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Online Workshop! Fibre Arts Take Two! Coming August 2024 and September 2025!!

 

 

Online Workshop!  Fibre Arts Take Two  https://www.fibreartstaketwo.com/courses/ 

August 2024 and September 2025! Sign on your interest now and be alerted when it goes live!

One of the most delightful aspects of digital printing is making your own surfaces to print with. We’ll create backgrounds, photographs for sneaky layering and printing surfaces, touch on simple transfers and collage.  

Expand your vision of a digital print. This approach to digital printing has the capacity to produce unique and original results.

            Participants will learn to create distinctive and customized printing substrates using fabrics, art papers, interfacing, mediums and other created materials. The types of substrates that can be used are nearly limitless!

Participants will combine their photography with unusual substrates viva sneaky layering techniques and other photo blending app’s.

            Participants will be introduced to inkjet printing with digital grounds, ideas for mixing it up and a variety of ideas for presenting your work. Never before have there been so many opportunities to express yourself digitally! 

                

Art Quilt Magazine Inclusion

volume 3 A lovely interview write up!

Article in Fiber Art Now Magazine!

Spring 2023

 

Quilt National 2023!

 Noticing... a paper quilt

Digital Mixed Media

The act of noticing, of paying attention, increases awareness of photographic opportunities. These treasured moments are captured in a media mix of fiber, paper, pine needles, stitching and surface design.

Technique- Original image was inkjet printed by artist on digital ready created kozo papers of embedded pine needles. Pearl digital grounds, by inkAid, create a soft pearlescent glow. Image was photographed while looking out the window of the NYC Metropolitan Museum of Art, was edited and divided into 6 13x17 sections for a resulting piece of about 26x54. Image was treated with satin varnish and stitched all over with c shapes to mimic the pine needle shapes. Thread were allowed to drape casually to add texture. Glass bead medium was liberally applied to the foreground to highlight the snowy winter scene. Edges painted with silver paint.

Materials- pine needles, kozo paper, Pearl digital grounds, satin medium, silver paint, and glass bead medium.

25.5wx40h

so many wonderful artists!

newsie bits

 

Honored to being doing a talk with Fiberart International Program on May 3 at 1 pm EST

To register- https://fiberartspgh.org/programs/online-programs/online-programs-registration-form/

 

Did a lovely Friday Feature Artist Interview on Fibre Arts Take Two - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRitR92fa8U

Features ‘Pause’ a Mixed Media Textured Fiber Photograph made with molding paste. Technique featured in my 1st book. 2009 35x32

 

Several Segmented Fiber Constructions were published in Shelly Rhodes new book-Fragmentation and Repair; Below, Above, Through and Beyond the Datum Level- link

 

I’m included in several exhibits including Art Quilt Elements, Wayne PA in March, and Handcrafted, Maria V. Howard Arts Center, Rocky Mount, NC and Digital Directions, MFA, MD ( which can be viewed online- https://mdfedart.com/mfaentry/galleryA/index.php?myid=6FKGZPA9&evtid=238

And Excellence in Fiber at the Virginia Quilt Museum! https://www.vaquiltmuseum.org/service/excellence-in-quilts-fiber-art-network and March 2022 Fabric Arts Invitational: "Connecting Threads", Portsmouth NH

Art Quilt Elements- Suggestions of Communication\

 

 

Handcrafted, Maria V. Howard Arts Center – Uyotsáhi Nanahia Nahna gesá

Digital Directions, MFA, MD- 2 works- The Silence is a Door- Shown, Digital Fiber

2021, 29x25” and Drawn to the Edge

I hope everyone is well!

newsie bits

 

Announcement!

So excited to announce the working of a new book! More to come! That said, I’m collecting images & quotes from anyone who has been inspired by my work, workshops, book, techniques etc. with the possibility of inclusion. Email me!

