Swimming Upstream Interview on a NPR Station

 

UPS Pickup for Mancuso Show Mangagement

Today is pickup day for my "Swimming Upstream" installation by UPS for Mancuso Show Management. The installation will travel with Mancuso this year to many quilt shows.

The installation has traveled to Europe and around the United States after winning many awards.

I love this series of textiles as I put my heart into creating them. The textiles tell my personal story of living through a work place injury and getting back into life.

A book is available on my web site www.bonniejofiberarts.com.

                                                                      "Pacific Ocean"

This textile was selected to be in the Vernum Ultimum Gallery's  "Abstract Sanctuary Exhibit.

The entire gallery of wonderful artworks can be seen at https://www.verumultimumartgallery.com 

Jennifer G. Cutshall, Ower, Founder, curator has done a wonderful job.

This textile is one of two I created that depicts the sun and or moon dancing on the Pacific Ocean.

The fabric for the art was shibori wrapped then hand dipped in a natural Indigo Bath.

Work is approximately 38h x 34w. "Pacific Ocean" also received Honorable Mention at the 2021 NLAPW Biennial Art Exhibit, Washington DC.

                                                           Melrose Street Gang

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This 16 x 20 textile titled "Melrose Streeet", was juried into Surface Design Associations Southwest Regional Exhibition.

Dates are September 30 - November 13, 2022.

The exhibit is at the Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, Arizona. The juror was Annie Lopez.

This work was created from a picture taken when I was about seven years of age. The photo was taken by the mother of two neighbor boys my brothers and I played with every day weather permitting.

The lovely part of the story is that I sent my mother a picture of the textile and she took it immediately to show Steve and Tim our neighbors pictured with myself and brothers. They had never seen the picture and did not even know that it had been taken. They were overjoyed! 

                         New Legacies @ Fort Collins Art Center

My textile "Shadow Play" was juried into the prestigious exhibit New Legacies at The Lincoln Center Art Gallery, Fort Collins, Colorado. This juried exhibition features the current work of the finest national and international contemporary quilt artists. Dates are July 9 – September 10, 2022. Opening is July 9th, 5-7 pm. Art quilts accepted for exhibition will exemplify innovation in quilting and surface design techniques as well as excellence in artistic composition and craftsmanship. Feel free to contact me with questions about this artwork.

                                                                   "Shadow Play", textile 40 x 40

Art Quilt Elements 22

 Art Quilt Elements, Wayne Art Center. Wayne, PA.

                 March 27 – April 30, 2022

My textile "Shadow Play" was juried into Art Quilt Elements 22! This is my third time to be juried into this exhibit. The selected textiles are always so imaginative! Lucky me.

The textile is for sale through the Art Quilt Elements website https://www.wayneart.org/. This textile is first in  my "Shadow Play" series. More to follow in the future.

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Wrapped

                          "Wrapped"

I was asked to participate in "Wrapped" a year end exhibit at Studio Channel Islands Art Center Camarillo, CA. The exhibit highlighted four artists careers in art. For myself the curator Peter Tyas selected textiles from many of my series or installations. I was very honored to be asked. He selected "Moss Beach" from my "View From Above Series". Indigo works from my "Thoughts of the Mind" Installation. "Color x 3, orange" from my "Images" series and" Water Bubbles" from the current Installation I am working on titled "Pacific Ocean".

Also slected "Drought Destruction" from my Alviso series of which I recently sold three of those textiles to a collector.

Big News: I have just sold my work "Alviso Blue, Before the Drought"!

So excited that someone loves the textile as much as I do!

detail

34h x 47w

I have enjoyed creating this series so much and was lucky enough to have it exhibted virtually at the International Quilt Festval in Birmingham, United Kingdom in 2020!

                                             Remembering 9/11

  These two pictures are from the 10th Anniversary of 9/11

that took place at Firehouse #1 San Jose, California

Every year  on 9/11 they would ring the bells and have a service for those lost that day. Normally, I would be working in my studio and hear the bells. Makes you cherish everyday.

Before and After the Drought

                               Alviso, Before & After, 48h x 54w-Just Sold!

While looking at before and after the drought photographs of the Alviso Salt marshes it really jarred my sensibilities. This is my interpretation of how I felt.

This textile recently sold at The California Heritage Museum, Santa Monica, California  in the Art Quilts 2 exhibit!