In “Blending Poetry and Cloth” artist were required to reference a piece of poetry, a song or a quotation in creating their composition. Poetry and art have been inextricably linked for as long as they have both been in existence — one illuminating the other and requiring the use of multiple senses. Powerful combinations are created when the two art forms come together in thought provoking ways — one breathing life into the other.

Artist: Deborah Runnels

36” x 36”

Techniques: Contour quilting of black thread within the body area with regularly spaced black and gray threads that create a background.

Materials: Commercial cotton muslin with cotton thread quilting.

Artist Statement:

The Heart of a Woman by Georgia Douglas Johnson inspired me to do this stark black on white piece that has a 3 dimensional contour around the body that is placed on the flat picture plane area of black and gray horizontal threads.

Artist: Deborah Runnels

40” x 32”

Techniques: Hand dyed with acrylic inks with an overlay of crayon rubbings. Top stitched with black threads around the curvature of the body to give it the 3 dimensional appearance.

Materials: Commercial cotton muslin dyed with acrylic inks. Overlay of crayon rubbings then top stitched the black and gray threads.

Artist Statement:

The heart of a woman goes forth with the dawn,
As a lone bird, soft winging, so restlessly on,
Afar o'er life's turrets and vales does it roam
In the wake of those echoes the heart calls home.

The heart of a woman falls back with the night,
and enters some alien cage in its plight,
And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars
While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.

Georgia Douglas Johnson

This inspired me to do a 3 dimensional looking linear whole cloth piece that is somewhat of a self portrait of me sleeping and locked behind the restraints of the body while the dream 'goes forth'.

Artist: Janet Tetzlaff

36” x 36”

Techniques: Machine piecing and hand quilting

Materials: Hand dyed and commercial cottons, silks and velvet

Artist Statement:

Line after lockline
Shimmering water pathways
Lyrical color

The quilt and the poem were created in response to a photograph of the reflections created by passing ships in a river lock

Photo By: Michael Richards

Artist: Judith Quinn Garnett

49” x 41”

Photo By: Sam Garnett

Additional Information on Artist Page: /judith-quinn-garnett

Artist: Mary Goodson

38” x 36”

Techniques: White silk dupioni and sheer silk organdy were dyed and painted then layered on top of each other, hand appliqued and machine stitched.

Materials: A variety of silk fabrics,fabric dyes and paints, colored pencil, and stitched with rayon and silk thread.

Artist Statement:

Chinese philosopher Chang Tzu wrote the following quote in 360 BC; "There is nothing heaven does not cover and nothing earth does not sustain." Today with global warming this quote is more meaningful then ever. In this piece of artwork, and in life, it's my hope your eye will follow the rain falling from the heavens above down to the vegetation growing below and keeping all in balance.

Artist: Catherine Beard

42” x 42”

Techniques: machine pieced and quilted

Materials: commercial cottons and a wool batt.

Artist Statement:

As a child in Southern Oregon, the family often spent evenings in the forests around our ranch searching for wildflowers. One of my favorites was the large Washingtonian Lily. It was rare to ever find and often I only knew it was nearby because of its scent. When I did spot one, the evening was a success.

The Washingtonia Lily

by Catherine Beard

Its elusive scent fills the air,

it is rare and lone

and beautiful;

a childhood.

Artist: Karen Spencer

38” x 38”

Techniques: machines pieced and quilted

Materials: commercial cottons, various threads

Artist Statement:

This piece speaks to the varied nature of memories. Every time we visit a place, thoughts stays with us. These thoughts are not always clear, but they can enhance our connections if we listen.

vivid memories, others more quiet
each joyful in it's own way

(Karen Sunday Spencer)

Photo By: Hoddick Photography

Artist: Jean Wells Keenan

44” x 34”

Photo By: Paige Vitek

Additional Information on Artist Page: /jean-wells

Artist: Kristan Collins

35” x 34”

Techniques: Improvisational free piecing of the color "threads" which were then appliquéd and free motion quilted in place. Surface embroidery added sparingly.

