art quilter for over 20 years. Having grown up\non a farm in Iowa has greatly influenced her art. Nature is a theme that is very much\nreflected in her work. Capturing what she saw with drawings and paintings was what\ndrew her to the art world. When the paints and solvents had to be put away\, she had to\nfind another medium to continue to create art. Having had a needle and thread in her\nhands from a very young age\, it was a natural transition to move to fiber art. Her work\nhas been shown internationally\, nationally and in many local and regional venues\,\nfeatured in national publications\, and received numerous awards. \nBarbara Stewart –\nBarbara (Barb) Stewart was first associated and greatly influenced into the art world by her\nmaternal grandmother\, who was an outstanding artist\, and by her Uncle Harry whose\ndrawings would have received numerous awards had they been displayed. Unfortunately\,\nshe never inherited these artistic blessing\, but was quite crafty and could literally sew\nanything. For her\, quilting was always a dream to pursue\, but that was not possible until her\nretirement. However\, prior to her retirement\, quilting expanded from the traditional style to\ninclude an amazing form of “art quilting”\, which allowed more creativity and spontaneity.\nThen\, with the directive of many exceptional art quilters\, books and classes\, she was able to\nacquire knowledge involving various techniques that expanded her art quilting abilities\,\nincluding creation of three-dimensional quilts. Barb’s quilts have been influenced by her life\nexperiences\, by nature\, by other artists\, by various themes or challenges from art quilt\ngroups she is involved with\, and quite often by scripture. Exhibits of her art quilts have\noccurred in various venues and at numerous private showings. Her quilts have also\nreceived awards and have been purchased. Art quilting became a blessing for Barb\, always\nencouraging her to stretch her mind and imagination to create artistic beauty for others to\nenjoy. \nFern Stewart –\nFern Stewart has quilted for the past 40 years.  Her early work mimicked the quilt\nmovement of the time relying on templates\, a limited color palette and traditional\napproach.  She quickly moved beyond those limitations and acknowledged her\nindependent creative spirit.  She has created a number of award winning quilts. \nCurrently she is working on a series of quilts entitled Urban Development in which\nshe reflects on the changes to cities due to population growth and developer greed. \nSocial changes\, housing density\, loss of habitat and related concerns will be the\nfocus of her next four quilts.
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