Rituals~Featured at International Quilt Market/Festival
Havel’s Scissors is proud to be a sponsor of Rituals by Curators, Jamie Fingal and Leslie Tucker Jenison. Jamie and Leslie, along with forty artists, have come together to reveal the art that can be found in everyday life. I had the privilege to see the exhibit at the International Quilt Festival in Houston this year. The ingenuity of the artwork in the exhibit is nothing short of spectacular! Each artist tells a story through the threads of the fabric. And the stories that are woven through each piece will inspire you to live life to the fullest and appreciate each and every opportunity we are given to share with loved ones.
Carol Larson, Petaluma, California-Textile artist who dyes, paints, waxes and stitches cloth; writer, community volunteer.
“Keeping Up Appearances #5” – When I was a kid one of my chores was to set the table for dinner. Granted it was not a formal setting but the ritual is what inspired this piece. I screen-printed text from Amy Vanderbilt’s Complete Book of Etiquette to a thrift shop cotton tablecloth. The text is about women’s place in the home or office circa 1952. This is one of a series dealing with mid-century manners.
Keeping Up Appearances #5 by Carol Larson
Jayne Larson, Indianola, Washington-Artist
“Spring Cleaning- Renewal and Release” View from my home. I have been hand stitching has become a key element in her work in the past few years. I like the unique personal quality, almost like handwriting, and the energy that stitching gives the work.
Spring Cleaning – Renewal and Release by Jayne Larson
Linda Teddlie Minton, San Antonio, Texas-Artist, avid reader, doll-maker, and beader.
“Kissing the Cat Goodnight” was inspired by our pets, who love us unconditionally, and stay loyally by our sides for their whole lives, unlike people in our lives that may come and go. I’m a “love me, love my cat” kind of gal! My one remaining cat insists on “tucking me in” before he will go to bed, so “Kissing the Cat Goodnight” is really his ritual as much as mine.
Kissing the Cat Goodnight by Linda Teddlie Minton
Susie Monday, Pipe Creek, Texas-Artist, teacher, ridge-walker, iPad fanatic.
“Lost Rituals: Grief” revives, if only on the wall, the act of cutting one’s hair as a ritual of grief. Hobbies? Travel: actual, virtual, in books and movies or just in flights of imagination.
Lost Rituals: Grief by Susie Monday
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