Volusia Wrapped in Fiber

Artworks: Carol Drummond, "Black Madonna"
Adrianne Sloan, "Troubled Waters"
Susan Else, "Traveling Light"

PRESS RELEASE FOR ART EXHIBITION VOLUSIA; WRAPPED IN FIBER

By Pamela Allen, Kingston Ontario, Canada

January 29, 2011

Florida and in particular, Volusia County is becoming a textile art Mecca thanks to the efforts of Mary McBride a resident of Deland. Mary is a mixed media artist and curator whose interest in fabric related art has developed into a passion in the last decade. She has curated important yearly international fiber exhibitions, both through the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and independently at many galleries and museums in the area. You could say she has put Florida on the map in the newly emerging genre of textile art. Her exhibitions have attracted National and International art stars affording the opportunity to see the crème de la crème of textile artists at her shows. VOLUSIA; WRAPPED IN FIBER may be the best yet. Six venues will be serving up a diverse menu; large installation pieces, three-dimensional work and yes art quilts will be exhibited in 6 different venues beginning January 30th and running until April 27th. Expect the unexpected!

Southern Fried Fiber

Southern
Fried Fiber
Lake County
Administration Building,
315 W Main Street, Tavares, Florida

January 7 – February 27, 2009
Monday-Friday, 9 AM – 5 PM

This fiber art exhibition features artists from Florida/Georgia Studio Art Quilt Associates and Central Florida’s ArtsEtc Group. There are 56 works which examine the many phases of current fiber art trends including slightly twisted traditional and abstracted images in comic rendering, thread painting, rug hooking, dyeing, batiking, embellishing and fusing.

ArtsEtc

ArtsEtc is my surface design group which meets on the 4th Saturday of the month. We begin the meetings at 9:30, continue through show 'n tell till our covered dish lunch and follow up with a learning session. We include over 50 members who are quilters, weavers, knitters, jewelers, painters and other fiber or surface design artists. We are interested in education and exhibition. Lots of laughter and friendship.

We are in the process of finding a new meeting place. Please contact us for more information.

I-4 Corrridor: Stretching Threads across Florida

June 2008 - I'm working on an exhibition that includes international fiber art from SAQA.com members and other fiber artists from around the world. Go to www.saqa.com or www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org to download the application. If you are not SAQA, simply cross through it and you'll be in the other category (not SAQA). The jurors are Peg Keeney, Linda Colsh and me. Application fee is $20. There are several museums and galleries attached to the program and the curators will select from the juried works. This is being run in conjunction with HGA's Convergence 2008 in Tampa. The Join in the fun! Deadline for applying is January 19.

In DeLand of Art

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