Materials: cotton cloth, a variety of threads for quilting, metallic and hand dyed perle cotton threads for embroidery

Artist Statement:

I have always had a love affair with color; however, I am new to the adventure of art quilting. So many visions dance in my head. Yet I find so much trepidation in gathering my visions, laying down swaths of fabric, and sharing that creation with the world. Wouldn't it be safer to keep my dreams in my head?

The poem "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" by WB Yeats speaks so beautifully to this fear. Aedh wishes he had something more special and and less vulnerable to share. The poem inspired me to complete my vision. In the quilt I have interpreted my diverse artistic visions as ribbons or threads of color. Like my dreams these threads are composed of the dim, the half lights, and the bright lights of each color twisting together. Each thread is becoming loosely woven into a cloth of my dreams.

Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

WB Yeats 1865-1939

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and the light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under you feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Artist: Cheryl Jordan and Nancy Bryant

42” x 50.5”

Photo By: Jon Christopher Meyers Photography

Additional Information on Artist Page: /nancy-bryant

Artist: Karen Bates

60” x 35”

Techniques: Pieced background with hand dyed fused circles. Machine quilted and hand couching of chenille yarn and silk embroidery floss.

Materials: Cotton, hand dyed cotton, tulle, silk embroidery floss and chenille

Artist Statement:

And you?

Rumi

When will you begin that long journey into yourself? I found it to be a wonderful poem to inspire me to pursue my art.

Artist: Paulette Landers

56” x 41”

Techniques: Collage. Hand dyed fabric. Water media. Machine stitched

Materials: Cotton. Water media

Artist Statement:

When Mars Was We share the same Sun, you and I A forest grew on Mars, so long ago Ancient trees rooted to the mountains Grew to touch a glowing sky

Wild rivers and howling winds gathered to play Now, desert wails where forest grew Beware the land where trees don't grow Where rivers run dry, where silence cries We share the same Sun, you and I

Paulette Landers 2015©

I have long had a love affair with Planet Mars. I imagine its past inhabitants as my ancestors. They, like Planet Earth's inhabitants, were living the good life, unconcerned about the well being of their planet. Mars succumbed to their harsh treatments. Will Planet Earth be next to fail?

Artist: Mandy Miller

32” x 42”

Techniques: Machine pieced and quilted, Hand stitching

Materials: Commercial and hand-dyed cottons

Artist Statement:

The cliffs outside of Santa Fe form intriguing networks of interconnected and shifting lines. I was interested in capturing the play of light and shadow on the rock face, but felt the desert colors of the rock did not convey the drama of my emotional response to the cliffs. I was reminded on the line in the song "America" by Katherine Lee Bates about "purple mountains majesty" and the color scheme for this quilt crystallized for me. The purples and fuchsias echo the intensity of my reaction to the mountains and the richness of the rock formations.

Photo By: Jon Meyer Photography

Additional Information on Artist Page: /amanda-miller

Artist: Gerrie Congdon

51.5” x 28”

Techniques: Raw edge, fused collage. Machine quilted.

Materials: Hand-dyed cotton fabric

Artist Statement:

My art is often influenced by nature, especially trees. When I heard the theme for this exhibit, I immediately thought of Joyce Kilmer's poem, The Trees, written in 1919. I abstract ed the letters that spell tree and used them vertically to represent the elegance of a mature tree.

I THINK that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.

Joyce Kilmer

Photo By: Hoddick Photography

Artist: Mary Stiewig

36” x 40”

Techniques: piecing, painted silk organza, staggered sections, machine and hand quilting.

Materials: commercial and hand-dyed fabrics: cottons, silks, organza; decorator yarn; beads

Artist Statement:

This quilt was inspired by a short poem in the public domain by Sara Teasdale.

"A little while when I am gone My life will live in music after me, As spun foam lifted and borne on After the wave is lost in the full sea."

Sara Teasdale

Artist: Mary Stiewig

33” x 50”

Techniques: Piecing, raw-edge appliquesurface design, machine and hand quilting, shibori dyeing.

Materials: commercial and hand-dyed cottons. silks, organza, yarns,beads.

Artist Statement:

Inspired in a Rosalie Dace Seminar.

