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Four Little Remnants

Some samples get a new life as lovely wall hangings. In addition to my bookmarks, these will also be on sale during MICA’s Annual Art Market.  December 9-12, 10am to 6pm in the Brown Center.

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Purple Scarf

On sale at MICA’s Art Market starting this Wednesday!

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Personal Scriptures

Handwoven cloth: Pickup with Twill An exploration of religious meditation and personal symbolic referencing through folk-based storytelling. Considers the magical quality of objects in the act of creation and the power of faith in placing importance on objects.

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MICA: Art Market

As I’ve mentioned, MICA’s Holiday Art Market is right around the corner. If you’re around Baltimore, come to MICA’s Campus, Leidy Atrium in the Brown Center, this week to explore the ultimate holiday shopping ground. There will be 250 vendors consisting of students, staff, and alumni selling everything from jewelry  and pottery to handmade books [...]

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Shrine

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Woven Bookmarks

This year I decided to actually get off my butt and participate in MICA’s annual Art Market doing what I do best- weaving! These little hand woven bookmarkets make for a perfect and unique Christmas gift, so if you’re around Baltimore Dec. 9-12 (I’ll remind everyone again as the date gets closer) you should stop [...]

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Sample: Supplementary Weft

Suplementary weft: to add in weft separate from or in addition to the given weft. As you can see, in the weaving above I have alternately supplemented the weft of the tabby (far right), the actual weave structure, both simutaneously (the middle section), and in place of the weft (the bright green to the left [...]

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Maine Afternoon- Wall Hanging

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First Semester, Junior Year, MICA

I know there has been a serious lack of updates lately, but this artist is busy busy.  After being a TA and an RA for MICAs pre-college program, an experience that had me working with amazing artists (Valeska Populoh and Margaret Hluch for two) teaching fiber (garment, sculpture, shibori), I took a few weeks off [...]

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