 

Honored to being doing a two online talks-

1 Minnesota Contemporary Quilters April 25 730 pm EST, 630 CST, it was recorded and available for a guest fee, I think.

2 Fiberart International Program on May 3 at 1 pm EST

To register- https://fiberartspgh.org/programs/online-programs/online-programs-registration-form/

 

Did a lovely Friday Feature Artist Interview on Fibre Arts Take Two - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRitR92fa8U

 

Honored to be included in several exhibits!

including work Suggestions of Communication in Art Quilt Elements, Wayne PA

 

Reflections, Water Markings, MFA, Maryland Federation of Art April 15- May 31 https://mdfedart.com/mfaentry/artistgallery.php?myid=6FKGZPA9&evtid=247

 

*Digital fiber piece Enchantment of the Forest has juried into Sacred Threads in the Spirituality category. This makes me smile wide.

Sacred Threads exhibit will be at Floris United Methodist Church in Herndon, VA -July 14-24 http://sacredthreadsquilts.com/index.html

 

Crossing Over has been accepted into Quilt Visions, Visions Art Museum, CA. Oct 15 to Dec 31, 2022

 

Birds in Arms, Crumpled, and A Thousand Wishes will be at the Salmon Falls Gallery, 1 Ashfield Street, Shelburne Falls, MA May 5-June 27 http://salmonfallsgallery.com/2022-quilt-group-show-bios.html

 

Marblehead Arts Associations Variations 2022 Exhibition April 24-June 19 https://marbleheadarts.org/upcoming/

 

Invited to do a Discover article for TextileArtist.org

‘Landscape Textile Artists,’ featuring “Enchantment of the Forest”

 

Just in- My brand-new work, Stepping Stones has sold and will be displayed at Mass General Brigham Salem Ambulatory Center, NH

Brand New

 Still Over Water. Silk organza photo over fiber image of a puddle.

This one came together as an surprise. The jars are printed on silk organza and I placed it over the fiber photo on cotton of a puddle and bam! I was going to cut the organza overlay off entirely on top and then I like the way they fell over, so there they are!

Alternative Photography Exhibit at RICP

 Lovely to be in an alternative photography exhibit! Photography Without a Lens: An Exploration of Alternate Processes 

Right up my alley! At The Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts June 17-July 9 and or click the link below..

https://www.riphotocenter.org/photography-without-a-lens-an-exploration-of-alternate-processes/nggallery/search/Wen%20redmond%20

Featured on Quilt Stories

 I'm delighted to share my molding paste digital fiber process with Lisa Walton viva her youtube series Quilt Stories!

here!

Enjoy!

newsie bits for this year so far....!

Wen Redmond’s May News

 

I'm currently in 2 online galleries-

https://www.tsgny.org/gallery-30-spring-2021

and

First Responders, at www.visionsartmuseum.org under the “EXHIBITIONS” tab.

 

My work included in

“Continuing the Conversation” SAQA’s Connection 2year traveling exhibit

 

 

“Watermarkings” Pushing the Surface invitational at Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum in Ohio

“Drawing a Breath” at "Quarantine Quilts: Creativity in the Midst of Chaos" exhibit at The National Quilt Museum

 

Lovely to be in an alternative photography exhibit! “Intertwined” will be heading off to RI Center for Photography Without a Lens: An Exploration of Alternate Processes, June 18th, thru Friday, July 10^th!

link- https://www.riphotocenter.org/.../search/Wen%20redmond%20

 

I'm delighted to share my molding paste digital fiber process with Lisa Walton viva her youtube series Quilt Stories! Enjoy!

https://youtu.be/Fel_LPwKZq4

 

My instructional DVD about creating molding paste substrates is available, 1/2 price! https://www.interweave.com/.../digital-imagery-in.../...

 

My YouTube channel shares videos about my printing and other processes to supplement my book. https://youtu.be/xaSGLcWvCPY

 

Book- https://www.ctpub.com/wen-redmonds-digital-fiber-art/

 

Check my newly loaded ETSY shop- https://www.etsy.com/shop/WenRedmondArt

 

 

 

Published in Art Quilt Quarterly!

The Machine shown on full page ad in Art Quilt Quarterly!

It received the Acquisition Award in the Handcrafted Juried Exhibition at the Maria V. Howard Arts Center, Rocky Mount NC!

