Summer 2014 Happenings and Upcoming Workshops

 Web Exhibits

SAQA 2014 Auction Join in to bid a a variety of 12x12 art quilts-

                            http://www.saqa.com/memberArt.php?ID=3152

                  My found objects statement was featured on Crystal Marie Neubauer
‘s blog-http://otherpeoplesflowers.blogspot.com/2014/04/found-object-friday-with-guest-artist_18.html

          I       Interview on line- http://www.artsyshark.com/2013/05/10/featured-artist-wen-redmond/

Local  Exhibits

I was honored to be included at 100 Market St, Alternative Gallery and New Hampshire Art Association's Lincoln Levy Gallery in Portsmouth, NH 

This summer I will have 2 works in Art Quilts at the Whistler Museum, Lowell, MA.

I have work at most of the League of NH galleries and Sharon Arts Center in the western part of the NH. 

This summer I will have 2 works at Living with Crafts Exhibition, The Leagues famous Sunapee Fair, inside the main building. That fair is a blast. 

And several exhibits at Art 3 Gallery, Manchester NH

Exhibits just finished

What the Fiber, Princeton, NJ  

Expressions of the Natural World Monmouth Museum, NJ

PSAQA ARTQUILTSwhimsy! Page-Walker Arts NC

Featured, March,Artist WCA website

Picture Perfect, NEQM, Lowell MA

A Common Thread, Textile Center MI

CHICAGO URBAN ART RETREAT CENTER 

Sacred Threads Tour, HerStory

Upcoming Exhibits-

Radical Elements Foundation Arts Center, Silver Springs, MD

Artist as Quiltmaker, OH

Dinner at 8 Houston at the Quilt Festival. TX

WORKSHOPS

September 12 & 13

Serendipity Postcards at eclectic Paperie in Exeter, NH 

A Blog post about this past Spring Workshop-

http://fiberartgoddess.blogspot.com/2014/05/we-have-lovely-time-at-eclectic-paperie.html

121 Water Street, Unit 1E (Lower Level)

Exeter, NH 03044

Phone: 603-580-1527

website- http://eclecticpaperie.com/localclasses.html

Dec 4-7 2014

Hudson River Valley Art Workshops 

Holographic Memories and More

Complete an innovative 3-D effect, Holographic Image, from your own photograph, painted fabric and Thermal Fax silk screened image. This unique presentation will amaze your friends and is so much fun to create!

Each student will mount and finish a 12x14 piece.

Greenville, NY 12083

www.artworkshops.com

www.fiberartworkshops.com

July 27-31, 2015

Quilting by the Lake for Session II:

Holographic Memories and More

As seen in Quilting Arts Magazine and Quilting Arts TV Show! Capture your loved ones or favorite subjects with life like imagery. Using your photographs, create holographic effects with my innovative digital fiber technique. We will create a 5x7” picture mounted on 12x14” bars with Thermal Fax screen-printing highlights on your hand painted fabric ‘frame’! Easy and so exciting!

Add nature printing to the mix for create a unique art journal or additional highlights.

Auburn NY

https://www.quiltingbythelake.com

DVD”s

New DIGITAL FIBER Technique!

Textured Photography!

Explore a new avenue for your quilt art using a combination of digital photography and textured backgrounds.

http://www.interweavestore.com/digital-imagery-in-fiber-art-dvd

Holographic Memories DIGITAL FIBER Technique DVD

Now available as download and on sale!

Capture your loved ones or favorite subjects in lifelike imagery.

http://www.interweavestore.com/holographic-memories-workshop-download

PROCESS

If you’re curious about my process, I have done a blog post about my process of "Amazements of the Tender Reflections" that was accepted in Houston at the Quilt Festival.

http://fiberartgoddess.blogspot.com/2014/05/amazements-of-tender-reflections.html

Works to be Included at Art Quilts Lowell, MA

My work's Soar Frost has been accepted into the Brush Art Gallery's Exhibit, "Tangled up in Blue", Art Quilts Lowell, MA.

 And Into the Silence was accepted at the Whistler Museum's exhibit "Whats My Line"

Tickled!
Always a great time in Lowell!

Happy Dancing- Cha- Cha- Cha!