"The bleak of winter,
Promises new beginnings,
A beauty at rest." -author, Mary Stiewig

Artist: Laura Jaszkowski

33.5” x 40”

Techniques: Machine pieced, raw edge applique, free-motion stitiched

Materials: Commercial and hand-dyed cottons and stenciled silk

Artist Statement:

And who are thou? said I to the soft-falling shower, Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here translated: I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain, Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea, Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely form'd, altogether changed, and yet the same, And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own origin, and make pure and beautify it.

The Voice of the Rain (excerpted)

Walt Whitman

Photo By: Jon Christopher Meyers Photography

Artist: Grace Ladygo

48” x 31”

Techniques: Machine pieced, with fused elements. Machine quilted.

Materials: 100% cotton with small amounts of matte tulle over text.

Artist Statement:

A favorite poem by Christina Rosetti, written in 1872 and later put to music by Gustav T. Holst in 1906.

IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER
In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow on snow.
In the bleak midwinter, long ago.

My New England roots run deep. After moving to Oregon I was thinking of friends and family living through a brutal, bleak winter in Massachusetts. The poem brought this theme into focus

Artist: Dianne Browning

39” x 34”

Techniques: Machine pieced curves in the mountains & moon, with the edge corded; sheers layer the sky. All machine driven quilting, with some free motion circles

Materials: Mainly solid color designer fabrics include silk, satin, suede,poly/rayon/cotton blends,sheers and embellished with beads

Artist Statement:

I am inspired by musical song titles & lyrics, as music surrounds my life. "Moondance" by Van Morrison is such a classic love song;a portion of the lyrics "One more dance with you, in the moonlight, on a magic night" led me to create this piece with a feeling of movement, nature and romance.

Artist: Diane Born

47” x 31”

Techniques: Painted surfaces with acrylic paints; hand-made stencil; free-motion stitching.

Materials: Acrylic paints on cotton fabric; Lutradur; cotton thread.

Artist Statement:

A reflection? Of what? Of a city, of boxes, mirrored by clouds or layers of smoke? Swaying shapes reflect whatever the viewer sees.

Poem by DB

Mirror a city beneath the sea
Image, not reality

Towering shapes, transparent be
Irony, not reality

All echo a fantasy.

Photo By: Bill Bachhuber

Artist: Deborah Sorem

44” x 30”

Techniques: I painted a non-representational watercolor with primary colors and reproduced a section of it into fabric through raw edge appliqué.

Materials: Nylon and polyester satin and organza with fabric paint, cottons, hand-dyed and commercial,transweb fusible,wool batting, cotton and polyester threads.

Artist Statement:

My Hiaku:

Primary colors mixed
Sep-a-ra-tion
Add poetry to life.

Artist: Judith Beaver

49” x 29”

Techniques: Slashed wonky log cabin units were recombined with contrasting materials and strip pieced to create a free form quilt.

Materials: A variety of cottons, batiks, gold lame, and burlap.

Artist Statement:

The poem "Come to the Edge" by Christopher Logue inspired me to move outside my comfort zone. I wanted to create an "edgy" piece by combining techniques, colors, values, and prints that were unsettling yet pleasing. The color scheme of sienna, gray, and blue is enlivened by the wide range of values. The accents and inserts of black, white and gold add additional life, movement, and interest. The poem is concise and to the point:

Come to the edge.

We might fall.

Come to the edge.

It's too high!

COME TO THE EDGE!

And they came, And he pushed,

And they flew.

Christopher Logue

Artist: Anne Daughtry

34.5” x 47”

Techniques: Piecing, thread painting, hand stitching, free motion and straight machine quilting, and Shibori style texturizing of cotton and silk. Heat sealed edge of polyester, and computer printed words on silk.

Materials: Hand dyed, and commercial cotton, cotton gauze, silk, cording, plastic net, polyester chiffon, gold net, rayon, polyester satin, crystaline, Angelina and Mistyfuse.

Artist Statement:

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," written in 1798 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, has created surreal images swirling in my mind. My father quoted lines to me, I studied it in high school, then taught it to my English classes for years. My husband fell in love when I quoted, "Water water everywhere, nor any drop to drink" and other such lines. My purpose is to demonstrate the beauty and might of the sea, and the perils of those who sail upon it.