 

newsie bits

 

podcast interview with Quilter on Fire. Listen here- https://www.quilteronfire.com/podcasts

 

2 Magazine interviews with TextileArtist.org. From conception to creation- https://www.textileartist.org/wen-redmond-from-conception-to-creation/

and

work cited as digital fiber pioneer in Fiber Art Now; - https://www.textileartist.org/wen-redmond-merging-digital-photography-and-textiles/

 

Published in 1 magazine and 2 virtual magazines

Art Quilting Studio Feature Article- Experiments in Digital Fiber Art- https://stampington.com/Art-Quilting-Studio-Winter-2021/

Published in INSPIRATIONAL 44, Invitation John Hopper’s Art Magazine-https://payhip.com/b/FcN4

and

Fiber Art Australia E-Zine- https://www.flipsnack.com/fibreartsnewsletter/fibre-arts-australia-c52hgwym8y.html

 

Included in 4 lovely online exhibits-

Contemporary Art Gallery Online-https://www.smugmug.com/gallery/n-P8mMj9/

Threaded online Exhibit- https://www.envisionartshow.com/threaded and

J Mane Gallery Exhibit-https://www.jmanegallery.com/seasons-2020

Contemporary Art Gallery Online, “Open / No Theme” -https://www.smugmug.com/gallery/n-P8mMj9/

 
and 2 upcoming physical exhibits

Digital Directions MFA, Maryland

Edges, SAQA MA/RI NEQM, MA

"Shaking the Tree of the Imagination" to be added to the NEQM's collection

 I'm pleased that the New England Quilt Museum, Lowell MA, has selected "Shaking the Tree of the Imagination" to be included in their collection. 

38x46"
This work represents my early digital explorations of inkjet printing onto cloth with an segmented presentation. The original photograph was taken on a cloudy day in my back woods. I removed the color and ...

shown at the League of NH's Sunapee Craft Fair

 Hi Everyone! I'm uploading a series of 10 or more small videos that highlight techniques in my book, Digital Fiber Art and other Mixed Media Surfaces on You Tube!

You can find my book on CT Publishing, Amazon or your favorite book vender.

Please enjoy and let me know what you think!

Travel here

Open / No Theme” Online Art Competition

proud to announce my inclusion in the mixed media category of Contemporary Art Gallery Online “Open / No Theme” Online Art Competition"

 Enjoy!

here

Art Signature Journal- Smell the Mint, Hear the Forest!

Hi!  

I've been making all sorts of journals for years now. One of the easiest and quickest is the simple signature journal. I'll share a few steps, how-to's, here but first here's a picture off the internet where you can find more on this. This journal has 2 more holes on either side of center. But you can choose how many holes you want!

Gather your cover, mine is painted 140 cold press watercolor paper and your pages. I am using a mix of painted drawing paper, torn to size and scrap inkjet prints. The inkjet prints were generated for use with a thermal fax machine so I have lots of extras but you can print them just for pages in your journal. This one is photo of rock lines, edited to pure black and white. I used it for my 'centerfold'.

After tearing and folding pages, gather in the order you like and clip them to prevent them from slipping around.

Make a hole in the center with an awl. You can measure, but for these I generally eyeball.

Thread your needle. I use a crewel size needle. Use strong thread such as pearl cotton, buttonhole thread or waxed linen thread. Insert needle either from inside or outside. The last step will leave the threads where you start.

Enter the threaded needle from outside the book, slide it down to bottom and make another awl hole about 1" from bottom and go from inside to outside with the threaded needle. 

Then make another another awl hole toward top and enter again from the outside. The thread will leave a long 'stitch' along the spine.

Bring the needle back through the first hole.

And on the outside place the 2nd thread on either side of the long 'stitch' on the outside binding edge.

Tie a square knot and trim threads to the length you desire. 

You can also tie charms to these! Done!

Art is...

 Art is so many things it is hard to pin down. 

The elusive nature of it speaks to the fact that, part of it, is exposing the tender side of the artist's soul. The viewer responds and this creates a dialogue. 

That to me is art. A connection. A communication. 

It can be fine art, fiber art, pottery even jewelry. There is no firm definition so let’s just draw the circle larger.