Exhibits

My work to be included in in Interplay: Digital Mixed Media at Cotuit Center. http://www.artsonthecape.org/experience-art/opening-reception-exhibits-april-may/

Book Inclusions

“Cutting Edge Art Quilts” by Mary Kerr

http://www.amazon.com/Cutting-Edge-Art-Quilts-Mary-Kerr/dp/0764343130/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364734369&sr=1-1&keywords=cutting+edge+art+quilts

Cheryl Rezendes' s book just came out, "Fabric Surface Design. Includes painting, stamping, rubbing, stencilling, silk-screening, resists, image transfer, marbling, crayons and colored pencils, batik, nature prints, monotype printing- an  immense range of techniques that are explained and beautifully photographed. 

I am honored to be included in this book!

http://www.amazon. com/Fabric- Surface-Design- Stenciling- Screening/ dp/1603428119/ ref=sr_1_ 1?s=books& ie=UTF8& qid=1364051683&a mp;sr=1-1& keywords= Fabric+surface+ design

Workshops

Join me in an exciting new Workshop!

Mix iT Up! MiXed MeDia CoLLage!       

Learn several methods of collage, mediums

and how to Mix it up using fiber and paper. 

Peters Valley Crafts Center   

August 23-27

19 Kuhn Road, Layton, NJ 07851

http://www.petersvalley.org/store/html/product.cfm?id=263

DVD- now on sale

Digital Fiber Technique- Textured Photographs

Video- http://www.quiltingdaily.com/media/p/39091.aspx

Purchase-http://www.interweavestore.com/store/Search.aspx?SearchTerms=redmond

2013 Niche Award Winner

Two of my works have made the finalist for the Niche Awards. This is like the Academy Awards for the Arts.

Leaping Point

signs they sent me

Whispers of the Positive

It will take place in Philadelphia, PA at the Buyers Market of American Craft, Pennsylvania Convention Center in February 16-18.

League of NH Craftsmen’s Fair

My work Lichen on Stone Yellow won Best in Fiber at The League of NH Craftsmen’s Fair, Living with Craft Special Exhibit!

LNHC Sunapee Fair is 75 Years Old This August!

The League of New Hampshire’s annual Crafts Fair, in Sunapee NH is one of the finest and most prestigious craft events in the country. It will celebrate its 75^th birthday this year. The nine day fair features both traditional and contemporary fine craft. Members must be juried in. I have been a member for 20 years.

 Out on a Limb

Triptych Digital Fiber

One of a kind multi-layered fiber photographs, collaged digitally and printed on inkjet prepared silk noil using a Epson 7600 and creatively stitched.

Please visit my work in Living with Crafts, in the main lodge. The exhibit features displays of beautifully crafted furniture, pottery, fiber and much more.

information here

Professional Art Quilters Alliance-South juries 3 pieces in!

See, Shrine of the Tree and Flow have all been juried into The Professional Art Quilters Alliance-South (PAQA-South) annual juried exhibition of  innovative quilts: 

ARTQUILTSmovement.  May 20 – July 24, Durham, North Carolina. Only 32 out of 100 quilts were chosen for the movement theme! 

PAQA-South Spring Conference hosts Alyson Stanfield, author of, I’d rather be in the studio! Alyson will present “Shameless Self-Promotion: A No-Excuses Art Marketing Workshop”. Friday, May 20th and Saturday, May 21st, 2011.

Check the PAQA-South website at http://www.artquiltersouth.org/

See detail

Flying with Light

You are invited

Flying with Light

a collaborative solo exhibit of artwork

with artists

Sculptor, Deborah O’Leary

and

Mixed Media/Fiber Artist, Wen Redmond

Feb 4 through Feb 25

at Lincoln Levy Gallery

136 State Street, Portsmouth, NH

Meet the Artist and

Reception Feb 4, 5-8 pm

Gallery hours: Wednesdays thru Saturdays 10 AM to 5 Pm

Sundays Noon to 4 PM

Deb's website here

Blue Door Gallery

Accepted in NYC at the Blue Door Gallery!

I dreamt I knew a man who was a tree. He described the wonderful lights that he could see.

Detail

Digital Fiber

Digital manipulated interpretation of a photograph.

Printed on inkjet prepared cotton satin and silk organza.

Creatively stitched.

19x27

SAQA's own Arlé Sklar-Weinstein, Director: Blue Door Gallery, was the Juror for Fiber PLUS!

more info here

October Newsletter

October Newsletter Contemporary Art in Fiber

Things are happening fast this fall! When did the leaves change?