Photo By: Oscar Palmquist

Artist: Sherrie Moomey

32.25” x 39”

Techniques: The primary techniques in this piece are machine piecing and free motion quilting. Other techniques used include embroidery, painting and one fused element.

Materials: 100% cotton face and backing; rayon threads and floss, felting wool

Artist Statement:

This piece is inspired by Bob Dylan's song "Shelter From the Storm". The lyrics depict images that are both painful and maybe hopeful. And maybe not. This piece attempts to capture the power of the forces, yet leaves open the question of where and if true shelter exists.

Three verses below were selected to provide context for the powerful forces at work in this song and the art.

"Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood Blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form " Come in", She said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm"

"Suddenly I turned around and she was standin' there With silver bracelets on her wrists and flowers in her hair She walked up to me so gracefully and took my crown of thorns "Come in", She said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm"

I'm livin' in a foreign country but I'm bound to cross the line Beauty walks a razors edge, someday I'll make it mine I could only turn back the clock to when God and her were born "Come in", She said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm"

By Bob Dylan

Photo By: Hoddick Photography

Artist: Elaine Miller

45.5” x 28”

Techniques: Machine applique;

Materials: Hand dyed and batik cotton cloth;

Artist Statement:

Tell All the Truth by Emily Dickinson

Tell all the truth but tell it slant -- Success in circuit lies Too bright for our infirm delight The Truth's superb surprise. As Lightening to the children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind.

Artist: Betty Gientke

44” x 32”

Techniques: I pieced, appliquéd, couched, hand and machine stitched to illustrate the many options and obstacles we face during our lifetime.

Materials: Linen, hand dyed and commercial cotton fabric, variety of threads and yarns, cotton batting and cotton crinoline.

Artist Statement:

Robert Frost "The Road Not Taken" was my inspiration for Roads Travelled--"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood. And sorry I could not travel both".

Whether we take the long and winding road, the straight and narrow or the yellow brick road we will always wonder about the road not taken. We can stay on a well-traveled road or make our own. The road or roads we choose in life take us to where we are and make us who we are.

Artist: Helen Brisson

32.5” x 27.5

Techniques: Machine pieced, free motion machine quilting, machine applique.

Materials: hand dyed linen, silk and commercial batik fabrics.

Artist Statement:

Great Idea

The words flew from the page like frightened sparrows, and disappeared into the cool blue green dark forest.

by Peter Lovering

I wanted to honor a local poet. Pete, who is a Bend resident, creates poems that can be very complex or simple straight forward messages. This one spoke to me. Creating a simple abstract design that matched the simple yet all to familiar scenario for many writers. Words on the page that seem to have a mind of their own.

Artist: Judy Peterson

36” x 45.5”

Techniques: Painting, beading, trapunto, domestic machine quilting,

Materials: Commercial cotton fabrics, beads

Artist Statement:

Finding my voice for this quilt in songs by "The Greatful Dead", the notes played in my head with each drop of the needle making ripples in my clear water glass. The song of birds out my window kept time making a peaceful place on the wall to sit and ponder.

Photo By: Angelia Peterson

Artist: Catherine Beard

39” x 53”

Techniques: machine pieced and quilted

Materials: commercial cottons, wool batt

Artist Statement:

i thank You God for most this amazing

by ee cummings

i thank you God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirirts of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any-lifted from the no of all nothing human merely being doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

Artist: Diane Born

18” x 18”

Techniques: Monoprinting with acrylic paints; hand stitching, machine stitching.

Materials: Cotton fabric, acrylic paints, Japanese fiber paper, varigated cotton thread

Artist Statement:

The author of Treasure Island and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stephenson also wrote a book of verse for children. His childhood memories may hold a clue to the author's true nature, as a person who loved sunshine and the blue of a summer sky.

Summer Sun by Robert Louis Stephenson (condensed)

Great is the sun, and wide he goes
Through empty heaven without repose;
And in the blue and glowing days
More thick than rain he showers his rays.

