Penland Archive Project
2017-present
Collaborative work with textile artist Katie Wigglesworth based on research done on the founding of the Penland School of Crafts in the Penland archive.
Image 1-3: Gallery installation with reading space at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. Reading space contains books on weaving and dyeing.
Image 4: In Conversation 1, 3ft x 4’ weaving from yarn and letterpress printed shifu with embroidery and machine sewing.
Images 5-6: details from In Conversation woven panels
Images 7-9: Structure collage series, 8 x 8” handmade abaca, letterpress, onion skin,
Image 10: All My Roots, 8.5 x 11” photopolymer plates, metal type, and pressure prints on onion skin
Image 11: All My Roots detail
Image 12: Spring is Finally Here, 8.5 x 11” photopolymer plates, metal type, and pressure prints on onion skin
Image 13: You All Know, 8.5 x 11” photopolymer plates, metal type, and pressure prints on onion skin
Image 14: Thank You, 11 x 17” photopolymer plates, metal type, and pressure prints on onion skin
Image 15: I Hope That, 8.5 x 11” photopolymer plates, metal type, and pressure prints on onion skin
Image 16-18: Text panels, 2 x 8’ linen and graphite
: Notation 1 11 x 17 in. photopolymer plates, metal type, and pressure prints on onion skin
Image 2: Notation 1, detail
Image 3: Notation 2 8.5 x 11 in. photopolymer plates, metal type, and pressure prints on onion skin
Image 4: Notation 3 11 x 17 in. photopolymer plates, metal type, and pressure prints on onion skin
Image 5: Notation 4 11 x 17 in. photopolymer plates, metal type, and pressure prints on onion skin
Image 6: Notation 5 8.5 x 11 in. photopolymer plates, metal type, and pressure prints on onion skin
Image 7: textile panel detail
Image 8: full textile panel 3ft x 4 ft weaving from yarn and letterpress printed shifu. This is one panel of seven that are planned and still in progress. The work will be exhibited at Berea College in the spring of 2021.