Paradise City Exhibit in Northampton Ma was a great success. What a great area.

Picture postcard of Fall in New England.

I am so excited that 2 of my pieces Roots and Tree, a silk organza collage have been juried into the Pen and Brush Gallery's Home is Where the Art Is A Fine Craft and Folk Art Exhibition.

The opening isThursday, October 29th, 4:00 pm: - 7:00pm at the Pen and Brush. between 5th Ave. and University Place Subways: L,N,Q,R,W,4, 5,6 (Union Square) Buses: M1, M3, M6


 I heard from 2010 NICHE Awards competition, and my piece entitled “Pause” has been chosen as a finalist in the category of Fiber: Surface Design! This is the Rosen Shows Fine Craft Shows. They also publish American Style magazine!

Thanks to Jill Rumoshosky Werner, I have pictures of 2 of my pieces at the Wichita National All Media Craft Exhibition 2009, in Wichita Kansas, Pause and I came Singing. They are on my blog, http://fiberartgoddess.blogspot.com. It is a real pleasure to see part of the show this way. Thanks Jill.

Also, a small photo of Pause was accepted into Eye of the Quilter exhibit in Houston. This is a wonderful piece of fiber photography, a new series that I am exploring. I call it Digital Fiber.

Another piece, Trees Seen, Forest Remembered, is traveling though 2010. It is an impressive schedule.

Winter Tree and Rooted in Matter will be installed at the New Bridge on the Charles Hebrew Senior Life Center, Dedham, MA permanent collection this winter.

Please join me in Boston at the Seaport World Trade Center, for the 23^rd annual Christmas Festival, Nov 6,7,and 8^th, booth 534.

I am so excited and fortunate to be able to make and share my art.

Thank you all for your support!

All the Best and have a terrific Fall,

Wen

Reaching

This piece evolved from a old piece of canvas I painted on a lark. The acrylic already present on the canvas  worked as a resist. ( 0r was it gel medium ?) I printed a image of a swamp tree, at an upward angle, onto silk organza. This was adhered with medium. I added highlights of oil stick to the raised textured area and finished it with stretcher bar mounting. 

This is a simpler piece yet one gets a sense of composition.

Let me know what you think.

September 2009 News

It was a busy summer. Preparing and showing at the League of New Hampshire’s Sunapee Fair, Newberry NH in August, can be a lot of work. The Fair was up in attendance and sales this year. Always a good thing for an artist. Winter Tree and Rooted in Matter will be in New Bridge on the Charles Hebrew Senior Life Center, Dedham, MA as part of their permanent collection.

Ripples Triptych, a commission by Dana Farber Institute, Boston MA was finally completed for their new building. I’m waiting to hear when the opening will be!

A October Event coming up fairly soon is the Paradise City Exhibit 10/10-12 Northampton MA  http://www.paradisecityarts.com/october/homeoct.html

I am working hard to finish several new pieces for this popular show. A couple pieces are the result of experimentation. Coming from the inspirations of summer.

Upcoming is a new workshop concept called Studio Pops. It is an open studio workshop where students spontaneously decide the topic. Please contact me if you are interested and we can coordinate a time. Cost $30.00- 10-1 and 2-5

As always I am available for regular workshops, which you can find on my website, or email me -wenreddy@yahoo.com

I just joined a professional artists online network and they featured my work! Take a peek-   http://professionalfineartnetwork.blogspot.com/2009_09_01_archive.html

 I spent some time painting fabric and reviewing my artist journal. I have some great ideas for new work. Continuing to post inspirations and work progress on my blog.

Nest exhibited at 2009 National Small ART Works, Groton, NY, received Honorable Mention and sold!

Studio Art Quilt Association’s exhibits

Blurred Boundaries Closer, 3 Weird Sisters, Ocean Roar

Trees Seen, Forest Remembered, SAQA’s 2009 exhibit SAQA@20: Art and Excellence. Multiple Venues until 2010

Bubble of Time, ARTQUILTS transitions, Semans Galleries at the Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC

Angels Do Listen, SAQA Auction/ sold

Surface Design Association’s news

A Thousand Wishes, Surface Design Association’s Members Show

Perception Published, Surface Design Association’s Journal, Exposure

 All the Best