Above the hills, along the blue,
Round the bright air with footing true,
To please the child, to paint the rose,
The gardener of the World, he goes.

Photo By: Bill Bachhuber

Artist: Sheryl LeBlanc

36” x 36”

Techniques: Ribbon and floss embroidery, beading, screenprinting, raw edged applique, and trapunto.

Materials: commercial fabric, silk, raffia, hand dyed sari silk ribbon, floss, ink, fusible braid

Artist Statement:

"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..."

Edgar Allen Poe

Poe wrote "The Raven" at the height of Victorian obsession with the macabre. He intended it to be a satire. Sadly, it became his most famous work and while catapulting his name into drawing rooms around the world, it stung him deeply that it defined him completely. His contemporary Audubon was also known in most Victorian drawing rooms, but in a far more respected manner. Too bad as I really like Ravens.

Photo By: Jon Meyers Photography

Artist: Donna Rice

38” 38”

Techniques: Hand dyed Linen. Pieced, then machine applique' and quilted with various threads.

Materials: Linen and cotton fabrics. Ribbon and Beads.

Artist Statement:

Treat the earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children .We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.

Ancient Indian Proverb

Artist: Judy Peterson

60” x 42”

Techniques: thread painting, photo printed fabric, completely thread painted birds. trapunto, couching, domestic machine quilted

Materials: cotton fabrics, raffia, bells, pearl cotton

Artist Statement:

"Take what you need. Let the rest go by."

Ken Keasey

All the little things one does in a life time ...This could indeed sum up a happy life. Inspired by giant redwood trees, the cool mornings with wings fluttering above, everything in hard working order. What could be a better playground. The creativity to lay and pick images out of the passing clouds or perhaps write a book. The jester holds court and speaks.

Photo By: Angelia Peterson Photography

Artist: Annette McFarlane

49” x 30”

Photo By: Hoddick Photography

Additional Information on Artist Page: /annette-mcfarlane

Artist: Mandy Miller

48” x 24”

Techniques: Machine pieced and quilted

Materials: Commercial and hand-dyed cotton

Artist Statement:

"Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning."

Carl Sandburg

On a recent trip to Chicago I was reminded of Carl Sandburg's famous lines describing the city and was inspired to capture its vitality and energy in a quilt reimagining the Chicago skyline. The required "step-backs" for tall buildings in Chicago, along with the city's river and lakeside, create a sense openness where you can see layers of downtown buildings in the foreground and others fading into the distance. The varied patterns of crosses created by the windows of the city's skyscrapers became a logical focus for me in Rosalie Dace's Cross Currents class, where I started the quilt.

Photo By: Jon Meyer Photography

Additional Information on Artist Page: /amanda-miller

Artist: Bevalee Runner

46” x 36”

Techniques: Machine pieced, appliqued, and quilted. Leaves individually stitched on organza and tulle. Leaves and text were machine appliqued after quilting. Hand beading.

Materials: Cotton, organza and tulle fabrics. Glass beads. Polyester quilting threads.

Artist Statement:

This quilt was originally made in response to the book " A Tale For The Time Being" by Ruth Ozeki, which is why it has a Japanese look. However, the poetry I chose to represent in this quilt is from one of the Biblical books of poetry, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8. This scripture deals with the passing of time and thus ties in with the book title I responded to. The organza Japanese characters loosely translate the title of the quilt. The entire poem is on the label on the back of the quilt.

"To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven: A time to be born and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to pluck what is planted; ...A time to weep, and a time to laugh... ...A time to keep silence, and a time to speak..."

The leaves at the top are green and as they are dying and falling they turn yellow, and then brown, symbolizing the passing of time.

Artist: Toni Smith

24” x 49.75”

Techniques: fused; appliqued and quilted

Materials: commercials cottons; cotton and metallic threads

Artist Statement:

I was inspired by Ezra Pond's minimalist 1913 poem "In A Station of the Metro" ("The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough'). His precise words created a strong visual image in my mind's eye. This composition is my cloth interpretation of his poem.

