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Surface Design Association Exhibition

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May 022013

fiber + fabric: art • craft • design

The Surface Design Association is an international community engaged in the creative exploration of fiber & fabric. Their mission is to promote awareness & appreciation of the textile arts. This exhibition is compromised of 43 works from a selection of 21 artists from Virginia and West Virginia.

Exhibiting Artists: Mary Beth Bellah, Marilyn Casto, Eileen Doughty, Joan Dreyer, Cheryl Gerhart, Sandi Goldman, Joan Griffin, Lotta Helleberg, Susan Iverson, Jill Jensen, Kristin La Flamme, Ann Liddle, Andrea Limmer, Lorie McCown, Judith McIrvin, Suzan Morgan, Cathy Nault, Helene Renard (collaboration with Martha Sullivan), Diane Siebels, Susan Srygley, Bonnie G. Venable.

This show was curated by Guest Curator, Kristin Harris.

May 3-June 16. Gallery Hours: W-Sun: noon-5pm or for appt email sylvia@riverviews.net

Venable, Bonnie. Fridays Shirt

Laflamme, Kristin. Absence II

Helleberg, Lotta. Reminiscence Rose

Co-op Gallery - April and May

Co-Op Announcements, Co-Op Gallery

Mar 292012

The Co-op Gallery has installed a new exhibit for April and May, featuring Rosalie Short’s oil paintings and the works of sixteen other co-op artists. The theme for April/May is “Metamorphoses”.

Sallie Rabe

Interview with Barbara Cornett, Building Artist

Riverviews People

Jan 112011

Riverviews Curator, Erin Stover interviewed Building Artist Barbara Cornett in September 2009

What do like most about living/working at RV? The space, the privacy, the whole atmosphere; knowing that people are working all around you.

How did you end up in Lynchburg and at RV? I’m from upstate NY originally. I moved here from Berea College during the arts and crafts movement. It was difficult because there were not many galleries in Lynchburg at that time. I started working on RV ten years ago and I’m delighted to see more things happening downtown now.

How did your art evolve since moving to Lynchburg? When I moved here, I took painting and sculpture classes because that was all that was offered. I started my career in fashion design and had my clothing modeled at VMFA. Fiber art was a natural extension of fashion.

What do you think of the debate of “craft vs. art”? I don’t think there should be a distinction. The 20^th century opened up so many new materials in art; freedom to explore these materials was the most important thing.

Tell me a little more about your own work. I don’t want to be political or tell people what to think. I just want people to enjoy the shapes, colors, and textures. I work individually and I sometimes collaborate with a theatre designer and composer. A lot of my individual work is created for commissions. Right now, I’m creating work for a solo show at the Academy of Fine Arts; I’ll have the full gallery at the AFA in March 2010

Double Vision: work by Patricia Gould and Jean Cowie

Previous Craddock-Terry Gallery Exhibitions

May 012009

May 1- June 21, 2009

Patricia Gould: and Jean McLaughlin Cowie are passionate about their medium and the way it can used to express emotion. For Gould and McLaughlin, contemporary art quilts are an important realm of the art world in that it is a medium which has transcended traditional ideas about fine art versus craft and painting versus sculpture.

Patricia Gould: With a BA in Fine Arts/Art History, and sewing since the age of eight, it’s no surprise that I chose fiber art as my passion in life. A true fabric addict, many different types of fabrics find their way into my quilts and wearable art and I never met a color I didn’t like. Travel was a very important part of my upbringing and my family visited almost all the National Parks in the US and Canada before I was out of school which gave me a deep appreciation for our precious Mother Earth and her creatures. Since 1993, I have been making landscape art quilts, drawing inspiration from trips to China, East Africa, Russia, Antarctica, and extensive travel throughout North America and Europe.

Jean McLaughlin Cowie has lived most of her life in the west where the bold landscapes and stunning, expansive topographies have heavily influenced her work. Largely self taught, Jean has perfected the necessary technical skills to construct any design, enabling her to break from more traditional methods to create pieces that are out of the o rdinary. She holds a degree in Apparel Design from Montana State University. Jean began her life-long love of fiber arts in the early seventies, where her early works in traditional quilt patterns emerged as clothing, handbags and household items as well as quilts. Through experimentation with very non-traditional designs, Jean fashioned one-of-a-kind wearable art for many years. The three dimensional quality of clothing challenged her to develop the technical expertise and artistic skill with asymmetry and balance that are signature qualities of her current work. Jean has returned to the quilt format, as wall art, as it has proven to be the best showcase for her distinctive contemporary fine art.