Artist: Marie Wolfe

26” x 57.5”

Techniques: Embroidery, hand stitching

Materials: African Mud Cloth, pearl cotton, stone beads

Artist Statement:

I have been considering time and loss a great deal. They seem to travel together and the older I get the more inseparable they become.

Time Travel

Time marches on.
Pain loses its edge in familiarity.
Loneliness remains.

Photo By: Hoddick Photgraphy

Artist: Leotie Richards

43” x 30”

Techniques: Piecing and raw edge applique.

Materials: Marcia Derse cotton fabric and beads.

Artist Statement:

I created this piece blending abstract with pictorial imagery It was a stream of conscience process inspired by the fabrics of Marcia Derse. This poem came out of my work:

Modern Primitive

By Leotie Richards

We love our gadgets, fast cars, Restaurants and rock bands But after 200,000 years of evolution We barbecue and camp We tattoo and pierce our bodies Still yearning For the simplicity and magic of Primitive life.

Photo By: Michael Richards Photography

Artist: Betty Davis Daggett

34.5” x 47.75”

Techniques: Machine and hand stitching for construction, applique, and quilting. Acrylic fabric paint and water color sticks were used to add line and blend surface color.

Materials: Fabrics: Cotton and linen hand-dyed/ commercial batiks. Thread: cotton, polyester, perle cotton, & embroidery floss. A combination of all threads were used for construction, applique and quilting.

Artist Statement:

"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost was the inspiration for my piece. The poem was the theme of my high school graduation speech. In search for a poem for "Blending Poetry & Cloth, I re-read Frost's poem. In reading his words again, I realized his poem had become more meaningful with the passage of time, especially the final lines.....

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and sages hence:
Two Roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Photo By: Hilde Morin Photography

Artist: Jody Rusconi

35.75 “ x 41”

Techniques: Freehand drawn, painted, machine pieced, machine quilted by the artist

Materials: Cotton and Cherrywood fabrics, Jacquard paints, Aurifil threads

Artist Statement:

...two birds can sing together they can teach one another they can joy and dance together they can fly on the same direction of any season together they share their sorrow without blaming one another they trust one another even in their dreams..

Mbali Gina, South Africa

Artist: Connie Johnson Sayler

42.5” x 50”

Techniques: Needle-turn Applique for the stones (circles)
Machine quilting

Materials: Cotton fabric

Artist Statement:

"He who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones"

Confucius

This quilt represents my time living on the Oregon coast. I am a collector of things from the beach. My favorite thing to find on the beach is an agate.

Artist: Karen Spencer

37” x 38”

Techniques: machine pieced and fused, machine quilted

Materials: cotton: commercial fabric, thread, batting

Artist Statement:

this way or that? each brings surprises

around the corner, what will it be?

Karen Sunday Spencer

I am an avid hiker and city walker, always looking for that special discovery. This self-penned poem speaks to their abundance.

Photo by: Hoddick Photography

Artist: Leotie Richards

46” x 44”

Techniques: Piecing, raw edge applique and free-motion quilting.

Materials: Cotton and silk.

Artist Statement:

I was captivated by the rock cliffs that can be seen along the John Day highway in Oregon. I wanted to capture the play of light on a rock face in the few minutes at dawn with both the sun and the moon can be seen. I integrated the moss, the shadows and the lines that I saw in the cliffs. I added petroglyphs to speak to the timeless quality of the rocks. Out of this work came this poem I wrote:

"When Night Turns To Morning"

by Leotie Richards

The dark stone guardians Of the evolving universe Tower over time And civilization

Photo By: Michael Richards Photography

Artist: Elizabeth Bamberger

33.5” x 49”

Techniques: Raw-edge fused applique, free-motion quilting

Materials: Commercial cotton prints and batiks, hand-dyes

Artist Statement:

The quilt celebrates the power of human collaboration and goodwill to create unity and peace. Based on the poem "Bridges" by my mother, Marjorie Russell.

"When the river of life becomes polluted With hatred and fear and misunderstanding And the oppression of the weak by the strong,

Then it is necessary to build bridges,

Not made of stone or bricks and mortar, But of human hands stretching across the water ..."

Marjorie Russell

Photo By: Bill Bachhuber Photography